Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

Getting a software developer job is often considered a prestigious job that many computer addicts consider the pinnacle of their career. To reach this peak, many often have to deal with stumbling blocks, the biggest of which is coding interview, in which they will be asked about everything that determines how deep their understanding of the programming world and consequently how useful they will be for their recruiter.

The sixth edition of Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions you read about here is a concise guide to break the mighty stumbling block and to pass the notorious interview successfully.

There are two big key points that the book cover. The first is concerning the process of the interview. Here you will read about how you are finally selected among other applicants for the interview, how major corporations (featured here include Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon) organize their interview session, how to get prepared for the interview, what you will find and experience inside the interviewing room, who your interviewer will be, and what the language you and your interviewer will use. The focus of this point in this book is to help you get fully prepared for the interview and boost your confidence throughout the interview process.

Still related to this point are issues concerning what generally happens before the interview, behavioral preparation that you must know before you attend the interview, and special situations in which your interviewer will dig out a very specific topic you are expected to master.

The core of this book is a collection of 189 programming interview questions in all levels of difficulty and how to answer them. You will read about all frequently given questions ranging from the most trivial to the trickiest and how to deal with them. Of course the purpose of the exposure of those questions is not for you to cheat the interview. You will be guided to understand the basic patterns of those questions and to discover on your own the most efficient way to arrive at the solution. This is especially useful because new questions always appear in every new interview. By understanding their pattern and strategies to answer them, providing the most accurate answers for them should not be as difficult as you may imagine.

With this book, software developer job interview should not be too fearsome anymore. With this book, your dream to reach the top should be easier to come true.

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