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Programming Interviews Exposed

Programming Interviews Exposed


Course details

4.5∙4 Ratings3 reviews

Published
March 2018
Publisher
Wiley
Chapters
20

About the course

Ace technical interviews with smart preparation

Programming Interviews Exposed is the programmer’s ideal first choice for technical interview preparation. Updated to reflect changing techniques and trends, this new fourth edition provides insider guidance on the unique interview process that today's programmers face. Online coding contests are being used to screen candidate pools of thousands, take-home projects have become commonplace, and employers are even evaluating a candidate's public code repositories at GitHub—and with competition becoming increasingly fierce, programmers need to shape themselves into the ideal candidate well in advance of the interview. This book doesn't just give you a collection of questions and answers, it walks you through the process of coming up with the solution so you learn the skills and techniques to shine on whatever problems you’re given.

This edition combines a thoroughly revised basis in classic questions involving fundamental data structures and algorithms with problems and step-by-step procedures for new topics including probability, data science, statistics, and machine learning which will help you fully prepare for whatever comes your way.

  • Learn what the interviewer needs to hear to move you forward in the process
  • Adopt an effective approach to phone screens with non-technical recruiters
  • Examine common interview problems and tests with expert explanations
  • Be ready to demonstrate your skills verbally, in contests, on GitHub, and more

Technical jobs require the skillset, but you won’t get hired unless you are able to effectively and efficiently demonstrate that skillset under pressure, in competition with hundreds of others with the same background. Programming Interviews Exposed teaches you the interview skills you need to stand out as the best applicant to help you get the job you want.

Authors

John Mongan

John Mongan

John Mongan is a self-taught programmer with professional experience as a consultant for several software and pharmaceutical companies. He has three patents on software testing technologies. He holds an MD and a PhD in bioinformatics from UC San Diego, where he worked on supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics. He is currently Assistant Professor and Vice Chair, Informatics of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UC San Francisco. His research focuses on applications of machine learning to radiological data and computerized clinical decision support.
Noah Kindler

Noah Kindler

Noah Kindler is VP Technology at the security technology company Avira. He leads software design and development teams across several products with a user base of over 100 million.
Eric Giguère

Eric Giguère

Eric Giguère started programming in BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20 (a long time ago) and was hooked. He holds BMath and MMath degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo, has extensive professional programming experience, and is the author of several programming books. He currently works as a staff software engineer at Google.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Before the Search
Chapter 2: The Job Application Process
Chapter 3: The Phone Screen
Chapter 4: Approaches to Programming Problems
Chapter 5: Linked Lists
Chapter 6: Trees and Graphs
Chapter 7: Arrays and Strings
Chapter 8: Recursion
Chapter 9: Sorting
Chapter 10: Concurrency
Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 12: Design Patterns
Chapter 13: Databases
Chapter 14: Graphics and Bit Manipulation
Chapter 15: Data Science, Random Numbers, and Statistics
Chapter 16: Counting, Measuring, and Ordering Puzzles
Chapter 17: Graphical and Spatial Puzzles
Chapter 18: Knowledge-Based Questions
Chapter 19: Nontechnical Questions
Chapter 20: Appendix Résumés

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Course details

4.5∙4 Ratings3 reviews

Published
March 2018
Publisher
Wiley
Chapters
20

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