Programming Interviews Exposed

Programming Interviews Exposed

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Metadata

  • Author: John Mongan, Noah Suojanen Kindler, Eric Giguere
  • Full Title: Programming Interviews Exposed
  • Category: #books

Highlights

  • believe that this is the best possible basis for a book like this. Rather than give you some HR exec’s idea of how interviewing should be done or (Location 419)
  • Job listing sites such as Dice (which specializes in technology-related career listings), Indeed, and Monster (general job listing sites) enable you to see what kinds of jobs are currently in demand. (Location 597)
  • Delete or change the privacy settings for incomplete, poorly organized, or low-quality repositories. (Location 697)
  • AngelList is the big player in this category. (Location 703)
  • Sites such as Hired are places where you upload your rĂ©sumĂ©, and (Location 841)
    • Note: Apply
  • don’t use terms or concepts you don’t really understand in answers to problems. (Location 1021)
  • “Write a function that determines whether two integers are equal without using any comparison operators.” (Location 1272)
  • After you write the code for a problem, immediately verify that the code works by tracing through it with an example. (Location 1367)
  • You rarely need to write more than 30 lines of code and almost never more than 50. (Location 1403)
  • Big-O analysis is a form of runtime analysis that measures the efficiency of an algorithm in terms of the time it takes for the algorithm to run as a function of the input size. (Location 1410)