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Algorithms For Interviews (AFI) aims to help engineers interviewing for software development positions as well as their interviewers. AFI consists of 174 solved algorithm design problems. It covers core material, such as searching and sorting; general design principles, such as graph modeling and dynamic programming; advanced topics, such as strings, parallelism and intractability. It also covers system design, problem solving, and interviewing techniques. AFI's authors are practicing algorithmists, with extensive academic and industrial experience. They have collectively published over 100 articles on applied algorithms, applied their skills at Google, Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm, and a number of smaller software startups, and conducted many job interviews for various computer science jobs.

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1453792996
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978-1453792995
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First Edition
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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September 14, 2010
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English
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5.98 x 0.47 x 9.02 inches
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222 pages
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Adnan Aziz is a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he conducts research and teaches classes in applied algorithms. He has won a number of awards for his teaching and research on applied algorithms. He received his PhD from The University of California at Berkeley; his undergraduate degree is from IIT Kanpur. He has worked at Google, Qualcomm, IBM, and several software startups. When not designing algorithms, he plays with his children, Laila, Imran, and Omar. Amit Prakash is a Member of the Technical Staff at Google, where he works primarily on machine learning problems that arise in the context of online advertising. Prior to that he worked at Microsoft in the web search team. He received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin; his undergraduate degree is from IIT Kanpur. When he is not improving the quality of ads, he indulges in his passions for puzzles, movies, travel, and adventures with his wife.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Edition (September 14, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1453792996
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1453792995
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.47 x 9.02 inches

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Amit Prakash is CTO and co-founder of ThoughtSpot Inc. Prior to that he worked at Google and Microsoft in Search and Ads engineering teams. He received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin; his undergraduate degree is from IIT Kanpur. When he is not improving the quality of ads, he indulges in his passions for puzzles, movies, travel, and adventures with his wife.

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sanman

Great book but demands respect

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 12, 2011

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I read the book from first page to last. The book has a collection of really good problems. It prepares the reader for the most challenging of problems that can be asked in interviews. So if you have solved this book and feel fairly confident, it's pretty likely that you'll do well in the interviews as well. The chapters on systems design and architecture were really good too, in terms of dealing with scale-up. These are the questions asked often in programming interviews.

However I wouldn't recommend that this be the first book someone attempts to read in order to prepare for an interview with Google or MS. The authors assume a certain level, which might be daunting for many people needing help. Only after someone has read other programming interview books such as Careercup and read up enough on Algos from books as Skeina and CLRS, should someone attempt to read this book. Else, they will fall into the trap of memorizing the solutions which does not help in any way.

Overall I would highly recommend this book, but only if you have done your homework first.

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D. Mudawal

Still worth reading.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2011

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As other readers pointed out solutions are dull w/o diagrammatic illustration and more likely to be bookish than unique and innovative. Many problems do not discuss corner cases and optimizations which though being trivial are important part of an interview discussion. Lot of data structure / standard algorithm and their variations are not covered especially for guys who don't work on them on daily basis due to their monotonous programming jobs around enterprise tools and IDE's.

That being said you can't ignore the book if you are preparing for a top I.T. company. Even if you have to look similar problems online and their various different solutions, it still is the best book in market for coding puzzles. I am still into the book and would update my review once I go though it.

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A Girl

Good thinking

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 17, 2011

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As many reviews pointed out, the writing is not careful enough in this book. There are errors now and then. Nevertheless, the problems and solutions are still very well worth exploring. And it is good that they have a different style than most other interview problems book in the market.

In sum, this book is best for more advanced readers than beginners. You should have read at least one of the other books (Crack ..., ... exposed) before reading this one. Advanced readers should be able to tell the errors in the book yourself and won't be confused.

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StepDo

not practical

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2017

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I'm starting to interview more candidates for my team so I thought this book would help give me some inspiration.
Almost all of the questions are completely impractical to give during an actual interview. Many questions are too constrained (like solve this problem in X amount of running time and using Y amount of memory), too ambiguous and poorly described, too difficult or too easy, require deep knowledge of a certain algorithm or data structure, etc

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2012

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I have given a lot of interviews for some of the top companies with a fairly ok success rate. Usually a high quality interview requires a good grasp of coding skills (reverse bits), algorithm design (largest palindrome in a string), language expertise (virtual destructors) , brain teasers (lions eating a goat), probability/math (gambler's fallacy or getting a fair toss using a biased coin) and high level design (design me a distributed cache). All of this requires a fairly good background to begin with and a sharp mind as well.

This book covers 2 of these categories very well - algorithms and probability/math. (as the name suggests). And it also has pretty good coverage of high level design topics - nothing trivial at all.
It won't make you an expert Python or C++ programmer nor will it teach you how to code complex array manipulations in a short time. With that expectation set, I think the book is worth for the questions alone - some of the questions really make you think. I don't know if they are original (most aren't), but the categorization and the selection is good. And they also have a very nice approach towards reducing various problems to some well known techniques.

This won't make you an expert in algorithms - but provided that you have a decent background to begin with but are a bit rusty - it will provide a great quality review of many important topics and jog your neurons in the right direction.

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David DeAngelis

Great interview resource

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2010

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This book is a great resource when preparing for interviews in the software career field. The opening chapters contain many problems which vary from pretty straightforward applications of data structures to surprisingly difficult problems with clever solutions. It's nice that the authors include commentary describing classes of solution approaches interspersed with the actual problem statements. This commentary will not take the place of a decent textbook, but it provides a good refresher. The finals chapters contain the solutions to the problems in the first chapters. These solutions are often given in some combination of code, prose, and math. I'm a big fan of the prose explanations; they are well written and succinct. Also, there is plenty of content to keep you occupied for a long time.

The slim middle section gives some useful interview advice on what to expect and how to behave. It's all pretty standard stuff that really shouldn't be necessary, but it wouldn't hurt to look it over.

The bad (minor): It is not the sturdiest book. It will certainly last you through a few interview prep sessions, but the binding may not hold up for a long time. The code examples are a mix of Java, C++, and Python. This may be tough for some readers who are not familiar with those languages. Fortunately the solutions really focus on the algorithms, not the language quirks or complex object-oriented hierarchies.

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Antonio Gulli

A must have

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 7, 2011

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A must have book, if you are planning to have interviews or if you are an interviewer yourself. I give definitively a 5 star for the variety and the details of the argument described. Personally, I would suggest the authors expading the programming part with more coding examples.

Willy Van den Driessche

Some sparkling examples

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on January 31, 2013

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There might be a debate on what a candidate has to know to "pass" an interview. If -like me- you are convinced that some algorithmic thinking should be displayable then you should read this book to have some good ideas on (currently) novel questions to ask your candidates. The examples are very good and can catually be done during an interview. In the end - all you want to know is that the canidate was delivered "with the batteries" and this book can help you set up part of your interviews.

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