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Algorithms For Interviews Paperback – September 14, 2010

by Adnan Aziz (Author), Amit Prakash (Author)

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This book is subsumed by our new work "Elements of Programming Interviews" (EPI), also available from Amazon.com

Compared to "Algorithms for Interviews", EPI

has many more problems (300 vs 174),
increases emphasis on problems that can be solved without specialized knowledge
has much more code (over 250 programs) and over 100 figures, and
is more bug free.

You can view a sample chapter from EPI at Adnan Aziz's homepage (http://bit.ly/adnanaziz)

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About the Author

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.

Paperback: 222 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1453792996
ISBN-13: 978-1453792995
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 22 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,014,795 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #628 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Algorithms

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D. Mudawal

Still worth reading.

October 17, 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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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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joulin armand

Good complement book for interview training.

February 11, 2014

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I would recommend it if use with another book (such as "Cracking the Coding Interview"), but not to be use on its own.

Good overview of medium/hard algorithmic problems for interview.

Lots of problems, some bugs in the solutions but the ratio bug to problem is pretty small.

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Christopher W. Morris

good supplementary book

November 5, 2012

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This book does not teach you all about designing algorithms and it does not teach you everything you need to know about algorithms, datastructures, how to break a problem down, etc. You would want to get the algorithm design manual [...] for that. Algorithms For Interviews, on the other hand, is a supplementary book that provides problems and brief solution explanations for those problems. Use it after going through the algorithm design manual.

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Engineer at Heart

An honest opinion from an experienced interviewer

January 20, 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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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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Joel

Not if you have Insectophobia

March 16, 2012

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While there is a decent amount of good questions I am not familiar with, I agree with many of the reviewers. The writing is not careful enough, to say the least. Both the questions and the solutions have errors and even if not, they are far from being concise. There are many bugs in the code as well.

The thing that got me kind of irritated was that the authors offer on their website (as of March 16, 2012) to

"pay US$ 0.42 for new technical problems reported. (Please check that the bug is indeed new.)".

42 cents?! Are you serious? Please. I wouldn't suggest any payment. But if you do offer some money - you can do better than that... this is just insulting and disrespectful to the readers.

Or maybe the authors knew that the book was so full of bugs and were afraid of going bankrupt had they offered more?

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David Schneider

Good problems to work through

January 3, 2014

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I really liked this book. Lots of interesting questions in there to think about. Two of them did turn up in an interviews that I had, so I was well prepared.

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