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I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. I've been through this as a candidate and as an interviewer.

Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your very best. I've coached and interviewed hundreds of software engineers. The result is this book.

Learn how to uncover the hints and hidden details in a question, discover how to break down a problem into manageable chunks, develop techniques to unstick yourself when stuck, learn (or re-learn) core computer science concepts, and practice on 189 interview questions and solutions.

These interview questions are real; they are not pulled out of computer science textbooks. They reflect what's truly being asked at the top companies, so that you can be as prepared as possible. WHAT'S INSIDE?

189 programming interview questions, ranging from the basics to the trickiest algorithm problems.
A walk-through of how to derive each solution, so that you can learn how to get there yourself.
Hints on how to solve each of the 189 questions, just like what you would get in a real interview.
Five proven strategies to tackle algorithm questions, so that you can solve questions you haven't seen.
Extensive coverage of essential topics, such as big O time, data structures, and core algorithms.
A behind the scenes look at how top companies like Google and Facebook hire developers.
Techniques to prepare for and ace the soft side of the interview: behavioral questions.
For interviewers and companies: details on what makes a good interview question and hiring process.

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Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup and the author of Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the Tech Career.

Her background is in software development. She has worked as a software engineer at Google, Microsoft, and Apple. At Google, she interviewed hundreds of software engineers and evaluated thousands of hiring packets on the hiring committee. She holds a B.S.E. and M.S.E. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School.

She now consults with tech companies to improve their hiring process and with startups to prepare them for acquisition interviews.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0984782850
Publisher ‏ : ‎ CareerCup; 6th edition (July 1, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 687 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0984782869
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0984782857
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.59 x 10 inches

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Gayle Laakmann McDowell is an author, consultant, and founder focusing on improving tech hiring for both the interviewer and the candidate.

Gayle has worked as an engineer for Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Most recently, at Google, she served on the hiring committee where she interviewed hundreds of candidates and evaluated thousands more. It was here that she discovered the disconnect between candidates, their skill set, and their interview performance.

Though her company, CareerCup, Gayle has worked with many of the top tech companies to reform their hiring practices and implement interviewer training programs.

She is the author and creator the best-selling Cracking the Interview & Career series: Cracking the Coding Interview, Cracking the PM Interview (co-authored with Jackie Bavaro), Cracking the PM Career (co-authored with Jackie Bavaro), and Cracking the Tech Career

Gayle holds a bachelor's and master's in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

She currently consults, writes, and codes from her home in Palo Alto, California. She can be found online at gayle.com, twitter (@gayle), and facebook (@gayle).

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Janny Mach

Almost as new! Great read

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023

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Indepth and useful for someone who is trying to learn the ways of interviewing. The book is almost as new- no complaints!

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This book helped me get job offers from Google and Amazon

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I’ve been meaning to review this book for a while. Last year I got laid off from my startup and found myself feeling anxious as I haven’t had to look for a job for several years. I bought this book along with two others, but this was the only one I really spent time on. The first third of this book provides specific information about companies along with example problems. The last two thirds are problem solutions with explanations. I found everything valuable. I didn’t write out complete solutions for most of her example problems. If I thought it was obvious I skipped it, but whatever you do don’t skip reading the solution. It’s here where you can read about ways of solving the problem that didn’t occur to you. For example, if you want to know if two binary trees are identical you can verify this by comparing their preorder and inorder traversals. The only gaps were discrete math and heaps. Heaps appeared frequently in sample questions on Glassdoor. I pulled an old data structures book out to re-read about heaps, but I was never explicitly asked about them during my job search though I did mention them a couple times as possible ways to maintain a priority queue.

Information about the companies was very relevant as I live in the Bay Area. I wish I had heeded her admonition about discrete math for Google because I was unprepared for these questions. I would have read the math if it was in the book, but since I haven’t used that math ever in a job I skipped it. During the interview I was able to solve the math problems except I needed basic definitions and one or two hints. For Amazon it was good to know there’s a “bar raiser” because it was obvious when I met the interviewer who wrote out a really hard problem right off the bat and wanted a linear time algorithm. I was speechless for five minutes, but managed to reduce the problem enough where the solution suddenly came to me. I think I would have been unnerved by the question if I didn’t know about this type of interviewer that she writes about. I wish she also covered Twitter and LinkedIn.

The book doesn’t talk enough about applying for jobs. I do wish she wrote about job offer contingencies as my first job offer was from a startup who told me it expires in 24 hours. This in turn caused other recruiters to panic. While in the end I got a good job, all in all I hope I’m not forced to do this again anytime soon. I’m just glad I had this book at my side. It was indispensable.

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Good book and realistic questions that they are going to ask during the interview.

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It's a great book

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While this book is meant for interview practice, I would recommend you still read it just for fun if you're into algorithms.

I've always believed that there's no "crack" to coding interviews; it's just a matter of whether you can code or not (well, at least at those sane companies not filling up school buses with golf balls). And that requires practice. Lots of practice. Which is why I spent all my free time working out problems on Hackerrank. For me, this went well . . . for a while.

But there comes a point at which you get stuck. I remember working on some hackerrank problems in the medium to hard difficulty which I would not be able to proceed for weeks and weeks. No amount of googling for information, discussion boards or stack overflow threads paint a complete picture to help you when you're stuck.

After countless such occasions and failing a few interviews, I gave in and bought this book. After all it was $20 - the cost of an uber to work.
Now, I wish I had bought this sooner!

Within reading the first two chapters I've already learnt so much about how to think about coding problems. There's also a nice collections of custom data structures at the end of the book. I've swiped some data structures straight out of this book and use them in my day-to-day life too.

Gayle has done a tremendous job of using words to explain how that weird gooey gel inside your head moves like when problem-solving. She deconstructs every approach to tackle a problem into atomic pieces. She goes into great depth about alternative designs, tradeoffs and runtime complexity. She talks about visualizing recursive calls as trees, thinking about BUD*, amortized analysis of ArrayList and much more. The great thing is that Gayle goes into copious amounts of details for each solution - she talks about how to start from a brute force solutions and optimize each component one-by-one and talks about tradeoffs in approaches.

Overall, I think this a very helpful book. I would recommend you begin reading this book immediately after your first course on Algorithms. It will certainly help drill down the concepts and help strengthen your fundamentals.

*BUD is a special term the author uses to describe strategies to optimize solutions

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Ótimo livro

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Valuable Foundation for Software Developers, But Lacks Challenging Problems

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As a software developer, I found Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions, to be a comprehensive guide that helped me refresh my knowledge of essential topics such as big O time, data structures, and core algorithms. Gayle Laakmann McDowell's extensive experience in coaching and interviewing software engineers shines through in the depth and authenticity of the content.

The book is structured to teach you how to approach and solve problems effectively, which I found to be valuable in my preparation for interviews. The real-world questions from top companies gave me a sense of what to expect during the actual interviews. The book also provides an insightful look into the hiring processes of tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as techniques to tackle the soft side of interviews, such as behavioral questions.

However, from a software developer's perspective, I found the difficulty level of the main problems in the book to be relatively easy, comparable to the "easy" level of leetcode.com. For developers who are already well-versed in the field or looking for more challenging problems to prepare for rigorous interviews, this book might not be as helpful. Websites like LeetCode, which offer a broader range of problem difficulties and solutions, may be more suitable for advanced preparation.

Despite the lack of challenging problems, Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition, remains a valuable resource for software developers seeking a comprehensive and holistic guide to the interview process. It is particularly beneficial for developers who are new to the field or need a refresher on core computer science concepts and problem-solving techniques.

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Bem embalado!

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O livro veio numa caixa, muito bem embalado. Achei que ele fosse de capa dura mas não é.

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Excelente recopilación de lo más importante en una entrevista TI

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Aplique para un empleo en amazon. Este libro documenta cómo es el proceso de evaluación y que no hay que saber todo pero, hay que tener un buen proceso mental.

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So dense w info gayle is defo hot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2023

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Got the dummies book before this what a beauty in comparison so informative on such a wide array of topics u could learn coding from this book alone. DO NOT BUY THE DUMMIES BOOKS absolute cheeks

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