Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer) 2nd Edition

by John Mongan (Author), Noah Suojanen (Author), Eric Giguère (Author)

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The pressure is on during the interview process but with the right preparation, you can walk away with your dream job. This classic book uncovers what interviews are really like at America's top software and computer companies and provides you with the tools to succeed in any situation. The authors take you step-by-step through new problems and complex brainteasers they were asked during recent technical interviews.

50 interview scenarios are presented along with in-depth analysis of the possible solutions. The problem-solving process is clearly illustrated so you'll be able to easily apply what you've learned during crunch time. You'll also find expert tips on what questions to ask, how to approach a problem, and how to recover if you become stuck. All of this will help you ace the interview and get the job you want.

What you will learn from this book

Tips for effectively completing the job application
Ways to prepare for the entire programming interview process
How to find the kind of programming job that fits you best
Strategies for choosing a solution and what your approach says about you
How to improve your interviewing skills so that you can respond to any question or situation
Techniques for solving knowledge-based problems, logic puzzles, and programming problems

Who this book is for
This book is for programmers and developers applying for jobs in the software industry or in IT departments of major corporations.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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Programming Interviews Exposed
2nd Edition

What you will learn from this book

Tips for effectively completing the job application
Ways to prepare for the entire programming interview process
How to find the kind of programming job that fits you best
Strategies for choosing a solution and what your approach says about you
How to improve your interviewing skills so that you can respond to any question or situation
Techniques for solving knowledge-based problems, logic puzzles, and programming problems

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers and developers applying for jobs in the software industry or in IT departments of major corporations.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author

John Mongan is a self-taught programmer with professional experience as a consultant for software and pharmaceutical companies. He has three patents on software testing technologies. He holds a BS in chemistry from Stanford and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego, with thesis work in supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics.

Noah Suojanen Kindler graduated from Stanford with a BS in computer science, has worked for Boeing and is currently a consultant.

Eric Giguere is a software developer and the author of three Wiley programming books. He is a frequent speaker and is often interviewed by USA Today and other broad media on various topics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox; 2nd edition (April 30, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 047012167X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470121672
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.62 x 9.2 inches

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B. Jacobs

Great book for experienced professionals back in the job market

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2010

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I have over 20 years of software development experience and have been at my current company for over 10 years. And that job was through a friend. So I hadn't interviewed or written a resume in quite some time. I found out pretty quickly that things had changed since my last job search.

Given today's competitive market, I find that more employers are looking not only at experience (as they did in my prior job searches), but also are testing applicants on college level computer science. It's true that professionals have taken these courses, but it's been a very long time since I had to write a binary tree algorithm. Once you have experience, you still need to understand data structures and algorithms, but I'd seriously worry about a programmer that wrote their own btree functions. Part of software engineering is understanding what you need, where to find the libraries and tools to support your selection, and understanding how to apply them. So I was taken by surprise when asked about btree algorithms and red/black tree traversal. I remembered these concepts, but wasn't prepared to sit down and code one.

This is where this book came in handy. It sets the stage for interviewing in today's marketplace, covers all those CS101 concepts that some of us are rusty at, and provided good examples to practice working through those low level concepts.

I found it very helpful for my second round of interviews at a very technical company.

For those people that say there is no silver bullet, or that you can't learn to be a computer scientist from one book, I totally agree. But that is not the intended audience. This book is great for those of us that have all that knowledge, but are a bit rusty on some of the data structure internals. It's also great for experienced professionals who have been out of the market for a while.

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Way too introductory. Buy "iff" you don't know the basics.

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2012

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My main take with this book is that it is way too easy, and covers only a small number of topics to be helpful.

Taking the interviews means you design algorithms for a specific task & code in a couple of minutes. This requires lots of practice, therefore the book needs lot of problems, with several different ways to solve them, and all explained in detail. I will not refer to a particular product (I don't like to advertise other products), but there are other well-known books doing this very well.

This book will be helpful if you don't know anything about programming & computer science/engineering. But if you already know the basics, and would like to go for a serious interview & need to sharpen your existing skills (which you acquired during undergrad & master education, etc.) - go for more challenging books.

All in all, way too introductory. Buy if and only if you don't know the basics.

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Jason B

Decent, but fairly easy, short

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2013

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I bought this book along with a several other to prepare for an interview at a tech company last year. While it was a fairly comprehensive review over all the topics in an undergraduate algorithms course, I felt the the example problems were fairly simple and didn't go into as much depth as other texts. The part that bothered me the most was that they present several really bad solutions before giving an efficient or "correct" one. This causes confusion during an interview trying to remember which solution method was correct when presented with a similar question (as what happened to me).

I would recommend Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions instead with Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms (3rd Edition) or Introduction to Algorithms for algorithm review

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Jim Q

Nice refresher course, gets some details wrong

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2012

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Read through this over the weekend and for those familiar with the material, you won't see anything out of the ordinary. It lays down a nice road map of the basics, and the 'soft' skills mentioned in other reviews are a nice touch; They are far too often overlooked in this industry. Overall I've found it to be a good read.

I do have some issues with a number of the coding examples though. For a guide that is constantly reiterating to check your corner cases there are two examples I found just skimming that are incorrect. I attempted to add to the errata but they also asked for too many personal details so I just submitted them below for anyone that's curious.

If you just need a quick refresher, this content is at the level you would want and expect. If you want in depth understanding of the problems being mentioned, Cormen would be your best bet. If difficult programming problems and the thought process behind how they're solved is more your thing, 'Programming Pearls' is a great place to start.

Errors I noticed on the first read through:

The 'Null or Cycle' solution on page 51 incorrectly short circuits its first 'else if' condition. "Fast = slow = head" before the first iteration; if there are more than two nodes in the list, that else if condition will always cause the function to return true, whether there is a null terminator or not. The idea is a good one, but I would have checked and incremented the 'fast' pointer at least once before the loop started.

The "Remove specified characters" solution also has quite the annoying little bug in it. The characters to remove array is defined as 'r'. The input string character array is defined as 's'. 'len' is defined to be the length of s. When initially setting the 'flags' variable, the loop is indexing into 'r' based on the 'len' of 's'; an easy way to get an out of bounds exception.

These bugs are common, subtle, and easy to miss. Not going to get better at finding and preventing these without practice, no matter what books you read. My main gripe with the book is that it puts an emphasis on correctness, and how to approach a lot of these problems, but doesn't quite follow through in some cases. Since I found two examples so easily, I'll be skeptical of any other code examples on future read throughs.

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Mat

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2014

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It's a great book to learn my useful concepts/tricks and gain a deeper understanding. I recommend it!

Camilo Galiana

Perfecto para repasar conocimientos

Reviewed in Spain on January 10, 2013

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Esta muy bien para repasar conocimientos, pero no vas a aprender nada nuevo.
Te recuerda las cosas básicas e importantes que por hacer tiempo que no las usas ya no te acuerdas. Pegarle un vistazo de vez en cuando no viene mal para repasar conocimientos basicos

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Denis Araujo Silva

Really nice reading!

Reviewed in Brazil on March 3, 2015

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Really nice book! Simple to understand and talks about all important topics that you need to know as computer software developer.

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Cleanster

Elementary stuff - not going to land you a top job

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2012

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As a part time interviewer and potential candidate I was expecting more from this book. It smacked heavily of a couple of guys fresh out of college collating their experience of applying for entry level jobs. Look elsewhere if Google et al interest you.

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