Pass any programming interview
Tips for every kind of programming interview you may come across at most major tech companies.
Articles
- Steve Yegge – Get That Job at Google [web]
- Daniel Blumenthal – How to Prepare for Technical Interviews [web]
- David Byttow – ABC: Always Be Coding [web]
- David Byttow – Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree [web]
- Thomas L. Friedman – How to Get a Job at Google [part 1] [part 2]
- Andrew Rothbart – Preparing for a technical interview with programming contests [web]
- Steve Yegge – Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume [web]
Algorithms
- Steven Skiena – The Algorithm Design Manual [Amazon] [pdf] [web]
- Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls [Amazon] [web (full text)]
- Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein – Introduction to Algorithms [Amazon] [pdf]
- more – Free Programming Books (giant collection) [GitHub]
- more – IT eBooks [web]
- more – Free Programming Books [web]
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Coding
- Coderust (great selection of problems) [$10 app]
- Hacker Rank [web]
- Interview Cake [web]
- HackerEarth [web]
- HiredInTech [web]
- Project Euler [web]
- Google Code Jam practice problems [web]
- Top Coder tutorials [web]
- Infoarena training path (RO) [web]
- LeetCode Online Judge [web]
- more – Free Programming Resources [web]
- more - Web Resources and Tutorials That Don't Suck [web]
Guides
Gayle McDowell – The Google Resume [Amazon] [pdf]
Gayle McDowell – Cracking the Coding Interview [Amazon] [pdf]
- CareerCup [web]
- Coding for Interviews [web]
- Here's How to Prepare for Tech Interviews [reddit]
- Programming Interviews Exposed [Amazon] [pdf]
- Elements of Programming Interviews [Amazon] [web]
- Mina Azib – Resources for Preparing for the Google Interview [web]
Quora:
- How to prepare for my Google/Facebook interview if I have 6 months left?
- How should I prepare for my Google interview if I have 1 month left?
- What is the best advice for an engineering internship interview at Google or Facebook?
- What graph topics should I study in order to be adequately prepared for a Google Software Engineer interview?
Language-specific
JavaScript
Python
Maths
MIT - Mathematics for Computer Science [Youtube] [web]
Misc
- Aaron Swartz – How I Hire Programmers [web]
- Joel Spolsky – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (v.3) [web]
- Steve Yegge – Done, and Gets Things Smart [web]
Quora
Questions
MIT – Hacking a Google Interview [web]
- Computer Science Primer / Interview Questions [web]
- Programming Interview Questions [web]
- Prismo-Skills [web]
- Jeff Atwood – How Good an Estimator Are You? [web]
- Daniel Blumenthal – Questions I Want to Ask, but Can't [web]
- Steve Yegge – The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions [web]
Systems Design
Unix
Videos
- Candidate Coaching Session: Tech Interviewing [Youtube]
- Gayle McDowell – Cracking the Coding Interview [Youtube]
- Gayle McDowell - Cracking the Coding Interview (examples) [one] [two]
- Hangouts on Air: Google Recruiters Share Interview Tips [technical] [non-technical]
- Ladies Storm Hackathons: Interview Prep Round 1: Strings, Arrays, Linked Lists [technical]