Over the years I've put together a list of resources that helped me prepare for programming interviews. Whether you're gunning for a role at a large tech firm or a smaller company, the fundamentals tend to be the same — and they're more learnable than they might first appear.
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]
Please do support the authors by buying the books where you can.
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]
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]