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With up-to-date advice on how to succeed in programming job interviews, this book discusses what interviewers need to hear, approaching phone screens with non-technical recruiters, examining common interview problems and tests, demonstrating your skills verbally, in contests, on GitHub, and more.
Description
Ace technical interviews with smart preparation
Programming Interviews Exposed is the programmer’s ideal first choice for technical interview preparation. Updated to reflect changing techniques and trends, this new fourth edition provides insider guidance on the unique interview process that today's programmers face. Online coding contests are being used to screen candidate pools of thousands, take-home projects have become commonplace, and employers are even evaluating a candidate's public code repositories at GitHub—and with competition becoming increasingly fierce, programmers need to shape themselves into the ideal candidate well in advance of the interview. This book doesn't just give you a collection of questions and answers, it walks you through the process of coming up with the solution so you learn the skills and techniques to shine on whatever problems you’re given.
This edition combines a thoroughly revised basis in classic questions involving fundamental data structures and algorithms with problems and step-by-step procedures for new topics including probability, data science, statistics, and machine learning which will help you fully prepare for whatever comes your way.
- Learn what the interviewer needs to hear to move you forward in the process
- Adopt an effective approach to phone screens with non-technical recruiters
- Examine common interview problems and tests with expert explanations
- Be ready to demonstrate your skills verbally, in contests, on GitHub, and more
Technical jobs require the skillset, but you won’t get hired unless you are able to effectively and efficiently demonstrate that skillset under pressure, in competition with hundreds of others with the same background. Programming Interviews Exposed teaches you the interview skills you need to stand out as the best applicant to help you get the job you want.
Creators
John Mongan
John Mongan is a self-taught programmer with professional experience as a consultant for several software and pharmaceutical companies. He has three patents on software testing technologies. He holds an MD and a PhD in bioinformatics from UC San Diego, where he worked on supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics. He is currently Assistant Professor and Vice Chair, Informatics of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UC San Francisco. His research focuses on applications of machine learning to radiological data and computerized clinical decision support.
Noah Kindler
Noah Kindler is VP Technology at the security technology company Avira. He leads software design and development teams across several products with a user base of over 100 million.
Eric Giguère
Eric Giguère started programming in BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20 (a long time ago) and was hooked. He holds BMath and MMath degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo, has extensive professional programming experience, and is the author of several programming books. He currently works as a staff software engineer at Google.
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jonathan.eiten@mojotouch.com
Refreshingly well-written. Extremely well-written. Every paragraph makes a cohesive and relevant point. No filler. The core chapters review essential comp sci stuff you may (or may not) already have a handle on. But what I particularly liked were the other chapters (1-4, 16-17, 19) full of advice dealing with the interview process and in particular those pesky non-comp-sci questions!
Shaun Collins
Great content!
