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Read this: https://medium.com/@thatboiwill/levels-of-technical-interviewing-688a6331078a#.8rv5bjc11 https://medium.com/@thatboiwill/levels-of-technical-intervi

by wh-uws 11y ago

Read this: https://medium.com/@thatboiwill/levels-of-technical-interviewing-688a6331078a#.8rv5bjc11 https://medium.com/@thatboiwill/levels-of-technical-intervie... Get to the point where you are decent at level 4 interviews and you are a shoe in for 80% - 85% of tech companies anywhere. If you can master level 4 and harder than you have a strong fighting chance for even the toughest companies to interview at. Another thing to note you only really get level 3 and 4 interviews with top tier tech companies generally in the Silicon Valley area and maybe started by or around people from [insert college with top tier CS program]. Having deep knowledge of your specific domain (web development, mobile development, etc.) and basic data structures and algorithms (up to Level 2) will get you offers in any tertiary Tech scene i.e. Austin, Texas or Atlanta, Ga. Source: I have gotten offers in both of these areas with just that level of knowledge. But if you want to make sure you can get a job in the valley you got some work cut out for you. It aint the best for no reason. Edit: I'll leave you with one more thing. One of the authors of Programming Interviews Exposed them self was rejected by Google his first time... https://www.quora.com/I-am-a-software-engineer-with-20+-years-experience-but-Ive-failed-5-tech-interviews-in-a-row-because-I-didnt-do-that-well-in-the-algorithm-problems-Should-I-change-my-career/answer/Eric-Giguere https://www.quora.com/I-am-a-software-engineer-with-20+-year... let that sink in.

muzani 11y ago
I think lots of companies only interview up to Level 2. I won't mention a certain big one, but they just test to make sure your brain grasps the concept of pointers. They do pay upscale salary and are in one of the major startup hubs. I'd say Level 2 is the optimum to be comfortable in for a degree level if you do a lot of tough stuff. Level 3 if you're in something more niche like optimizations. A huge, listed company like Google or Microsoft might do Level 4, only because they have the money to solve problems that give a 0.01% improvement and want to maintain that competitive edge. There's a reason for this - the best programmers have an abundance of job offers. So it's good not to annoy the candidate too much or to stretch out the interview process very long.

by wh-uws 11y ago

muzani 11y ago

I think lots of companies only interview up to Level 2. I won't mention a certain big one, but they just test to make sure your brain grasps the concept of pointers. They do pay upscale salary and are in one of the major startup hubs. I'd say Level 2 is the optimum to be comfortable in for a degree level if you do a lot of tough stuff. Level 3 if you're in something more niche like optimizations. A huge, listed company like Google or Microsoft might do Level 4, only because they have the money to solve problems that give a 0.01% improvement and want to maintain that competitive edge. There's a reason for this - the best programmers have an abundance of job offers. So it's good not to annoy the candidate too much or to stretch out the interview process very long.