I definitely second this - coming in context free and having no real idea about how to prepare is a very difficult aspect when it comes to interview anxiety (th

I definitely second this - coming in context free and having no real idea about how to prepare is a very difficult aspect when it comes to interview anxiety (the other is the social dynamic). Even a list of data structures and alg properties one would be expected to know to pass an interview would be helpful when the interview questions could be outside of previous domain scope (web developers implementing b trees from memory, for example). Proving that you can groc fundamental things should only be part of the interview and hopefully not even the most important part. On the other hand, I’ve had take home assignments that were total wastes of time because all they really cared about was whether you coded in their particular OOP fashion. I made a functional demo which performed well but they neglected to mention that they were looking for OOP design paradigms. Mention should be given of current methods they use so that you don’t spend a week going down a path that won’t tell them how you will fit into the team.