When I was contacted by a Google recruiter a while ago, he also sent me a PDF copy of Cracking the Coding Interview and said I should use it to prepare. The ac

When I was contacted by a Google recruiter a while ago, he also sent me a PDF copy of Cracking the Coding Interview and said I should use it to prepare. The actual questions I got at the interview were nothing like what was in the book. They weren't questions like "how does algorithm X work?" but "how would you model/implement as system that does X?". So, shrug. My one data point says that this book is a mostly useless distraction.