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can you please post the way you prepared for technical interview. Just what you think can help someone who is preparing for it. what kind of questions they aske

can you please post the way you prepared for technical interview. Just what you think can help someone who is preparing for it. what kind of questions they asked ? any thing to watch out for..

mdwelsh 14y ago
This is the best book on technical interviews for places like Google: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/098478280X http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...
- pimentel 14y ago
  Does it just prepare for code interviews, or do you actually learn something useful with it, besides getting a job?
  - Evbn 14y ago
    It is for interviews. You should already know the useful stuff for your job. The best you can do that is relevant to both fronts is Work through CLRS algorithms book Practice explaining technical ideas in spoken conversation.
- skystorm 14y ago
  I second this, helped me a lot, too. In particular, it covers a wide range of topics, each with some introductory exposition, and gives a variety of example questions with answers. Additionally, glassdoor.com has a lot of user-contributed interview questions and lets you search for/filter by specific companies.
tonfa 14y ago
The Steve Yegge blog post.
- offer_today 14y ago
  Yes, this describes how I prepared. The questions were not as difficult as the topics Steve listed.
- packetslave 14y ago
  This is the post tonfa@ refers to: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog... I believe some recruiters actually send it (or a modified version) to candidates who ask how to prepare. I'd also recommend the book "Algorithms for Interviews"
tazzy531 14y ago
When I interviewed, I studied this book cover to cover for 3 months prior to the interview. It definitely came in handy: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/dp/0387948600 http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d... There's also lecture videos here: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/ http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/ Learning data structures that you don't use often, like bit arrays, come in handy for interviews, especially for when they ask you to optimize your solution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array)

can you please post the way you prepared for technical interview. Just what you think can help someone who is preparing for it. what kind of questions they asked ? any thing to watch out for..

mdwelsh 14y ago

This is the best book on technical interviews for places like Google: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/098478280X http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...

pimentel 14y ago
Does it just prepare for code interviews, or do you actually learn something useful with it, besides getting a job?
- Evbn 14y ago
  It is for interviews. You should already know the useful stuff for your job. The best you can do that is relevant to both fronts is Work through CLRS algorithms book Practice explaining technical ideas in spoken conversation.
skystorm 14y ago
I second this, helped me a lot, too. In particular, it covers a wide range of topics, each with some introductory exposition, and gives a variety of example questions with answers. Additionally, glassdoor.com has a lot of user-contributed interview questions and lets you search for/filter by specific companies.

tonfa 14y ago

The Steve Yegge blog post.

offer_today 14y ago
Yes, this describes how I prepared. The questions were not as difficult as the topics Steve listed.
packetslave 14y ago
This is the post tonfa@ refers to: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog... I believe some recruiters actually send it (or a modified version) to candidates who ask how to prepare. I'd also recommend the book "Algorithms for Interviews"

tazzy531 14y ago

When I interviewed, I studied this book cover to cover for 3 months prior to the interview. It definitely came in handy: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/dp/0387948600 http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d... There's also lecture videos here: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/ http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/ Learning data structures that you don't use often, like bit arrays, come in handy for interviews, especially for when they ask you to optimize your solution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array)