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> I got loads of links, book recommendations, and practice exercises beforehand (all of which I combed through, yes, I even bought two of the books). Would you

> I got loads of links, book recommendations, and practice exercises beforehand (all of which I combed through, yes, I even bought two of the books). Would you be willing to share some of their/your recommendations?

mden 13y ago
I imagine they (Google) doesn't consider this information private so here's the bulk of an email I got listing prep material and topics: http://pastebin.com/iXGzfkBL http://pastebin.com/iXGzfkBL Edit: To clarify, this is for SE, not SRE.
- deleted 13y ago
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- B-Con 13y ago
  Yep, I got a very similar e-mail before the on-site. There was some more in some e-mails before the phone interviews, like links to man pages, some (public on YouTube) Google videos, and some sample coding problems. FWIW, I bought "Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)" and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (3rd edition)". "Programming Pearls" was definitely a good choice.
  - philsnow 13y ago
    My problem with APUE is that it includes so much detail about platforms I'm not likely to be exposed to. It's probably a great reference for that stuff (it's almost a rosetta stone for unix programming), but it could probably be half as long without the "extraneous" stuff.
- wyclif 13y ago
  Thank you for this; it's quite helpful.
BorisMelnik 13y ago
yes also would be interested in this. Also even a vague example of what one of the questions might look like (not asking for an exact interview question)
- mden 13y ago
  I've found that this website contains a lot of onsite-like coding questions and is generally really good for practicing problem solving (it's basically Project Euler but for programmers): oj.leetcode.com/problems/ Highly recommend it.
- stephenbez 13y ago
  This site has lots of sample interview questions: http://www.careercup.com/ http://www.careercup.com/
  - B-Con 13y ago
    And it was linked to by one of Google's preparatory e-mails. :-)
objclxt 13y ago
There is a now classic Steve Yegge blog post that gives a recommendations and advice (a lot of Google recruiters actually point candidates towards it to prepare). Although it's over six years old now it's still pretty much on point. 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...
zevyoura 13y ago
I just started at Google two weeks ago (as a SWE, not SRE, though), and I found Cracking the Coding Interview to be the most helpful book for preparing for interviews in general. I also used Programming Interviews Exposed, which is comparable, but CtCI has a little more content.
raldi 13y ago
A bit outdated, but still excellent: 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... P.S. It worked for me. :) Good luck!

mden 13y ago

I imagine they (Google) doesn't consider this information private so here's the bulk of an email I got listing prep material and topics: http://pastebin.com/iXGzfkBL http://pastebin.com/iXGzfkBL Edit: To clarify, this is for SE, not SRE.

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B-Con 13y ago
Yep, I got a very similar e-mail before the on-site. There was some more in some e-mails before the phone interviews, like links to man pages, some (public on YouTube) Google videos, and some sample coding problems. FWIW, I bought "Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)" and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (3rd edition)". "Programming Pearls" was definitely a good choice.
- philsnow 13y ago
  My problem with APUE is that it includes so much detail about platforms I'm not likely to be exposed to. It's probably a great reference for that stuff (it's almost a rosetta stone for unix programming), but it could probably be half as long without the "extraneous" stuff.
wyclif 13y ago
Thank you for this; it's quite helpful.

BorisMelnik 13y ago

yes also would be interested in this. Also even a vague example of what one of the questions might look like (not asking for an exact interview question)

mden 13y ago
I've found that this website contains a lot of onsite-like coding questions and is generally really good for practicing problem solving (it's basically Project Euler but for programmers): oj.leetcode.com/problems/ Highly recommend it.
stephenbez 13y ago
This site has lots of sample interview questions: http://www.careercup.com/ http://www.careercup.com/
- B-Con 13y ago
  And it was linked to by one of Google's preparatory e-mails. :-)

objclxt 13y ago

There is a now classic Steve Yegge blog post that gives a recommendations and advice (a lot of Google recruiters actually point candidates towards it to prepare). Although it's over six years old now it's still pretty much on point. 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...

zevyoura 13y ago

I just started at Google two weeks ago (as a SWE, not SRE, though), and I found Cracking the Coding Interview to be the most helpful book for preparing for interviews in general. I also used Programming Interviews Exposed, which is comparable, but CtCI has a little more content.

raldi 13y ago

A bit outdated, but still excellent: 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... P.S. It worked for me. :) Good luck!