VIvinnyglennon·Dec 29, 2016Submission
Book list for a Google interview
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coding-interview-university
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coding-interview-university
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 17 | 5 | 12 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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9 sourcesConfidence and practice are huge factors. For the latter I can't recommend leetcode enough, it has problems exactly (like those) from interviews, and a lot of them. For confidence I recommend interviewing first at companies you're not particularly interested in. Try to time your interviews in such a way that you have your 2nd-choice interviews 1-2 weeks before your 1st-choice ones. Eventually having an offer helps you in the negotiation part.
Check this out for more links (many links in the issues as well) https://github.com/andreis/interview or this thing that was on HN recently https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university
In Ask HN: What is your background and how often do you get rejected in interviews?This seems like a great set of resources, but getting as keen as [0,1] just seems like the author setting himself up for disappointment.
[0]: https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university#get-i...
[1]: https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university#follo...
In Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineerGoogle Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer
327 points · Open discussionA complete daily plan for studying to become a Google software engineer
6 points · Open discussionA complete daily plan for studying to become a Google software engineer
7 points · Open discussionHaving a solid Computer Science background is a must! So do the courses if you think your CS base is not solid enough.
Then, solve the "Cracking the Coding Interview" problems all by yourself, hesitate to look at the solutions until you really tried them out.
Here is a great resource to prepare for big companies, like Google: https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university
In Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice