Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview gives you
the interview preparation you need to get the top software
developer jobs. This is a deeply technical book and focuses on
the software engineering skills to ace your interview. The book
is over 500 pages and includes
The full list of topics are as follows:
The Interview Process
This section offers an overview on questions are selected
and how you will be evaluated. What happens when you get a
question wrong? When should you start preparing, and how?
What language should you use? All these questions and more
are answered.
Behind the Scenes
Learn what happens behind the scenes during your interview,
how decisions really get made, who you interview with, and
what they ask you. Companies covered include Google,
Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook.
Special Situations
This section explains the process for experience
candidates, Program Managers, Dev Managers, Testers /
SDETs, and more. Learn what your interviewers are looking
for and how much code you need to know.
Before the Interview
In order to ace the interview, you first need to get an
interview. This section describes what a software
engineer's resume should look like and what you should be
doing well before your interview.
Behavioral Preparation
Although most of a software engineering interview will be
technical, behavioral questions matter too. This section
covers how to prepare for behavioral questions and how to
give strong, structured responses.
Technical Questions (+ 5 Algorithm Approaches)
This section covers how to prepare for technical questions
(without wasting your time) and teaches actionable ways to
solve the trickiest algorithm problems. It also teaches you
what exactly "good coding" is when it comes to an
interview.
150 Programming Questions and Answers
This section forms the bulk of the book. Each section opens
with a discussion of the core knowledge and strategies to
tackle this type of question, diving into exactly how you
break down and solve it. Topics covered include
- Arrays and Strings
- Linked Lists
- Stacks and Queues
- Trees and Graphs
- Bit Manipulation
- Brain Teasers
- Mathematics and Probability
- Object-Oriented Design
- Recursion and Dynamic Programming
- Sorting and Searching
- Scalability and Memory Limits
- Testing
- C and C++
- Java
- Databases
- Threads and Locks
For the widest degree of readability, the solutions are
almost entirely written with Java (with the exception of
C / C++ questions). A link is provided with the book so
that you can download, compile, and play with the
solutions yourself.
Changes from the Fourth Edition: The fifth
edition includes over 200 pages of new content, bringing
the book from 300 pages to over 500 pages. Major
revisions were done to almost every solution, including a
number of alternate solutions added. The introductory
chapters were massively expanded, as were the opening of
each of the chapters under Technical Questions. In
addition, 24 new questions were added.
Cracking the Coding Interview, Fifth
Edition is the most expansive, detailed guide on how
to ace your software development / programming
interviews.