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Hot take from the author: This is a commonly repeated claim, but it’s probably not accurate. It’s FAR easier for companies to stick with the interview process they’ve used for deca…

Ok friend. :)

I can see how you’d get to that conclusion, but I don’t agree with this take. “No value” is particularly strong wording. This is a fairly simple, cheap, and fast process for screen…

Hey, thanks for the support. You can always reach out to me directly on Discord if you need anything. Nil and I wrote all of the technical content for the book, so we are happy to …

Nah, I totally understand where you're coming from and didn't feel attacked. I responded to your reply! :)

I love this comment, and as an author of this book, I don't disagree with a word of it. A common misconception is that Gayle's original book put forth the "right" way to do intervi…

I added my response in this thread! :)

Hey, thanks for the thoughtful question! You’re absolutely right to point out something that a lot of coding interview experts don’t like to admit: interviews aren’t always predict…

> Asking this question will show an eye for detail and a solid foundation in computer science. My friend, you've clearly got the wrong book. I think there might be some confusion h…

If it helps, we (the authors) didn't even post this to HN (or ask someone else to). We definitely will answer questions as they come up though. And we were giving away free chapter…

Oooh, I'm a BCtCI author, but I admit Sedgewick is the algo expert! His book is more about data structures and algorithms than about coding interviews (related but very different).…

Happy to help. :) The book also has a discord server (link in the free PDF!), so if you have other questions, feel free to ping me there with them! We are about to start the weekly…

If it helps, I (Mike) don't know who @stmw is. I can at least say they aren't one of the four authors of this book. That said, I don't think the reasonable conclusion to come to wh…

Hey friend, totally okay if we don’t see eye to eye on this. No big deal. But just to share my perspective—if you ask ChatGPT to break down a genuinely hard, new problem (not somet…

Hey, I know Shaun personally, and I think his book is excellent. Our books, despite seeming similar, are very different. His is about recognizing preset patterns, and that is about…

Hey there, I'm the Mike (an author of BCtCI). I totally get where you’re coming from—there are a lot of flaws in the interview process, no doubt about it. When Cracking the Coding …

Appreciate the comment, and you're completely right. Our whole thesis is that doing what everybody else is doing will get you the same results that everybody else is getting. :)

You got me! Hahaha :)

AI can absolutely help you. A lot of the benefits of the book come from the reasoning, though, which AI cannot do. For instance, you might try a question, and the optimal answer us…

> In addition, the book doesn't seem to cover systems design which is an extremely critical part of the interview process for L4 and above. It's called Cracking the *Coding* Interv…

Agreed. The book talks about niche topics in more depth than most resources online. In addition to all the topics in the book, we're actively releasing free online chapters each mo…

Hey, I'm one of the main authors of the book. Feel free to ask any questions if you have them. :) There are many great resources that have come out since the original CtCI, but we …

You're 100% right, but I think your experience is different than recent job seekers. I think this is mostly semantics. You're asking simple problems and are amazed at the number of…

The implied assumption here is that if you can figure out the number of anagrams that can be made from a given string in just 30 minutes, you probably are smart enough to set up a …

Your thought is a good one, and I think it is a valid approach. The barrier that comes up when doing this is still going to be cheating. How do you separate the people who are chea…