Highly encourage practicing with interviewing.io I'm not affiliated with them, just really like what they are doing.
Great website -- thanks for the recommendation.
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#12My highest recommendation is https://www.pramp.com Also, being able to intelligently explain * top 10 algorithms of all time * top 20 "popular" technologies Sign up a for an online judge [1] and do a couple easy to medium questions each morning. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_judge
Great - thanks for sharing
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#13Aside from reading "Cracking the Coding Interview", I recommend trying out challenges at Hacker Rank, or LeetCode (or anything similar). Do it with the online editor, or even use their questions as practice for whiteboard questions. Whatever you do for a whiteboard, try transcribing that as submission to see how close to real code you wrote. Some companies you interview care about that.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I signed up for an account there months ago, got a message about it being in "closed beta" and have heard nothing since.
Try signing up again now that you're in the bay area. I think anyone outside of their target market gets the closed beta page.
no, I'm in the Bay Area -- same thing. They seem to be using some other filter to let candidates in
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#15Highly encourage practicing with interviewing.io I'm not affiliated with them, just really like what they are doing.
This is a very good resource, but it has limitations from practicing point of view. You cannot use it for (unlimited) practice, like other sites mentioned in this post.
I continuously got "We are in private beta" on their site. I "came across" this site few times and wanted to give it a try. Their CEO (Aliene Lerner) was on few podcasts.
The way I got an account is when I clicked a Google Ad of theirs. Once account is created, I gave a practice interview. Interviewer said I was not ready for real jobs yet. If you do well, they refer you to Google, MSFT and such companies.
The best part (IMO) is your interview is recorded. You can listen and watch your performance anytime later.
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#16One unconventional tip for code challenges comes to mind. A candidate used it on me and it was worth a ton of points in my book.
Instead of just doing the challenge ask the interviewer what they want you to optimize for? Performance? Shortness? Readability? Maintainbility? Make it clear there are tradeoffs to each and that the tradeoffs you choose often matter more than the code itself.
As a plus you also get insights into what the company values.
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#17No. If you want me for a skillset that I have then interview me on that. If you think that dumb white board questions are relevant, then there is a 50% chance that I will get it right. Your loss if I get it wrong. You know that job isn't going to be related to some algorithmic crap. (At least it doesn't waste too much of my time - compared to some pretty hefty take home tests I have done). After 15 years, there is to…
Same. Shoot, I've been pulled into the boss's office before and told not to use terms like "big O" on the job because they confuse the junior devs. And I've never needed to balance a tree or reverse a linked list or any of those things since college. It hasn't stopped me from getting projects done.
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#18Highly encourage practicing with interviewing.io I'm not affiliated with them, just really like what they are doing.
Echoed. I got into their system and was able to get some real interviews through the platform as well.
When you get in, they give you three "guaranteed" interviews that you can schedule essentially any hour of the day with at least 24 hours notice. I suspect that they pay their interviewers for these interviews (hence the guaranteed nature of them), but don't quote me on that. After those three interviews, your available interview slots drop off dramatically; currently there is a two week wait period. If you do well enough (appears to be top 10%), they will start acting as a recruiter; you can have real tech screens through their platform anonymously, and "unmask" and go onsite if the screen goes well.
I'm not sure what the filter is for letting people in but I suspect it's fairly manual right now, especially if they're paying interviewers for the three guaranteed slots people get. Keep in mind that Gainlo charges $100+ per interview for the same service. I actually got better feedback from interviewers on interviewing.io than the one interview I did from Gainlo (YMMV of course).
Google remote onsite on Friday!
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#19Highly encourage practicing with interviewing.io I'm not affiliated with them, just really like what they are doing.
This is a very good resource, but it has limitations from practicing point of view. You cannot use it for (unlimited) practice, like other sites mentioned in this post. I continuously got "We are in private beta" on their site. I "came across" this site few times and wanted to give it a try. Their CEO (Aliene Lerner) was on few podcasts. The way I got an account is when I clicked a Google Ad of theirs. Once account i…
FWIW I don't think they have Big N clients yet, though they do have e.g. Twitter and Lyft on there. Google is still remarkably old school with interviews: Google Doc for screens, whiteboard for onsites. (Although I've heard that's recently changing and they're allowing laptops for onsites, and are doing more onsite loops remotely through Hangouts.)
And technically speaking you can use it for unlimited practice once you get in, but you have to schedule way further in advance once you're past their guaranteed interviews, and there are fewer available time slots.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#20Highly encourage practicing with interviewing.io I'm not affiliated with them, just really like what they are doing.
Echoed. I got into their system and was able to get some real interviews through the platform as well. When you get in, they give you three "guaranteed" interviews that you can schedule essentially any hour of the day with at least 24 hours notice. I suspect that they pay their interviewers for these interviews (hence the guaranteed nature of them), but don't quote me on that. After those three interviews, your avail…
Good luck for the onsite :)