Before telling you how long you have to solve technical questions, let me ask you a question. Your math teacher assigns you a problem. It takes you 5 minutes to solve it. Is that quick or slow? Hopefully, you’re looking at this question confused. 5 minutes might be unacceptably long to compute, say, the square [...]
By popular demand, for a very limited time, we will be offering signed copies of Cracking the Coding Interview, 5th Edition. The copies can either be shipped to you (via standard US mail) or picked up directly in Palo Alto. Day-of pick ups are available. Buy your copy at the top of CareerCup.com.
Somehow, many candidates have gotten the impression that the interview process is some elaborate system, and if their process is different from their friend’s, it must be a reason for it. The truth is so much more straightforward than that, and once you get, everything will make sense. Or that’s my hope, anyway. Here’s how [...]
The 5th edition of the best-selling programming interview prep book, Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions, is officially on sale. And even better – Amazon is currently running a 20% sale on the book! Now, I know you’re used to new editions being a couple little fixes here, packaged in a [...]
Hey Montreal folk – Interested in Amazon and looking for a way in? We’ve got a great offer just for CareerCup users. Amazon is conducting a Hiring Event (mostly last Week of April, Thu Apr 28, Fri Apr 29 ) for software design engineers. The best part? No phone interviews. Interviews will be conducted in person [...]
Ever walk out an interview thinking “I nailed that!”, only to discover that you got rejected? Or, conversely, think you bombed, but then you proceed to the next round anyway? The truth is that it’s incredibly hard to gauge your own performance in an interview. Usually, when you attempt this, you’re looking at one of [...]
I (very) recently wrote about Eight Reasons Why You Need a One Page Resume. As an example of how you can cut down your resume, I wanted to provide an illustration of how you can, in fact, fit a lot of content on one page – without making your margins tiny. Here’s what I manage to [...]
(Don’t forget to check out Part 2 – Less Is More: How I Cut My Resume to One Page.) Having reviewed resumes for five years, first for Google and now for CareerCup’s resume review service, I’ve frequently gotten resumes from software engineers as long as eight pages. In fact, the average resume length that I [...]
Let’s end this right here and now: most recruiters / hiring managers don’t really care what your hobbies are – or at least not most hobbies. When I’m trying to hire someone, I’m looking for three things: (1) intelligence (2) coding skills (3) good personality (4) work ethic. #3 is really only prioritized in a [...]
If you’re like many people out there, you’re unhappy at your job and just want out. You know you’ll be able to focus more on your job search if you weren’t constantly distracted with work – and you wouldn’t have to make up so many fake doctor’s appointments that your boss thinks you’re deathly ill. [...]
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