Few points about the first chapter “The Interview Process” of book “Cracking the Coding Interview”.
Reference
The chapter “The Interview Process” is picked from Cracking the Coding Interview book written by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.
Highlights
- The interviewer is looking to evaluate your ability to solve algorithmic problems you haven’t seen before
- Talk out loud while discussing about problem
- Interviewer generally make an assessment of your performance based on
- Analytical skills
- Coding skills
- Technical knowledge / CS Fundamentals
- Experience
- Culture fit / Communication
- False negatives are acceptable
- They are far more concerned with false positives: people who do well in an interview but are not in fact vary good
- Problem solving skills are valuable
- Basic data structure and algorithm knowledge is useful
- Whiteboards let you focus on what matters
- Most interviewers are not okay with pseudocode AND whiteboard is better with fewer errors
- There are no lists of what interviewer should ask
- Interviewer has a comparison between your assessment with others in mind
Note
It is really not possible to conclude all the points of “The Interview Process” chapter in an article. Read full chapter is recommended.
