Monday, August 31, 2015

Preparing for the Coding Interview

Here are a few things that I did while preparing for my placements and a few things that I think I should have done.

This post is written with the plan that you have max of 6 months left before the D-Day, for people in the their 2nd or 3rd years there is a variety of things that would further enhance their chances of being placed.

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www.geeksforgeeks.org    This is a very big repository of coding interview questions and preparations material. Usually one would require about 6 months to go through the whole material.

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After having read the standard algorithms and Data Structures, its time to gain some coding experience

www.interviewbit.com This site is very good for coders with not much experience, you will have revision of concepts and get practice at the same time. It provides a gaming level sort of UI to make it interesting, which a growing community.

www.leetcode.com This is another site is popular among coders for interview preparation, but many questions between interviewbit and this overlaps so do one of them. InterviewBit has more structure and organization for preparation.

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Hopefully above level of preparation would be sufficient for clearing hte coding rounds and you are now shortlisted your dream companies. So brush up the topics on your resume and prepare for the specific domains like Networks, OS .

Some important topics to prepare for :
1. Linked List
2. Stacks and Queues
3. Dynamic Programming ( geeksforgeeks has an extensive collection)
4. Greedy
5. Backtracking 
6. Graph Theory ( dfs and bfs will do for most except google,fb ) 


Comments and suggestions are welcome . 




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