/Interview Advice

Reddit Interview Problems: The Game Of Life

- Alex Golec tl;dr: Alex runs through an interview question at Reddit: "Suppose you have an M by N board of cells, where each cell is marked as "alive" or "dead." This arrangement of the board is called the "state," and our task is to compute the cells in the next board state according to a set of rules:" He runs through the solutions in this post.

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20 Questions A Software Engineer Should Ask When Joining A New Team

- Thomas Stringer tl;dr: Broken into 3 categories - Technical, Collaboration & External. Technical questions begin with: (1) How do I locally build the software? (2) How do I locally test the software? (3) How do I setup my development environment? (4) Where does the source code live? (5) Where is the CI/CD pipeline and how does it work?

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Interview Advice That Got Me Offers From Google, Microsoft, And Stripe

- Zain Rizvi tl;dr: Zain covers: (1) How to use recruiters to your advantage. (2) Going to real interviews for practice (3) Being open to learning during interviews (4) Keeping those skills sharp even when you’re not job hunting.

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Interviews.school

- Adilet Zhaxybay tl;dr: "The purpose is to help you prepare for software engineering interviews."

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The 40 Best Questions To Ask In An Interview — How To Go Deeper Than “What’s the Culture Like?”

tl;dr: Questions are divided into categories, such as Company Growth and Diversity. Examples of questions are "what are some of the key financial metrics that the company optimizes for? What is the title of the most senior underrepresented person at the company?"

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How to Spot Toxic Software Jobs From Their Descriptions

- Michael Vinh Xuan Thanh tl;dr: With real examples, Michael illustrates descriptions asking (1) developers to own more than one part of the development process (2) listing too many qualities for a junior level position (3) lacking clarity on the role.

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What I Learned From Doing 60+ Technical Interviews In 30 Days

- Uduak Obong-Eren tl;dr: Uduak guides through 13 things he's learned before, during and after interviews, such as how to handle introductory phone and technical phone calls, what to do when you’re stuck on a problem in the interview, and more.

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Passing Your Senior Engineering Coding Interview

- Steven Heidel tl;dr: How to get prepared, choosing the right practice problems, knowing the right things and a recommended study plan.

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Lockable Tree - Google Interview Question

- Teoman Soygul tl;dr: "A lockable tree is a tree with nodes that can be locked if none of its ancestors or descendants is locked. We are asked to implement locking/unlocking operations that should run in O(h) time where h is the height of the tree. Lock/unlock methods do not need to be thread-safe."

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70 JavaScript Interview Questions

- Mark Abeto tl;dr: Mark lays out common JavaScript interview questions answering each one.

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