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Grokking the coding interview equivalent leetcode problems
GROKKING NOTES
I liked the way Grokking the coding interview organized problems into learnable patterns. However, the course is expensive and the majority of the time the problems are copy-pasted from leetcode. As the explanations on leetcode are usually just as good, the course really boils down to being a glorified curated list of leetcode problems.
So below I made a list of leetcode problems that are as close to grokking problems as possible.
How much prep did you do for the technical interviews?
How much prep did you do for the technical interviews?
I get asked this a lot so I thought I'd write it up to share. For context, I was interviewing for staff+ individual contributor roles at tech companies.
Technical Interviews
I was preparing to do some amount of live coding interviews, and some amount of pairing interviews.
Tech setup check-in
My friend Tom offered to do a pairing interview with me, which I also used to check my Zoom / screenshare setup. I screen shared from my 2019 XPS 13 for the pairing, but also had Zoom on an ipad for video/audio. I used Airpods for audio. This setup actually worked great, but it was nice to dial in some of the specifics--mic feedback from dialing in from two places, and just practice my schpiel about explaining what I was doing to the other person. Probably not useful for you unless you too, have Linux problems.
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications
A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.