WWC Technical Interviewing.md

1. Where do I get started? Or, I just finished a session, how do I look up x topic?

• Prefer videos? Udacity's free and excellent Technical Interviewing course (https://www.udacity.com/course/technical-interview--ud513) (2.5 hrs)

• Prefer reading? Bradfield's free and excellent online book (https://bradfieldcs.com/algos/)

• Prefer reading 2.0 ? Eloquent Javascript's free and excellent online book (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) with interactive codeboxes

• Suitable if you're learning how to code && developing your algorithmically-thinking skills at the same time

• Prefer visualizations? Vaidehi Joshi at BaseCS (https://medium.com/basecs) writes excellent weekly blog posts - her notes are colorful and help you visualize.

• Prefer a physical book with helpful visualizations? Grokking Algorithms (https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms) by an Etsy engineer & artist ~$20 (code samples in Python)

2. How many problems/time do you recommend I spend?

• 3 problems a day

• Group similar problems and topics, i.e. learn about prime numbers then do three different problems on Primes

3. IDK if I'm ready to try Pramp/Project Euler

Suggested roadmaps:

• Implement a frequency hash (step-by-step instructions here (https://eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html#h_I9XoVSLsTV)). Then you're ready for Pramp (real example here (https://repl.it/JEuZ/6))

• For Project Euler, once you can implement Sieve of Eratosthenes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes), you're ready to tackle the top three questions on primes.

4. Other recommendations

• CoderByte (https://coderbyte.com/challenges/) for practice problems

• Ignore the regexp problems

• For comparison, Kat is currently at 51/81 easy, 23/74 medium, and 3/51 hard challenges completed.

• Pramp (https://www.pramp.com/) for interview practice - peer interviewing

- Next level:

• More mathy? Try Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/)

• Need interviews more than you need interview practice? Try beating the company bots at CodeFights (https://codefights.com/company-bots)