Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets To Landing Your Next Job

Interviews for software programmers and developers differ from interviews for other types of position in that they consist largely or entirely of coding problems, theory, and brain teasers instead of questions about education, work habits, and experience. There are many books on the latter but none on the former. Thus there's no good way for an applicant to prepare for interviews or to interpret the signals she sends prospective employers by the way she conducts herself during the test. Programmers need to meet challenges of the software interview every time they apply for a job; rarely if ever is someone hired on the basis of having done similar work elsewhere. The software demographic changes jobs with frequency, and understands that remuneration offered for a given position depends in part on how well they acquit themselves when confronted with a poser. · The Job Application Process · Approaches to Programming Problems · Linked Lists · Trees and Graphs · Arrays and Strings · Recursion · Other Programming Topics · Counting, Measuring, and Ordering Puzzles · Graphical and Spatial Puzzles · Knowledge-Based Questions · Non-Technical Questions