You're reading from The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java An effective guide for aspiring Java developers to ace their programming interviews

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839212062

Length 788 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Anghel Leonard

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Non-Technical Part of an Interview

2. Chapter 1: Where to Start and How to Prepare for the Interview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: What Interviews at Big Companies Look Like

4. Chapter 3: Common Non-Technical Questions and How To Answer Them

5. Chapter 4: How to Handle Failures

6. Chapter 5: How to Approach a Coding Challenge

7. Section 2: Concepts

8. Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming

9. Chapter 7: Big O Analysis of Algorithms

10. Chapter 8: Recursion and Dynamic Programming

11. Chapter 9: Bit Manipulation

12. Section 3: Algorithms and Data Structures

13. Chapter 10: Arrays and Strings

14. Chapter 11: Linked Lists and Maps

15. Chapter 12: Stacks and Queues

16. Chapter 13: Trees and Graphs

17. Chapter 14: Sorting and Searching

18. Chapter 15: Mathematics and Puzzles

19. Section 4: Bonus – Concurrency and Functional Programming

20. Chapter 16: Concurrency

21. Chapter 17: Functional-Style Programming

22. Chapter 18: Unit Testing

23. Chapter 19: System Scalability

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Chapter 5: How to Approach a Coding Challenge

This chapter covers technical quizzes and coding challenges, which are commonly used in technical interviews.

The coding challenge is the most important part of an interview. This part can consist of a single session or multiple sessions. Some companies prefer to split the technical interview into two parts: the first part consists of a technical quiz, while the second part consists of one or more coding challenges. In this chapter, we'll tackle these two topics in detail:

Technical quiz
Coding challenge

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to sketch a plan of your own to approach the technical interview. You'll know how to deal with the key moments during the interview, what the interviewer is expecting to see and hear from you, and how to deal with blocking moments when you don't have a clue about the answer/solution.