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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Coding challenge

The coding challenge is the climax of any technical interview. This is the moment where you can show all your coding skills. It's time to demonstrate that you can do this job. Having working and clean code can help you make a great impression. A great impression may fill in the gaps that you left open during any other stage of the interview.

The coding challenge is a double-edged sword that may radically change the final result of the interview. One edge can cut you off from the scheme, while the other edge can bring you an offer in spite of other shortcomings.

However, the problems specific to these coding challenges are really hard for a variety of reasons. These will be covered in the next section.

The problems specific to coding challenges are meant to be difficult

Have you ever seen a problem specific to the coding challenge stage and found it weird, silly, or maybe pointless and nothing to do with real problems? If so, then you've seen an...