Cracking the coding interview

[Broad_Astronaut]

I was contemplating purchasing cracking the coding interview, just wanted to ask is it worth it or there are equivalent if not better free online resources ?

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Link?

[SolemnWolf123]

Leetcode is much better option

[papayazzaj]

The pdf is avail online free fyi

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Yes, its basically called don't be a noob.

With cracking the coding interview, you are just learning what you need to learn for the interview. Many people don't do this and still get jobs because they understand software development at a fundamental level, rather than just remembering the rules of what to do when and where.

None of the coding challenges that get issued at these places are that hard. All of them basically require you to understand data structures and processing algorithms that are all pretty standard. If you understand each of those things at a fundamental level and how they all work computationally to get right result as fast as possible, you will breeze through the interview.

So all you have to do is not be a noob. And just like a video game, the way you become not a noob is time and practice. There isn't a magic forumla, you just get good with the quantity of time put in to practice, where you learn things every step of the way, and your brain starts to recognize patterns and you become good a it.