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'''''Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions''''' is a book by [[Gayle Laakmann McDowell]] about [[Microsoft interview|coding interviews]].<ref name=ctci>{{Cite book|url=http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com|title=Cracking the coding interview : 189 programming questions and solutions|last=McDowell|year=2015|first=Gayle Laakmann|isbn=978-0-9847828-5-7|edition=6th|___location=Palo Alto, CA|oclc=913477191}}</ref> It describes typical problems in [[computer science]] that are often interviews are asked to solve, typically on a [[whiteboard]] during [[job interview]]s at big technology companies such as [[Google]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[Microsoft]], [[Amazon.com]], [[Facebook]] and [[Palantir Technologies]].<ref name=review2>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAxgzrj8zgU|title=How to use Cracking the Coding Interview Effectively|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref name=review1>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeT2tXqp4m0|title=Cracking the Coding Interview (in 5 simple steps, for software engineers)|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

First published in 2008, it has been translated into seven languages: Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Korean. It describes solutions to common problems set in coding [[Job interview|job interviews]], such as the [[Microsoft interview]].<ref name=hacker>{{cite web|url=https://blog.hackerrank.com/gayle-laakmann-mcdowell-deconstructs-engineering-interview-process/|year=2018|first=Vivek|last=Ravisankar|title=Gayle Laakmann McDowell Deconstructs the Engineering Interview Process|website=hackerrank.com|publisher=[[HackerRank]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231061616/https://blog.hackerrank.com/gayle-laakmann-mcdowell-deconstructs-engineering-interview-process/|archivedate=2019-12-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN0B4mOtwX0|website=youtube.com|publisher=[[Dice.com]]|first=Gayle Laakman|last=McDowell|title=Tips to Crack the Coding Interview|year=2012}}</ref> The sixth edition of the textbook was published in 2015.<ref name=ctci/>