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Cracking the Coding Interview

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions is a book by Gayle Laakmann McDowell about coding interviews.[1][2] It describes typical problems in computer science that are often asked during coding interviews, typically on a whiteboard during job interviews at big technology companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Facebook and Palantir Technologies.

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
AuthorGayle Laakmann McDowell
SubjectJob interviews
Coding interviews
PublisherCareerCup
ISBN9780984782857
OCLC913477191
Websitewww.crackingthecodinginterview.com

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 interviews.[3][4][5] The sixth edition of the textbook was published in 2015.[2]

The book has been cited in peer reviewed papers in scientific journals published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[6][7][8][9] and PeerJ.[10][11][12][13]

References

  1. ^ Hess, Ken (2012-02-09). "Women in Tech: Gayle Laakmann McDowell excels beyond the stereotypes". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2019-12-31.
  2. ^ a b McDowell, Gayle Laakmann (2015). Cracking the coding interview : 189 programming questions and solutions (6th ed.). Palo Alto, CA. ISBN 978-0-9847828-5-7. OCLC 913477191.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ___location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Ravisankar, Vivek (2018). "Gayle Laakmann McDowell Deconstructs the Engineering Interview Process". hackerrank.com. HackerRank. Archived from the original on 2019-12-31.
  4. ^ McDowell, Gayle Laakman (2012). "Tips to Crack the Coding Interview". youtube.com. Dice.com.
  5. ^ Tay, Yangshun (2022). "How to Rock the Coding Interview – Tips That Helped Me Land Job Offers from Google, Airbnb, and Dropbox". freecodecamp.org. freeCodeCamp.
  6. ^ Chua, Phoebe K.; Abraham, Hillary; Mazmanian, Melissa (2021-10-13). "Playing the Hiring Game: Class-Based Emotional Experiences and Tactics in Elite Hiring". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 5 (CSCW2). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 1–27. doi:10.1145/3479536. ISSN 2573-0142.
  7. ^ Behroozi, Mahnaz; Shirolkar, Shivani; Barik, Titus; Parnin, Chris (2020-11-08). Does stress impact technical interview performance?. ESEC/FSE 2020: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3368089.3409712.
  8. ^ Ferdowsifard, Kasra; Barke, Shraddha; Peleg, Hila; Lerner, Sorin; Polikarpova, Nadia (2021-10-15). "LooPy: interactive program synthesis with control structures". Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 5 (OOPSLA). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 1–29. doi:10.1145/3485530. ISSN 2475-1421.
  9. ^ Wang, Bo; Kolluri, Aashish; Nikolić, Ivica; Baluta, Teodora; Saxena, Prateek (2023-04-06). "User-Customizable Transpilation of Scripting Languages". Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 7 (OOPSLA1). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 201–229. doi:10.1145/3586034. ISSN 2475-1421.
  10. ^ Wyrich, Marvin; Graziotin, Daniel; Wagner, Stefan (2019). "A theory on individual characteristics of successful coding challenge solvers". PeerJ Computer Science. 5: e173. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.173. ISSN 2376-5992. PMC 7924443. PMID 33816826.
  11. ^ Hall Jr., Phillip; Gosha, Kinnis (2018). "The Effects of Anxiety and Preparation on Performance in Technical Interviews for HBCU Computer Science Majors". SIGMIS-CPR'18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research: 64–69. doi:10.1145/3209626.3209707. ISBN 9781450357685.
  12. ^ Ford, Denae; Barik, Titus; Rand-Pickett, Leslie; Parnin, Chris (2017). "The Tech-Talk Balance: What Technical Interviewers Expect from Technical Candidates". IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE): 43–48. doi:10.1109/CHASE.2017.8. ISBN 978-1-5386-4039-5. S2CID 25528987.
  13. ^ "Cracking the Coding interview on Google scholar". scholar.google.com. Google Scholar.
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