Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions is an internationally best-selling book[1] by Gayle Laakmann McDowell about coding interviews.[2] It describes typical problems in computer science that are often interviews are asked to solve, typically on a whiteboard during job interviews at big technology companies such as Google, Apple Inc, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Facebook and Palantir Technologies.[3][4]
| Author | Gayle Laakmann McDowell |
|---|---|
| Subject | Algorithms Job interviews Coding interviews |
| Publisher | CareerCup |
| ISBN | 9780984782857 |
| OCLC | 913477191 |
| Website | www |
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, such as the Microsoft interview.[5][6] The sixth edition of the textbook was published in 2015.[2]
Amazon ranking
As of 2020[update] Cracking the Coding Interview is a best-seller, ranking 2,620 out of 32 million books[7] on Amazon.[1] It ranks as
- Number 1 in the Software architecture category
- Number 1 in the Functional programming category
- Number 3 in in Introduction to programming category
As of 2020[update] the book has received a total of 79 customer reviews with an average score of 4.5 out of 5[1] and has been widely cited in peer reviewed scientific papers.[8][9]
References
- ^ a b c https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cracking-Coding-Interview-6th-Programming/dp/0984782850
- ^ 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.
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- ^ Ravisankar, Vivek (2018). "Gayle Laakmann McDowell Deconstructs the Engineering Interview Process". hackerrank.com. HackerRank. Archived from the original on 2019-12-31.
- ^ McDowell, Gayle Laakman (2012). "Tips to Crack the Coding Interview". youtube.com. Dice.com.
- ^ https://www.quora.com/How-many-books-does-Amazon-have-for-sale
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Hall Jr., Phillip; Gosha, Kinnis (2018). "The Effects of Anxiety and Preparation on Performance in Technical Interviews for HBCU Computer Science Majors": 64–69. doi:10.1145/3209626.3209707.
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