Interviewing!

A high level look at some interview tips from various sources

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1. The Interview Turns out, ignoring it won’t make it go away. By Emma Hardman, Golden CodeFellow. Thursday, August 22, 13
2. deep breath. Thursday, August 22, 13
3. Probably your friend: Thursday, August 22, 13
4. “Preparation Grid” Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Most Challenging What you learned Most Interesting Hardest bug Enjoyed most Conflicts w teammates *Projects should be major aspects of resume Thursday, August 22, 13
5. “Behavioral Grid” Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Challenging Interaction Weakness Failure Success Conflicts with teammates Thursday, August 22, 13
6. “Must Know” List Data Structures Algorithms Concepts Linked Lists Breadth First Search Bit Manipulation Binary Trees Depth first search Singleton Design Pattern Tries Binary Search Factory Design Patter Stacks Merge Sort Memory (Stack vs. Heap) Queues Quick Sort Recursion Vectors/Array Lists Tree insert/Find Big O Time Hash Tables Thursday, August 22, 13
7. Structure Interview Answers using S. A. R. Situation => Outline the situation Action => Explain actions you took Result => Describe results Takeaways: this strategy helps avoid including unnecessary and confusing details (read: rambling), can help to structure answer and stay focused. Thursday, August 22, 13
8. Legend of Fizz Buzz “The "Fizz-Buzz test" is an interview question designed to help filter out the 99.5% of programming job candidates who can't seem to program their way out of a wet paper bag. The text of the programming assignment is as follows: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”." Thursday, August 22, 13
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10. Look it up! http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/11/15/fizzbuzz-still- works/ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuzzTest Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann http://theprofessionalspoint.blogspot.com/2013/02/basic- ruby-on-rails-ror-interview.html http://www.oodesign.com/creational-patterns/ http://bits.stephan-brumme.com/basics.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science) Thursday, August 22, 13