Job Preparedness Workshop Session 3: Interviewing and Whiteboarding

A panel of Sparkboxers will interactively lead this session. You will gather important tricks and tips for how to prepare for interviews and whiteboarding and learn how to deal with questions you are not sure how to answer.

Transcript

1. APPRENTICESHIP
   JOB PREPAREDNESS
   

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2. APPRENTICESHIP JOB PREPAREDNESS
   INTERVIEWS &
   WHITEBOARDING
   

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3. What has been the format of some
   whiteboarding or development
   interviews you've done?
   

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4. What's important to do when you are
   talking through a whiteboard question?
   What's the process you might go
   through to address it?
   

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5. How did you prepare for the interview
   and/or whiteboarding? What kind of
   resources did you use?
   

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6. Activity:Try out a Whiteboarding
   Question with a Dev Buddy
   ● You’ll get the most value if you don’t
   solve these problems alone
   ● Step away from a computer, grab a piece
   of paper, and a dev buddy, and try to
   solve these problems interactively while
   talking the solution through.
   

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7. Design a method to find the frequency
   of occurrences of any given word in a
   book.
   What if we were running this algorithm
   multiple times?
   

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8. Given any integer, print an English
   phrase that describes the integer.
   E.g. "One thousand two hundred thirty
   four" (1234)
   

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9. Given two arrays of integers, compute the
   pair of values (one value in each array) with
   the smallest (non-negative) difference.
   Return the difference. E.g. (1, 3, 15, 11, 2)
   and (23, 127, 135, 19, 8): output is 3 of the
   pair (11, 8)
   

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10. ‘The kciuq fox depmuj over eht lazy god’
    a. You are given the above phrase. Use any
    language of your choosing to get the phrase
    to be written correctly. That is, for every other
    word, reverse the letters to make the phrase
    say: ‘The quick fox jumped over the lazy dog’.
    

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11. SESSION 3: Interview and Whiteboarding Panel
    Resources For Whiteboarding
    ‣ http://ahmed-badawy.com/blog/wp-content/uploa
    ds/2018/10/Cracking-the-Coding-Interview-6th-Ed
    ition-189-Programming-Questions-and-Solutions.
    pdf
    ‣ https://cyber-dojo.org/
    ‣ https://www.interviewcake.com/
    ‣ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-rever
    se-a-string-in-javascript-in-3-different-ways-75e47
    63c68cb/
    

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12. SESSION 3: Interview and Whiteboarding Panel
    Resources For Whiteboarding (2)
    ‣ https://leetcode.com/
    ‣ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
    ‣ https://www.hackerrank.com/
    ‣ https://www.codewars.com/
    ‣ https://www.udemy.com/course/coding-interview-
    bootcamp-algorithms-and-data-structure/
    

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13. THANKS!
    

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