HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS When we think of coding interviews, most of us tend to think of technical interviews—staring at a whiteboard and hoping that a solution will magically come to us (although there is a better way). At least that’s what I think of. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD Dynamic programming coding interview questions don't have to be hard. Using the FAST method gives you a structured way to get the right

answer every time.

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: STRING COMPRESSION Question. Given a string, write a function to compress it by shortening every sequence of the same character to that character followed by the number of repetitions.If the compressed string is longer than the original, you should return the original string. eg. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE Coding Interview Question: Given a time, write a function to find the angle between the two hands on a clock representing that time. Click

for the solution.

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Great engineers don’t wear designer jeans. So if you’re interviewing an engineer, look at his jeans. There are always exceptions, of course. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS When we think of coding interviews, most of us tend to think of technical interviews—staring at a whiteboard and hoping that a solution will magically come to us (although there is a better way). At least that’s what I think of. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD Dynamic programming coding interview questions don't have to be hard. Using the FAST method gives you a structured way to get the right

answer every time.

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: STRING COMPRESSION Question. Given a string, write a function to compress it by shortening every sequence of the same character to that character followed by the number of repetitions.If the compressed string is longer than the original, you should return the original string. eg. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE Coding Interview Question: Given a time, write a function to find the angle between the two hands on a clock representing that time. Click

for the solution.

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Great engineers don’t wear designer jeans. So if you’re interviewing an engineer, look at his jeans. There are always exceptions, of course. COURSES - BYTE BY BYTE Nail your System Design interview once and for all, without having to study dense textbooks or memorize 50 different database technologies. Just a simple step-by-step framework. ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE This binary tree is one where the root contains the value of 1, the left child contains the value 2, and the right child of the root contains the value 3.. Here is a good refresher on binary trees. Now, once you have the rough scaffolding for a binary tree object, knowing how to traverse the structure is crucial to properly utilizing it. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD Dynamic programming coding interview questions don't have to be hard. Using the FAST method gives you a structured way to get the right

answer every time.

12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: BUILD ORDER Coding Interview Question: Given a list of packages to build, determine a valid order in which to build the packages. Click for the

solution.

THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Back when I was interviewing for jobs, I would occasionally get thrown totally off guard. I’d go into an interview and expect to be whiteboarding, only to be presented with a CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Acing the Google interview. Every engineer's dream. But the Google interview is really hard. In this post, you'll learn exactly how to prepare effectively. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: FIZZBUZZ Coding Interview Question: Output numbers from 1 to x replacing numbers divisible by 3with “Fizz” and numbers by 5 with “Buzz”. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: INTEGER TO ROMAN Coding Interview Question: Given an integer, write a function to return its roman numeral representation. Click for the solution. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. HOW TO STUDY DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS TO ROCK YOUR The key to studying is to maximize the time you have by studying the most high-value topics. That means you shouldn’t study everything. After a certain point, your time would be better spent elsewhere, so focus on core data structures and algorithms. Study hash tables and linked lists. Review sorting and searching, trees and graphs, arrays HOW TO PASS THE FACEBOOK INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE The general sense that I gathered when parsing through the questions on Glassdoor is that understanding the BT and BST data structures and knowing how to use them to solve a variety of problems (some of which are in the aforementioned playlists) is a very valuable thing to know going into the Facebook Interview. UNDERSTANDING RECURSION USING REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE ABOUT - BYTE BY BYTE Bo joined Byte by Byte in 2020 as the Project Manager. Her background includes working at the Kansas State Legislature and as a project manager at the Wheat Genetics Research Laboratory at Kansas State University. Bo is a Colorado native, but has spent the past 10 years away from home. She recently moved from Charlottesville, VA to Santa MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO STUDY DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS TO ROCK YOUR The key to studying is to maximize the time you have by studying the most high-value topics. That means you shouldn’t study everything. After a certain point, your time would be better spent elsewhere, so focus on core data structures and algorithms. Study hash tables and linked lists. Review sorting and searching, trees and graphs, arrays CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW CAKE REVIEW The 80/20 of studying. The 80/20 rule, or Pareto’s Principle, was popularized by Tim Ferriss in The Four Hour Work Week. The basic idea is that 80% of the results that you get will come from 20% of the work. This is incredibly important to understand when it comes to preparing for interviews. RECURSION FOR CODING INTERVIEWS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE The base case for a recursive function is the where our code terminates. It’s the piece that says “we’re done here”. When n == 0 or n == 1, we know what the value should be and we can stop computing anything else. Second, we have our recursive step. The recursive step is where our function actually calls itself. THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

SHOULD YOU WORK AT A STARTUP OR A BIG TECH Stability. Big companies are inherently more stable than smaller companies. Big companies already have features in place like a 401 (k) as opposed to stock options offered by a startup (which may end up totally worthless if the startup fails). They are less likely to fire you because they are less likely to have to downsize. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. HOW TO STUDY DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS TO ROCK YOUR The key to studying is to maximize the time you have by studying the most high-value topics. That means you shouldn’t study everything. After a certain point, your time would be better spent elsewhere, so focus on core data structures and algorithms. Study hash tables and linked lists. Review sorting and searching, trees and graphs, arrays HOW TO PASS THE FACEBOOK INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE The general sense that I gathered when parsing through the questions on Glassdoor is that understanding the BT and BST data structures and knowing how to use them to solve a variety of problems (some of which are in the aforementioned playlists) is a very valuable thing to know going into the Facebook Interview. UNDERSTANDING RECURSION USING REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. HOW TO STUDY DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS TO ROCK YOUR The key to studying is to maximize the time you have by studying the most high-value topics. That means you shouldn’t study everything. After a certain point, your time would be better spent elsewhere, so focus on core data structures and algorithms. Study hash tables and linked lists. Review sorting and searching, trees and graphs, arrays HOW TO PASS THE FACEBOOK INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE The general sense that I gathered when parsing through the questions on Glassdoor is that understanding the BT and BST data structures and knowing how to use them to solve a variety of problems (some of which are in the aforementioned playlists) is a very valuable thing to know going into the Facebook Interview. UNDERSTANDING RECURSION USING REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES ABOUT - BYTE BY BYTE Bo joined Byte by Byte in 2020 as the Project Manager. Her background includes working at the Kansas State Legislature and as a project manager at the Wheat Genetics Research Laboratory at Kansas State University. Bo is a Colorado native, but has spent the past 10 years away from home. She recently moved from Charlottesville, VA to Santa MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. HOW TO STUDY DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS TO ROCK YOUR The key to studying is to maximize the time you have by studying the most high-value topics. That means you shouldn’t study everything. After a certain point, your time would be better spent elsewhere, so focus on core data structures and algorithms. Study hash tables and linked lists. Review sorting and searching, trees and graphs, arrays CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW CAKE REVIEW The 80/20 of studying. The 80/20 rule, or Pareto’s Principle, was popularized by Tim Ferriss in The Four Hour Work Week. The basic idea is that 80% of the results that you get will come from 20% of the work. This is incredibly important to understand when it comes to preparing for interviews. RECURSION FOR CODING INTERVIEWS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE The base case for a recursive function is the where our code terminates. It’s the piece that says “we’re done here”. When n == 0 or n == 1, we know what the value should be and we can stop computing anything else. Second, we have our recursive step. The recursive step is where our function actually calls itself. THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

SHOULD YOU WORK AT A STARTUP OR A BIG TECH Stability. Big companies are inherently more stable than smaller companies. Big companies already have features in place like a 401 (k) as opposed to stock options offered by a startup (which may end up totally worthless if the startup fails). They are less likely to fire you because they are less likely to have to downsize. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: STRING COMPRESSION Question. Given a string, write a function to compress it by shortening every sequence of the same character to that character followed by the number of repetitions. If the compressed string is longer than the original, you should return the original string. eg. compress (“a”) = "a" compress (“aaa”) = "a3" compress

(“aaabbb

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

SHOULD YOU WORK AT A STARTUP OR A BIG TECH Stability. Big companies are inherently more stable than smaller companies. Big companies already have features in place like a 401 (k) as opposed to stock options offered by a startup (which may end up totally worthless if the startup fails). They are less likely to fire you because they are less likely to have to downsize. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: STRING COMPRESSION Question. Given a string, write a function to compress it by shortening every sequence of the same character to that character followed by the number of repetitions. If the compressed string is longer than the original, you should return the original string. eg. compress (“a”) = "a" compress (“aaa”) = "a3" compress

(“aaabbb

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

SHOULD YOU WORK AT A STARTUP OR A BIG TECH Stability. Big companies are inherently more stable than smaller companies. Big companies already have features in place like a 401 (k) as opposed to stock options offered by a startup (which may end up totally worthless if the startup fails). They are less likely to fire you because they are less likely to have to downsize. COURSES - BYTE BY BYTE Nail your System Design interview once and for all, without having to study dense textbooks or memorize 50 different database technologies. Just a simple step-by-step framework. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up EASY CODING INTERVIEW QUESTIONS A selection of easy coding interview questions and answers. Ace your coding interview with these questions from top companies like Google

and Facebook.

12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE The “Google Interview” is a methodology of technical interviewing that has been widely used and popularized by the tech giant, Google. It serves as the ultimate test to determine whether you have the coding and algorithmic chops to develop software with the best. It is a crucial measuring stick by which your technical prowess is assessed CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: BUILD ORDER Question. Given a list of packages that need to be built and the dependencies for each package, determine a valid order in which to build the packages. eg. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you

practice as the

HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO SUM SUBARRAY Coding Interview Question: Given an array, write a function to find any subarray that sums to zero, if one exists. Click for the solution. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: INTEGER TO ROMAN Coding Interview Question: Given an integer, write a function to return its roman numeral representation. Click for the solution. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

COURSES - BYTE BY BYTE Nail your System Design interview once and for all, without having to study dense textbooks or memorize 50 different database technologies. Just a simple step-by-step framework. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up

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3 strategies to skyrocket your productivity while studying for coding interviews. It can be really hard to be productive when studying for coding interviews. And everyone has their own definition of productivity, which doesn't make it any easier. In this article, you will learn three uber-actionable productivity tips for studying to ace

your

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE The “Google Interview” is a methodology of technical interviewing that has been widely used and popularized by the tech giant, Google. It serves as the ultimate test to determine whether you have the coding and algorithmic chops to develop software with the best. It is a crucial measuring stick by which your technical prowess is assessed 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: INTEGER TO ROMAN Coding Interview Question: Given an integer, write a function to return its roman numeral representation. Click for the solution. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

COURSES - BYTE BY BYTE Nail your System Design interview once and for all, without having to study dense textbooks or memorize 50 different database technologies. Just a simple step-by-step framework. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up

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3 strategies to skyrocket your productivity while studying for coding interviews. It can be really hard to be productive when studying for coding interviews. And everyone has their own definition of productivity, which doesn't make it any easier. In this article, you will learn three uber-actionable productivity tips for studying to ace

your

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE The “Google Interview” is a methodology of technical interviewing that has been widely used and popularized by the tech giant, Google. It serves as the ultimate test to determine whether you have the coding and algorithmic chops to develop software with the best. It is a crucial measuring stick by which your technical prowess is assessed 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: INTEGER TO ROMAN Coding Interview Question: Given an integer, write a function to return its roman numeral representation. Click for the solution. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUEREAD BYTE BY BYTE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEOC++ RECURSION PROBLEMSEASY RECURSION PROBLEMSJAVA RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSPYTHON RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSRECURSION PROBLEMS FOR BEGINNERS Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUEREAD BYTE BY BYTE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEOC++ RECURSION PROBLEMSEASY RECURSION PROBLEMSJAVA RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSPYTHON RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSRECURSION PROBLEMS FOR BEGINNERS Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

COURSES - BYTE BY BYTE Nail your System Design interview once and for all, without having to study dense textbooks or memorize 50 different database technologies. Just a simple step-by-step framework. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up

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3 strategies to skyrocket your productivity while studying for coding interviews. It can be really hard to be productive when studying for coding interviews. And everyone has their own definition of productivity, which doesn't make it any easier. In this article, you will learn three uber-actionable productivity tips for studying to ace

your

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! ACING THE GOOGLE INTERVIEW: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE The “Google Interview” is a methodology of technical interviewing that has been widely used and popularized by the tech giant, Google. It serves as the ultimate test to determine whether you have the coding and algorithmic chops to develop software with the best. It is a crucial measuring stick by which your technical prowess is assessed 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEO Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. THE ONLY 6 TYPES OF QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ANY Here is a simple process for practicing whiteboard problems: Pick a practice problem. Attempt to code up the solution on a piece of paper (or a whiteboard if you have one) Test your code by hand. Once you’re satisfied that your code is correct, copy it exactly into the

IDE of your choice.

THE NAKED TRUTH: HOW TO DRESS FOR YOUR Here is your rule of thumb: Wear clothes that are one to two degrees nicer than what employees normally wear. For example, if employees normally wear jeans and t-shirts, wear jeans and a button-down. If employees normally wear button-downs and slacks, wear a suit. Of course if the employees normally wear suits, you don’t really want

to show

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: INTEGER TO ROMAN Coding Interview Question: Given an integer, write a function to return its roman numeral representation. Click for the solution. HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUEREAD BYTE BY BYTE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEOC++ RECURSION PROBLEMSEASY RECURSION PROBLEMSJAVA RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSPYTHON RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSRECURSION PROBLEMS FOR BEGINNERS Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

HOME - BYTE BY BYTEMATRIX PRODUCTARE YOUR GOALS REALISTICINTEGER TO ROMAN NUMERALSINORDER TRAVERSALPRIORITY QUEUEREAD BYTE BY BYTE Hi, I’m Sam Gavis-Hughson, founder of Byte by Byte, and I help software engineers successfully interview for jobs at top tech companies. Thousands of students have been supported by our blog and free content—as well as 400+ students who have landed jobs at companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Uber, and

more.

BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWS FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS The whole point of a behavioral interview is to sell yourself and show the interviewer why you’re the right person for the job. That means that you’re allowed to brag about your accomplishments here. Don’t be obnoxious about it, but don’t hesitate to confidently talk about what YOU accomplished. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ANAGRAMS Coding Interview Question: Given two strings, write a function to determine whether they are anagrams. Click for the solution. SOFTWARE ENGINEER SALARY Software Engineer Salary – Retirement Savings. If we save 10% of our income off of a $150,000 salary vs a $90,000 salary, we are ending up with dramatically different amounts of money at retirement. In this case it’s over $1 million difference! HOW TO PASS THE MICROSOFT INTERVIEW: A PRACTICAL GUIDE Preparing for any interview requires some work, and this is more so for a company the size of Microsoft, where competition is very high. More preparation is always better, but what’s more important is the quality of preparation. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: PERMUTATIONS Coding Interview Question: Write a function that returns all permutations of a given list. Click for the solution. 12 COMMON RECURSION INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (WITH VIDEOC++ RECURSION PROBLEMSEASY RECURSION PROBLEMSJAVA RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSPYTHON RECURSION PRACTICE PROBLEMSRECURSION PROBLEMS FOR BEGINNERS Coding interview questions requiring recursion may be some of the hardest questions out there. But they are also some of the most important. Interviewers love to ask recursion interview questions because they truly push interviewees to the limit, and allow interviewers to differentiate between those candidates who are just good and those who are exceptional. CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: CLOCK ANGLE clockAngle (3:40) = 130°. Once you think that you’ve solved the problem, click below to see the solution. As always, remember that practicing coding interview questions is as much about how you practice as the question itself. Make sure that you give the question a solid go before skipping to the solution. Ideally if you have time,

write out

CODING INTERVIEW QUESTION: ZERO MATRIX Coding Interview Question: Given a matrix, update it so that if any cell is true, all the cells in that row and column are true. Click for

the solution.

COURSES - BYTE BY BYTE Nail your System Design interview once and for all, without having to study dense textbooks or memorize 50 different database technologies. Just a simple step-by-step framework. MASTER DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING WITH THE FAST METHOD This is the reason for the development of the FAST method. There are four steps in the FAST method: First solution. Analyze the first solution. Identify the Subproblems. Turn the solution around. By following these four steps, it is easy to come up

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3 strategies to skyrocket your productivity while studying for coding interviews. It can be really hard to be productive when studying for coding interviews. And everyone has their own definition of productivity, which doesn't make it any easier. In this article, you will learn three uber-actionable productivity tips for studying to ace

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