So I have an interview coming up sometime in the next 2 weeks and I have to do a few coding and SQL problems as part of it. I wanna start practicing now because I've gotten a bit rusty on algs and such. Does anyone have any suggestions on like array sorts and such to work on or like code golf sites to use? I have Leetcode pulled up and will be working a bit through that today but I just wanna get in as much practice as I can leading up to the interview. I donno when the interview will be but I just heard through the grapevine that there will be one.

I've been working on my own webdev stuff but the most I've had to touch JavaScript for is basically conditionals and loops, so I feel like I've fallen down on the other stuff a bit.

TIA

  • propter_hog [any, any]
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    19 days ago

    https://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/

    Not linking to amazon. I got my copy from a thrift store.

    • roux [he/him, they/them]
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      19 days ago

      Good stuff thanks. I just so happen to have one in my library as of 5 seconds ago. No need to link to Amazon che-smile

    • propter_hog [any, any]
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      19 days ago

      Also, to add to this, in my experience it helps to have a few algorithms memorized. I learned Red Black Trees, Bubble Sort, Merge Sort (and why it's always faster than Bubble Sort), and how to write a stack. There are undoubtedly other ones to memorize, too, but these came up a lot in my interviews. They usually will not say, "hey, write a bubble sort real quick", but if you can hammer it out when they ask you to find the smallest item in an array or whatever, they'll be pleased. And when they ask how you could speed it up, swap out bubble sort for merge sort. It's just good info to have in your tool box.

    • iByteABit [comrade/them]
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      19 days ago

      This looks really good, thanks!

      Though I am looking forward to throwing it in a pit of fire when we have socialism and interviewing is no longer a full time job