Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions (Cracking the Interview & Career)

This book is great for computer science students or for anyone in a similar situation looking for a graduate job.I've used it to help me in securing jobs for my placement module as part of my degree (penultimate year) .It covers everything you would need to learn to prepare you for a serious interview with a large organisation such Google, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle etc...I've read it all and seen most of the examples come up in real interviews. Its very useful, I recommend reading it if you are serious in securing a role within a large software based organisation.Not only does it help with interviews but it will help you within university itself, considering you are a student. It covers various algorithms that most students will cover within university.tdlr; helps you secure a job and helps you study for uni.

In pristine condition with prompt delivery. Great book, thoroughly enjoyable if you like tech, that is.Lovely little bookshop, sent me a thoughtful note, making me feel a special buyer. I can highly recommend. Will be ordering happily again.

The book is reasonably priced for what it is. It is very helpful when preparing to interviews as well as a generic reference for basic algorithms and CS theory. The information is layed out logically and is very easy to comprehend, the practice puzzles are a great fun too. I often find myself doing the puzzles in some exotic languages I want to learn (eg. Crystal, Julia, Rust or haskell, etc).I do not have any reservations in recommending this book as an interview preparation material (in addition to wonderful resources like interviewbit.com and carreercup.com, etc). Money well spent!

The book's content is amazing - if you're going to have an interview, this is very likely to directly help you, even more so indirectly (if you've done the practice problems). From what I've seen from the previous editions, there's a fair amount of additional content (on cool topics), so this might be a reason to 'upgrade'. Another addition seems to be the 'Hints' section, which, while useful, is an absolute pain in the ass to use, being at the back of the book, and the numbers being scrambled around.The book I received also appeared to have some water damage or similar - which is both slightly annoying because of the high price (incl. international shipping), as well as the fact that the packaging seemed to be completely fine.

I used this book to help return to a senior Dev role after a few years working as a management consultant. Great explanation of concepts covering the main types of collections, data types and sorting algorithms. Each problems has a detailed answer provided in java with commentary explaining a good solution through to the most optimal (and explaining the trade offs to consider when evaluating different solutions). It separates the questions and answers and encourages you to attempt the problems without cheating, even including hints to help one work through the problem before checking the answer.

One of the best books I read on the topic. It helped me feel super confident in interviews - some parts over-prepare you but I felt ready for the worst to come. I cannot recommend this enough, especially if your background is not Software Engineering

In terms of the product itself, there's nothing much to say since it's just a book and it came without any problems. In terms of the book, well it's known to be the bible for Software Engineers for a reason. It covers a wide range of topics and lots of problems with good explanations and solutions that I found very helpful. Hopefully this prepares me well for future interviews!

Reading books was never my 'thing',but this is different! Starting with a few online videos from the author, the magic begins!highly recommended, not only if you're looking getting good for an interview but also for improving your self,how you think and how you work will be improved in many ways.Any level of developer you might be, I believe you have to go through the book at least once.It's not only about algorithms and data structures, even if you're not keen on them, go through the logic the author provides, it will make you better at thinking in in general.To prepare for the interviews, make sure you go through the book months before, or you might regret not having enough time to practice what you learn here!To prepare how to interview, it will make you and your company look great to a new candidate and it will help you on how to think of the candidate as well!Go for it and you'll fall in love!