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Big announcement! Along with Gayle McDowell , Mike Mroczka, and Nil Mamano, I’ve written the official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview—the bible of interview prep. The sequel is called Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview, and you can pre-order as of today: https://lnkd.in/gbgU-Wgf I always wanted to write a book on technical interviewing, and this is it. Our goal was to go beyond the original and teach people to THINK rather than memorize. Grinding and memorizing isn't the way in this shitty market (though in fairness it never was the way). The chapters I’ve written are about job searches but also about how to navigate a broken process. So many people opt out of a huge swath of companies because they hate technical interviews. It doesn't have to be that way. Job search material includes how to negotiate and not screw it up, how to make your offers come in at the same time, email templates that will get you in the door even if you don't know anyone, how to deal with recruiters, how to not suck at behavioral interviews, and a lot of other practical advice. On the technical side, we introduce at least 13 new topics (including sliding windows, prefix arrays, and rolling hashes). I say “at least" bc we're still writing, and it'll probably be more like 20. We also have 150 new problems. Each problem includes step-by-step walkthroughs, and we’ll give you problem-specific triggers and five problem-solving boosters to help you get unstuck. And of course we’ve partnered with interviewing.io and pulled data from over 100K FAANG mock interviews to support the advice in the book. You also get access to a bunch of never-before-seen interview replays. Finally, pre-orders and purchases get a $50 discount on interviewing.io. The book is $45, so it's not a bad deal. Pre-orders also get a sneak peek at two chapters. The actual book will be out in Jan 2025. If you read it, let me know what you think!

We looked at ~700 data points to figure out the relationship between LeetCoding & interview performance. Is it all about grinding on hundreds of medium-difficulty questions, or is there more to it? Do contests matter? Here’s what we learned. https://lnkd.in/gv6dWJvC

There are lots of ways to get into companies, but not all of them are in your control (e.g. recruiters contacting you). Contacting hiring managers directly (when done right) is the channel that maximizes on both effectiveness and control. Here’s how to do it right and actually get responses. https://lnkd.in/gBxSdcct

We surveyed ~500 of our users about how they're getting in the door at companies in today's hard climate. Warm referrals are still best. Agency recruiters are the worst. What's in between may surprise you. https://lnkd.in/gAkPKRrs

Take-homes suck because they don't value candidate time. But they could be really good. After all, the best way to gauge someone's ability to do the work is to... have them do the work. Here's how to make candidates not hate them. https://lnkd.in/gxWNaSzH

Our dedicated coaching sale is back! Between now & July 10th, get $200-$700 off on dedicated coaching packages. This is the best interview prep $$ you'll ever spend. Work with a mentor who's made hiring decisions at the exact company you're targeting. Custom curriculum based on your exact needs.

By popular demand, our dedicated coaching sale is back. Between now & May 29th, get up to $700 off on dedicated coaching packages. This is the best interview prep $$ you'll ever spend. Get paired with a mentor who's made hiring decisions at the exact company you're targeting. https://lnkd.in/gtd-QYVa

We ran a study with Learning Collider where we asked recruiters to make judgments about resumes. Then we compared to how those engineers performed in technical interviews. There’s a lot to unpack in the results, but the TL;DR is that recruiters are only a bit better than a coin flip.

Bloomberg recently published an article saying ChatGPT has racial bias when evaluating resumes. We re-ran their numbers and saw that they didn't do statistical significance testing. In other words, there's actually no racial bias. However, ChatGPT has another kind of bias -- against candidates from non-traditional backgrounds. https://lnkd.in/g9yCmNCw