7 Steps To Crack Any Coding Interview Question

Ankur Khemani — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:00:38 +0000

As aspiring software engineers, we are constantly challenged by coding interviews in our career. In fact, mastering it is a must to land your next dream job in software engineering (or related) discipline.

Coding interviews can be sometimes brutal and make you doubt yourself. After going through months of preparation practicing your data structures & algorithms, it can be a heartbreaking experience failing to crack the coding interview with your dream company.

These 7 steps to approach coding interview questions are effective because cracking the coding interview is not just about your technical prep, but also:

listening skills
communication: ability to articulate your thought process
being meticulous: not rush and miss important details
staying critical towards your solution
picking interviewer hints: they usually try to guide you.

Try to incorporate these 7 steps next time you solve any coding interview question. They have helped me improve my interviewing skills dramatically.

Step 1 – Understand the problem
Step 2 – Use an example that is big enough (no special cases).
Step 3 – Find a brute force solution to the problem.
Step 4 – Optimize the solution!
Step 5 – Run through your solution in detail.
Step 6 – Write Clean Code!
Step 7 – Test Your Code.

Software Engineer Resume Tips That Will Get You Hired

Ankur Khemani — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:28:08 +0000

Are you applying for a job in software engineering or related role? Getting your resume right is crucial to land more interviews, thereby increasing your chances of getting hired.

I have done a postmortem of my software engineering resume out of college that helped me land job interviews from top tech giants and startups like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Tinder, etc.

You can refer to it as a sample to build a similar resume for yourself. Here’s a quick highlight of DOs and DONTs:

✅ one page resume that pops out
✅ highlight personal projects outside academics
✅ use bullet points
✅ add keywords
✅ add links to portfolios especially LinkedIn & Github
✅ proofread!

❌ long paragraphs
❌ spelling and formatting mistakes
❌ spamming keywords
❌ highlighting too many words or sentences

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7 Steps To Crack Any Coding Interview Question

Software Engineer Resume Tips That Will Get You Hired