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Before Toptal Live Coding Interview

Overview

It will take approximately 1 hour. It looks like

  • Introduction & Rules
  • Entering your personal and professional details like
    • Your experience for each tech like ruby, js, front-end, backend
    • Location,
    • Your recent projects & most exciting thing about them kinda stuff
  • Making sure you(yourself) completed the last coding-challenge.
    • they will ask you about the problems
    • what you needed to do
    • how you approached
  • 2 Algo-problems
    • You will get as much time you need to understand the problem. You can ask the interviewer.
    • timer starts only when you say you understood.
    • You don't have to explain the solution while you solve.
    • if you are about to finish 1st in 15 mins then you will be given the 2nd problem.
    • you have to share the entire screen, not just a window
    • you can google language syntax but not the algo-solution

Preparation Guide

  • Problems will not be hard because you only have 15 mins
  • Read & practice lessons from HackerRank, Codility, Project Euler
  • Take enough time to understand the problem
  • do brainstorming on paper if you feel so
  • keep calm, they will normally add extra 2 mins

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Hands-on debugging session: instrument, monitor, and fix

Join Lazar for a hands-on session where you’ll build it, break it, debug it, and fix it. You’ll set up Sentry, track errors, use Session Replay and Tracing, and leverage some good ol’ AI to find and fix issues fast.

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Anwar Sadat Ayub

Very informative