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The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java

You're reading from   The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java An effective guide for aspiring Java developers to ace their programming interviews

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212062
Length 788 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anghel Leonard Anghel Leonard
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Non-Technical Part of an Interview
2. Chapter 1: Where to Start and How to Prepare for the Interview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What Interviews at Big Companies Look Like 4. Chapter 3: Common Non-Technical Questions and How To Answer Them 5. Chapter 4: How to Handle Failures 6. Chapter 5: How to Approach a Coding Challenge 7. Section 2: Concepts
8. Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming 9. Chapter 7: Big O Analysis of Algorithms 10. Chapter 8: Recursion and Dynamic Programming 11. Chapter 9: Bit Manipulation 12. Section 3: Algorithms and Data Structures
13. Chapter 10: Arrays and Strings 14. Chapter 11: Linked Lists and Maps 15. Chapter 12: Stacks and Queues 16. Chapter 13: Trees and Graphs 17. Chapter 14: Sorting and Searching 18. Chapter 15: Mathematics and Puzzles 19. Section 4: Bonus – Concurrency and Functional Programming
20. Chapter 16: Concurrency 21. Chapter 17: Functional-Style Programming 22. Chapter 18: Unit Testing 23. Chapter 19: System Scalability 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

What's your working style?

This kind of question should ring a bell to you. Most of the time, this question is specific to companies that have an uncommon working style. For example, they often work overtime or they work on weekends. Maybe they work long shifts or they have metrics or deadlines that are hard to achieve. Or, they put a lot of pressure and responsibilities on this position. Explain to the interviewer your working style and underline indirectly the things that you do not agree with. For example, you could point out that you are not open to doing night shifts by saying, I like to start working in the morning with the most difficult tasks, and in the second part of the day, I will deal with the planning of the next day. Or, you could point out that you are not open to working on weekends by saying, I like to work hard for 40 hours/week from Monday to Friday. I like to spend weekends with my friends.

If you are asked directly about a specific aspect, then provide...

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