Share your favorite SWE interview hacks

Jun 18, 2021 10 Comments

Share your hacks that you think give you an edge, whether you used them during the preparation or during the actual interviews.

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  • New / Eng
    King Noob

    New Eng

    King Noob
    Memorizing behavioral scenarios and regurgitating them in every behavioral round for every company to convince them that you have the work ethic of Albert Einstein and the affability of Robin Williams.
    Jun 18, 2021 4
  • Amazon
    fatcat420

    Go to company page Amazon

    fatcat420
    Code abstraction during coding rounds. Write the code as literal pseudocode and implement each abstraction later, this is especially useful for rounds focusing on OO design, but also applies to leercode rounds.

    For example if my solution has bfs, my code would have “bfs” as a subroutine. And in my bfs I would have “add neighbors” and “check invariant” as subroutines.
    So my code ends up being mostly memorable boilerplate with custom implementations to solve the problem. Makes it easy to explain and easy to understand, and you can sometimes get away with saying “do you want me to implement this?”
    Jun 18, 2021 1
  • I have a habit of talking to my code. It freaks out people when I'm intense coding near them but interviewers love it and I don't have to put extra effort to "communicate" 😂
    Jun 18, 2021 1
  • Workday
    fUnd75

    Go to company page Workday

    fUnd75
    Propanolol and practice
    Jun 18, 2021 0