Do students from top schools ever struggle to nail interviews?
Apr 16, 2018
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I say that because folks at Stanford never seem to complain about this sorta thing and get Google and FB just by reading CTCI and doing a few leetcode problems.
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I think there’s a tendency to assume other people have an easy time because they don’t talk about the experience, only the positive outcomes
Your best bet is to spend a lot of time preparing so you’ll be familiar with most of what they could throw at you. CTCI is pretty good, I bet your pass rate will go up if you do every problem in it, and you’ll also learn a lot.
My recommendation is reviewing a book dedicated to interviews (i.e. Cracking the Coding Interview). I personally prefer Elements of Programming Interviews. Once you have a solid foundation, leetcode it up with paper and pen. Work through the problems out loud as if you're explaining it to someone. Lastly, do some actual mock interviews either with friends or using something like interviewing.io.