I have worked in software automation/testing for most of my career. We went through a reorg recently and they got rid of all test engineers. We were given some time to take a hackerrank test and interview for software engineer roles. I’m a new mom and am just coming out of maternity leave. I don’t have much time to prepare for a hackerrank test and technical interview. I have started solving hackerrank problems but am finding it extremely difficult given the limited amount of time I have. There is literally too much to prep for a coding interview- algorithms, data structures etc. what topics should I focus on to quickly prepare? I need to narrow my focus. I’d really appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!
Try asking other test engineers (who have taken the test) what problems they were asked? Otherwise I would stick with easy level problems and cover a little bit of every topic: stacks, queues, graphs, trees, binary search, sorts (especially merge and topological) . I would leave dynamic programming for last if you have time
Study and then give a test. Its.painful but in the long run will be useful. There are no shorttcuts. You want big fat salary and u dont to solve one test? Few resources : interviewcake, geeks4geeks, leetcode etc
Try to implement the data structures from scratch to understand how each of them works on a deeper level. After that do some easy problems that uses these data structures.
If you don’t have any immigration related issues, you can try an internship. Just found this post on Blind: Check out this post! "program (Women in Tech)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/uQwJPdsq
Happy to consider you for our org, please PM me if you’re interested.
Test roles are risky
What cloud?
OP where did you land? It's been a while.
Shot an email to your CEO, he will take care of this.
Yes that should buy you some time at least!
I can’t tell if you’re joking or being serious