He is a Meta software engineer and author of some really popular free resources, like Blind75 and “The 30-Minute Guide” — This is going to be a really short post, so short that I question whether InterviewNoodle will accept it…but I just received a personal email from Yangshun Tay! He is the author of “The 30-minute Guide,” which is the best blog post on coding interview preparation I have ever seen…

In the name of Kadane! PEACE THROUGH POWER — CORGICorporation is pleased to announce CORGIS — Collection Of Really Good Interview Stuff. It’s a table with every problem from Blind75, and I will do my best to tackle it. The first interesting problem is called maximum subarray. Why is it interesting? Well: It is a window into dynamic programming …

*Groans* — One thing you may find as you search for a software engineer job is that interviews come in all shapes and sizes. …

Or “Can ChatGPT Be An Effective Study Tool For Coding Interview Preparation?” — If you have not tried using ChatGPT, you can do so at this link. Go ahead and do it…I’ll wait. I had assumed that to play with ChatGPT you would need to pay money or download a free app, the way you can technically play with GPT-3 by downloading a…

Mostly Oana, in the form of rambling — This comment above in my last article has been bothering me for days…the most mature, productive catharsis I could think of was writing a subsequent article that was 100% rambling. You think THAT was rambling? It was actually one of the more researched and focused things I have written. Oana…

System design interview buzzwords are now surfacing on Twitter arguments — In just a few short weeks, Elon Musk has Tweeted about a wide variety of software engineer topics. He wrote a Tweet about microservices, which is a pretty complex topic, prompting an argument about technical debt, which is a pretty broad topic, further branching into discussions pertaining to server-side rendering…

Layoffs, hiring freezes, sky falling, etc — If you can think back to the ancient time period of November, 2021 (exactly a year ago), you may recall reading a million news articles like this — they would describe the insane tech hiring market, excellent salaries, and companies bending over backwards to accommodate tech talent. …

I am going to open by talking about free ice cream — Someone commented on another one of my articles and asked how to get into a FAANG company: What I wanted to say in response is that I don’t know, I’ve never gotten into one. I have interviewed with a couple of them (Facebook and Google), or three if you count…

Why I somewhat disagree with the common advice that you should interview with the language you are most comfortable with — I won’t make you read the whole article just to hear the answer — the reason I disagree with this advice is that I think it should have a caveat: You should probably have more than one programming language you are comfortable interviewing in, and in some cases you will…