Get Ready and Think Ahead : 11 Tech Interview Websites To Get More Than Ready
tl;dr : take this summer to plan ahead your full time offers for next summer. You’ll panic a little bit less between summers .
Quick post to tell you peeps that if you’re graduating next summer (or this fall, or this winter) please consider getting ready to apply for full time jobs as soon as this summer.
For as soon as this September.
And in September, you don’t start preparing, you start applying. You’re ready. Maybe there won’t be a lot of positions available yet at that time, but you’ll be ready. And you’ll be ready for tech fairs (often happening end of September, beginning October). And you’ll be ready for technical interviews.
By getting ready I mean get in the mood to do technical interviews, but also have an idea of the companies (and cities) where you’ll want to apply.
Add it to your todo list : “think about where I want to be next year”. And then, at some point, during the summer, do it. List out the companies. List out the interview questions. List out the chapters from “Cracking The Code” you’ll want to cover. And do it.
The reason is, once in September, midterms (and other things) will get in the way pretty quickly. You’ll have the impression that your friends will get interviews pretty quickly. You’ll get through it, for sure, but it’ll be a little bit more stressful vs. getting through it because you planned ahead.
Here’s a list of websites that’ll prepare you (maybe more than necessary) on the technical side. Please feel free to comment with others!
https://github.com/cassidoo/getting-a-gig : Amazing guide that takes you through everything. Start with this!
https://gist.github.com/TSiege/cbb0507082bb18ff7e4b : A great technical interview cheat sheet
https://trello.com/c/g21Xz6zR/37-most-asked-stuff-aka-the-stuff-you-look-at-right-before-an-interview : Pretty nice Trello board on most asked topics
https://github.com/andreis/interview : Everything you need to kick ass on your coding interview
https://github.com/MaximAbramchuck/awesome-interview-questions : A curated awesome list of lists of interview questions
https://github.com/davidhampgonsalves/interview-resources : Short and long list of interview topics
www.interviewing.io : Practice interviewing with engineers from top companies, anonymously
www.remoteinterview.io : Coding tests & pair programming interview tools
www.hackerrank.com : Online platform for code studying / also has job offers.
http://blog.triplebyte.com/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview : Great advice + main topics to cover
https://www.quora.com/What-algorithms-and-data-structures-should-any-software-engineer-know/answer/Arun-Sahay?share=0b90c1c2 : a heavy list of potential topics
And after the interview, then what? Then this.
But for now, “think about where I want to be next year”.
Add it to your to-do list.
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