Here’s the Study Plan a Self-Taught Software Engineer Used to Get Two FAANG Offers
In Fall of 2020, I received job offers from Facebook and Microsoft (both entry level positions) and made it to the final round with Amazon (a mid level position). I don’t have a degree in computer science (C.S.), as I’ve previously written, and so I relied on widely available resources to get the training required to succeed. While it’s widely known that a C.S. degree is not required to get into I.T., all engineering candidates hoping to break into big tech must prove that they have a solid grasp of C.S. fundamentals. Here I share my plan on how I tackled learning those concepts and prepping for my 2020 round of job applications.
Technical Interviews
Following thousands of programmers before me, I jumped straight into LeetCode and Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. Let’s start with Cracking.
Cracking the Coding Interview
I highly recommend reading the introduction. In it, McDowell breaks down the daunting concept of wading through the nebulous storm of job interviews. She highlights the core concepts and…
