Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
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In the bulk of this book, the author covers what he feels are common programming related interview questions.

Almost all of the examples are in C, except for a few oddballs (one is done in Perl, which doesn't exactly lend itself to clarity).

I don't understand why the author chose C. He states it is the "language of choice" for interviewers.

Most universities are making their grads think OO these days. While they may have a few projects in C, the majority of their experience is going to be in C++ or Java, or C# in the near future.

If a new grad is going to interview, and they state that they aren't that great with C but they know C++ or Java really well (which is probably true for most new-grads), I would be very, very surprised if this was an issue.

What if it was an issue? As a new grad, would you want to work somewhere where your interviewers could only think in C?

Regardless, the common feature here is OO. The book misses the boat on this point. I have been working in the Java space for quite some time and the non-OO examples were hard for me to follow, and I found myself not wanting to follow them because they seemed inelegant.

I would have preferred to see them in (OO) pseudo code.

The rest of this book covers interviewing tactics, a few logic puzzles, and a small section on resume writing.

The sections on interviewing tactics and resume writing assumed a very low experience level and seemed more like they were written for high-school grads than for college grads let alone experienced software developers.

The puzzle section was fun.

Customer Reviews

12.	interesting, I will say that
	(Escondido, CA USA) May 29, 2005 - 4.0/5 stars
	I have a different experience, and I guess different reason than most for buying this book. I already worked as a software engineer when I picked it up last year. This was when we were interviewing some people to add... read full review
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13.	of questionable value
	(san jose, ca United States) May 11, 2004 - 3.0/5 stars
	This may be valuable for new grads getting their first job, or people who want to do sanity a check before looking for a new position.In the bulk of this book, the author covers what he feels are common programming related... read full review
14.	A watered-down high school CS review book
	(Brooklyn, NY United States) December 22, 2000 - 2.0/5 stars
	I've heard that programming interviews sometimes involve wacky, off-the-wall questions ("why is a manhole cover round?"). I bought this book with the belief that it would shed some light on how to approach these... read full review

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