Coding Interview Ninja: 50 coding questions with Java solutions to practice for your coding interview.

by Ekim Ouye

Getting your dream software engineering job could be a matter of how well you perform in your coding interview part. Perhaps it is the most important part of your interview process. Your recruiter will recommend you to read again your university algorithms and data structures book to brush up on Computer Science fundamentals. And although this is necessary, it is not enough. The types of questions that you will find in an algorithms book are not designed to be solved under pressure in a short 45-minutes period. The best way to prepare yourself for the coding interview is to practice on similar questions to the ones that you will be asked to solve. This is the aim of this book; to present you some sample interview coding questions with a sample solution code.If you are aiming at a software engineering job at one of the top companies, this book will definitely help you prepare for your coding interview. The questions included in this book can not be found in Cracking the Coding Interview.

119 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2015

Reviews

[Krysta · Rating 2 out of 5]

No explanations, some buggy code

There are no explanations given for the salutiens (which can be OK) but since some of them are wrong or sub-optimal, there is no way to check your understanding. This also degrades trust in the solutions. I gave two stars instead of just one because there are a lot of example questions.

[Ralph N · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lazy book. Solutions with no explanations. Sometimes incorrect complexity analysis.

[Vidyacharan Ramesh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Common problems

-Has decent number of problems on data structure.
-Suitable for beginners
-It's a collection of coding problems found most referred websites like geeksforgeeks or javavisited.
-Not enough to crack tough interviews

[Sarthak Bhatt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Horrible solutions, repetitive questions, and ambiguous identifiers are used without providing the main function only the algorithmic function is given as a solution. It's only good if you want to practice a specific set of highly frequent interview questions

[Derek Lords · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lame almost handbook

Don't bother. This handbook is just a compilation of nothing much of anything. Author is conspicuously absent. Try google. Not worth the purchase.