De-Coding The Technical Interview Process

by Emma Bostian

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Technical

217 pages, ebook

Published May 7, 2020

Reviews

[Ali Spittel · Rating 5 out of 5]

De-Coding the Technical Interview is an incredibly comprehensive guide to each stage of the interview process. It's encouraging, visual, well-scaffolded, and incredibly designed. There are so many tangible takeaways from the book that the reader can immediately put into action, from sample questions to lists of topics to study to a checklist of things to check before submitting a code challenge. This book is a must-read for any developer looking for their first role (or beyond!)

[Gowthaman Ilango · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comprehensive guide for front end developers by a front end developer. Glad to see the implementation of data structure using JavaScript and the cool graphical representation! You will learn a new thing or two no matter how experienced developer you're. Highly recommended this to anyone who are trying to get into the industry as UI developer.

[Lucy Batson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The front-end developement world badly needed this book since, as the author points out, Gayle Laakmann-McDowell's Cracking the Coding Interview is much too heavyweight for front-end developers and doesn't cover the vast majority of areas that they will need to bruch up on. Fontunately, Emma Bostian has them covered with this book! De-Coding the Technical Interview Process covers a lot of ground in terms of etiquette, what to know, what to brush up on, with lots of examples, practice challenges that map more closely to the typical front-end interview. If you're a front-end dev, you'll definitely want this on your shelf!

[Ruphaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one hell of a book which I'd recommend to anyone who's taking up a frontend interview. Clear and concise explanations for complex concepts. The content is easily digestible. I've had some bitter experiences on my share of interviews and was also left out with rejections giving no explanation why or no proper feedback. This book also covers a beautiful part saying how important we are and how to keep going. I did lack the checklists mentioned in the book during my interview, will make sure this gets checked next time.

[Emmi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wouldn't highly recommend this for technical interview tips. Of course, this book would be a great one for web designers or people who become as UI designers from self-learning. But definitely not for fullstack developers or back-end engineers. There are a lot more challenges these engineers would face during the technical interviews. Those were not covered as the title of the book. I think this book is better to go with the title "De-Coding The Technical Interview Process for UI engineers".

[Bassam Ismail · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was able to go through the whole book in less than two hours. Certainly not the conventional 247 pages, more like 50-70 pages. Blog posts would have been a much better format. Such information can be found publicly and the current is a bit too high to justify, although I appreciate Purchasing Power Parity pricing. There are a bunch of typos and code samples is riddled with bugs.

[Rickard Natt och Dag · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful read which explains hard concepts really well and includes easily digestible code examples for said concepts. A great book to help anyone who's looking to find a job in tech navigate the, sometimes very intricate, interviewing process.

[Calum · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive guide to interviewing leaning towards front end developers. I really like Emma's style of demystifying concepts and throughout the book she drops in words of encouragement which is appreciated.

I definitely see myself coming back to this resource when interviewing as it covers all aspects of modern software interviews.

The code examples in JS covering data structures and algorithms are useful. The only thing I would like is more interview style example questions with answers and explanations.

[Harmen Janssen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a helpful guide to anyone going through the daunting technical interview process.

Not being in the job-market myself I might not be the perfect audience for this book — but I'm actually interviewing candidates myself, and from that perspective there's also a lot to take away from this book.

A special note must be made about the beautiful layout of this book. The graphics really help in comprehending the algorithms and data-structures.

[تقى · Rating 4 out of 5]

How much this book is HELPFUL

This book collect the main info. needed for any developer, i think i will read it many times before any interview i will apply

I hope this book available for back-end developers too, although its really really helpful

Many thanks Emma

[Sebastian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The biggest pro of this book is that the code examples are written in javascript. Approachable & not overwhelming. It's also very short and does not come into details in much apart from several search algorithms and most important data structures.

[Jules · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the much needed book that was missing from my life. A really helpful read for anyone going into frontend interviews and needs what’s essentially a cheat sheet for all the topics you’ll probably be asked.

[Rachael · Rating 1 out of 5]

All I want back is my time! I don't even care about the refund.
Never finished the book. Please save your time and money. This is a plain robbery !
You will learn something more from here: https://github.com/yangshun/front-end...

[Scott · Rating 1 out of 5]

Severely lacking in content or insight, topics are rushed and skipped through entirely. This is a 257 page book mostly filled with blank space. "Cracking the code interview" is cheaper and vastly more useful than this - I cannot recommend this "book" at 29$.