Beyond Cracking the Coding InterviewGayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, Aline Lerner, Nil Mamano
Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, Aline Lerner, Nil Mamano · first published 2025
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…sufficient knowledge for Leetcode style problem. The additional stuff in TCPH was fun to read/learn, but I never used it to solve any of those problems. A note: In my last round of interviewing, I read Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview (the sequel), and the tips it gives for technical coding problems were great - much better than the original book. I can't say it helped getting a job, because the job I did get had its interview just…
on “Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]” ↗…leetcode problems. I'd heartily endorse his book, but they definitely are more different than similar. EPI is also another excellent book with a very different style. Here is a link to nine chapters of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview for free in case you're still curious about it: https://bctci.co/free-chapters
on “Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out” ↗> Technical interviews are much harder today than they used to be. Engineers study for months and routinely get down-leveled despite that. Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview, in addition to covering a bunch of new questions and topics, teaches you how to think instead of memorizing. Grinding and memorization isn’t the way in this market (though in fairness, it’s never really…
on “Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out” ↗Even though I am not actively looking for work I am reading Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview. https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Cracking-Coding-Interview-Succ.... It’s a dense read and I find myself oddly attracted to mulling over the questions and trying various solutions. I would be doing yard…
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)” ↗Hey, my name is Aline. I'm one of the authors of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview and the founder of interviewing.io. I have also wondered about the arms race and how it weighs against market forces for the bar going up, especially because as founder of an interview prep platform,…
on “Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out” ↗Hey HN, I'm Aline, founder of interviewing.io and one of the authors of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview (the official sequel to CTCI). We just compiled every problem (and solution) in the book and made them available for free. There are ~230 problems in total. Some of them are classics like n-queens, but…
on “Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview” ↗