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Wanted to work at an exciting futuristic company?
Struggled with an interview problem thatcould have been solved in 15 minutes?
Wished you could study real-world computing problems?
If so, you need to read Elements of Programming Interviews (EPI).
EPI is your comprehensive guide to interviewing for software development roles.
The core of EPI is a collection of over 250 problems with detailed solutions. The problems are representative of interview questions asked at leading software companies. The problems are illustrated with 200 figures, 300 tested programs, and 150 additional variants.
The book begins with a summary of the nontechnical aspects of interviewing, such as strategies for a great interview, common mistakes, perspectives from the other side of the table, tips on negotiating the best offer, and a guide to the best ways to use EPI. We also provide a summary of data structures, algorithms, and problem solving patterns.
Coding problems are presented through a series of chapters on basic and advanced data structures, searching, sorting, algorithm design principles, and concurrency. Each chapter stars with a brief introduction, a case study, top tips, and a review of the most important library methods. This is followed by a broad and thought-provoking set of problems.
A practical, fun approach to computer science fundamentals, as seen through the lens of common programming interview questions.
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Adnan, Amit, and Tsung-Hsien have worked at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Uber, Qualcomm, and several startups. They co-developed algorithms and systems that are used by over one billion people everyday. They have extensive experience with interviewing candidates, making hiring decisions, and being interviewed.

Adnan Aziz is a research scientist at Facebook. Previously, he was a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he conducted research and teaches classes in applied algorithms. He received his Ph.D. from The University of California at Berkeley; his undergraduate degree is from Indian Institutes of Technology Kanpur.

Amit Prakash is a founder of Thoughtspot, a Silicon Valley startup. Previously, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Google, where he worked primarily on machine learning problems that arise in the context of online advertising. Before that he worked at Microsoft in the web search team. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin; his undergraduate degree is from Indian Institutes of Technology Kanpur.

Tsung-Hsien Lee is a Software Engineer at Uber. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook. He received both his M.S. and undergraduate degrees from National Tsing Hua University. He has a passion for designing and implementing algorithms. He likes to apply algorithms on every aspect of his life.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Sept. 15 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 441 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1537713949
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1537713946
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 762 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.81 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm

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Tsung-Hsien Lee is a Staff Software Engineer at Toyota Research Institute working on self-driving cars. Previously, he worked at Facebook, Google, and Uber. He received both his M.S. and undergraduate degrees from National Tsing Hua University. He has a passion for designing and implementing algorithms. He likes to apply algorithms on every aspect of his life. He takes special pride in helping to organize Google Code Jam 2014 and 2015.
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Amit Prakash is CTO and co-founder of ThoughtSpot Inc. Prior to that he worked at Google and Microsoft in Search and Ads engineering teams. He received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin; his undergraduate degree is from IIT Kanpur. When he is not improving the quality of ads, he indulges in his passions for puzzles, movies, travel, and adventures with his wife.
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Adnan Aziz is a research scientist at Facebook. Formerly, he was a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he conducted research and taught classes in applied algorithms. He won a number of awards for his teaching and research on applied algorithms. He received his PhD from The University of California at Berkeley; his undergraduate degree is from IIT Kanpur. He has worked at Google, Qualcomm, IBM, and several software startups. When not designing algorithms, he plays with his children, Laila, Imran, and Omar.
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Riccardo Di Sipio

Very valuable content but poor binding!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 2, 2021

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I think the content of the book is spot-on the interview procedure. However, there's definitely something wrong with the physical book itself. Many pages have a small inward fold at the bottom, which has been printed over. I've never seen anything like that before. I recommend the seller to double-check the printing process.

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one of the better python technical question resource I've come across for interviews

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 2, 2019

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I personally think this is among the top, if not the best, resource currently for preparing for SWE interviews if you choose to practice with python. I had a couple minor issues during the first few study sessions with your book, most of which can be attributed to my lack of knowledge beforehand.
- Smaller whitespace/margins made it difficult to write notes and add post-its.
- a lack of direction on how to further prepare for a specific chapter. For example, let's say I was pretty new to bit manipulation using python. The book quickly skims the syntax and expectations of how to approach problems involving this topic but doesn’t give detailed explanations or recommended external resources to get a better grasp of the content. I know the reader should be expected to know basic data structures/algorithms, but it would be nice if the readers were directed to resources that the authors personally recommended to get up to date if a chapter’s content completely stumps the reader. Not everybody preparing for technical interviews has had the privilege to take a formal algorithm analysis class.
- no solutions for variants( this isn’t really a con but it would be nice if the reader was given a hint, like time/space complexity the authors expect the solution should be).

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Chidinma C

Good book for coding interview prep

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 30, 2021

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Good book for preparing for a coding interview. I wish they explained the problem solutions more indepth.

Many of them left me with more questions than answer.

Overall, it is a deeper version of Cracking the Coding Interview book.

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Tywin

Good book - helpful for improving my leetcode skills on data structure and algorithm

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 30, 2021

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decent book, but I found some of the content and chapters are ordered not in the sequence. I recommend go with your own pace and jump around these chapters to maximize your efficiency.

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A book of leetcode questions.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 16, 2019

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A hard book. Not a book for improving coding skill, but mostly focus on solving problems, algorithm especially. Covers all baisc topics but not meant to teach you, it seems like a book of leetcode questions.

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Tina Tran

good content, terrible construction

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 31, 2019

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The contents of the book is good, but the actual construction of the physical book is terrible. The bottom of the pages are stuck together as if they were glued, this really shouldn't be happening on such an expensive book.

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Alex L

Probably one of the better programming interview prep book out there

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 26, 2019

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Just finished reading this book. Covers most of the topics that you'll ever encounter in a technical programming interview. Found myself doing alot better leetcode-style questions, after reading this book. Would recommend for any computer science/software engineering student applying for jobs.

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Tbat

Ebook Poorly Formatted

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 30, 2022

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I bought this book awhile ago but didn't get around to reading it until now. The pages are oriented sideways on the web reader and my phone, and there is no clear way to change the orientation. This makes it basically unreadable for all practical purposes. From what I can tell this is a pdf that has been lazily scanned in. I guess it is my fault for not checking during the return window but disappointed that there is no way to complain about defects such as this later down the line. The content seems good but in the present format this book was a total waste of money.

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A T

Kindle version is a badly scanned pdf

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 1, 2022

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When I downloaded the kindle version of this book on 28/02/2022 I found that it was just a badly scanned version of the book.

Each page is off centre, small, and because each page is a scanned image rather than the usual kindle text, you cannot highlight.

I do not recommend downloading the kindle version unless and until they announce they have changed it.

Returned for refund.

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Thepnathi Stephenson

Great contents, poor paper quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 5, 2020

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Excellent book for technical interview. You most likely can pass the interview by going through most problems in the book.

The book contains a great variety of moderate to advanced problems. Much more in depth than Cracking the Coding Interview. In addition to the quality problems, the author also shows a lot of tricks with Python 3. Great way to learn the language!

Downside is the paper quality, if you highlight the text, you can see the highlighter mark on the back of the page.

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Kindle Version is scanned. No navigation functionality and hard to read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 28, 2022

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The kindle version of this book is a badly scanned version of the book. The pages are slightly skewed, and the text is in places hard to read. There is no navigation directly to chapters or any other navigation functionality to easily navigate around the e-book. Returned e-book almost immediately! I will pay the extra to get the soft copy, as I believe it is a very useful book.

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Fedir Baronenko

Difficult to follow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 21, 2023

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With my intermediate level of Python I found this book difficult to follow. It describes the problems that rarely will emerge in the middle size organization.
Buy it if you have a strong math, advanced Python and aiming for a job at top corporation like Google.

Pradeep Verma

Between Awesome to Brilliant

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 11, 2019

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I am an IT guy working for a service based IT company where copy paste is the norm. I used to ask for reference before taking up any new task(the usual Indian IT mindset). I was a little skeptical to think if this was the right approach of doing things; hence the motivation to buy this book.
Pros:
-Python Language
- Explanation
- Paper Format, that you can read before you sleep and after you wake up, I don't like staring the computer screen and reading PDFs.
- A very good collection of problems ( I am on page 55 today, chapter 5)
- Reader friendly
- Written in Python 3.5

Cons:
- Not a beginner friendly, you need to have a good grasp on language before you jump to buy this book.
- Explanation may require two three rounds of studying again and trying to understand with paper & pencil ( this is good btw, but you cannot read that as a late night story book :-))

Overall, a masterpiece in the collection of DSA books I have. Now one point to note , nearly all the question you may find on many coding platforms, but its the explanation , the run-time analysis, the critical thinking and the approach that sets this book and its authors apart. Its not just finding the answer, but finding the best fit and the fastest solution within the given constraints.

I am giving this four stars as it is a pricey book considering the Indian IT pay.

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