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Very valuable content but poor binding!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 2, 2021

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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Tywin

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

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 30, 2021

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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Riccardo Di Sipio

Very valuable content but poor binding!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 2, 2021

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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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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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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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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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Enjoyable to read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 27, 2019

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A lot of fun to read and practice, indeed!

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dominic

Terrible Printing Quality - Barely Readable

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 21, 2020

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I have never seen a book printed like this before. The content seems okay, but it hard to tell because I can barley read it.

This book is printed on news print quality paper, so be careful when truing the pages. They are so thin that you can read the text on the other side almost clearly.

You cant quickly flip through the book because the headings are the same size as the regular test making it impossible to quickly search the book.

There is no proper page breaking, so content that should stay together like charts break in the middle of pages.

And there is no reasonable margin on the page, so you cant read text on the binding.

Also the preview of the book is in color, but again it is is printed in black and white. Images and diagrams are pixelelated and not professionally drawn.

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