As aspiring software engineers, we are constantly challenged by coding interviews in our career. In fact, mastering it is a must to land your next dream job in software engineering (or related) discipline.
Coding interviews can be sometimes brutal and make you doubt yourself. After going through months of preparation practicing your data structures & algorithms, it can be a heartbreaking experience failing to crack the coding interview with your dream company.
These 7 steps to approach coding interview questions are effective because cracking the coding interview is not just about your technical prep, but also:
- listening skills
- communication: ability to articulate your thought process
- being meticulous: not rush and miss important details
- staying critical towards your solution
- picking interviewer hints: they usually try to guide you.
Try to incorporate these 7 steps next time you solve any coding interview question. They have helped me improve my interviewing skills dramatically.
Step 1 – Understand the problem
Step 2 – Use an example that is big enough (no special cases).
Step 3 – Find a brute force solution to the problem.
Step 4 – Optimize the solution!
Step 5 – Run through your solution in detail.
Step 6 – Write Clean Code!
Step 7 – Test Your Code.
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