Why do some great software developers fail interviews? How do you design more effective algorithm/problem-solving interview questions? Interviewers and recruiters can help reduce false negatives, ensuring that more good candidates do well.
Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder/CEO of CareerCup.com and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com's best-selling interview book) and Cracking the Product Manager Interview. Gayle is a former Google, Microsoft, and Apple software engineer and served on Google's hiring committee.
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2. Ask the Right Questions
• Right topics:
– Avoid scary topics.
– Require only basic CS knowledge.
• Right difficulty:
– Medium & hard problems.
– Avoid common problems.
• Logical path with multiple insights.
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