Cracking the Tech Interview
Rafay AbbasiDaily blogs on system design, coding, and behavioral interviews, from the team behind Grokking courses on System Design and Coding Interviews. Real frameworks, real questions, and how AI is reshaping every round.
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Most people prepare for coding interviews by collecting problems. Strong candidates prepare by mastering patterns. Here are the ten that cover the overwhelming majority of what you will face
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Not in the solution, but in the question that produces the solution.
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Ask a group of engineers how they are preparing for interviews and most will give you a company name.
“I’m prepping for Google.”
“I’m grinding for FAANG.”
“I have a Meta loop in three weeks.”
The company becomes the target, the prep...
How to Recognize Coding Patterns Without Memorizing Questions
Memorizing questions trains you for questions you have already seen. Recognizing patterns trains you for questions nobody has shown you yet. Here is the difference, and how to build the second skill.
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