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Cracking the Tech Interview

Rafay Abbasi

Daily 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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The 10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Choosing an Algorithm

One of the hardest parts of a coding interview happens before you write a single line of code. You understand the question, but you are still staring at the problem wondering which algorithm actually fits.

You know Hash Maps, Binary Search...

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You Know the Algorithms. So Why Can’t You Solve Unfamiliar Problems?

You know what a hash map does. You can write Binary Search without looking it up, explain BFS and DFS, implement Sliding Window, and probably recognize the standard Dynamic Programming examples.

Then an interviewer gives you a problem you...

4 days ago
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The 30-Minute Coding Interview Framework: What to Do Minute by Minute

Thirty minutes sounds like plenty of time to solve one coding problem until you are actually sitting in the interview.

The interviewer finishes explaining the question. You spend a few minutes trying to understand it, another few searching...

5 days ago
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The Coding Interview Self-Assessment: 40 Questions That Tell You If You’re Actually Ready

You do not need another LeetCode milestone. You need to know whether you can recognize, explain, implement, test, and recover under real interview conditions.

There is a point in coding interview preparation where your progress becomes sur...

6 days ago
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You've Solved 150 LeetCode Problems. Here's Why You're Still Freezing in Interviews.

What This Blog Covers

  • Recognition versus memorization

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