Coding Interview Preparation Roadmap (Part I)

Zero to Hero Comprehensive Roadmap for Coding Interview Preparation curated over months of research:

?? Coding/Problem Solving:

• Grokking the Coding Interview by Arslan Ahmad
• Raj Vikramaditya ‘s takeUforward Data Structures/ Algorithms
• CS Fundamentals: CN, OS, DBMS Hussein Nasser
• Java/C++/Python Rachit Jain

?? Low-Level Design:

• Grokking the Object-Oriented Interview
• Udit Agarwal ‘s Github LLD Repos https://lnkd.in/daXYtt-g
• InterviewReady ‘s GitHub LLD https://lnkd.in/dzegde5k
• OOP
• OOA/OOD
• UML Educative Fahim ul Haq
• Data Modelling
• Design Patterns Pluralsight Klaus Iglberger
• Clean Code
• Clean Architecture

?? High-Level Design:

• Grokking the System Design Interview by Arslan Ahmad
• Gaurav Sen ‘s InterviewReady & System Design YouTube Playlist
• Narendra Lakshmana Gowda ‘s Tech Dummies YouTube
• Software Engineering freeCodeCamp
• Distributed Systems MIT OpenCourseWare
• Large Scale System Design Interview Alex Xu ByteByteGo
• End-to-End Architecture of System Sahn Lam

?? Optional: To get a good hold of the language & coding new questions, solve problems:

• SPOJ Classical Questions
• Codeforces (A, B, C, D)
• InterviewBit Abhimanyu Saxena

?? Phase I: (1 month) Understand the patterns of different Coding Questions from Real Interview Questions

• Cracking the Coding Interview (Book)
• Elements of Programming Interview (Book)
• Programming Interview Exposed (Book)

?? Phase II: (1 month) Learn the Coding Language of Choice very well including Object Oriented Fundas

• C++/Java/Python
• Implement the coding questions from Phase I in your language of choice both in IDE and in WhiteBoard (Pen/Paper)

?? Phase III: (1 month) Go through GeeksForGeeks for the understanding of more patterns of different DS and Algo

• Data Structures
• Algorithms

?? Phase IV: (1 month): In-depth Theories, learn web-scale system design

Go through CS Fundamentals with a focus on Distributed Systems:

• Operating Systems
• DBMS
• Computer Networks
• Object-Oriented (Programming, Analysis, Design)
• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems (Large Scale System Design) Donne Martin Ashish Pratap Singh

Conferences:

• GOTO Conferences
• NDC Conferences
• InfoQ
• CppCon, The C++ Conference

?? Phase V: (2 months) Practice Coding in Whiteboard & IDE:

• GeeksforGeeks Company-wise + Topic wise Sandeep Jain
• takeUforward
• LeetCode (Easy + Medium + Some hard ones)

?? Phase VI: (15 days) Revisions:

• Company Wise Questions
• FAQs [Grokking Coding Interview]
• System Design (System Design Primer Github) [Grokking System Design] <InterviewReady>
• Object-Oriented Design [Grokking Object Oriented Interview]

?? Phase VII: Start applying & keep practicing

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