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Java is a popular and powerful language that is a virtual requirement for businesses making use of IT in their daily operations. For Java programmers, this reality offers job security and a wealth of employment opportunities. But that perfect Java coding job won't be available if you can't ace the interview. If you are a Java programmer concerned about interviewing, Java Programming Interviews Exposed is a great resource to prepare for your next opportunity. Author Noel Markham is both an experienced Java developer and interviewer, and has loaded his book with real examples from interviews he has conducted.

• Review over 150 real-world Java interview questions you are likely to encounter
• Prepare for personality-based interviews as well as highly technical interviews
• Explore related topics, such as middleware frameworks and server technologies
• Make use of chapters individually for topic-specific help
• Use the appendix for tips on Scala and Groovy, two other languages that run on JVMs

Veterans of the IT employment space know that interviewing for a Java programming position isn't as simple as sitting down and answering questions. The technical coding portion of the interview can be akin to a difficult puzzle or an interrogation. With Java Programming Interviews Exposed , skilled Java coders can prepare themselves for this daunting process and better arm themselves with the knowledge and interviewing skills necessary to succeed.

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Java Programming Interviews Exposed is written to specifically prepare you for the questions you’ll face when interviewing for highly sought-after jobs in Java. Expert interviewer and Java developer Noel Markham has teamed with Interview Zen to provide challenging Java-specific questions and answers compiled from over 20,000 interviews conducted by real-world IT employers. This invaluable resource will prepare you to effectively demonstrate your knowledge of the entire Java ecosystem and overcome common interview missteps. Walk into your next interview with confidence—and walk out with the Java programming job of your dreams.

Java Programming Interviews Exposed:

• Provides over 200 interview questions and solutions taken directly from Java coding position interviews
• Develops three key skill sets for Java job seekers: The Interview Process, Core Java, and Java Components and Frameworks
• Offers an expanded appendix on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) language, Scala, to impress potential employers
• Grants you access to a companion website that will provide all of the sample code in the book, plus a link to Interview Zen for additional support material and testing

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Java Programming Interviews Exposed is written to specifically prepare you for the questions you’ll face when interviewing for highly sought-after jobs in Java. Expert interviewer and Java developer Noel Markham has teamed with Interview Zen to provide challenging Java-specific questions and answers compiled from over 20,000 interviews conducted by real-world IT employers. This invaluable resource will prepare you to effectively demonstrate your knowledge of the entire Java ecosystem and overcome common interview missteps. Walk into your next interview with confidence―and walk out with the Java programming job of your dreams.

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Noel Markham is an experienced interviewer and Java developer with experience across technology, financial, and gaming industries. Most recently he has been working in startups for social gaming and digital entertainment. He has hosted interviews for developers of all experience levels, from recent graduates to technical leaders.

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Explore a wide variety of popular interview questions and learn various techniques for breaking down tricky bits of code and algorithms into manageable chunks

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• Discover over 200 coding interview problems and their solutions to help you secure a job as a Java developer
• Work on overcoming coding challenges faced in a wide array of topics such as time complexity, OOP, and recursion
• Get to grips with the nuances of writing good code with the help of step-by-step coding solutions

Java is one of the most sought-after programming languages in the job market, but cracking the coding interview in this challenging economy might not be easy. This comprehensive guide will help you to tackle various challenges faced in a coding job interview and avoid common interview mistakes, and will ultimately guide you toward landing your job as a Java developer.

This book contains two crucial elements of coding interviews - a brief section that will take you through non-technical interview questions, while the more comprehensive part covers over 200 coding interview problems along with their hands-on solutions. This book will help you to develop skills in data structures and algorithms, which technical interviewers look for in a candidate, by solving various problems based on these topics covering a wide range of concepts such as arrays, strings, maps, linked lists, sorting, and searching. You'll find out how to approach a coding interview problem in a structured way that produces faster results. Toward the final chapters, you'll learn to solve tricky questions about concurrency, functional programming, and system scalability.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to solve Java coding problems commonly used in interviews, and will have developed the confidence to secure your Java-centric dream job.

This book is for students, programmers, and employees who want to be invited to and pass interviews given by top companies. The book assumes high school mathematics and basic programming knowledge.

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• Opening Credits
• Contributors
• Chapter 1: Where to Start and How to Prepare for the Interview
• Chapter 2: What Interviews at Big Companies Look Like
• Chapter 3: Common Non-Technical Questions and How To Answer Them
• Chapter 4: How to Handle Failures
• Chapter 5: How to Approach a Coding Challenge
• Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming
• Chapter 7: Big O Analysis of Algorithms
• Chapter 8: Recursion and Dynamic Programming
• Chapter 9: Bit Manipulation
• Chapter 10: Arrays and Strings, Part 1
• Chapter 10: Arrays and Strings, Part 2
• Chapter 11: Linked Lists and Maps
• Chapter 12: Stacks and Queues
• Chapter 13: Trees and Graphs, Part 1
• Chapter 13: Trees and Graphs, Part 2
• Chapter 14: Sorting and Searching
• Chapter 15: Mathematics and Puzzles
• Chapter 16: Concurrency
• Chapter 17: Functional-Style Programming
• Chapter 18: Unit Testing
• Chapter 19: System Scalability
• Closing Credits

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• Title: The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java
• Author(s): Anghel Leonard
• Release date: November 2022
• Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
• ISBN: 9781837632688

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An effective guide for aspiring java developers to ace their programming interviews, publisher description.

Explore a wide variety of popular interview questions and learn various techniques for breaking down tricky bits of code and algorithms into manageable chunks Key Features Discover over 200 coding interview problems and their solutions to help you secure a job as a Java developer Work on overcoming coding challenges faced in a wide array of topics such as time complexity, OOP, and recursion Get to grips with the nuances of writing good code with the help of step-by-step coding solutions Book Description Java is one of the most sought-after programming languages in the job market, but cracking the coding interview in this challenging economy might not be easy. This comprehensive guide will help you to tackle various challenges faced in a coding job interview and avoid common interview mistakes, and will ultimately guide you toward landing your job as a Java developer. This book contains two crucial elements of coding interviews - a brief section that will take you through non-technical interview questions, while the more comprehensive part covers over 200 coding interview problems along with their hands-on solutions. This book will help you to develop skills in data structures and algorithms, which technical interviewers look for in a candidate, by solving various problems based on these topics covering a wide range of concepts such as arrays, strings, maps, linked lists, sorting, and searching. You'll find out how to approach a coding interview problem in a structured way that produces faster results. Toward the final chapters, you'll learn to solve tricky questions about concurrency, functional programming, and system scalability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to solve Java coding problems commonly used in interviews, and will have developed the confidence to secure your Java-centric dream job. What you will learn Solve the most popular Java coding problems efficiently Tackle challenging algorithms that will help you develop robust and fast logic Practice answering commonly asked non-technical interview questions that can make the difference between a pass and a fail Get an overall picture of prospective employers' expectations from a Java developer Solve various concurrent programming, functional programming, and unit testing problems Who this book is for This book is for students, programmers, and employees who want to be invited to and pass interviews given by top companies. The book assumes high school mathematics and basic programming knowledge.

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The Best Book for Technical Coding Interview Prep

Technical coding interviews are notoriously difficult — almost borderline quiz-like for those unprepared. It can sometimes be a daunting task to navigate all the technical coding preparation resources available online, and one might ask: is there a single book/resource that best prepares for technical coding interviews?

Best , is relative of course in this case. If you’re looking for a book that will teach you how to solve any coding question, guides you on how to design something like Instagram that scales to a billion users, and makes your sandwich while you’re at it, then this book definitely isn’t it.

But for polishing your technical chops and making sure you’re well prepared to face the programming challenges in an interview, this book comes darn close to it.

In today’s book review, I go over in detail the good and the bad of one of the top-selling books on Amazon for technical coding interviews: Elements of Programming Interviews (a.k.a EPI , and it’ll be referred to as such in the rest of this article).

What is this book about?

EPI is a book that focuses on preparing for technical software engineering interview questions that are commonly asked at tech companies. If you’re looking for a position as a software engineer, this book will have something for you.

EPI was written by 3 folks who’ve worked across some of the best-known tech companies in the world, the likes of Facebook, Google, Uber, and Microsoft. The authors have very strong technical backgrounds, and this is evidenced by the technical focus in the contents of the book.

The book itself is highly technical in nature and deep dives into fundamental computer science. The types of technical coding questions vary widely from string manipulation to graph traversals. The book also offers concrete tips and tricks for solving specific types of coding problems, and includes a cheatsheet to help ace technical questions.

In short: EPI is a highly technical book that is well-suited for anyone looking to prepare for technical coding questions that revolve around data structures and algorithms.

The things that I particularly enjoyed:

• has many questions (300+) with detailed answers, compared to another popular book (Cracking The Coding Interview) that only has 170+
• comes in 3 different versions: Java, Python and C++. Suitable for people who want to use the language of their choice
• has a great cheatsheet (Chapter 4) that summarizes all the techniques and data structures you’d need
• covers in detail every single data structure you need, algorithms you should know, and techniques you should know in a simple, understandable format
• covers relevant technical topics you might get asked in a coding interview, like what is TCP/IP, how the Internet works, and how to capture relationships between different entities in schema design

Those are some of the top-level points I enjoyed about the book. What I really enjoy is that the answers are very, very well constructed.

The answers often take a brute force/simplistic approach to the problems. The authors then provide concrete examples of how you can improve on the brute force approach. With each iteration, the authors point out where the limitations are and how you can solve them with incremental optimizations.

For example, EPI explains how to detect a cycle in a linked list. The first approach: use a hash map to store every node you traverse, and then check against the hash map to see if you’ve seen it. This does the job, albeit it takes additional space (so-called O(N) space complexity and O(N) time complexity).

The book then points out that the additional space is not required, and suggests that detecting cycles in a linked list can be done without additional space by manipulating the pointers instead.

It takes that same approach in explaining almost all the questions, so everyone can understand how to get from a rough solution to an optimized one.

For someone who’s rusty and looking to start preparing for interviews, EPI does a great job — every chapter starts off with a summary of the data structure or algorithm that you will learn, why the data structure is special, what are the strengths/weaknesses of said data structure and what you need to take note of.

In short, EPI is the notebook I wished I had when I was preparing for technical interviews. This is the book I’d give a friend who’s looking to prepare for technical interviews — aside from my best-selling interviewing course (Acing The Tech Interview), which prepares any candidate for the entire interview experience from resume preparation, behavioral questions to how to solve coding problems creatively. Classes fill up fast, so book your slot here today.

EPI has its downsides as well. Being a highly technical book, this means the book has its focus set on coding questions.

This, inadvertently, means that the book falls short in terms of other aspects of the technical interview process which are, arguably, just as important — offer negotiation, how to write a persuasive resume, what to do when you get an offer, how to handle behavioral questions etc.

In addition, the book goes into deep detail with data structures and algorithms, but only provides a high-level overview, to the point of being confusing due to lack of context, of various other important concepts like SQL, NoSQL, how to design a proper schema for a simple application and more.

The book sort of covers SQL design by explaining how to structure tables to capture entity relationships, but it does not explain more about JOINs or how to query the tables properly. I think understanding the what (SQL tables) is just as important as the how (queries).

EPI also has a chapter on systems designs, but the chapter does not cover distributed designs. I would’ve liked it better if the book had described in more details what distributed systems are or where to find more information about these.

Is this a good book for me?

If you have ~$40 to spare and a big appetite to learn, I’d say so.

The book sells for $36 on average (there are 3 versions). This book is highly rated on Amazon.com, with an average of 4.53 stars across all 3 versions. The stats are as follows:

On Amazon.com :

3 versions (as of March 12):

• Python: 169 ratings 4.3 ave
• Java: 203 ratings 4.6 ave
• C++: 436 ratings 4.7 ave

In aggregate, there were a total of 808 reviews.

Some of the reviews:

“.. the best algorithm/data structure I ever took”

“the code is of high quality, using meaningful variable names”

“this is a must-have book”

Now, should you buy it?

I think that EPI is one of the best resources to prepare for technical coding interviews, bar none. Regardless of your experience level, there’s something in there for you. I particularly enjoy reading the book for its clear and concise explanations, and I use this book as a reference in my programming course.

If you want all the data structures, algorithms you need to know in a single, easy-to-read book, then EPI is the book for you.

For distributed systems designs, I recommend looking elsewhere. A good start is Designing Data Intensive Applications .

I love it for the depth and insights, and I recommend it to many students who are taking my courses as well.

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Designing Data Intensive Applications  — great resource for learning about distributed systems and how large-scale systems work.

Acing The Technical Interview  — my best-selling personal coaching course on how to ace technical interviews. We cover resume review, technical coding interview, behavioral questions and more.

Acing The Distributed Systems Design Interview  — my personal coaching course on designing large scale distributed systems. Learn about how to design features like Instagram Stories, Groupon, movie streaming sites like Netflix at scale.

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Anghel Leonard is a Chief Technology Strategist and independent consultant with 20+ years of experience in the Java ecosystem. In daily work, he is focused on architecting and developing Java distributed applications that empower robust architectures, clean code, and high-performance. Also passionate about coaching, mentoring and technical leadership. He is the author of several books, videos and dozens of articles related to Java technologies.

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7 Best Coding Interview Books for Getting Programming Jobs

Coding interviews to get a coding job or programming job can be scary and intimidating for many people. Don’t worry we will tell you about the best coding books to crack that interview.

There are usually various rounds of the interview, where your technical and soft skills are tested. This is done to make sure that your skills are in sync with the skills required by the companies.

In this post, we will list down the 7 best coding interview books for you to get that programming job.

Getting interviewed by companies can be a pretty grueling process so if you want a much better chance of landing that programming job for the first time, we would highly recommend going through the list of books we have listed in this article.

We hope that these books will help you in clearing the coding interview with ease.

Best Coding Interview Books

1. cracking the coding interview: 189 programming questions and solutions.

Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell is a good book for cracking technical interviews. This book contains all the plans and strategies to crack interviews of coding/programming.

It has hundreds of interview questions and most of them are algorithm-oriented.

You will learn the strategies to answer technical interview questions that you don’t know the answer to. This book provides an inside look at how big tech companies recruit developers for various roles.

Highly recommended book for getting a coding job.

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2. Surviving the Whiteboard Interview: A Developer’s Guide to Using Soft Skills to Get Hired

Surviving the Whiteboard Interview is an easy-to-read book for cracking a whiteboard interview.

This book will teach you both the hard and soft skills to succeed in a whiteboard interview. You will learn to solve common whiteboard problems in different programming languages.

In a nutshell, you will learn the skills which are required to succeed at a whiteboard interview.

A must-have book if you think that your soft skills need some improvement because soft skills matter!

3. Elements of Programming Interviews in Python: The Insiders’ Guide

It is an excellent book for preparation for interviews at top tech companies. This book is focused on a Python job role and you will get plenty of coding interview problems and their solutions.

You will learn about data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving patterns, and the common coding interview mistakes.

You will find great tips on negotiating the best job offer from your prospective employer.

A must-buy for cracking the Python job interview.

4. The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide

The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide is a great book for any level of software developer. The content and the language of this book are fantastic.

It is written by John Sonmez who runs a blog called Simple Programmer and also a YouTube channel.

You will learn how to improve your soft skills as a developer so that you can market your coding skills.

It is definitely the best career guide for developers to succeed in the software development field.

5. Elements of Programming Interviews in C++: The Insiders’ Guide

Elements of Programming Interviews in C++ is a great book for budding C++ developers who want to take their knowledge to the next level.

It is an excellent book if you are preparing for getting jobs in companies such as Google, Amazon, etc.

The book has 250 problems with detailed solutions.

You will learn about the strategies for a great interview, common mistakes to avoid, great tips on negotiating the best offer.

One of the best programming interview preparation books out there for C++ developers.

6. Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview

Programming Interviews Exposed will teach you the best tips to clear that coding interview. You will learn how you would convince the interviewer to take you to the next round of interviews.

This book will teach you how to how to talk to interviewers, common interview problems and explanations, how to come up with solutions to new problems, effective approach to phone screens with non-technical recruiters, how to demonstrate your skills verbally, and finally how to stand out as the best candidate for that coding job.

7. Elements of Programming Interviews in Java: The Insiders’ Guide

Elements of Programming Interviews in Java is a comprehensive book for interviewing for software development roles. This book has a collection of over 250 problems with very detailed solutions.

This book covers interview tips and strategies, basic java problems, data structures, algorithms, algorithm design principles, problem-solving patterns, and the solutions to the problems.

You will find all the information you require to prepare for your coding interview. All the important topics such as arrays, maps, linked lists, sorting, concurrency, and others are covered in great detail.

A must-have book for cracking interviews for java programming jobs.

So these are the 7 best coding interview books for cracking coding interviews and getting that coveted programming job.

We believe that these books will help you in the right direction and will provide you with useful tips and tricks to crack the programming and coding job interviews.

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Hello guys, If you are preparing for a technical interview in the software development sector and looking for some great books to boost your preparation, then you have come to the right place.

In the past, I have hared some of the best online courses to prepare coding interviews . In this article, I am going to share some of the best programming/coding interview books to prepare well for any software development jobs.

These books are enough to crack even the toughest of the job interviews at Google , Amazon , or Microsoft . They provide excellent coverage of all essential topics for programming job interviews like data structure and algorithms, system design, algorithm design, computer science fundamentals, SQL, Linux, Java, Networking, etc. Even if you are not preparing for Google or Facebook but some service-based companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, etc., or some Investment banks like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanely, or Barclays you will benefit from this list of books. Though I won’t suggest you read them all, obviously 10 is way more than enough, but choose the book depending upon the difficulty level of interviews and your knowledge and experience. If you are good at data structure and algorithms, you can skip some of the books that teach fundamentals and directly jump on solving coding problems. If you are preparing for startups and big tech giants like Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, then you should prepare hard and well, and there the difficult problems given in classic books like Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena seriously help.

Still, for more general-purpose interviews, I think the Cracking the Coding Interview book itself is sufficient. If you need more questions, you can solve problems given in the Coding Interview questions book by Narasimha Karumanchi, the famous data structure and algorithm book author in Python and Java. And, if you want to combine books with some active learnings, then you can also join some online courses I have shared for coding interviews like Master the Coding Interview: Big Tech (FAANG) Interviews on Udemy, one of the best online courses to prepare for coding interviews.

10 Best Books to Prepare Technical Job Interviews in 2023

Here is my collection of some of the best books to prepare for coding/programming job interviews. If you are looking at tech jobs at Investment Banks, Software service companies, Startups, and some of the biggest tech giants like Google and Facebook, then these books will help you to prepare well and perform well in your job interviews.

1. Cracking the Coding Interview

This is the most recommended book for programming/coding job interviews because it contains frequently asked questions from various tech companies. I strongly suggest you go through all the problems, 189 in total given in this book to refresh your knowledge. It should be the first book you read because, by reading this, you will automatically gain all the experience you need to crack a technical job interview. The author has worked on famous tech companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft and familiar with the in and out of their job interview process, which makes this book an invaluable resource for all developers preparing for tech jobs. If you want to do it even better, I also suggest you join an online course for active learning like the Master the Coding Interview course by Andrei Negaoie on Udemy. This will provide a boost to your preparation.

2. System Design Interview Part 1 and 2 By Alex Xu

As the title suggests, this is the perfect book for everyone who is preparing for a system interview. Trust me, this book is the finest on the internet right now. This book is created by Alex Xu who has gone through the same process.

You will get access to a number of drawings and diagrams that will assist you in gaining an understanding of the real system. You will be able to understand what the recruiters are looking for in your answers to questions.

Alex also have a companion System design course on ByteByteGo , where you will not only find all the content of this book and the second part of System Design Interview Book by Alex Wu but also new content, deep dive into popular system questions like how to design YouTube and WhatsApp as well as proven System design framework to solve Software design problem.

In short, if you read this book, you will have good foundations for your next system design interview. This is also one of the most recommend System design books on Reddit, Quora, HackerNews, Twitter, and other online platforms and its obvious from the number of reviews this book have on Amazon.

3. Programming Interview Exposed

This is one of the first books I read on programming job interviews, before that I wasn’t even aware that there are books to help you crack technical job interviews. Like the previous book, this also contains questions from various important topics for coding interviews like a binary tree , linked list , string , SQL , networking, problem-solving, and puzzles. If you have to buy just one book, then buy the previous one, which is more up-to-date, but if you can afford it, this book will also help you to learn and understand coding problems better. If you want, you can also combine this book with these best System design courses for coding interviews to prepare for System design better, which is often the most difficult topic to crack on programming job interviews.

4. Algorithm Design Manual

This is just a terrific and fantastic book on Algorithm, it’s the best book you can expect to crack some of the toughest programming job interviews in the book like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple’s technical jobs. The book contains questions based on algorithms and data structure, and if you can solve them on your own, you are fully ready for job interviews. It also includes some solved question which teaches you how you can apply algorithms to solve real-world problems. In short, one of the must-read books to do crack a programming job interview. By the way, if you struggle to solve coding problems, particularly the new ones which you have never seen before then I highly recommend you join Grokking the Coding Interview: Patterns for Coding Questions course on Educative. It’s a great course to essential coding patterns like two pointer approach, fast and slow pointer, merge intervals, sliding window, etc, which can help you to solve 100+ coding problems in real interviews.

And, if you like this course, I suggest you opt for Educative Subscription because Educative has a lot of interactive, text-based course to prepare for key coding interview topics like algorithms, data structure, dynamic programming, object-oriented programming, multithreading, database, etc. and it just costs $18 per month (50% discount now).

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5. Elements of Programming Interviews

This is another essential book for preparing programming job interviews. It is one of the rare complete books which covers coding, data structure , algorithms , and problem-solving. This book will provide excellent material for preparation if you are preparing for startup jobs and jobs on reputed software companies like ThoughtWorks, Amazon, and Twitter.

6. Programming Pearl

This is one of the oldest books to prepare for a technical job interview, but as they say, “Old is Gold,” this book is truly remarkable in teaching you the fundamentals of computer science and programming. Some of the classic questions from this book, like sorting 1 million integers with very little RAM, are still popular. This book is not a replacement for any excellent algorithm book like Introduction to Algorithms or Algorithms 4th Edition , but it complements them. It is also an exciting book to read, so you won’t fall asleep while reading this on your commute to the office.

7. Java Programming Interview Exposed

This is the must-read of the book if you are preparing for a Java programming job interview. Since Java interviews not only focus on coding and programming but also on Java fundamentals, knowledge of Java APIs like JDBC , Java Collection Framework, JVM Internals , and popular frameworks like Spring , Hibernate , JUnit , etc. This book helps you to prepare for all those apart from standard coding and data structure and algorithm questions. The book is suitable for both junior and senior-level Java developer job interviews.

8. Coding Interview Questions

This is the book from one of my favorite authors Narasimha Karumanchi, which is also the author of one of the best data structure and algorithm books for Java programmers, The Data Structure and Algorithm Made Easy. You will find a lot of frequently asked Coding questions from Tech job interviews in this book. The author has also done a great job of explaining the solution, their time and space complexity, and how you can improve your solutions by applying tried and tested techniques.

9. Dynamic Programming for Coding Interviews

This is another excellent book to prepare for programming job interviews. This book solely focuses on Dynamic programming techniques for problem-solving.

The authors of the book Meenakshi and Kamal Rawat have done an excellent job of explaining how you can use dynamic programming and recursion to solve a problem like how do you compute the 80th term of a Fibonacci series . The book is also fun to read. Btw, if Dynamic programming is your weak link, then you can also check out these best dynamic programming courses on Udemy to brush up on your dynamic programming skill.

10. Algorithms for Interviews

This is another excellent book for a technical job interview, which will teach you about standard algorithms and how to use those algorithms to solve a particular problem. They give you step-by-step guidance on applying a known algorithm to solve unknown problems. This book is particularly useful for candidates preparing job on big tech giants which focus on innovation like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, ThoughtWorks, Intel, etc.

11. SQL Puzzles by Joe Celkos

The SQL queries are an integral part of programming job interviews, and this book has some of the best SQL query challenges you will ever see. Once you have gone through the puzzles given in this book, you should be comfortable dealing with any kind of SQL queries on interviews like join based, aggregation, functions, and correlated subqueries.

12. Algo monster

This is not a book but a very useful resource to prepare for a coding interview that I come across recently. This website is specially created to prepare and get succeed in FAANG interviews.

It doesn’t teach you how to solve a particular coding problem but how to find the underlying pattern which can then be used to solve many more coding problems.

Apart from reading one of these books, you can also join Algomoster to get a boost to your coding interview preparation. You will learn the most important patterns and get results in the shortest amount of time possible.

It contains more than 48 Coding Patterns , meticulously Curated by Google Engineers, and more than 325 Lessons and Problems, 678 Illustrations along with Object-Oriented Design and System Design questions to make yourself completely ready for your next coding interview.

You can subscribe to Algomonster now for just $99 (69% discount) and give your interview preparation a new edge. Here is also a nice diagram from Algomoster which tells what patterns you should learn for your coding interview.

That’s all about some of the best books to prepare for technical interviews for programming jobs . The list includes books that will teach you all essential topics for interview, like data structure and algorithms, system design, algorithm design, SQL , dynamic programming , programming language like Java , as well as the soft skill required to crack a programming job interview. The first two books in this list are a must-read for any level of programmer like both fresher’s and experienced because they will refresh all essential topics for software development jobs. Other Useful Resources for Coding Job Interviews

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• 10 Programming and SQL Courses for Interviews ( courses )
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Thanks for reading this article so far. If you like these book recommendations, then please share them with your friends and colleagues. If you have any questions or suggestions or any book you want to see on this list, then please drop a note. P. S. — If you are looking for some Free Algorithms courses to improve your understanding of Data Structure and Algorithms, then you should also check these best data structures and algorithms courses on Udemy . It contain curated list of algorithms courses for interviews.

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