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PopeDotNinjaonApr 2, 2020

If you need help with your resume, feel free to ping me. I'm a dev now, used to be a recruiter, and am pretty good at landing interview opportunities myself.

Also, if you need practice with interview questions, I liked Elements of Programming Interviews in Python: The Insiders' Guide.

PueronDec 21, 2018

Elements of Programming Interviews in Python is excellent imo. The authors give a crash course in all of the data structures and all of the code is written extremely cleanly. Most of the problems give standard solutions and also idiomatic ones using iter/functools. I've been programming Python for years and felt like I gained a lot from it as a developer even though I bought it to interview prep.

Quick example of the "look and say" problem:

def look_and_say(n: int) -> str:

    s = '1'

    for _ in range(n - 1):

        s = ''.join(

            str(len(list(group))) + key

            for key, group in groupby(s))

    return s

spamizbadonJan 6, 2021

A warning from a Python developer & hiring manager: The Python used in Elements of Programming Interviews in Python is NOT clean or idiomatic. Perhaps they designed it for whiteboard-style interviews, but if you walk into a Python shop that does stuff with coderpad/screen-shared you code like in the book you're not going to make the best impression.

ud0onJune 30, 2020

I created my curriculum using the topics in the book: Elements Of Programming Interviews In Python https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Pytho...
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