Elements of Programming Interviews in Java: The Insiders' Guide

by Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash

Before you buy this book, please first head over to our sample page - elementsofprogramminginterviews.com/s... sampler should give you a very good idea of the quality and style of our book. In particular, be sure you are comfortable with the level and with our Java coding style.Complete programs are available at epibook.github.io.Since different candidates have different time constraints, EPI includes a study guide with several scenarios, ranging from weekend Hackathon to semester long preparation with a recommended a subset of problems for each scenario. All problems are classified in terms of their difficulty level and include many variants to help you apply what you have learned more widely.All problems includes hints for readers who get stuck. This simulates what you will face in the real interview.The version being sold by Amazon itself is always current. Some resellers may have older versions, especially if they sell used copies.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technology, Nonfiction, Software, Reference, Algorithms

527 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2015

Reviews

[Clay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote a project that contains all the test cases and method stubs for this book:

https://github.com/gardncl/elements-o...

[Alex Salo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for prep into a big tech company like Google/Facebook. Naturally goes along with Cracking the Code Interview. Comparing the two, "Elements" has much broader collection of questions, which is great, but the explanations sometimes are a bit dry and dull -- you can tell English is not the author's first language.

Overall though, many hard questions with the correct answers which makes it very useful.

[Max Pietsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great. It's similar to Cracking the Coding Interview but there is a test harness for all the problems in the book on Github which I really recommend.

[Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great interview prep. Good to read after "cracking the coding interview"

[Nouran · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent guide for interview preparation.

[Mikhail Filatov · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is like a "cheatsheet"- poor editing, almost unreadable fonts, almost no paragraphs, multiple typos etc.
Moreover, I would not call the solutions "In Java" in any real sense, it's more like "Java syntax" but no OOP.
There are some interesting solutions and it can be useful if someone is preparing for an interview, but just as an additional source of information.