Prepare to crack the interview of any company and land your dream job

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Job interviews can be overwhelming especially if it’s your first job interview. In every interview, you have to sell yourself and your abilities.

Moreover, many of the concepts and questions asked in interviews are not exactly what you will end up using in your job, especially if you are a front-end developer.

Despite this fact, knowing these algorithms and data structures play a pivotal role in cracking job interviews.

The best way to learn and master these concepts is to use the right resources available at your disposal.

Below are 7 resources you need to ace your next coding interview:

1. Coding Interview University

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This is an excellent Github repository for new software engineers or those who are making a career switch from web development to software engineering.

The creator of this repository went through the study plan outlined and landed a software engineer job at Amazon.

Software engineering and web development are different fields as software engineering require you to have computer science knowledge.

With that being said, it is worth noting that many front-end developer role interview also asks for algorithms and test your computer science knowledge.

This repository is an ideal place to start even if you are a software engineer looking to refresh your knowledge.

The best way to go about using this repository is to clone the repository then marking all the boxes with X after you are done with that subject. The exact steps to do this are given here.

You will also find links to some of the most renowned interview preparation content available online.

2. Awesome Interview Questions

As the name suggests, this is a curated list of a variety of coding interview questions to test your knowledge.

This repository is suitable not only for web development roles but also for almost every role related to the field of software engineering and development.

You can find a host of question and cheat sheets related to database, caching, different programming languages, Linux, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, etc.

Data science questionnaires are available here as well.

This repository serves as a one-stop-shop of questions especially for web developers as you can find a bunch of questions on almost all the famous frameworks such as NodeJS, React, and even WordPress.

Moreover, app development questions are also covered.

3. The System Design Primer

Source: System Design Primer Repo

This repository serves as a fantastic reference to various system design topics.

Even if you are new to system design, this resource covers every principle and topic you need to know from the ground up.

Topics on how to design large-scale systems keeping in mind the relevant trade-offs such as performance vs scalability are thoroughly covered.

Specific topics such as CDNs and load balancers are also comprehensively covered.

The repository is still under development and loads of new content are expected to be underway. At the time of writing this article, objected-oriented design interview questions are under development.

4. Interview Handbook

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If you want to land a job but you are completely new to the entire process, this repository is a perfect place to find practical content that covers everything related to a technical interview.

This repository is more geared towards the algorithmic questions.

Currently, this repository is not yet covering the system design questions so if you are specifically looking for system design questions you can skip this one.

Practicing LeetCode can take a lot of time and that’s why this repository contains the best questions to practice, thus saving you time to prepare for other important things.

Besides this, you find behavioral questions and interview cheatsheets that will surely help you with the non-technical aspects of a coding interview as well.

You can also find a Docusaurus website that provides a better reading experience.

5. Interview

This repository is very similar to the Awesome Interview Questions repository discussed earlier.

It is essentially a curated list of various lectures, resources, books, and other such material to help you ace your coding interviews.

You can also find mock interviews as well as links to blogs of people who have managed to crack interviews of large companies such as Google and Facebook.

While this is a great repo for web developers and people who are new to this field and don’t want to be overwhelmed with the nitty-gritty of computer science, this repo isn’t as thorough as some of the other ones we’ve discussed in this blog.

However, it does not mean that is not a good resource. It is ideal for the absolute beginner who doesn’t wish to be overwhelmed with a long repo that covers every topic.

6. JavaScript Algorithms

As the name suggests, the sole purpose of this repository is to prepare you for coding interviews that require JavaScript.

Examples of many popular algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript can be found in this repository.

A proper and in-depth explanation of every data structure is available and each algorithm and the data structure has its own separate README file.

The best part about this repository is that topics are categorized into advanced and beginner categories.

B label is given to the Beginner category while A is given to the Advanced category.

Using a linting tool is advised when running code from this resource to enhance the readability and check code quality.

Personally, I have used this repo a number of times as it provides useful information and tables of Big O notations and their performance comparisons.

7. JavaScript Interview Questions & Answers

This Github repository aims to provide a summary of the most common and frequently asked questions.

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As you can see, there are over 400 questions and all are based on JavaScript.

This repo also contains coding exercises as well as a PDF version.

Although you don’t need to know all these questions and definitely companies won’t ask all of the questions present here, these questions provide you with a good idea about the questions you can expect in technical interviews.

If you are a JavaScript developer, it is surely worth going through this questionnaire to test your knowledge, even if you aren’t preparing for a technical interview.

Final Thoughts

It is normal to feel overwhelmed when going to job interviews, despite the level of preparation.

The only way to land your dream job and get a much-coveted role is to prepare much better than the other candidates. This includes working on the non-technical aspects of interviews as well.

The best way to predict future is to create it.

These repositories will surely increase your chances of acing your next job interview as they cover the technical and non-technical aspects.

Moreover, you can also find links to other relevant and vital lectures and books in these repositories.

Hope these resources help you crack your next job interview.

Thanks for reading!