Coding for Interviews
Learning and science
interview prep newsletter
SHOW HN2012
Coding for Interviews
I send out a weekly CS topic overview and code interview question
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117points
46comments
#177of 1,677 in 2012
Top 11%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
10 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful resource for interview preparation
From 3 comments
I signed up after reading about this on Reddit. As someone who is looking for a first development job (graduating in May), this is a great resource.
pendext on HNGlad to find this -- not interviewing right now, but always keeping up on my skillset.
pfraze on HNAhh, after I signed up for PyCoder (curtailed Python newsletter every Friday), I thought of doing something similar but tailoring to college students. You beat me to it! Awesome…
ktran on HN
Signup flow well done
From 1 comment
The signup flow was really well done. A minor nitpick: put the social buttons at the bottom of the model after the (see sample -> signup -> congrats) process. I'm excited to get…
zackzackzack on HN
Objections
Email-only delivery is inconvenient; RSS suggested
From 2 comments
You know something that's easy to unsubscribe from? RSS.
barrkel on HNSo.. you basically created a weekly blog consisting of interviewy programming puzzles and the only way I can read it is via email...
plaguuuuuu on HN
Privacy concerns: no terms or privacy policy, emails could be sold
From 2 comments
No Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. I can imagine having a list of email addresses with people interested in getting coding interviews could be interesting to the right people…
ppierald on HNThere being a TOS or Privacy Policy doesn't actually mean a company won't sell your emails. It just means they're going to say they're not going to sell your emails. Harsh, but…
farmdawgnation on HN
Code-writing interview puzzles criticised as poor hiring signals
From 2 comments
I hate code-writing puzzles during interviews. I don't use them at all. Why? Precisely because of methods such as this one where someone might memorize or learn a bunch of…
robomartin on HNYou are setting yourself up for failure using these methods. - You're being misleading by asking them to write a concat method when you really want unit tests for that method.…
Androsynth on HN
Requests
Add RSS or web access to the newsletter
From 3 comments
You know something that's easy to unsubscribe from? RSS.
barrkel on HNSo.. you basically created a weekly blog consisting of interviewy programming puzzles and the only way I can read it is via email...
plaguuuuuu on HNThe confirmation e-mail doesn't have any link back to the website. Hopefully your weekly messages do, it's where most of us will look for a link if we want to share it with others.
B-Con on HN
Fix email plus-tag handling and UI bugs
From 4 comments
Sounds great! Some thoughts: Your email field doesn't support tags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags and When entering an address with tags it fails with no…
piqufoh on HNI signed up and this seems pretty cool. FYI: "Mediocre programmer?" is too long for its container and defaults to "Mediocre programm...". I'm not sure if it's my screen or fonts…
Permit on HNseems like a very cool idea! i'm exciting to use it and see where it goes. You do have some bugs to work out though, the UI isn't very consistent throughout the site and somehow…
josh_blum on HNIs the closed area already working? I tried resetting my password and logging in, and got "Invalid email or password."..
brainstew on HN
Questions
Plans to monetize the project
From 1 comment
This is an awesome idea bcjordan! I signed up, I am really excited to get the first email. If this stays CS only, and avoids the pitfalls of 'the industry' this might quickly…
Sean-Der on HN
Alternatives named
CareerCup
From 3 comments
Clevverrr..! Having gone through this whole process recently, I can appreciate how this would have come in handy. FYI: I had used http://www.careercup.com/ extensively.
nirvanatikku on HNExcept for Gayle Laakman's extensive marketing and the heavy user base that followed, I don't see why careercup is popular in the first place. It is a terrible website with ads…
Jagat on HNum.. I think it's popular because it essentially is like a stackexchange for CS interview questions..... it has a ton of questions, some of which _actually_ popped up during…
nirvanatikku on HN
InterTechTion interview question emails
From 1 comment
I created something similar a few months ago to send out a interview question every other day. The time constraints of maintaining it got to me though (I'm a university student…
Zaheer on HN
PyCoder newsletter
From 1 comment
Ahh, after I signed up for PyCoder (curtailed Python newsletter every Friday), I thought of doing something similar but tailoring to college students. You beat me to it! Awesome…
ktran on HN