Interview tips 1 – In a coding interview use abstractions! | Minhaz’s Blog

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Interview tips 1 – In a coding interview use abstractions! | Minhaz’s Blog

While I was working with Microsoft, I had opportunity to take around 10 – 20 coding or design interviews (candidates with 1 – 12 years of experience). There was this one thing that I felt was too common, which would lead to bad impression and potential rejection – it’s that the candidate attempts to solve every part of the question rather than focusing on what is important. This is particularly prevalent amongst candidates who chose C / C++ as programming language of choice. And, this was common irrespective of years of experience. In this article I have shared the problem and my opinion on how to tackle it.

https://blog.minhazav.dev/interview-tips-1-in-a-coding-interview-use-abstractions/

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Republished with many edits - https://minhazav.medium.com/coding-interview-1-tip-use-abstractions-73d0f2b7b2ce