Preparing for Your First Tech Interview
When I first found out I had a tech interview scheduled there was a flurry of emotions flowing through my body at once. Excitement, nerves, fear, and a heavy dose of imposter syndrome. I still feel all those emotions each time I schedule a new interview, however, I found the best way to combat it is to truly practice, practice, practice! Now while I know every person is different in their approach I find that picking everyone’s mind helped me in building my own technique. Hence, in an effort to provide some insight into the world of interviewing and how to prepare, here are 4 helpful tips!
- Study Data Structures and Algorithms
I know at this point you’re thinking to yourself, “obviously!” However, there are a million and one ways you can study these topics, the most popular being Cracking the Coding Interview. While this has a proven track record and people swear by it, I didn’t connect with it since my learning style is not reading. I tend to prefer visuals and lectures. Additionally, its written in Java which is a language I’ve never used! I felt the most comfortable with Javascript and sought out a Udemy course that taught data structures and algorithms in Javascript. To my luck I found one and it was by far the most helpful tool to learn these hard comouter science concepts! I enjoyed it so much that I shared it with my bootcamo cohort and they also raved about how helpful it was. The link will be below (hopefully its still on sale!). Thank you Colt Steele for such a great class!
