Ini adalah ringkasan studi saya selama beberapa bulan dari web developer (otodidak, tanpa gelar sarjana informatika) hingga menjadi *software engineer Google*.
Saya telah mengupas catatan **Google's Coaching Note** dan berikut adalah hal-hal penting dari catatan tersebut. Ada beberapa poin yang saya tambahkan pada bagian akhir yang mungkin muncul dalam wawancara atau dapat berguna dalam proses penyelesaian masalah.
Banyak poin berasal dari artikel Steve Yegge "[Get that job at Google](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html)" yang berisi poin-poin dari **Google's Coaching Note**.
Saya sudah meringkas poin-poin penting menurut saran dari Yegge. Saya juga mengubah beberapa rekomendasinya berdasarkan informasi yang saya dapatkan dari kontak saya di Google. Pedoman ini ditujukan untuk *software engineer* baru dan mereka yang ingin beralih profesi dari *web developer* menjadi *software engineer* (dimana ilmu komputer diperlukan).
Jika Anda memiliki pengalaman sebagai developer software/web, catat bahwa Google memandang *software engineer* berbeda dari *developer software/web* karena *software engineer* menggunakan ilmu komputer.
Saya mengikuti rencana ini untuk mempersiapkan saya dalam menghadapi wawancara kerja Google. Sejak 1997, saya telah menciptakan berbagai situs, servis, dan mendirikan startup. Saya memiliki gelar ekonomi, bukan gelar ilmu komputer. Saya telah meraih kesuksesan dalam karir saya, tapi saya ingin bekerja di Google. Saya ingin masuk ke sistem yang lebih besar dan mempunyai pemahaman mendalam tentang sistem komputer, efesiensi algoritma, performa struktur data, bahasa tingkat rendah, dan bagaimana semuanya bekerja. Jika anda tidak mengetahui satu pun, Google tidak akan mempekerjakan anda.
Ketika saya memulai proyek ini, saya tidak tahu tentang stack dari sebuah heap, tidak tahu tentang notasi Big-O apapun, begitupula dengan struktur data trees, atau bagaimana menyusuri sebuah graph. Jika saya harus menulis algoritma penyortiran, saya bisa katakan pada anda bahwa hasilnya tidak akan memuaskan.
Setiap struktur data yang saya pernah pakai sudah tertanam dalam bahasa yang saya gunakan, dan saya tidak tahu bagaimana mereka bekerja secara riil. Saya tidak pernah diharuskan untuk mengatur penggunaan memori kecuali proses yang saya jalankan akan memberikan error 'memori tidak cukup', sehingga saya harus mencari jalan keluarnya. Saya pernah menggunakan beberapa array multidimensi dalam hidup saya dan ribuan array asosiatif, tapi saya tidak pernah menciptakan struktur data dari nol.
Tetapi setelah menjalani rencana studi ini saya memiliki kepercayaan diri yang tinggi bahwa saya akan diterima. Ini adalah rencana yang panjang. Ini akan menyita waktu saya selama berbulan-bulan. Tetapi jika anda sudah tidak asing lagi dengan materi yang dibutuhkan, hal ini akan membutuhkan waktu jauh lebih sedikit.
Print satu atau beberapa foto dari "[future Googler](https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university/blob/master/extras/future-googler.pdf)" (untuk ditempel tentunya) sebagai reminder anda apa hasil usaha yang anda akan dapatkan.
- Para engineers/programmer di google adalah orang-orang pintar, tapi banyak dari mereka berpikir bahwa mereka tidak cukup pintar, walaupun mereka bekerja di Google.
- [Mitos dari programmer yang jenius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ)
- [Hal yang berbahaya untuk pergi sendirian: Bertarung dengan monster yang tidak kelihatan di dunia teknologi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i8ylq4j_EY)
Beberapa video hanya dapat diakses dengan mengikuti kelas di [Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/), [Edx](https://www.edx.org/), atau [Lynda.com](https://www.lynda.com/). Beberapa link tersebut biasa disebut MOOC (massive open online course) atau belajar online, seperti layaknya anda berkuliah biasa namun bedanya ini online dan diikuti oleh banyak orang dari seluruh dunia.
Terkadang suatu saat kelas yang ada tidak dapat diikuti untuk sementara, dan harus menunggu beberapa bulan. Karena kelas tersebut ada waktunya dalam pembelajaran, dan ada waktunya untuk mendaftar, layaknya anda berkuliah. Khusus untuk Lynda.com merupakan situs yang berbayar untuk mengakses materinya.
Selain saya membagikan ilmu kepada kalian semua, saya juga mengapresiasi bantuan anda untuk menambahkan sumber pembelajaran yang gratis dan selalu terbuka untuk umum, seperti video di youtube untuk sebagai selingan dari kuliah online dari website yang disebutkan diatas.
Saya suka menggunakan media pembelajaran berbasiskan universitas.
- [ ]_(very dated)_ [How To Get A Job At Google, Interview Questions, Hiring Process](http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/09/how-to-get-a-job-at-google-interview-questions-hiring-process.html)
- [ ] [How Google Thinks About Hiring, Management And Culture](http://www.kpcb.com/blog/lessons-learned-how-google-thinks-about-hiring-management-and-culture)
- [ ] [Effective Whiteboarding during Programming Interviews](http://www.coderust.com/blog/2014/04/10/effective-whiteboarding-during-programming-interviews/)
- [ ] Cracking The Coding Interview Set 1:
- [ ] [Gayle L McDowell - Cracking The Coding Interview (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJzOhC5ZtQ)
- [ ] [Cracking the Coding Interview with Author Gayle Laakmann McDowell (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aClxtDcdpsQ)
- [ ] How to Get a Job at the Big 4:
- [ ] ['How to Get a Job at the Big 4 - Amazon, Facebook, Google & Microsoft' (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZCUhxNCv8)
- [ ] [Failing at Google Interviews](http://alexbowe.com/failing-at-google-interviews/)
Saya menulis artikel pendek tentang topik hal tersebut: [Penting:Pilih Satu Bahasa Pemrograman untuk wawancara dengan Google](https://googleyasheck.com/important-pick-one-language-for-the-google-interview/) (Penting: Pilih Satu Bahasa Pemrograman untuk wawancara dengan Google)
Anda dapat menggunakan sebuah bahasa pemrograman yang nyaman bagi anda untuk melaksanakan salah satu bagian wawancara yaitu sesi mengkoding, tapi bagi Google, berikut adalah beberapa pilihan:
Anda akan melihat beberapa C, C++, dan Python di cantumkan di link dibawah, karena saya juga sedang belajar. Ada beberapa buku juga diikutkan dalam list dibawah ini, lihat bagian bawah.
- [ ] [Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition](http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047012167X.html)
- Penulis menemukan HLA, sehingga menyebutkan dan memberi contoh di HLA dengan sebutir garam. Tidak banyak digunakan, tapi contoh yang baik seperti apa assembly itu.
- Bab-bab ini patut dibaca untuk memberikan dasar yang baik:
**Anda harus memilih sebuah bahasa pemgrograman untuk wawancara (lihat diatas).** Berikut adalah rekomendasi bahasa dari saya. Saya tidak memiliki sumber daya untuk semua bahasa. Saya menyambut penambahan.
Jika meskipun anda membaca salah satu dari ini, anda harus memiliki semua pengetahuan struktur data dan algoritma, anda harus mulai melakukan pemecahan masalah koding.
- [ ] [Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching](https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Parts-1-4-Fundamentals-Structure/dp/0201350882/)
- [ ] [Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms](https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Part-Graph-3rd-Pt-5/dp/0201361183/)
**Beberapa orang merekomendasikan ini, tapi saya pikir itu akan berlebihan, kecuali jika anda punya pengalaman di software engineering bertahun-tahun dan mengharapkan sebuah wawancara yang jauh lebih sulit**
- dapat secara penuh dan tak tertembus sebagai CLRS, dan dalam beberapa kasus, CLRS mungkin menjadi alternatif yang lebih baik untuk beberapa mata pelajaran
- bab 7, 8, 9 bisa menyakitkan untuk mencoba mengikutinya, karena beberapa item yang tidak dijelaskan dengan baik atau membutuhkan kinerja otak yang lebih daripada yang saya miliki
- **Penting:** Membaca buku ini hanya akan memiliki nilai yang terbatas. Buku ini adalah review besar algoritma dan struktur data, tetapi akan mengajarkan cara menulis kode yang baik. Anda harus dapat mengkode yang layak secara efisien.
- Mengutip Yegge: "But if you want to come into your interviews *prepped*, then consider deferring your application until you've made your way through that book."
- Half.com adalah sumber daya yang besar untuk buku dengan harga yang baik.
- aka CLR, terkadang CLRS, karena Stein terlambat untuk permainan.
- Pasangan pertama dari bab yang menyajikan solusi cerdas untuk masalah pemrogramman (beberapa sangat tua saat menggunakan tipe data) tapi itu hanya sebuah intro. Ini sebuah buku panduan tentang program desain dan arsitektur, seperti Code Complete, tapi jauh lebih pendek.
- ~~"Algorithms and Programming: Problems and Solutions" oleh Shen~~
- Sebuah buku yang baik, tapi setelah bekerja melalui masalah pada halaman, saya frustasi dengan Pascal, do while loops, 1-indexed arrays, dan hasil post-condition yang tidak jelas.
- Lebih suka menghabiskan waktu di masalah coding dari buku lain atau masalah coding online.
Saya menonton video berjam-jam dan mengambil catatan yang berlebihan, dan beberapa bulan kemudian disana ada banyak yang tidak saya ingat. Saya menghabiskan 3 hari melalui catatan saya dan membuat flashcards sehingga saya bisa meninjaunya dengan lebih cepat.
Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, saya membuat situs flashcards kecil di mana saya bisa menambahkan flashcards dari 2 jenis: umum dan code. Setiap kartu memiliki format yang berbeda.
Perlu diingat aku pergi keluar kapal dan memiliki kartu meliputi segala sesuatu dari bahasa assembly dan Python trivia untuk pembelajaran machine learning dan statistik. Ini terlalu banyak untuk apa yang diminta oleh Google.
Anda harus melihat kartu yang sama dan menjawab beberapa kali dengan benar sebelum anda benar-benar tahu akan hal itu. Pengulangan akan membuat pengetahuan yang lebih di
Sebuah alternatif untuk menggunakan situs flashcards saya adalah [Anki](http://ankisrs.net/), yang telah direkomendasikan kepada saya berkali-kali. Ini menggunakan sistem pengulangan untuk membantu anda mengingatnya.
Ini user-friendly, yang tersedia di semua platform dan memiliki sebuah sistem cloud sync. Ini memerlukan biaya $25 di iOS tapi ini gratis di platform lainnya.
Aku menyimpan satu set cheat sheet pada ASCII, OSI stack, Big-O notasi, dan banyak lagi. Saya mempelajari mereka ketika saya memiliki beberapa waktu luang.
- Latihan, latihan, latihan, sampai saya sakit karenanya, dan dapat melakukannya tanpa masalah (beberapa memiliki banyak kasus dan rincian pembukuan untuk diingat)
- Menggunakan built-in types jadi saya memiliki pengalaman menggunakan alat built-in untuk digunakan di dunia nyata (tidak akan menulis daftar pelaksanaan saya sendiri di produksi)
- [ ] [Big O Notations (general quick tutorial) (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6mKVRU1evU)
- [ ] [Big O Notation (and Omega and Theta) - best mathematical explanation (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-A_wy5Yxw&index=2&list=PL1BaGV1cIH4UhkL8a9bJGG356covJ76qN)
- not the whole video, just portions about Node struct and memory allocation.
- [ ] Linked List vs Arrays:
- [Core Linked Lists Vs Arrays (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/rjBs9/core-linked-lists-vs-arrays)
- [In The Real World Linked Lists Vs Arrays (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/QUaUd/in-the-real-world-lists-vs-arrays)
- [ ] [why you should avoid linked lists (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo)
- [ ] Gotcha: you need pointer to pointer knowledge:
(for when you pass a pointer to a function that may change the address where that pointer points)
This page is just to get a grasp on ptr to ptr. I don't recommend this list traversal style. Readability and maintainability suffer due to cleverness.
- [Pointers to Pointers](https://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/int/sx8.html)
- [ ] implement (I did with tail pointer & without):
- [ ] size() - returns number of data elements in list
- [ ] empty() - bool returns true if empty
- [ ] value_at(index) - returns the value of the nth item (starting at 0 for first)
- [ ] push_front(value) - adds an item to the front of the list
- [ ] pop_front() - remove front item and return its value
- [ ] push_back(value) - adds an item at the end
- [ ] pop_back() - removes end item and returns its value
- [ ] front() - get value of front item
- [ ] back() - get value of end item
- [ ] insert(index, value) - insert value at index, so current item at that index is pointed to by new item at index
- [ ] erase(index) - removes node at given index
- [ ] value_n_from_end(n) - returns the value of the node at nth position from the end of the list
- [ ] reverse() - reverses the list
- [ ] remove_value(value) - removes the first item in the list with this value
- [ ] [Phone Book Problem (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures/lecture/NYZZP/phone-book-problem)
- [ ] distributed hash tables:
- [Instant Uploads And Storage Optimization In Dropbox (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures/lecture/DvaIb/instant-uploads-and-storage-optimization-in-dropbox)
- [ ] [Bits cheat sheet](https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university/blob/master/extras/cheat%20sheets/bits-cheat-sheet.pdf) - you should know many of the powers of 2 from (2^1 to 2^16 and 2^32)
- [How To Count The Number Of Set Bits In a 32 Bit Integer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109023/how-to-count-the-number-of-set-bits-in-a-32-bit-integer)
- [ ] round to next power of 2:
- [Round Up To Next Power Of Two](http://bits.stephan-brumme.com/roundUpToNextPowerOfTwo.html)
- [ ] [Binary search tree - Implementation in C/C++ (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZK7NATh4k&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P&index=28)
- [ ] [BST implementation - memory allocation in stack and heap (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWokyBoo0aI&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P&index=29)
- [ ] [Find min and max element in a binary search tree (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut90klNN264&index=30&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P)
- [ ] [Find height of a binary tree (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pnqMz5nrRs&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P&index=31)
- [ ] [Binary tree traversal - breadth-first and depth-first strategies (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHO6jU--GU&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P&index=32)
- [ ] [Binary tree: Level Order Traversal (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g8jAQug04&index=33&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P)
- [ ] [Binary tree traversal: Preorder, Inorder, Postorder (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm8DUJJhmY4&index=34&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P)
- [ ] [Check if a binary tree is binary search tree or not (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwSGhSsT0U&index=35&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P)
- [ ] [Delete a node from Binary Search Tree (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcULXE7ViZw&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P&index=36)
- [ ] [Inorder Successor in a binary search tree (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cPbNCrdotA&index=37&list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYTwiQSsOTa6P)
- [ ] Implement:
- [ ] insert // insert value into tree
- [ ] get_node_count // get count of values stored
- [ ] print_values // prints the values in the tree, from min to max
- [ ] delete_tree
- [ ] is_in_tree // returns true if given value exists in the tree
- [ ] get_height // returns the height in nodes (single node's height is 1)
- [ ] get_min // returns the minimum value stored in the tree
- [ ] get_max // returns the maximum value stored in the tree
- [ ] is_binary_search_tree
- [ ] delete_value
- [ ] get_successor // returns next-highest value in tree after given value, -1 if none
- ### Heap / Priority Queue / Binary Heap
- visualized as a tree, but is usually linear in storage (array, linked list)
- [ ] S - [Single Responsibility Principle](http://www.oodesign.com/single-responsibility-principle.html) | [Single responsibility to each Object](http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/11/solid-single-responsibility-principle.html)
- [ ] O - [Open/Closed Principal](http://www.oodesign.com/open-close-principle.html) | [On production level Objects are ready for extension for not for modification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open/closed_principle)
- [ ] L - [Liskov Substitution Principal](http://www.oodesign.com/liskov-s-substitution-principle.html) | [Base Class and Derived class follow ‘IS A’ principal](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56860/what-is-the-liskov-substitution-principle)
- [ ] I - [Interface segregation principle](http://www.oodesign.com/interface-segregation-principle.html) | clients should not be forced to implement interfaces they don't use
- [Interface Segregation Principle in 5 minutes (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CtAfl7aXAQ)
- [ ] D -[Dependency Inversion principle](http://www.oodesign.com/dependency-inversion-principle.html) | Reduce the dependency In composition of objects.
- [Why Is The Dependency Inversion Principle And Why Is It Important](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62539/what-is-the-dependency-inversion-principle-and-why-is-it-important)
- [Operating Systems and System Programming (video)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XXv-cvA_iBDyz-ba4yDskqMDY6A1w_c)
- [What Is The Difference Between A Process And A Thread?](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-process-and-a-thread)
- Covers:
- Processes, Threads, Concurrency issues
- difference between processes and threads
- processes
- threads
- locks
- mutexes
- semaphores
- monitors
- how they work
- deadlock
- livelock
- CPU activity, interrupts, context switching
- Modern concurrency constructs with multicore processors
- Process resource needs (memory: code, static storage, stack, heap, and also file descriptors, i/o)
- Thread resource needs (shares above (minus stack) with other threads in the same process but each has its own pc, stack counter, registers, and stack)
- Forking is really copy on write (read-only) until the new process writes to memory, then it does a full copy.
- Context switching
- How context switching is initiated by the operating system and underlying hardware
- [ ] [threads in C++ (series - 10 videos)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5jc9xFGsL8E12so1wlMS0r0hTQoJL74M)
- [ ] concurrency in Python (videos):
- [ ] [Short series on threads](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1H1sBF1VAKVMONJWJkmUh6_p8g4F2oy1)
- [ ] [Understanding the Python GIL (2010)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s)
- [reference](http://www.dabeaz.com/GIL)
- [ ] [David Beazley - Python Concurrency From the Ground Up: LIVE! - PyCon 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4)
- [ ] [Keynote David Beazley - Topics of Interest (Python Asyncio)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzfHjytDceU)
- [ ] [Mutex in Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zaPs8OtyKY)
- ### Papers
- These are Google papers and well-known papers.
- Reading all from end to end with full comprehension will likely take more time than you have. I recommend being selective on papers and their sections.
- [ ] [2003: The Google File System](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)
- replaced by Colossus in 2012
- [ ] [2004: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters]( http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf)
- mostly replaced by Cloud Dataflow?
- [ ] [2006: Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf)
- [An Inside Look at Google BigQuery](https://cloud.google.com/files/BigQueryTechnicalWP.pdf)
- [ ] [2006: The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems](https://research.google.com/archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf)
- [ ] [2007: What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (very long, and the author encourages skipping of some sections)](https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf)
- [ ] [2010: Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure](https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36356.pdf)
- [ ] [2010: Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36632.pdf)
- [ ] [2014: Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43146.pdf)
- [ ] [2015: Continuous Pipelines at Google](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43790.pdf)
- [ ] [2015: High-Availability at Massive Scale: Building Google’s Data Infrastructure for Ads](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44686.pdf)
- [ ] [Search pattern in text (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures/lecture/tAfHI/search-pattern-in-text)
If you need more detail on this subject, see "String Matching" section in [Additional Detail on Some Subjects](#additional-detail-on-some-subjects)
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## System Design, Scalability, Data Handling
- **You can expect system design questions if you have 4+ years of experience.**
- Scalability and System Design are very large topics with many topics and resources, since
there is a lot to consider when designing a software/hardware system that can scale.
Expect to spend quite a bit of time on this.
- Considerations from Yegge:
- scalability
- Distill large data sets to single values
- Transform one data set to another
- Handling obscenely large amounts of data
- system design
- features sets
- interfaces
- class hierarchies
- designing a system under certain constraints
- simplicity and robustness
- tradeoffs
- performance analysis and optimization
- [ ]**START HERE**: [System Design from HiredInTech](http://www.hiredintech.com/system-design/)
- [ ] [How Do I Prepare To Answer Design Questions In A Technical Inverview?](https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-prepare-to-answer-design-questions-in-a-technical-interview?redirected_qid=1500023)
- [ ] [8 Things You Need to Know Before a System Design Interview](http://blog.gainlo.co/index.php/2015/10/22/8-things-you-need-to-know-before-system-design-interviews/)
- [ ] [System Design Interview](https://github.com/checkcheckzz/system-design-interview) - There are a lot of resources in this one. Look through the articles and examples. I put some of them below.
- [ ] [How to ace a systems design interview](http://www.palantir.com/2011/10/how-to-rock-a-systems-design-interview/)
- [ ] [Numbers Everyone Should Know](http://everythingisdata.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/numbers-everyone-should-know/)
- [ ] [How long does it take to make a context switch?](http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-make-context.html)
- [ ] [Transactions Across Datacenters (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srOgpXECblk)
- [ ] [A plain English introduction to CAP Theorem](http://ksat.me/a-plain-english-introduction-to-cap-theorem/)
- [ ] [Scale at Facebook (2009)](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Scale-at-Facebook)
- [ ] [Scale at Facebook (2012), "Building for a Billion Users" (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodS71YtkGU)
- [ ] [Engineering for the Long Game - Astrid Atkinson Keynote(video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0jGmgIrf_M&list=PLRXxvay_m8gqVlExPC5DG3TGWJTaBgqSA&index=4)
- [ ] [7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/26/7-years-of-youtube-scalability-lessons-in-30-minutes.html)
- [ ] [How PayPal Scaled To Billions Of Transactions Daily Using Just 8VMs](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/8/15/how-paypal-scaled-to-billions-of-transactions-daily-using-ju.html)
- [ ] [How to Remove Duplicates in Large Datasets](https://blog.clevertap.com/how-to-remove-duplicates-in-large-datasets/)
- [ ] [A look inside Etsy's scale and engineering culture with Jon Cowie (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vV4YiqKm1o)
- [ ] [What Led Amazon to its Own Microservices Architecture](http://thenewstack.io/led-amazon-microservices-architecture/)
- [ ] [To Compress Or Not To Compress, That Was Uber's Question](https://eng.uber.com/trip-data-squeeze/)
- [ ] [Asyncio Tarantool Queue, Get In The Queue](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/3/3/asyncio-tarantool-queue-get-in-the-queue.html)
- [ ] [When Should Approximate Query Processing Be Used?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/2/25/when-should-approximate-query-processing-be-used.html)
- [ ] [Google's Transition From Single Datacenter, To Failover, To A Native Multihomed Architecture]( http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/2/23/googles-transition-from-single-datacenter-to-failover-to-a-n.html)
- [ ] [Egnyte Architecture: Lessons Learned In Building And Scaling A Multi Petabyte Distributed System](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/2/15/egnyte-architecture-lessons-learned-in-building-and-scaling.html)
- [ ] [Machine Learning Driven Programming: A New Programming For A New World](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/7/6/machine-learning-driven-programming-a-new-programming-for-a.html)
- [ ] [The Image Optimization Technology That Serves Millions Of Requests Per Day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/6/15/the-image-optimization-technology-that-serves-millions-of-re.html)
- [ ] [Tinder: How Does One Of The Largest Recommendation Engines Decide Who You'll See Next?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/27/tinder-how-does-one-of-the-largest-recommendation-engines-de.html)
- [ ] [Design Of A Modern Cache](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/25/design-of-a-modern-cache.html)
- [ ] [Live Video Streaming At Facebook Scale](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/13/live-video-streaming-at-facebook-scale.html)
- [ ] [A Beginner's Guide To Scaling To 11 Million+ Users On Amazon's AWS](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-to-scaling-to-11-million-users-on-amazons.html)
- [ ] [How Does The Use Of Docker Effect Latency?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/16/how-does-the-use-of-docker-effect-latency.html)
- [ ] [Does AMP Counter An Existential Threat To Google?](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/14/does-amp-counter-an-existential-threat-to-google.html)
- [ ] [A 360 Degree View Of The Entire Netflix Stack](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/9/a-360-degree-view-of-the-entire-netflix-stack.html)
- [ ] [Latency Is Everywhere And It Costs You Sales - How To Crush It](http://highscalability.com/latency-everywhere-and-it-costs-you-sales-how-crush-it)
- [ ] [Serverless (very long, just need the gist)](http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html)
- [ ] [What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies](http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances)
- [ ] [Cinchcast Architecture - Producing 1,500 Hours Of Audio Every Day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/16/cinchcast-architecture-producing-1500-hours-of-audio-every-d.html)
- [ ] [Justin.Tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture](http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-video-broadcasting-architecture.html)
- [ ] [Playfish's Social Gaming Architecture - 50 Million Monthly Users And Growing](http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/21/playfishs-social-gaming-architecture-50-million-monthly-user.html)
- [ ] [Salesforce Architecture - How They Handle 1.3 Billion Transactions A Day](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/9/23/salesforce-architecture-how-they-handle-13-billion-transacti.html)
- [ ] [ESPN's Architecture At Scale - Operating At 100,000 Duh Nuh Nuhs Per Second](http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/4/espns-architecture-at-scale-operating-at-100000-duh-nuh-nuhs.html)
- [ ] See "Messaging, Serialization, and Queueing Systems" way below for info on some of the technologies that can glue services together
- [ ] Twitter:
- [O'Reilly MySQL CE 2011: Jeremy Cole, "Big and Small Data at @Twitter" (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKTP36HVgI)
- [Timelines at Scale](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Twitter-Timeline-Scalability)
- For even more, see "Mining Massive Datasets" video series in the Video Series section.
- [ ] Practicing the system design process: Here are some ideas to try working through on paper, each with some documentation on how it was handled in the real world:
- review: [System Design from HiredInTech](http://www.hiredintech.com/system-design/)
- [Mathematics for Topcoders](https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/mathematics-for-topcoders/)
- [Dynamic Programming – From Novice to Advanced](https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/dynamic-programming-from-novice-to-advanced/)
- [Exercises for getting better at a given language](http://exercism.io/languages)
**Read and Do Programming Problems (in this order):**
- [ ] [Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition](http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047012167X.html)
- answers in C, C++ and Java
- [ ] [Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition](http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-6th-Programming/dp/0984782850/)
- answers in Java
See [Book List above](#book-list)
## Coding exercises/challenges
Once you've learned your brains out, put those brains to work.
Take coding challenges every day, as many as you can.
- [ ] [How to Find a Solution](https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/how-to-find-a-solution/)
- [ ] [How to Dissect a Topcoder Problem Statement](https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/how-to-dissect-a-topcoder-problem-statement/)
- [Mock interviewers from big companies](http://www.gainlo.co/)
## Once you're closer to the interview
- [ ] Cracking The Coding Interview Set 2 (videos):
- [Cracking The Code Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NIb9l3imAo)
- [Cracking the Coding Interview - Fullstack Speaker Series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5-tdAwclo)
- [Ask Me Anything: Gayle Laakmann McDowell (author of Cracking the Coding Interview)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fqxMuPmGak)
## Your Resume
- [Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2007_09_01_archive.html)
- See Resume prep items in Cracking The Coding Interview and back of Programming Interviews Exposed
## Be thinking of for when the interview comes
Think of about 20 interview questions you'll get, along with the lines of the items below. Have 2-3 answers for each.
Have a story, not just data, about something you accomplished.
- Why do you want this job?
- What's a tough problem you've solved?
- Biggest challenges faced?
- Best/worst designs seen?
- Ideas for improving an existing Google product.
- How do you work best, as an individual and as part of a team?
- Which of your skills or experiences would be assets in the role and why?
- What did you most enjoy at [job x / project y]?
- What was the biggest challenge you faced at [job x / project y]?
- What was the hardest bug you faced at [job x / project y]?
- What did you learn at [job x / project y]?
- What would you have done better at [job x / project y]?
## Have questions for the interviewer
Some of mine (I already may know answer to but want their opinion or team perspective):
- How large is your team?
- What does your dev cycle look like? Do you do waterfall/sprints/agile?
- Are rushes to deadlines common? Or is there flexibility?
- How are decisions made in your team?
- How many meetings do you have per week?
- Do you feel your work environment helps you concentrate?
- What are you working on?
- What do you like about it?
- What is the work life like?
## Once You've Got The Job
Congratulations!
- [10 things I wish I knew on my first day at Google](https://medium.com/@moonstorming/10-things-i-wish-i-knew-on-my-first-day-at-google-107581d87286#.livxn7clw)
- [ ] [Head First Design Patterns](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596007124/)
- a gentle introduction to design patterns
- [ ] [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object-Oriented/dp/0201633612)
- [ ] simple 8-bit: [Representation of Floating Point Numbers - 1 (video - there is an error in calculations - see video description)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3SfClm8TU)
- [ ] [The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets]( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html)
- [ ] [What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text](http://kunststube.net/encoding/)
- ### Endianness
- [ ] [Big And Little Endian](https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/Data/endian.html)
- [ ] [Big Endian Vs Little Endian (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrNF0KRAlyo)
- [ ] [Big And Little Endian Inside/Out (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSuXP-1Tc0)
- Very technical talk for kernel devs. Don't worry if most is over your head.
- The first half is enough.
- ### Emacs and vi(m)
- suggested by Yegge, from an old Amazon recruiting post: Familiarize yourself with a unix-based code editor
- vi(m):
- [Editing With vim 01 - Installation, Setup, and The Modes (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5givLEMcINQ&index=1&list=PL13bz4SHGmRxlZVmWQ9DvXo1fEg4UdGkr)
- [ ] [Core Markov Text Generation](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/waxgx/core-markov-text-generation)
- [ ] [Core Implementing Markov Text Generation](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/gZhiC/core-implementing-markov-text-generation)
- [ ] [Project = Markov Text Generation Walk Through](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/EUjrq/project-markov-text-generation-walk-through)
- See more in MIT 6.050J Information and Entropy series below.
- [How To Write A Bloom Filter App](http://blog.michaelschmatz.com/2016/04/11/how-to-write-a-bloom-filter-cpp/)
- ### HyperLogLog
- [How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory](http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/5/big-data-counting-how-to-count-a-billion-distinct-objects-us.html)
- ### Locality-Sensitive Hashing
- used to determine the similarity of documents
- the opposite of MD5 or SHA which are used to determine if 2 documents/strings are exactly the same.
- [Simhashing (hopefully) made simple](http://ferd.ca/simhashing-hopefully-made-simple.html)
- ### van Emde Boas Trees
- [ ] [Divide & Conquer: van Emde Boas Trees (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmReJCupbNU&list=PLUl4u3cNGP6317WaSNfmCvGym2ucw3oGp&index=6)
- [ ] [3. Character Based Operations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00YaFPcC65g&list=PLe-ggMe31CTe9IyG9MB8vt5xUJeYgOYRQ&index=1)
- [ ] [Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques](http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/223/notes.html#Tries)
- [ ] Short course videos:
- [ ] [Introduction To Tries (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/08Xyf/core-introduction-to-tries)
- [ ] [Performance Of Tries (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/PvlZW/core-performance-of-tries)
- [ ] [Implementing A Trie (video)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-structures-optimizing-performance/lecture/DFvd3/core-implementing-a-trie)
- [ ] [The Trie: A Neglected Data Structure](https://www.toptal.com/java/the-trie-a-neglected-data-structure)
- [ ] [TopCoder - Using Tries](https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/using-tries/)
- [ ] [Stanford Lecture (real world use case) (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8SkcUSdbU)
- [ ] [MIT, Advanced Data Structures, Strings (can get pretty obscure about halfway through)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinWEPPrkDQ&index=16&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61hsJNdULdudlRL493b-XZf)
- ### Balanced search trees
- Know least one type of balanced binary tree (and know how it's implemented):
- "Among balanced search trees, AVL and 2/3 trees are now passé, and red-black trees seem to be more popular.
A particularly interesting self-organizing data structure is the splay tree, which uses rotations
to move any accessed key to the root." - Skiena
- Of these, I chose to implement a splay tree. From what I've read, you won't implement a
balanced search tree in your interview. But I wanted exposure to coding one up
and let's face it, splay trees are the bee's knees. I did read a lot of red-black tree code.
- splay tree: insert, search, delete functions
If you end up implementing red/black tree try just these:
- search and insertion functions, skipping delete
- I want to learn more about B-Tree since it's used so widely with very large data sets.
- [ ] [An Introduction To Binary Search And Red Black Tree](https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/an-introduction-to-binary-search-and-red-black-trees/)
- [ ]**2-3 search trees**
- In practice:
2-3 trees have faster inserts at the expense of slower searches (since height is more compared to AVL trees).
- You would use 2-3 tree very rarely because its implementation involves different types of nodes. Instead, people use Red Black trees.
- [ ] [23-Tree Intuition and Definition (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3SsdUqasD4&list=PLA5Lqm4uh9Bbq-E0ZnqTIa8LRaL77ica6&index=2)
- [ ] [Binary View of 23-Tree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvBtGKsqSg&index=3&list=PLA5Lqm4uh9Bbq-E0ZnqTIa8LRaL77ica6)
- [ ] [2-3 Trees (student recitation) (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOb1tuEZ2X4&index=5&list=PLUl4u3cNGP6317WaSNfmCvGym2ucw3oGp)
- [ ]**2-3-4 Trees (aka 2-4 trees)**
- In practice:
For every 2-4 tree, there are corresponding red–black trees with data elements in the same order. The insertion and deletion
operations on 2-4 trees are also equivalent to color-flipping and rotations in red–black trees. This makes 2-4 trees an
important tool for understanding the logic behind red–black trees, and this is why many introductory algorithm texts introduce
2-4 trees just before red–black trees, even though **2-4 trees are not often used in practice**.
- [ ] [Divide & Conquer: Convex Hull, Median Finding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzeYI7p9MjU&list=PLUl4u3cNGP6317WaSNfmCvGym2ucw3oGp&index=2)
- ### Discrete math
- see videos below
- ### Machine Learning
- [ ] Why ML?
- [ ] [How Google Is Remaking Itself As A Machine Learning First Company](https://backchannel.com/how-google-is-remaking-itself-as-a-machine-learning-first-company-ada63defcb70)
- [ ] [Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer Systems (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSaZGT4-6EY)
- [ ] [Deep Learning and Understandability versus Software Engineering and Verification by Peter Norvig](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X769cyzBNVw)
- [ ] [A Tour of Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytEkHepK08c)
- [ ] Books:
- [ ] [An Introduction to Programming in Go (read free online)](https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro)
- [ ] [The Go Programming Language (Donovan & Kernighan)](https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0134190440)
- [ ] [MIT 6.042J: Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010 (25 videos)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LMbpZIKhQ&list=PLB7540DEDD482705B)
- [ ] [MIT 6.046: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (34 videos)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-yW7LQr08&list=PLUl4u3cNGP6317WaSNfmCvGym2ucw3oGp)
- [ ] [MIT 6.050J: Information and Entropy, Spring 2008 (19 videos)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxsQrZQupo&list=PL_2Bwul6T-A7OldmhGODImZL8KEVE38X7)
- [ ] [MIT 6.851: Advanced Data Structures (22 videos)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yzrZL1py0&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61hsJNdULdudlRL493b-XZf&index=1)
