FAANG+ Interview preparation
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Land Your Dream Job at a Big Tech Company: Interview Preparation Course
The course is designed to equip you with insider tips, practice, and confidence to ace the big tech interview and secure your future in tech.
Created by: Max Brodin • Languages: Java, Javascript, Python, C#, Ruby, Kotlin
What you'll learn
- Data structures and algorithms
- Behavioral interview questions
- System design questions
- Practical problem-solving
- Salary negotiation techniques
- Resume basics and best practices
Requirements
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Course description
The course is designed to prepare software engineers for the challenging interview process at top technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. The course will cover the most common interview formats, such as technical and behavioral interviews, as well as the specific types of questions that are often asked at these companies.
Participants will learn how to approach and overcome the challenging technical problems that are frequently asked during the interview. The course will include a comprehensive review of common data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles, as well as practical tips and tricks for interviewing.
By the end of the course, you will have the tools and knowledge you need to impress the hiring team, showcase your skills, and land your dream job at a big tech company.
Who this course is for
The interview preparation course is ideal for anyone looking for work in technology who want to increase their chances of getting hired at top tech firms like Google, Apple, Amazon, or Facebook. Ideal for experienced tech professionals or those starting out in the industry, this course provides the skills and knowledge needed for success in the competitive big tech interview process.
Course content
Level Intermediate • 16 Lectures
Lesson 1
2 hours 15 minutes
- Introduction
- How to prepare?
- Complexity of an algorithm
- Binary search
- Shuffling
- Prefix sum
- STAR method
- BQ: Insist on the highest standards
Lesson 2
1 hour 45 minutes
- Linked List
- Middle node of a linked list
- First node of a loop in a linked list
- Reverse of a linked list
- Stack
- Valid parentheses
- Queue
- How to use Leetcode
- BQ: Deliver results
Lesson 3
1 hour 30 minutes
- Hash table
- Two sum
- Longest substring without repeating characters
- Subarray sum equals K
- Can I cheat?
- BQ: Right a lot
Lesson 4
1 hour 40 minutes
- Counting sort
- Merge sort
- Quick sort
- Quick select
- BQ: Ownership
Lesson 5
1 hour 25 minutes
- Trie
- Binary heap
- Complete binary tree
- Heap sort
- Top K frequent elements
- BQ: Customer obsession
Lesson 6
1 hour 35 minutes
- Binary tree
- In-order traversal
- Pre-order traversal
- Post-order traversal
- Iterative traversal
- Level-order traversal
- BQ: Invent and simplify
Lesson 7
1 hour 15 minutes
- Binary search tree
- Delete minimum
- BST deletion
- BST validation
- Graph: adjacency matrix
- Graph: adjacency list
- BQ: Learn and be curious
Lesson 8
1 hour 55 minutes
- Depth-first search
- Breadth-first search
- BFS vs DFS
- Breadth-First Search applications
- DFS from BFS
- 5 resume writing rules
- BQ: Dive deep
Lesson 9
1 hour 10 minutes
- Lowest common ancestor
- Topological sort
- Cycle in directional graph
- Weighted directional graph
- Shortest path (Dijkstra algorithm)
- BQ: Bias for action
Lesson 10
2 hours
- Optimal substructure
- Fibonacci numbers
- Unique paths
- How sum
- Bottom-up solutions
- When to use DP
- Bottom-up vs Recursive
- BQ: Have backbone; Disagree and commit
Lesson 11
1 hour 20 minutes
- Backtracking
- N-Queens
- Matrix diagonal trick
- Subsets
- Greedy algorithm
- Activity detection
- Solving problems algorithm
- BQ: Earn trust
Lesson 12
2 hours
- LRU Cache
- Doubly linked list
- Knapsack Problem
- Object oriented design principles
- Filter files
- Object Oriented Design assessment
- Logical and Maintainable plan
- Tic-Tac-Toe
- BQ: Hire and develop the best
Lesson 13
2 hours
- System Design Interview questions
- System Design Answer Plan
- Load balancer
- API service
- Configuration service
- Cache
- Object storage
- CDN
- Database
- Queue
- Event stream
- Worker service
- Data processing
- Distributed system design template
- System Design: URL shortener
Lesson 14
1 hour 40 min
- Trapping rainwater
- CAP theorem
- Replication
- Partitioning
- Partition key
- Key hashing
- Consistent hashing
- Availability vs Consistency
- Regions
- System design: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram
Lesson 15
1 hour 45 min
- LIS
- Space package tracker
- Service optimization
- Design Uber
- Web server bidirectional connection
- System design: Design WhatsApp/Facebook messenger
Lesson 16
1 hour 40 min
- Find Median from Data Stream
- System design: Design YouTube Likes
- System design: Customers Who Bought X Also Bought
Hello colleagues! Today is my first workday at Microsoft Vancouver. It was a difficult journey - learning to solve problems and passing interviews. I looked at the history of my attempts - I started applying in December 2020. Usually, I wasn't even invited to a pre-screening. This course helped me improve my knowledge of algorithms and their practical application, as well as taught me how to answer questions correctly. I took the course twice. The first time I dropped it immediately after the lectures because I didn't get much out of the practical part. Naturally, with that attitude, I didn't get anywhere. On the second try, I tried to attend all the classes. With charged brains and motivation, I managed to do well at one of the Microsoft hiring events. If you persevere, you'll get something 😀 Big thanks to Max.
Thank you Max! The course is very informative, well-structured, and provides a lot of basic knowledge and skills that are very useful in the absence of specialized IT education, like I had. For a front-end programmer with less than 3 years of experience, there are many complex concepts that I still need to study based on the course material in the next 6-12 months. The knowledge and hours spent solving coding problems were enough, however, to pass many interviews and get several offers as a Senior developer! I think without the course I would have reached this point in a year or two.
Thanks a lot for the course! Everything was great, the material was well structured, an interesting selection of problems, the discussion of problems was coolly organized, which allows you to share knowledge with others, as well as find the shortcomings of your solution, and also practice explaining the idea of a solution, the condition of the problem. 😎👍
Max thank you very much for the course, it was very interesting for me to study. Learned a lot. Well organized lectures and practices. Most importantly, everything you need is present that is really useful for an interview at the FAANG company. Thank you!
14-Day Money Back Guarantee
3 times a week
11 weeks
This course includes:
FAANG+ referrals
Mock interviews
16 lectures
16 practical lessons
46 downloadable resources
Max Brodin
Staff Software Engineer at InstacartAbout Me
As a Software Engineer with over 18 years of experience, I have had the opportunity to work with some of the most well-known companies in the industry, including Boeing, Amazon, and Instacart. I have also conducted more than 35 interviews, giving me a unique perspective on the hiring process and the skills and experiences that are most valuable in the industry. I had the opportunity to interview with Facebook (Meta), Microsoft, and Instacart and was offered a position at each company. I have created a unique course that has helped individuals secure employment at top tech companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Square, Calendly, J.P.Morgan and others. The course provides the necessary skills and knowledge for success in the competitive big tech interview process.