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What is Interviewramp?

Interviewramp is a free web book that serves as a lean field guide for tech interviews. People who don't have much time can benefit from this web book significantly. You want to crack a big tech interview but don't know where to start? This book is for you. You have a Google onsite coming up and need to pass the on-site? You can still benefit from this book a lot. Just go straight to "Coding Interview Prep" chapter and the "System Design Prep" chapter.

This web book is constantly updated. It has all the advice you need to crack big tech interviews. It walks you through resume preparation, technical interview preparations and behavioral interview preparation.

It has tips and guidelines to help you ace the technical interviews. It has content to help you prepare your resume, and LinkedIn profile. It also has answers to commonly asked technical interview questions as well as behavorial interview questions. It also offers a crash course on implementing commonly used coding patterns in Python language.

There are thousands of applicants for single software engineering position at big tech companies like Google, Meta (Facebook), Amazon and Microsoft. It is very hard to stand out in the large pool of applicants. However, there are certain techniques to improve your chances. This web book gives a systematic approach to prepare, apply, and ace technical interviews

A long dream of mine was to work at a big tech company. I remember being very frustrated with the process. I would apply to 100s of positions of more than 20 companies and I would not hear back from most of them. Or worse, I would prepare for coding interviews for months, but then the recruiters would ghost me. Or I would do a phone interview and think to myself that I did well, only to learn that I was rejected.

After lots of trial and error during my journey of applying many companies, I realized that the information that I needed during my preparation journey was sparse and not central. There is no single guide and we have to do DFS to find information we need. Sifting through lots of websites, articles and blogs, I came to realize that a guide like interviewramp would have saved me so much time if I had it during my time.

One of the good things about interviewramp is that it is a free webbook and it is constantly being updated. Once you have access to it, you have access to it for lifetime.

Why would you read this?

This book has practical content. It tells you most commonly used patterns in Leetcode, gives extremely helpful guidance on resume and LinkedIn profile preparation. It also offers templates for most commonly used Leetcode questions such as binary search, backtracking, quickselect, sorting and many more patterns.

The content is organized so that you get most out of it. It is carefully curated after sifting through hundreds of articles, books, and surveying many colleagues and peers who went through the same process.

Reader can finish reading entire content in a week and use it as a guide everytime there is a need. This book is meant to be practical, to the point, condensed and helpful.

Who is this for?

Beginner to senior engineers can benefit from this web book significantly. It is meant to serve people who would like to crack big tech interviews under two-three months.