Software Engineer Interview Unleashed

Learn how to make yourself ready for software engineer interviews from a former Google interviewer.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Overall interview process
- Who they want to hire
- How they interview candidates

What you'll learn

Overall interview process
Who they want to hire
How they interview candidates
Good/poor signals
Interview questions
How to prepare phone/onsite interviews
Phone/onsite interview examples

* Requirements

* Some coding skills.
* Great if you understand hash map and binary search tree
* but not required.

Description

Are you a software engineer? And do you want to get a job at great software engineering companies like Google, Facebook, SnapChat, or AirBnb? If yes, you are at the right place!

Getting a job offer from those companies is very challenging but not something you cannot get. You have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for your study and degrees, and I believe you are almost ready to get job offers. However, there are several missing pieces that you need to learn throughout this course.


Getting a job offer means so many things:

  1. Your income would increase by a large amount, in some cases even more hundred thousand dollars.
  2. Better chance for your career development.
  3. You can work with great people.


In this course, you will learn:

  1. Overall interview processes for internship position, full-time SWE, PhD candidates, and experienced SWEs.
  2. How to start your interview process.
  3. How to well prepare those technical interviews.
  4. Watch actual examples of phone and onsite interviews and see how they are evaluated.


Requirements

  • Some coding skills, but not much.
  • Great if you understand hash map and binary search tree, but not required.
  • Desire to work as a software engineer.


What to learn in this course

  • Overall interview process
  • Who they want to hire
  • How they interview candidates
  • Good/poor signals
  • Interview questions
  • How to prepare phone/onsite interviews
  • Examples.


Target Audiences

  • College freshman/sophomore, looking for engineering practicum intern.
  • College junior/senior or MS/PhD, majoring CS or related eng/science degree, looking for engineering intern.
  • New college grad majoring engineering, looking for a fulltime position.
  • Experienced software engineer/researcher, looking for a career advance.


Who this course is for:

  • College freshman/sophomore, looking for engineering practicum intern.
  • College junior/senior or MS/PhD, majoring CS or related eng/science degree, looking for engineering intern.
  • New college grad majoring eng, looking for a fulltime position.
  • Experienced software engineer/researcher, looking for a career advance.

Course content

7 sections • 41 lectures

Introduction Preview 18:44

Why Many Candidates Got Rejected Preview 04:13

Course Layout Preview 06:06

Overall Process Preview 09:40

Phone Interview Preview 03:23

Onsite Interview Preview 02:40

Research Discussant for PhD Preview 09:32

Intern Hiring Process Preview 12:12

Evaluation Scale and Criteria Preview 04:35

Who are interviewers Preview 06:39

Who Wants to hire and who don’t Preview 06:03

Do These Preview 05:22

Never Do These Preview 06:12

Myth Buster Preview 06:28

Irrelevant Interview Questions Preview 05:50

Reference Preview 07:31

Resume Preview 14:10

Phone Interview Preparation Preview 02:49

Onsite Interview Preparation Preview 06:56

Team Match Interview Preview 03:59

"Do you have any questions?" Preview 05:00

Algorithms and Data Structures Preview 04:22

Principles of Technical Questions Preview 05:47

Coding Style Preview 05:42

Sorting Algorithms Preview 08:27

Binary Trees Preview 05:22

String Manipulation Preview 12:27

Depth / Breadth First Search Preview 06:18

Dynamic Program Preview 10:37

Multithreading / Concurrency Preview 06:57

Design Question Preview 12:23

Frequent Coding Mistakes Preview 10:08

Phone Interview Example 1 Part I Preview 20:05

Phone Interview Example 1 Part II Preview 21:29

Phone Interview Example 1 Part III Preview 18:12

Onsite Interview Example 1 Part I Preview 17:18

Onsite Interview Example 1 Part II Preview 23:48

Onsite Interview Example 2 Part I Preview 20:16

Onsite Interview Example 2 Part II Preview 25:00

Onsite Interview Example 2 Part III Preview 21:35