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Course Overview

Preparing for a technical interview can be a daunting task, especially when the competition is intense and companies are on the lookout for the best problem-solvers and communicators. Hack Your Next Coding Interview is a comprehensive guide that demystifies the entire interview process—from technical coding questions to non-tech soft skills and offer negotiations. Whether you're a recent graduate or an experienced developer, mastering the strategies and skills in this course is crucial for standing out and confidently cracking your next interview.

This course begins with an in-depth look at the purpose and structure of interviews, helping you understand what companies seek and why the process matters. You'll then learn how to set up your coding environment and write clean, effective code. The heart of the course delves into data structures and algorithms—covering arrays, linked lists, trees, sorting, searching, hash tables, stacks, queues, and heaps—through both theory and practical coding problems with step-by-step solutions. Non-technical sections prepare you for behavioral questions and offer-handling strategies, including negotiation tactics and how to respond to rejections.

Master coding problems, refine your soft skills, and walk into your next interview with clarity, confidence, and a strong technical edge.

What You Will Learn

  • Learning Data structure and algorithms
  • Learning Pillars of a good code
  • Mastering most commonly asked interview questions
  • Practicing lots of challenges to ace in your coding interview.
  • Step by step guide on how to handle questions
  • Non-tech questions and how to handle offers and negotiations
  • Resources and how to prepare for the interview.
  • Handling rejection in a job interview.

Program Curriculum

  • What is an Interview?
  • What Companies Look For?
  • Why do Companies Conduct Interviews?
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Setting Up the Working Environment
  • Setting Up REPL
  • Setting Up Visual Studio Code
  • Setting Up PyCharm
  • What Is a Good Code & How to Write a Good Code?
  • Rules for Writing a Good Code
  • Step-by-Step Through a Problem
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures
  • What are Data Structures?
  • Data Structure Examples
  • Big-O Notation
  • Big-O Examples
  • Python Data Structure
  • Dynamic Array
  • Implementation of Dynamic Array
  • Introduction to Interview Problems
  • Array Pair Sum Problem
  • Array Pair Sum Solution
  • Unique Character Problem
  • Unique Character Solution
  • Sentence Reversal Problem
  • Sentence Reversal Solution
  • Missing Number Problem
  • Missing Number Solution
  • Introduction to Linked List
  • Linked List Overview
  • Singly Linked List
  • Singly Linked List Implementation
  • Doubly Linked List
  • Doubly Linked List Implementation
  • Cycle Check Problem
  • Cycle Check Solution
  • Search Overview
  • Introduction to Search
  • Linear Search
  • Linear Search Implementation
  • Binary Search
  • Binary Search Implementation
  • Hash Table
  • Hash Table Implementation
  • Sorting Overview
  • Introduction to Sorting
  • Bubble Sort
  • Bubble Sort Implementation
  • Insertion Sort
  • Insertion Sort Implementation
  • Selection Sort
  • Selection Sort Implementation
  • Quick Sort
  • Quick Sort Implementation
  • Merge Sort
  • Merge Sort Implementation
  • Searching and Sorting Interview Problems
  • Stacks, Queues & Deques
  • Stack Overview
  • Implementation of Stack
  • Queue Overview
  • Implementation of Queue
  • Deque Overview
  • Implementation of Deque
  • Introduction to Trees
  • Tree Implementation
  • Node Implementation
  • Tree Traversal
  • Priority Queues & Binary Heaps
  • Binary Search Tree
  • Binary Search tree Implementation
  • Tree Representation via Lists
  • Binary Search Tree Check Problem
  • Binary Search Tree Check Solution
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Preparation
  • Handle Yourself in an Interview
  • Ask and Answer Questions

  • Introduction to Offers
  • Handling Offers
  • Handling Rejection
  • Negotiation Techniques
  • Answering Salary Questions
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Instructor

Hillary Nyakundi

Hillary Nyakundi is a Technical writer working with Free code Camp, One of the most leading online platform for free learning resources. Hillary is also a Blogger dealing with technology and development basically web. Trying to help newbies with finding the right path to get started with their journey in tech. Hillary specializes in Python language trying to tackle everything and break it down to help others understand better the language. He did Information Technology and later went on to advance the knowledge by doing Computer Science at a local University. He served as a Lux Academy Campus Lead at the school. In addition to this he mentors students on different startups and leads them to establishing their career.

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