I’ve been tempted to get it and curious to hear any review of the book. I decided to get Alex Xu’s Coding Interview Pattern [1] instead which I’ve been really enjoying.
[1] https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/my-new-book-coding-interview-p...
[1] https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/my-new-book-coding-interview-p...
I'd heartily endorse his book, but they definitely are more different than similar. EPI is also another excellent book with a very different style.
Here is a link to nine chapters of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview for free in case you're still curious about it: https://bctci.co/free-chapters
The book also has a discord server (link in the free PDF!), so if you have other questions, feel free to ping me there with them! We are about to start the weekly leetcode contest, and there will be a write-up after it finishes on which techniques and templates we've used from the book, which might give you more of a sense of how different it is. Hope to see you there, my friend!
"This is the best overall resource that I've seen for software engineering job searches and coding interviews. There's a lot of free online resources out there so I was on the fence about buying this, but this is the most high-quality and practically useful collection of tips, tricks, advice, and explanation of relevant CS data structures & algorithms concepts that I've seen. There's also a lot of practical advice on how to approach the job search. This, plus leetcode, would be my most highly recommended resources for coding interviews. I think the content of this book would be relevant and useful from the new grad level through the staff SWE level. It's also a totally different book than the original CTCI (which I also have), not just another iteration of the same thing. I never write reviews for anything, but I felt like I had to for this because I was surprised by how good this is."