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can you please post the way you prepared for technical interview. Just what you think can help someone who is preparing for it. what kind of questions they asked ? any thing to watch out for..

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This is the best book on technical interviews for places like Google:

http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...

Does it just prepare for code interviews, or do you actually learn something useful with it, besides getting a job?

It is for interviews. You should already know the useful stuff for your job. The best you can do that is relevant to both fronts is

Work through CLRS algorithms book

Practice explaining technical ideas in spoken conversation.

I second this, helped me a lot, too. In particular, it covers a wide range of topics, each with some introductory exposition, and gives a variety of example questions with answers.

Additionally, glassdoor.com has a lot of user-contributed interview questions and lets you search for/filter by specific companies.

When I interviewed, I studied this book cover to cover for 3 months prior to the interview. It definitely came in handy: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...

There's also lecture videos here: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/

Learning data structures that you don't use often, like bit arrays, come in handy for interviews, especially for when they ask you to optimize your solution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array)

The Steve Yegge blog post.

Yes, this describes how I prepared. The questions were not as difficult as the topics Steve listed.

This is the post tonfa@ refers to: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

I believe some recruiters actually send it (or a modified version) to candidates who ask how to prepare. I'd also recommend the book "Algorithms for Interviews"

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