How to ACE your coding interviews PART III

Key Takeaways

Most experienced software engineers still can't pass even basic coding interviews. And it's not because they haven't grinded 300 lead code questions. It's simply because they were never taught the process that I'm going to walk you through in this video. Problem visualization. Now, this is not always possible, but I highly recommend when you can and you're given the opportunity to draw out the problem. Now this is very useful especially if you have a graph-based problem or a matrix problem or something where you can actually visualize it right where you have nodes where you have connections. This helps you first of all to actually see what's going on but it also demonstrates to the interviewer that you're trying to understand the problem more before you dive into a solution. Right now again we're in this kind of planning and design phase where you want to demonstrate how you think critically. That's what this is about. So, if you can visualize the problem, that's always just helpful to me to be honest to solve the problem, but also allows the interviewer to see what you're doing and to kind of unlock that visualization into your thought process.