Recursion and DP for coding interviews at Silicon Valley Code Camp 2017

In this session, we'll patiently walk through some Recursion and DP problems, until time permits.

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Recursion and DP for coding interviews at Silicon Valley Code Camp 2017

Speaker Biography for Soham Mehta

Soham is the founder of Interview Kickstart, which is a bootcamp for technical interview preparation.

The bootcamp is laser-focused on re-teaching Data Structures, Algorithms and System Design, to working engineers, who desire to work at high-growth, career-launching tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Prior to InterviewKickstart, Soham was a Director of Engineering at Box and an early engineer there. He helped Box's technical teams grow from 5 to 250 engineers over a span of 5 years. This meant living and breathing the interviewing machine exploring all its nooks and corners, and ups and downs.

Prior to Box, Soham has also worked at eBay and Microsoft.

[DarrenHwang]

Listened for half hour only learned one thing... It would help to list 1) How to prepare, What to do and what not to do during interview 2) Put down a list of examples on slide. 3) When asking for audience participation more positive feedback would help. When you don't get what you're expecting as answer don't just dismiss it. I find the session to be Dry and condescending. I can't figure out if the speaker wants to explain possible approaches to a given problem or find out from audience what say or not to say during an interview. Give for example, "when interviewing with DP question, I'm looking for, ____ and ___ from the candidate." Is that so hard? "when approaching a recursion problem the candidate should demonstrate understanding of how to A) walk a tree, B) and C ___". "To demonstrate (A) be able to at least do 1.. 2 and 3". Sheeesh with all the meandering through recursion and DP I learning nothing about what he's looking for.