When 4:00 – 6:00pm
Building Sharon Hall
   
City Sharon
Location Details Sharon 116B
Category Academics, Alumni, Information Sessions, Lectures & Seminars, Special Events
School School of Engineering
Event Contact Ming Chow,
Event Sponsor Department of Computer Science
Description

Next week,Technical Manager of Apps at TripAdvisor et. al., will be teaching a 4-day course "Hacking the Technical Interview." This course was offered at BIOP last year and is being held at biop this year. There will be other instructors for the course as well. Students interested in the course should plan on going to all 4 days (going to the first 2 days may be acceptable).

Last year's syllabus:
Nightly schedule (may vary)
20-30 minutes - Varied topics
30 minutes - Mock interviews
5-10 minutes - Break
30 minutes - Mock interviews
20-30 minutes - Nightly speaker

Topics:
Data structures
* Hash (Map)
* Set (Bag)
* Trees
* Binary (and n-ary) trees
* R/B (and other self-balancing) trees
* Sorted vs. unsorted
* Heaps (Priority queues)
* Lists (Arrays vs. Linked)
Algorithms
* Recursion
* Sorting
* Graphs
Complexity
Ethics
Dress code
Interview strategies