The interview process for software engineering positions usually involves one 45-minute round of whiteboard coding. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, whit

How To Increase Your Odds of Success at Whiteboard Coding Interviews

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The interview process for software engineering positions usually involves one 45-minute round of whiteboard coding. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, whiteboard coding literally happened in front of a whiteboard if you were applying to local companies. Nowadays, coding interviews take place over an interactive coding web application such as CoderPad.

Even if you’re a mid-to-senior-level developer, a coding interview is always a big challenge. It doesn’t really test your day-to-day job in dealing with frameworks and architectures, but it’s the test of your fundamental knowledge in data structures and algorithms.

To tackle the last point, you must be an exceptional coder or have been training consistently for a long time. Tackling the first two points is a lot easier.

In this article, I’m going to share nine hacks to increase your odds of solving a question during a coding interview. These tips are not for interviews at top-tier tech companies like Google, Facebook, or Amazon. They are for lower-tier companies that give you a better chance of success.