Interview Tips

interviews.md

1. Functional interface, imperative code
2. Multiple small functions
3. Functional code (map, any) where appropriate
4. Purely functional code is hard to write for algorithmic questions and if you do try, hard for most interviewers to read
5. Codeforces for practice
6. Insert asserts
7. Understand immutable vs mutable data structures
8. Python 3 has almost all the fundamental data structures you need
9. Python hides the distinction between pointer (reference) types and value types; sometimes ppl ask pointer-heavy questions