What comes next…

We are starting the interview phase, during the last phase we were supposed to start studying to hone our knowledge for the interview phase.

Before the real thing we’re going to have a mock interview to make us feel comfortable with the interview start. There are a lot of things that still need improvement, especially finding a way to communicate what I’m thinking. My problem is that I can say exactly what I’m trying to say, maybe the thing is in my head but I can’t express it the right way.
This week I had a mock interview with my mentor but it was too awkward because I didn’t make sense of anything I was saying and was too nervous to answer even the basics and when I didn’t know the answer I became even more nervous. To be honest I don’t know why, because when I had the tech screen interview I was more confident, maybe because this is more serious, I would like to the end of this phase to be able to overcome this.

Also, this week I have been reviewing the topics I have studied in the last phase and also started reading the book “Elements of programming interviews”, both this and “Cracking the Coding interview” are good resources for preparing for an interview. I like Elements of programming interviews because they explain some topics in more depth. I found it very helpful how they explain the complexity of some problems and how there are some ways to optimize a problem and also how to start from a “Naive approach” to a more fitting solution.

And lastly there is the HackerRank problems, to be honest even thought is a good source to improve your problem solving skills I prefer Leetcode or Codewars, because I started with those sources and they have a good amount of problems for each level, maybe I haven’t dive enough into the problems yet but it is, as I said, good for practice and the problems are not that easy either.