Booking In-person Interview Preparation

Travelling to Holland Woohoo

• Coursera: mining of massive datasets

URL: https://class.coursera.org/mmds-003/lecture
Shaco:
Week #1: Due October 23 (shaco done)
Week #2: Due October 24 (shaco here)

Week #3: Due October 25

Week #4: In Progress

Week #5: In Progress

Week #6: In Progress

Dante:

Week #1: Due October 23
Week #2: Due October 24
Week #3: Due October 25

• Map reduce
• Design Patterns

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNHpsC5ng_E&list=PLF206E906175C7E07

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object-Oriented-ebook/dp/B000SEIBB8 (7 days)

• GLASSDOOR (Dante done)
• Check Quora for system design and scalability questions

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-prepare-to-answer-design-questions-in-a-technical-interview

• Scalable systems and Design Questions: (Shaco done) (Dante done)

http://www.hiredintech.com/system-design/system-design-intro/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W9F__D3oY4

• Memcached technique of Facebook
• How is google search so fast?
• Sql vs nosql

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8WceQfutQAKRFNjb0I4U2dnbUk/view (read it and its references, 3 days)

• System design
• Regular expressions
• Some OS concepts like race conditions and dead locks
• Business Side questions (Revenue models masalan) (Dante here) (Shaco here)
• How would you improve booking.com website ??
• Review SQL, especially its main concepts like triggers, indexing, joins ... etc

Some questions on glassdoor:

- Given a list of words, group them by anagrams of each other. 
- Retweet twitter tweets if newer one is an anagram of older one. 
- What is the difference between the merchant model and agent model?
- How will you implement auto-complete ? Follow up, how to get the results sorted by most frequent rather than alphabetical order (using trie)
- Find how many moves it takes from point A in a maze to point B. (ghoo solved it using DP but there's a maths solution using combinatorics)

IMPORTANT BLOG: http://highscalability.com/ (new)