How to Prepare for Interviews at Technology Companies

If you think the best thing you can do to prepare for an interview with a technology company is to memorize brainteasers, like Google's, Why are manhole covers round, think again. In the height of their popularity, tech interview brainteasers were meant to test a candidates reasoning ability, overall intelligence, and ability to keep cool when thrown off guard. But as a whole, the major technology companies are moving away from these types of questions.

The reason is twofold, says Gayle Laakmann McDowell, former Google, Microsoft, and Apple engineer and author of Cracking the Coding Interview. One is that a lot of brainteasers rely on this aha moment, where y…
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