Programming Interviews Exposed-Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, Second Edition

John Mongan

Noah Suojanen

Eric Giguère

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Mongan, John, 1976-
Programming interviews exposed : secrets to landing your next job / John Mongan, Noah Suojanen, Eric Giguère. - 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-12167-2 (pbk.)
1. Employment interviewing. 2. Computer programming-Vocational guidance. I. Suojanen, Noah, 1978- II. Giguère, Eric, 1967- III. Title.
HF5549.5.I6M664 2007
650.14′4 - dc22
2007003315

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Dedication

To my family
-Noah Suojanen

To those who encouraged me, living and dead
-John Mongan

To my parents, Jean-Claude and Marie-Joelle, who encouraged
and supported my love of programming
-Eric Giguère

Acknowledgments

Putting out any book, even a second edition, requires a lot of work from many people. John and Eric would first of all like to thank Maureen Spears, our editor, for her patience throughout this process and the work she did in switching the book over to the WROX format. We’d also like to thank Carol Long for spearheading the updating of the original book, and everyone else at Wiley who worked on the production, marketing, and distribution of this book.

No second edition would have been possible without the first edition, however, and the many people who contributed to it. For this reason, we also thank our original editors, Margaret Hendrey and Marjorie Spencer, for their patience and helpfulness. We are also grateful to our original reviewers and advisors, Dan Hill, Elise Lipkowitz, Charity Lu, Rob Maguire, and Tom Mongan. Dan’s contributions in particular were tremendous - the quality of the first edition was vastly improved by his careful and meticulous reviews.