Coding Interview Checklist

Objective: Demonstrate problem-solving skills, coding ability, and communication.

Problem Solving

• Clarify the problem
  • Rephrase the problem
  • Inputs and outputs
  • Unknowns?
  • Edge cases
• Design
  • Brute force / naive solution
  • Improved solutions
  • Time and space complexity
• Code
  • Restate time and space complexity
• Test
  • Test cases
  • Discuss edge cases

Communication

• Think out loud
• Ensure interviewer is following
• Get unstuck; explain:
  • where you are
  • options considered
  • why it's a dead end