The first thing that amused me about the book "
Programming Interviews Exposed - Secrets to Landing Your Next Job" were two sentences from the beginning of the third paragraph of the preface:
At this point you may be wondering who we are and what gives us the authority to write this book. We're both recent graduates who've been through a lot of interviews in the past few years.Are people who went through a lot of job interviews actually qualified to write a book about acing job interviews? On the other hand a guy who only needed a single job interview to get his dream job is probably not qualified either. I guess only people who actually sat on both sides of the table can really write good books about job interviews. If you want to have an example of what I'm talking about check out Steve Yegge. He writes amusing blog posts about job interviews once in a while (
old site -
new site).
Continue reading "Book review: Programming Interviews Exposed"
