K-man's Blog

Disclaimer: This post deals with the traditional “coding” interview where the focus is on solving one or more coding problems. I have interviewed in a double-digit number of companies from India, the US, and Europe and this post is a culmination of those experiences. This is the stable, generic approach I use in my interviews. Interviews have certain aspects of randomness due to factors like the company you’re interviewing for, the interviewer, job role etc. Despite this, there are certain steps you can take which will help the interviewer judge…read more

The world of information is big and scary. It has beautifully illuminated corners, while also rumoring about niches where if you wander in by mistake, and choose to struggle on, you’re greeted by mountains of incomprehensible terminology, and sentences of slippery schrodingerish meanings which seem to elude you while being right within your grasp. For many people, they face this monster at the bright young age of Math, while some face it when colliding with an unknown territory far into the future. But over time I have realized that there…read more