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Which programming language should I learn for technical interview questions?

programming language

14th May 2018, 5:42 PM

The Princess Diary 2001

41 Answers

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It depends on what job your applying for ??? (Before the interview) - Read the job description - Decide which language's the job requires - Look at the technology involved - Do your research into the company - Look into company culture On you - Join a site => Hackerrank, LeetCode etc... - Solve some problems - Concentrate on inputs and outputs - Write down some input data / out data - Write some Psuedocode - Input a algorithm - Test the algorithm with the corresponding language - Pass the provided test cases - Once solved go to the next question - Figure out which questions will be asked and concentrate on those. - Work on your Data structures as well. - Have fun and be patient During the interview: - Stay cool take deep breaths - Dont let these interviewers break you - Always ask questions to clarify - Do not rush - Lastly if you fail thank them and MOVE ON Remember think on paper first before any code is written draw out a story. (Programming is thinking not typing) - Goodluck.

15th May 2018, 8:39 PM

Anthony Perez

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You should concentrate more on data structures, algorithms and problem solving as questions are based on these and not just a single programming language.

14th May 2018, 7:09 PM

Rusty.Metal

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Personally, I found answer by Mcqueen perfect. Thank you for sharing sir ^_^

17th May 2018, 2:39 AM

Bishal Poonia (Bishu)

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I think to give best technical interview, any specific programing language doesn't mean. Your OOP concepts, algorithms, data structures should be strong enough. If you want to learn these, i would recommend java or Python.

3rd Apr 2019, 4:09 PM

Jay Suthar

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You shouldn’t learn a language to interview. I’ve been the interviewer at Google 400+ times. I’ve seen candidates write bad code because they were writing in an unfamiliar language. In one case, a candidate wrote poor C and ended up with very leaky/ugly/wrong code. I recommended they code in something they were familiar with for the subsequent interviews and gave a weak score for the coding section, despite strong problem solving and algorithms skills. From reading others feedback, I saw the candidate switched to Objective C in their later interviews and scored much better, and got hired. But if the candidate continued writing C code, the candidate likely wouldn’t have been hired. If Javascript is your most fluent language, write code in Javascript during your interview. It’s fine. It’s a real programming language.

4th Apr 2019, 1:06 AM

Dhruv Rawat

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Java and Javascript are some of the most common languages used today in industry.

4th Apr 2019, 3:25 AM

Sonic

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💮 BiShu 💮 thank you its the logical choice to getting a job nowadays. just my opinion nothing is fact.

17th May 2018, 2:48 AM

Anthony Perez

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Any 1 Language to choose.... be strong that .... and other core subjects r... very important 50% programming Lang... and 50% aside Code subjects... 😋

3rd Apr 2019, 5:25 PM

sathyapriya. R

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In time base I divide two category. 1.If you have lot of time you should start just with one. Almost every language basic concept is same. Choose this one you have good resources and do master it. After that you find your comfort zone. 2. If you haven't lot of time, you should focus what to do by programming language and find the best related one. Give your full gear(effort) but don't push up it may break out. For this read Anthony Perez's idea. After all welcome in programming. ☺🙂

4th Apr 2019, 7:06 AM

Ahad

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i think you need to learn one of the object oriented languages. i vote for Java

16th May 2018, 8:39 PM

Yehuda Volodin

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Emphasize more on logic and solving real time problem using algorithms, than programming, as in interviews, it is more of approach what matters with fundamental concept.

3rd Apr 2019, 5:58 PM

Prantik Sarkar