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| About This Book |
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| How This Book Is Organized |
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Part 1 Finding and Hooking Your Next Employer |
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Part 2 Preparing for Your Interview |
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Part 3 Everyone's Testing Time |
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| Foolish Assumptions |
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| Icons Used in This Book |
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| Beyond the Book |
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| Where to Go from Here |
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PART 1 FINDING AND HOOKING YOUR NEXT EMPLOYER |
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Chapter 1 What Should You Expect? |
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Understanding the Interviewing Process Funnel |
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Finding Companies That Are Hiring |
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A Company Is Interested! Now What? |
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Participating in phone screens |
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Going to in-person interviews |
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Dealing with One or (Better Yet) Multiple Offers |
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Chapter 2 Knowing How the Company Is Preparing |
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Learning What Each Company Is Doing |
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Gathering information about smaller business and startup needs |
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Navigating the involved hiring process at bigger companies |
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Preparing for the interviewers you'll meet |
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Finding out how the interviewer is approaching the interview---- |
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Volunteering the right information to make you shine |
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Showing other ways you're the right fit |
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Chapter 3 Understanding the Investment a Company Makes |
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Knowing Why Companies Are Risk-Averse |
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Different risks for different companies |
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Discovering What Companies Are Concerned About |
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Showing How You Can Help the Company |
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Explaining how you can help the team you'll work with |
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Demonstrating how you fit into the company culture |
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Offering examples that back you up |
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PART 2 PREPARING FOR YOUR INTERVIEW |
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Chapter 4 Searching High and Low for Companies |
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Getting Your Ducks in a Row |
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Deciding Where You Want to Work |
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Search for a local technology ecosystem |
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Figuring out the Size and Type of Company You Want to Work For |
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What Type of Job Do You Want? |
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Step three: Define your specific role |
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Learning What's Available |
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Understanding the pros and cons of job search websites |
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Using and managing recruitment agencies |
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Networking to find the unadvertised jobs |
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Chapter 5 Shining Up Your Resume and Social Media Accounts |
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Finding Out Who You Are Online |
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Googling your name to get your online image |
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Learning how to rebrand yourself |
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Cleaning Up Your Social Networking Profiles |
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Understanding your visibility online |
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Learning what helps get you an interview |
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Removing what can disqualify you in an employer's eyes |
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Making Your Resume Stand Out |
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Finding a professional resume service versus doing it yourself |
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Giving your resume service the right information |
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Advertising what you have to offer |
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Tailoring your resume to the job description |
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Fitting the cover letter to the job description |
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Adding the parts of a cover letter you need |
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Chapter 6 How Your Experience Affects Your Interview |
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Qualifying for Senior Status |
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Being More than Just a Junior |
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The right extracurricular activities |
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Leave the best for the end credits |
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Be honest about your career |
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Tell the rest of the story |
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Chapter 7 Getting Ready for the First Ring |
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Preparing for Your Phone Screen |
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Have your friends join in |
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Reviewing the Type of Phone Screen You May Get |
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Technical question screen |
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Answering basic technical and experience questions |
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Coding live on an instant messaging client |
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Making time to do assigned homework |
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Avoiding disqualifying situations |
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PART 3 EVERYONE'S TESTING TIME |
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Chapter 8 Testing Strategies for the Interviewee |
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Preparing for Questions the Company May Ask You |
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Searching online to find the top questions |
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Knowing how to answer soft skills questions |
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Leveling Up Your Coding Skills |
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Make an honest assessment |
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Getting up to speed with Codility |
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Testing your skills with LeetCode |
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Interviewing people who have interviewed before |
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Finding people who will give you mock interviews |
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Getting Feedback after the Interview |
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Chapter 9 Working with Data Structures: Garbage In Means Garbage Out |
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Learning the Basics of Data Structures |
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Managing arrays and linked lists |
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Learning about stacks in your kitchen |
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Showing You Know Data Structures |
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Questions companies have asked interviewees |
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Answering data structure questions the right way with Big O |
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Finding More Detailed Information |
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Chapter 10 Identifying Design Patterns and Using Recursion |
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Recognizing Design Patterns |
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Knowing when to use design patterns |
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Learning about singleton, adapter, facade, and more |
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Knowing What You Need about Recursion |
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Understanding Your Recursion Test |
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Solving a recursion word problem example |
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Finding more examples and resources |
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Chapter 11 Sorting with Sorting Algorithms |
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Absorbing Common Sorting Algorithms |
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Starting the tour with bubble sort |
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Expanding your knowledge about merge sort and quick sort |
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Understanding use cases for each sorting type |
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Solving Two Sorting Examples |
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Sorting one deck of cards |
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Sorting many decks of cards |
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Getting More Examples and Researching Resources |
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Loads of reading material |
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Chapter 12 Solving Puzzles Is Fun |
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Knowing What Kind of Problems an Interviewer Will Ask |
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Solving a Programming Puzzle |
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Realizing What Interviewers Want |
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Getting Better at Solving Puzzles |
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Working on puzzles in books |
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Searching online to hone your solving skills |
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Chapter 13 Closing the Deal |
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Scheduling Interviews with Multiple Companies |
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Managing Multiple Interviews with the Same Company |
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Knowing the types of interviews you may have |
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Meeting the team to see if you're a good fit |
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Grasping what you'll work on with the team |
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Learning about your future path with the company |
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Understanding When a Company May Contact You |
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Following up will not lose you the job |
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Being annoying can work for you |
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Receiving a generic response |
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Asking for more information |
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Obtaining a written offer |
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Negotiating the offer over the phone |
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Knowing when pay is not the top consideration |
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Being Clear about Your Benefits |
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Understanding the company's health plans |
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Matching your 401 (k) benefits |
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Learning how much time off you get |
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Chapter 14 Honing Your Negotiating Skills |
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Finding Information from Employees Online |
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Dealing with Company Salary Information and Expectations |
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Learning the company's cards |
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Keeping your cards close to your vest |
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Managing the Negotiation Process |
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Negotiating more than salary |
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Avoiding pitting companies against each other |
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Chapter 15 Ten Ways to Stand Out |
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Have a Professional Headshot |
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Establish a GitHub Profile |
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Have a Video Resume on Social Networking Sites |
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Create Your Own YouTube Channel |
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Have a Good Blog to Show Your Expertise |
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Produce a Podcast and/or Vlog |
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Point to Mobile Apps You've Already Developed in App Stores |
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Write and Self-Publish a Book |
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Speak at Developer and Business Events |
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Chapter 16 Ten Non-Technical Questions You May Be Asked |
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What is your greatest strength? |
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What is your greatest weakness? |
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Where do you see yourself in five years? |
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Why did you leave your last company? |
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Name a time you got into a conflict with a coworker, and how was that resolved? |
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What did you like about your last job? |
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Why do you want to work for us (or this company)? |
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Why are you the best candidate for this job? |
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Chapter 17 Ten Reasons Your Resume Will End up in the Round File |
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Your Resume Has Typos, Spelling Errors, and Uses Incorrect Grammar |
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You Start Your Resume with an Objective |
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Your Resume Layout Looks Sloppy and Is Hard to Read |
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You Have Inappropriate Material on Social Media |
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You Lie during the Phone Screen or Interview |
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You Are Arrogant and/or Argumentative |
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You Have a Bad Reputation |
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You Don't Dress Properly for the Interview |
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You Give the Impression You're Hiding Something |
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Chapter 18 Ten Useful Websites to Check Out |
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Pluralsight Design Patterns Library |
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142 Resources for Mastering the Coding Interview |
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Information Technology Resume Services |
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Chapter 19 Ten Great Books to Read |
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Cracking the Coding Interview |
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Never Split the Difference |
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The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide |
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How to Win Friends and Influence People |
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Programming Interviews Exposed |
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The Passionate Programmer |
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Head First Design Patterns |
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