I have some exciting news. Along with Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, and Nil Mamano, I’m co-writing the official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview (often called the bible of technical interview prep)! The sequel is fittingly called Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview.

I’ve always wanted to write a book about technical interviewing. And this is it.

Technical interviews are much harder today than they used to be. Engineers study for months and routinely get down-leveled because the technical hiring bar has never been higher. Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview, in addition to covering a bunch of new questions and topics, teaches you how to think instead of memorizing. You’ll still have to do the work, of course, but we’ll teach you to work smarter.

We added thirteen new technical topics—including sliding windows, prefix arrays, and rolling hashes—and over 150 new problems ranging from popular current questions to fresh twists on the classics. Each problem includes step-by-step walkthroughs, with practice available with our online AI Interviewer. And of course this book was written in partnership with interviewing.io. We’ve pulled in data from over 100k FAANG mock interviews, and we include hundreds of curated interview replays from interviewing.io (shared with permission of course) – watch people make mistakes and learn so you’re not doomed to repeat them.

But it’s not just about interview prep. In today’s job market, the bar is higher but it’s also harder than ever to get noticed and run your job search end-to-end.  My excellent co-authors killed it on the technical chapters. I focused on writing the job search stuff, including:

• How to negotiate, exactly what to say, and how to not screw up your negotiations before they even start
• How to manage your job search, end to end, and balance interview prep with applications and outreach
• A worksheet to help you figure out what order you need to engage with the companies you’re targeting to ensure that all your offers come in at the same time
• How to get in the door at top companies without relying on referrals, including email templates and examples of good and bad outreach
• An internal look at FAANG (and other) company rubrics to help understand what interviewers really care about, no matter what company you’re applying to
• What you need to know about behavioral interviews, whether you want to or not
• Dirty secrets that recruiters and interviewers won’t tell you
• A list of very specific questions to ask your interviewers (not just to look smart but to learn useful things)
• How technical interviews got to be so broken and how to get over hating them so you can win

It’s everything I’ve blogged about for the last 15 years but fleshed out with much more detail and actionable advice. And of course this book was written in partnership with interviewing.io. We’ve pulled in data from over 100k FAANG mock interviews, and we have a bunch of curated interview replays for you that illustrate the points we make in the book. Watch those and learn from them (especially the failed ones).

If you read it, let me know what you think. Technical interviewing sucks (and so does looking for a job). But this book will help you navigate a difficult, broken process and get out alive.

Pre-orders and purchases of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview get a $50 discount for interviewing.io. The book costs $45, so it’s not a bad deal. The book is coming out in January of 2025, but you can pre-order on Amazon now. You can also visit the official site for the book.