Interview essentials
The smallest set of paths that creates the biggest improvement in real interviews.
We neatly divide our material into crash courses so you only focus on what you need. Get better at technical interviews and level up as a developer every day with our newsletters and interactive courses. Chronological order recommended but not required. Courses are added to and updated on a weekly basis.
We start with Interview Essentials! These critical courses are the bedrock of the AlgoDaily platform. The overwhelming majority of our students will need to go through an algorithmic coding interview, or a systems design or architecture interview. If you're limited on time, follow these curated guides to get to mastery quickly.
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Technical Interview Preparation
We start with a crash course on the overall strategy for landing your dream software engineer job, with technical interview preparation being the largest piece. In this one-section crash course, you quickly learn:
- How to use the AlgoDaily platf...
Data Structures and Algorithms 🚀
The O.G. of all of our material, this jam-packed course presents all the necessary data structures and algorithmic concepts you need to know for any whiteboard interview.
With our award-winning visual and interactive method, we break down tough and compl...
Systems Design and Architecture 🔥
Systems design is the process by which we, as engineers, make decisions regarding the elements of a complex application. These system elements-- such as the data models and structures, the overall architecture, how we think about modules and components,...
Role specialties
Go deep on the signal your target role weights most heavily.
Nowadays, there's many different parts of software engineering looking for talent. Data engineers may need to hone in on their SQL skills, while frontend engineers should really know their Javascript. Pick and choose the focuses that you'll need come game day.
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Coding Fundamentals Refresher
Use this course to re-familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of programming languages: variables, loops, arrays, dictionaries, etc. While it serves to be a refresher for more experienced engineers, beginners can also use it to get back up to speed.
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Frontend Engineering and Javascript
User interfaces are becoming increasingly complex, especially on the web. Frontend engineering questions are now fair game for all software engineers, as your user experience will be compromised until you've mastered this area.
To help you master frontend ...
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SQL Mastery for Interviews
SQL is the standard language used to design, create and manage relational databases. Relational databases are made up of a set of tables containing rows and columns of data. Each column in a table represents a category of data, and each row contains a val...
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DevOps/SDLC Cheat Sheets
Software engineering is best played as a team sport, and collaboration among many developers creates complexity when building software. As an industry, we've created an impressive set of tools around code reviews, merging code, managing configurations, rele...
Machine Learning Fundamentals
In this series, AlgoDaily is presenting to you, the hottest topic of this era, Machine Learning. Throughout this series, you will be starting from scratch, and slowly learn from basic to advanced algorithms of Machine Learning. We will walk you through ...
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Object Oriented Programming
This next AlgoDaily course will describe the fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming and Object Oriented Design to you in the simplest way possible. It's a series of lessons that will start from the basics of classes as blueprints and objects as buc...
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Interview Cheat Sheets by Topic
Once you've covered the big pieces of technical interviews, you want to be prepared for any language and ecosystem-specific gotchas. After familiarizing yourself with algorithms, systems design, OOP, and frontend-- make sure you've got your bases covered by...
Become a Startup Engineer
This is a course designed to take someone who's just learned the fundamentals of programming, and guide them into building a simple web application. Over time, we'll keep building features and payment integrations until it's a profitable SaaS web application.
Interviews and offers
Turn technical competence into a strong hiring signal and a better final offer.
Assessment of your soft skills, leadership experiences, and how you vibe with your current and future teammates are all fair game. Behavioral questions, and the stuff that surrounds the technical interviews (like getting referrals, writing a good resume, knowing what to look out for, etc.) are significant parts of the software engineering recruiting process. We break down what you need to know in the following crash courses.
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Getting the Interview and Job
Software engineering is defined as "the use of engineering fundamentals within the field of software development". The primary goal is the creation, improvement, and maintenance of (hopefully useful) software.
To break in, there's a number of non-techn...
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After Landing the Job Offer
So you've done it, and the written offer letter is in your hands. What now?
This is a section covering what to do after landing the offer, with some tips around choosing the right company for you and figuring out what's next. We also dive into how to max...