An intern who received internship offers from Facebook, Google, and Apple shares the 7 books that prepared her to ace every interview
Jessica Pointing
You may need to hit the books if you want to ace your next interview.
Jessica Pointing, a Harvard junior who received internship offers from companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, McKinsey, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley, notes that preparation is crucial for any interview.
She provided Business Insider with the list of the books she used to prepare for her marathon of interviews, along with an explanation of what makes each book so helpful. The list can also be found on Pointing's blog, Optimize Guide.
If you're looking to get ready for interviews in the fields of software engineering, quant finance, product management, consulting, investment banking, or sales and trading, it's probably a good idea to check out some of these titles.
'Cracking the Coding Interview' by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Amazon"'Cracking the Coding Interview' summarizes the fundamentals of algorithms and data structures, and contains more than a hundred practice questions. The book also contains various methods to solving programming questions. I like it because you can review the theory, and then practice interview questions with the book."
'Introduction to Algorithms' by Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein
Amazon"Although 'Cracking the Coding Interview' provides a summary of the fundamentals of algorithms and data structures, it is important to know some of these algorithms in depth — which is why you should have a copy of an algorithms book handy."
'Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology' by Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro
Amazon"'Cracking the PM Interview' covers a lot of different topics for a PM interview; for example, the behavioral questions, the product questions, and the coding questions. The book gives useful examples for answers to some interview questions, and shows you how to structure your responses. I like it because it is a comprehensive book of the different aspects of a PM interview."
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