But I don’t feel that’s true,” says Gayle Laakmann McDowell, founder of technical career consulting firm CareerCup and author of Cracking the Coding Interview.

What’s more important than having a degree, McDowell says, is being able to crack the coding interview, a completely manageable undertaking if candidates understand what they’re up against.

In preparation, students spend months studying for these interviews, enrolling in academic workshops, drooling over the latest edition of Cracking the Coding Interview and laboring away on ...

Thereafter, the first step was to clear all the interviews. I had 7 rounds of interviews. I needed to be technically prepared. So I practiced coding algorithms from books like How to Crack the Coding ...