Job interviews and coding tests are daunting. But most of us have to go through them at least once in our lives. Like Mike Mroczka, my guest, who is a software engineer. To share his experiences and help others he wrote a book how to get on top of coding interviews: "Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview".

I met with Mike to discuss how interviewing and testing coding skills have changed, what the common pitfalls are that candidates should look out for and what it is we can do to prepare ourselves for the (coding) interview.

Links:

• https://www.mikemroczka.com Mike's home page
• https://www.beyondctci.com the book's homepage
  • https://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com Cracking the Coding Interview book
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/daisyaugerdominguez/2025/06/29/when-to-change-jobs/ article on people changing jobs
• https://interviewing.io
• https://codesignal.com
• https://www.hackerrank.com
• https://leetcode.com
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw Google example interview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1OLMjG52I Monty Python's Silly Job Interview sketch

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