Introduction
An interview is like an ongoing journey and process for every IT professional. To crack an interview and get a dream job you require two things; the first is a well-prepared resume and the second is good interview preparation.
For good interview preparation, you must have a great source of resources for preparation and practice. To get a dream job everybody would have to clear multiple rounds of interviews and tests.
Here, I have prepared a list of the top 10 sites for interview preparation:
- Glassdoor
- GeeksforGeeks
- CareerCup
- Zety Blog
- HackerRank
- IndiaBix
- AmbitionBox
- Pinterview Blog
- Quora
- LeetCode
Now, let’s go through the list in detail, one-by-one.
Glassdoor
It was founded in 2007 and it is a great place for anyone who is looking to crack an interview in a recognized company. Here, present and former employees anonymously review the companies and their management.
For interview preparation, ignore all the other sections and search only for interview questions of your selected company. There will be also interview preparation tips provided by the previously cracked interviews for the specific company.
The best way to use Glassdoor is always after you already have a target company, for example, if you have a TCS interview in a few weeks. At that time, you can spend most of your time on questions from past interviews of TCS.
GeeksforGeeks
It was founded in 2008 and the best part is that it focuses on all the categories of coding practice questions from simple to the most advanced.
This is the place where every developer knows about as it provides answers to every development topic. It has all the previous years’ questions and categorized by topics, companies, levels, etc.
The best way to use GeeksforGeeks is for multiple coding problems for practicing and that too starting from basics to advance level.
CareerCup
It was founded in 2005 and its interview question section allows you to filter coding questions by companies, categories, positions, etc.
The main page is mainly focused on the newly updated interview questions that are possible to be asked in the upcoming interviews. This is a great place to practice coding questions from the target companies.
Zety Blog
It was founded in 2014 and it is an online resume builder website that helps you to build a perfect resume. It has a blog section that is dedicated to career guidance and success.
There is a lot of awesome blogs on interview preparation tips as well as on career advice and tips to find jobs that match your profile. It also has articles about how to handle your work-life schedules and procedures. Such articles will help to clear/crack various kinds of interviews.
HackerRank
It was founded in 2009 and it very much popular among the coders and developers. It is one of the best platforms for both companies and interviewees. It provides tools to conduct an online coding interview for the companies. It helps interviewees to prepare for the interviews and practice coding.
It conducts various coding contests and they reward the winners for their hard work. You can sharpen your programming skills by using online challenges.
There are some online hackathons that may also get you hired by top companies such as Quora. There are companies all over the world those are hiring through HackerRank and based on their performance in these contests.
IndiaBix
It helps with learning and practicing aptitude questions. It contains various sections that are primarily focused on the tips, tricks, and resources to be outsmarted at various levels and rounds of the interview.
It is a great repository that helps you to prepare and learn aptitude questions that are framed based on the previous interview questions.
AmbitionBox
It was founded in 2015 and it is quite similar to Glassdoor. Employees can provide reviews about the companies, various tips to the crack the interviews, and their salaries anonymously.
Using it, you can take up practice tests to understand how the interview tests are taken and give you an exact idea about how interviews are framed.
Here, you can also learn about the tactics and basic personality development tips to rock the interviews.
Pinterview Blog
It provides various mock tests build by the professionals and that helps you to prepare well. It combines both industry professionals and premier institutes alumni to support job seekers.
Using the site, you can prepare for the multiple and various fields. The blog provides tricks and tips for facing interviews for various big companies such as TCS, Infosys, etc.
Quora
It was founded in 2009 and it is a question-answer website. Here, all over the world experts provide answers for different questions from various areas of interest.
One who is using Quora can ask questions and get them answered by experts from all over the world. Here, there are thousands of questions already answered about the interview preparation tips and resources.
Simply, go through it and get great tips, tricks, and helpful resources/material.
LeetCode
It was founded in 2015 and it is for software engineer interviews. It has a huge number of interview questions along with the online judge. Hence, you can submit the solution and check it for correct.
Here, the questions are having similar difficulty levels such as Google interviews. It supports various popular programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, etc. and many more.
Summary
I hope that these interview preparation sites can help you achieve your dream job.