[atemerev]

OK, who has published cheat codes for most programming interviews?

Seriously, if you can program at all, and want to be a better programmer (like, really well paid one), this is the greatest single thing I ever saw for this purpose. Just run through all examples and understand how they work, and you are already in top 1%.

Then, you can move to SICP and Project Euler in your spare time.

[taway_1212]

If you want to be a really well paid programmer, just learn java and assorted technologies and go work for a bank.

[atemerev]

...and be outsourced to the fine Bangalorian sweatshops sooner or later. :) And it is not "really well paid". Really well paid is, like, 250k/year, and it is somewhat hard to extract it from just Java in an average bank.

[alexbanks]

> ...and be outsourced to the fine Bangalorian sweatshops sooner or later.

In my experience, the jobs of the mediocre get outsourced to said sweatshops to be done by equally mediocre people for cheaper. I've worked for two big banks as a software dev, and there are plenty of long term, extremely high paid positions for Java engineers that'll never get outsourced.

The model seems to be: have a group of on-site, well paid smart people build out a toolset, toss it to offshore to build useless CRUD features onto.

> Really well paid is, like, 250k/year, and it is somewhat hard to extract it from just Java in an average bank.

I disagree. There were a bunch of engineers at both banks that were clearing ~200-300k a year, and not in San Francisco. Granted, some of them were Oracle DBAs, but there were a bunch of Java-specific people as well.

[atemerev]

I agree with both your points.

[akhilcacharya]

Working at a Big4 or prop shop pays even better (in most cases...)

[atemerev]

Yeah, figured that already.