[michael_mroczka]

Hey, I know Shaun personally, and I think his book is excellent. Our books, despite seeming similar, are very different. His is about recognizing preset patterns, and that is about the extent of it. No outreach advice, negotiation strategies, resume opinions, behavioral help, etc. His book also seems to focus heavily on quantity, as he ends up going through 100+ leetcode problems.

I'd heartily endorse his book, but they definitely are more different than similar. EPI is also another excellent book with a very different style.

Here is a link to nine chapters of Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview for free in case you're still curious about it: https://bctci.co/free-chapters

[syntaxing]

Whoa, I appreciate the sneak peek PDF and response! CCTI was my first book I bought for grinding software engineer interviews. I’ll definitely revisit whether to get the new version after reading the first 9 chapters!

[michael_mroczka]

Happy to help. :)

The book also has a discord server (link in the free PDF!), so if you have other questions, feel free to ping me there with them! We are about to start the weekly leetcode contest, and there will be a write-up after it finishes on which techniques and templates we've used from the book, which might give you more of a sense of how different it is. Hope to see you there, my friend!

[syntaxing]

Your proactive responses has me sold! Just bought the book off Amazon. I'm looking forward joining the Discord/Leetcode Contest too. It's really hard for me to get my momentum going and hoping the contest will give me the boost I need!

[michael_mroczka]

Hey, thanks for the support. You can always reach out to me directly on Discord if you need anything. Nil and I wrote all of the technical content for the book, so we are happy to help in any way we can and do our best to stay available—especially to our supporters! :) I hope to see you there!