[Evbn]

I (re-)ead a dozen chapters and sketched solutions to almost every problem in my head, over a few weeks of evening and weekends, leading up to my best interview performances ever. YMMV, but I saw a correlation with obvious mechanism of causation. For the most coveted jobs, "fake books" don't cut it, you can't memorize every question you will see.

[pja]

CLRS was my Google interview prep book.

Sadly, it didn't prepare me for the questions about unix filesystem data structures. But I don't think I can blame CLRS for that :)