Five CS Skills I Wish I Learned in College

摘要

I started working full-time as a software engineer (SWE) at Google NYC in 2012, after graduating from Harvey Mudd College with a degree in math and computer science. Prior to joining full time, I did three SWE internships with Google, working at YouTube in the San Bruno office and with the Google Docs team in NYC. By the time I did my first technical interview with Google, I was fortunate enough to have learned the skills and topics usually covered in these interviews, which tend to focus on coding, algorithms, and data structures. In general, if you can pass a Google technical interview, you can learn the rest of the skills on the job, but there are some key areas where I wish I'd been better prepared in college.