Algorithms @ Betterment

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HOST:

Betterment (https://www.betterment.com/) is the fastest-growing automated investing service, helping people to better manage, protect, and grow their wealth through smarter technology. The service offers a globally diversified portfolio of ETFs, designed to help provide you with the best possible expected returns for retirement planning, building wealth, and other savings goals. Betterment is a CNBC Disruptor 50 and Webby award winner and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. Betterment helps people to achieve a smarter financial future with minimal effort and for a fraction of the cost of traditional financial services.

DESCRIPTION:

This monthly meetup covers algorithms and other interview questions. We'll split attendees into two main groups:

Whiteboarding skills
You'll solve algorithms in small groups.

Beginners
You'll pair with other members and practice answering easier algo questions. This group will be led by a more experienced developer who will help you out when you get stuck.

Our host will give a short talk about their interview process.

Schedule:
6:30 Arrive/Network/Food
7:00 Welcome from Women Who Code
7:05 Welcome from Betterment and a short talk on interview technique
7:20 Meetup starts
9:30 Event ends

Do you have experience interviewing software engineers? We'd love for you to join us!

Resources:

The WWCNYC github contains questions (and solutions) from past events, as well as upcoming problems!

https://github.com/WomenWhoCodeNYC/Algorithms

Other Resources:
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~kelu/interviews/questions.html
http://katemats.com/interview-questions/
http://meetupresources.herokuapp.com/index.html
http://codingforinterviews.com/practice

Resources for beginners or anyone who needs to review:

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/algorithms-and-data-structures--cms-20437
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/tag/algorithms/

For our beginners, we recommend creating accounts on either http://jsbin.com/ or http://codepen.io/ , to give you an place to practice your algorithms problem-solving skills.