The Google Resume
How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company

Extremely fluffy. Some good content, but could've been 30 pages long, rather than 200.......more

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is a household name in the world of Tech recruiting, an ex-Googler, Microsoftie and Appleite. This book is more of a companion book to her better known book "Cracking the Coding interview" and gives every aspiring Googler/Microsoftie/Appleite an inside look into what life is......more

When I opened this book I assumed that my reaction to it would be somewhere in the spectrum from 'meh - another useless would-be advice book', to 'I hate this and everything about it'. I thought the latter was a possibility because in the blurb photo the author looks like an earnest Young Republican......more

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't gone through the technical interview process and wants a technical job - it's pretty accurate (and not just for the big name companies listed in the title). For people who've been there, done that - it's a good refresher if you need it. I find i......more

Nothing particularly special, these days you can get a lot of the information contained in the book free on the Internet, but in saying that, it's not all in one convenient place the way it is in this book. You'd have to really absorb yourself in a career forum like /r/cscareerquestions for weeks or......more