About the authors

We co-developed algorithms and systems that are used by over one billion people everyday. We have extensive experience with interviewing candidates, making hiring decisions, and being interviewed.

Adnan Aziz is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he conducts research and teaches classes in applied algorithms. He received his PhD from The University of California at Berkeley; his undergraduate degree is from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.

Tsung-Hsien Lee is a Software Engineer at Google. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook. He received both his MS and undergraduate degrees fromNational Tsing Hua University. He has a passion for designing and implementing algorithms. He likes to apply algorithms on every aspect of his life. He takes special pride in helping to organize Google Code Jam 2014 and Google Code Jam 2015.

Amit Prakash is a co-founder and CTO of ThoughtSpot, a Silicon Valley startup. Previously, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Google, where he worked primarily on machine learning problems that arise in the context of online advertising. Before that he worked at Microsoft in the web search team. He received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin; his undergraduate degree is from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.