Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder/CEO of CareerCup.com and the author of Cracking the * interview books (Cracking the Coding Interview, Cracking the PM Interview, and Cracking the Tech Career).

Her background is in software development, with a BSE/MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and prior experience as a software engineer at Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

In addition to running the CareerCup website/forum and writing books, she consults with startups to help them through acquisition interviews and with other tech companies on their engineering hiring process. 

She can be found online at twitter.com/gayle, facebook.com/gayle, and gayle <at> gayle.com.

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