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Master hard C++ interview questions — visually.

Step-through animations of the exact questions Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, top banks and HFT firms ask. Watch each concept happen, at your own pace.

  • 90+ animated lessons — core C++, concurrency, STL internals, system design & coding challenges
  • Every hard concept as an interactive animation: vtables, move semantics, lock-free queues, deadlock…
  • Real interview problems, tagged by company — Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe and more
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How Virtual Dispatch Really Works (vtable indexing)live preview
Each virtual reserves a fixed slot indexVTABLES · read-onlyShape::vtable0x4a10[-1]type_info → Shape[0]area() → Shape::area[1]name() → Shape::nameCircle::vtable0x4a48[-1]type_info → Circle[0]area() → Circle::area[1]name() → Shape::namesShape* objectSOURCE · declaration ordervirtual double area()[0]virtual const char* name()[1]HOW THE CALL LOWERSstdout:

At compile time the compiler walks Shape's virtual functions in declaration order and reserves a fixed slot: area() -> [0], name() -> [1]. These indices are baked into the binary and never change.

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See it, don't memorize it

Each concept is a step-through animation you control — the diagram morphs as the code runs.

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Asked in real interviews

Built from 200+ interviews at Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, banks and HFT firms — tagged by company.

Senior-level depth

Not surface trivia — vtable layout, memory ordering, lock-free queues, RVO, the why behind every answer.

Everything a C++ interview throws at you

100+ animated lessons across core C++, concurrency, the STL, modern C++ (11 through 20), design patterns, system design and coding challenges — each built from real interview questions.

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Core C++ & memory

vtables & virtual dispatch, object layout, RAII, the rule of 0/3/5, move semantics, copy elision/RVO, const-correctness and the process memory model.

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Concurrency

threads, mutexes & condition variables, the C++ memory model & atomics, false sharing, deadlock's four conditions, producer–consumer and lock-free queues.

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STL internals

how vector grows, map vs unordered_map, red-black trees, hash tables, small-string optimization, iterators and allocator basics.

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Modern C++ (11→20)

smart pointers, lambdas, perfect forwarding, variadic templates, SFINAE & concepts, ranges, coroutines, std::span, std::optional and the spaceship operator.

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Design patterns

all the GoF patterns plus SOLID — Singleton, Factory, Strategy, Observer, Visitor, Adapter, Decorator and more, in idiomatic C++.

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Coding & system design

LeetCode-style C++ problems, rate limiters, LRU cache, key-value stores, an HFT order path, plus leadership & behavioral interview prep.

Frequently asked questions

What is C++ Interview Prep?

An animated C++ interview preparation site. Every hard concept — vtables, move semantics, lock-free queues, deadlock, STL internals, design patterns — is taught as an interactive step-through animation you control, based on the real questions asked at Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, top banks and HFT firms.

Which companies' interview questions are covered?

Questions are drawn from 200+ real interviews and tagged by company, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, FICO, major banks and high-frequency-trading firms, spanning core C++, concurrency, STL internals, system design and coding challenges.

Is it for beginners or senior engineers?

It targets senior-level depth — the 'why' behind every answer, from vtable layout and memory ordering to lock-free programming — but each concept is built up visually, so strong intermediate engineers can follow along too.

How are the lessons taught?

Each lesson is an explorable, step-through animation: the diagram morphs as the code runs and you control the pace with Next/scrub, instead of passively watching a video or memorizing bullet points.

Stop guessing. Start seeing how C++ really works.

Full access for ₹499 / month.

The people behind it

Promoter & Investor

Alok Chaturvedi

Alok Chaturvedi

Promoter & Investor · Business & Product Leader

Business & product leader and investor with 16+ years in capital markets and fintech. Has built, scaled and owned the P&L for mobile-first stock broking, mutual fund, derivatives and wealth platforms serving millions of Indian investors — across HDFC Securities, Paytm Money, Estee and Reliance. Currently investing in and building WealthTech.

🎓 IIM KozhikodeMBA — Finance & Strategy
16+
Years in capital markets
8+
Years senior leadership
Millions
Investors reached

Companies

HDFC SecuritiesPaytm MoneyEstee AdvisorsReliance CapitalEdelweiss Broking

Focus areas

WealthTechStock BrokingMutual FundsDerivativesP&L & GTMProduct StrategyBusiness GrowthCompliance & Risk

Certifications: NISM (Forward Markets & Products)

Your Instructor

Ashutosh Pandey

Ashutosh Pandey

C++ Architect · HFT · Low-Latency & HPC · Capital Markets

Architect and owner of Dhansetu's end-to-end quant trading platform. 15+ years designing and building low-latency, multi-threaded backend systems on Linux and Windows for capital markets - HFT market-data pipelines, order books and backtesting engines in C++17/20, Python and PostgreSQL, with a relentless focus on latency, throughput and binary-data efficiency. These lessons distill the C++ I use and the questions I have been asked across 200+ interviews.

15+
Years in low-latency systems
HFT
Capital-markets infrastructure

Companies

DhansetuNSETCSTata CommunicationsQuantizer ResearchPersistent SystemsCognizantPhi Robotics Research

Low-Latency Programming

C++14 / 17 / 20CPythonPostgreSQLLinuxMultithreading & ConcurrencySockets / IPCLow-Latency OptimizationMarket Data (MBP / OHLC / TBT)Order BookBacktesting EnginesHPCKafkaDistributed SystemsCMake / GDBSTLDesign PatternsDSA / Algorithms

Certifications: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) · NISM

C++ Interview Prep — Animated Lessons for Hard C++ Questions