Nailing the technical interview
medium.com/@bojan.ivanac/nailing-the-technica...Posted Mar 9, 2018, 11:35 AM UTC
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Standard silver bullet medium article... in actual real life things aren't made in stone
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The author seems to be very inexperienced or be in a stage where he is learning about the real world from his limited experiences in life & the interviewing world.
I think a lot depends on where you are being interviewed. Depending on the company if you get your BigO wrong they might not give a damn about how impressive you were to start with.
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Well, I am still learning, all of the comments here have helped to learn some stuff and change my mindset a bit!
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It is ok to be a beginner, everyone is at some point in time. Good Luck !! Do well.
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When you turn these around and use them against the interviewer, they sound like this:
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These questions achieve a lot. First, the interviewer won’t be able to ask you the same questions later in the interview because you were the one who used them first.
Why would I not turn the question around? Of course I'm going to ask your opinion about why you're a good fit for the company and I'm going to ask it whether you already did ask what I think about it or not.
Don’t be late, you should come in 15 minutes earlier than agreed to.
Well no, sorry. If I ask someone to come at an arbitrary point of time it's because I have time in that slot to interview someone. Coming early won't give you any advantage.
Don’t take out your phone and put it onto the table. This sends the message to the interviewer that they aren’t just all that important to you. Also, mute your phone.
Again, I don't give a crap about it. Just ask if it's alright before answering or mute the phone when you get the call.
Don’t put your hands underneath the table. Put them onto the table and do the Angela Merkel hand thing .
Why should I care where you keep your hands? Don't do anything grossly inconvenient with your hands and keep them wherever you're comfortable with.
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The point of arriving 15 minutes in advance is not to impress, it's because arriving on time at a place you've never been is hard. "Oh, their office is in the other building" happens, and it's usually not your fault.
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If that's the meaning of the phrase that's a pretty odd way to convey the concept. A simple "Be sure to arrive on time for the interview" is way clearer and has no risk to pass for "Be there 15 minutes before you need to" (which I still think was the real meaning of the sentence).
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Well, every interviewer is different. It's impossible to make a definitive all around guide for an interview. Every company and person is different. Some of the things you don't care about might catch someone else's eye. That's completely normal and understandable. I made these points because they're easy to fix and might make a difference to somebody.
Thanks for the comment.
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I don't do great with whiteboard work, but if you send me away with some homework, I will crush it. I've always like companies that send you away with homework. I'm surprised more companies haven't abandoned the whiteboard for homework. One interesting one I had to solve was a crossword puzzle solver. Sure it's simple, but I was able to display recursion, efficiency, multi-threading, naming conventions, code reusability.
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People with experience don't want to have to create a nonsense small program for every job interview. They want to talk with lots of companies to find the one they want to work at.
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Here at my company, we have a test you have to do first and then if you pass you come in for an interview. Helps to filter out a lot of people.
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I've seen several companies do this. I like that idea.
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pretty much summed up the article for me.
I am a R&D engineer with 12+ yrs of exp with a semiconductor company. It's this not that important part where I rejected 100s of candidates without a second thought.