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| ====== How to Prepare for a Technical Interview ====== | ====== How to Prepare for a Technical Interview ====== |
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| Text taken from [[http://gracehopper.org/2010/news/how-to-prepare-for-a-technical-interview/|Grace Hopper Celebration web site]]. | ===== Professor Sprenkle's Notes from Students ===== |
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| | * Know the projects listed on your resume well |
| | * Know how large the project was in terms of lines of code |
| | * Be able to answer questions like: |
| | * what was your favorite project to work on and why? |
| | * what is your process for developing code/an application? |
| | * what programming language do you like to use best? |
| | * what would you do if you are out of time but haven't completed a project for a customer? |
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| | ===== Resources for Coding Interviews ===== |
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| | * [[https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/coding-interview-prep/|Coding interviews: Everything you need to prepare]] |
| | * [[https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coding-interviews-for-dummies-5e048933b82b/|How to Rock the Coding Interview]] |
| | * [[https://wlu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WLU_INST/r69n1a/alma991010574971904161|Programming Interviews Exposed]] - available online from library (see instructions) |
| | * [[https://wlu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WLU_INST/r69n1a/alma991008489399704161|Cracking the Coding Interview]] - in the library |
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| | ===== Phone Interviews ===== |
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| | These are more general than technical interviews. Try to find out what to expect from your interviewer. |
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| | * [[https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-ace-a-telephone-interview-for-a-job-in-tech-2072014|How to Ace a Telephone Job Interview]] |
| | * [[https://www.thebalance.com/phone-interview-questions-and-answers-2061217|Phone Interview Questions and the Best Answers]] |
| | * [[https://theinterviewguys.com/phone-interview-tips/#|Phone Interview Tips]] |
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| | ===== Advice from GHC Web Site ===== |
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| | //Advice copied from [[http://gracehopper.org/2010/news/how-to-prepare-for-a-technical-interview/|Grace Hopper Celebration]] web site.// |
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| To help you prepare for the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration Career Fair, we’ve put together a how to prepare for your interview cheat sheet. We would like to thank Katie Albers and Laura Downey who contributed to this article. Here are some of the ways you can prepare for an interview: | To help you prepare for the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration Career Fair, we’ve put together a how to prepare for your interview cheat sheet. We would like to thank Katie Albers and Laura Downey who contributed to this article. Here are some of the ways you can prepare for an interview: |
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| * Before you arrive at your interview, extensively research the Company you will be interviewing with including their website, annual report, product reviews, media reports, financial news. | * Before you arrive at your interview, extensively research the company you will be interviewing with including their website, annual report, product reviews, media reports, financial news. |
| * Create a set of basic stories that illustrate how you are qualified for the position. Go in with a handful of stories prepared of successful projects that you completed in previous positions. Be sure the examples are diverse, for example, ones representing your work with local, off-shored and remote resources; start-up; enterprise-wide; small and large teams; etc. For each story prepare notes regarding what difficulties you faced, how you dealt with them, what was easy and why, why you used certain tools, difficulties you encountered personally and what you did about them, results (preferably in numbers), and so forth. Memorize these stories and be able to explain what they illustrate about you. | * Create a set of basic stories that illustrate how you are qualified for the position. Go in with a handful of stories prepared of successful projects that you completed in previous positions. Be sure the examples are diverse, for example, ones representing your work with local, off-shored and remote resources; start-up; enterprise-wide; small and large teams; etc. For each story prepare notes regarding what difficulties you faced, how you dealt with them, what was easy and why, why you used certain tools, difficulties you encountered personally and what you did about them, results (preferably in numbers), and so forth. Memorize these stories and be able to explain what they illustrate about you. |
| * Also have personal stories prepared such as times when people disliked you but you made them thinking differently, when you not only succeeded but exceeded expectation, when you failed but recovered from that failure, and so forth. | * Also have personal stories prepared such as times when people disliked you but you made them thinking differently, when you not only succeeded but exceeded expectation, when you failed but recovered from that failure, and so forth. |
| * Remember there may be no I in team but there are I’s in interview. Interviewers want to hear what you did and what your personal contribution to your team/project was. If you were very junior on the team and can’t discuss a contribution you made, then talk about what you learned. | * Remember there may be no I in team but there are I’s in interview. Interviewers want to hear what you did and what your personal contribution to your team/project was. If you were very junior on the team and can’t discuss a contribution you made, then talk about what you learned. |
| * Be prepared for some of the more standard questions such as: | * Be prepared for some of the more standard questions such as: |
