Tips for Technical Interview

 Tips for Technical Interview :

 

Here is our List of Tips for Scoring well in Technical Interviews

 

1.) Knowledge of programming is very important. Sometimes at your interview

you will be given a programming  quiz  where you will have to answer a short

test on a language such as Java, for example:

 

   -  What is the most basic element of a java program?  i.e. a class

   -  What do RMI / JDBC / RPC stand for? What are they used for?

   -  Explain what an interface is in Java, and what it is used for.

 

Revision of Computer Programming I and II modules would be perfect material

to prepare for this.

 

2.) You could also be asked to do a problem solving exercise where you ll be

given a problem and you have to write out a solution on a whiteboard or on

paper and show the interview panel your answer. The key to doing this

successfully is not to panic and to make sure the panel know your logic

behind how you come to your solution.

 

Another recommendation would be for students to practice their problem

solving skills even in pseudo code as the other key part of an interview

could consist of a problem which required a solution to be drawn out on a

white board. This sounds like quite a daunting prospect but as long as you

talk the interviewers through what you are thinking and do not rush it all

will be good.

 

3.) It is important that you appear outgoing and friendly and stress

team-working skills and give a history of group projects completed at

Queen's.4.) You might also be asked general questions such as:

 

 

   -  How do you cope with difficult workloads?

   -  Name a difficult situation you've experienced and how you cope with

   it.

   -  How do you resolve a difference of opinion with a superior?

 

5.) Browse throw some of the site listing Technical interview Question and

answers like http://www.techinterviews.com/ or http://www.geekinterview.com/

 

6.) Testing questions:

 

You have a whiteboard, and are given a question along the lines of

 

"You have a method that checks if a triangle is scalene. It takes as

parameters three integers representing the sizes of the sides. What inputs

would you use as tests for this method?"

 

So you've to write down what inputs you would try to determine if the method

worked 100% correctly, and for each state what output you would expect. So

you have to put in sizes that are valid, sizes where the triangle is

equilateral, sizes where it can not be a triangle (e.g. 5000, 1, 1),

negative integers.

 

7.) Programming Questions:

 

You could be given a matrix (2d array) of letters, and had to write on the

whiteboard, as close to java as possible, a method that would search through

that matrix for a given word.

 

e.g.    Search for DOG in the following

 

|REGGDA|

|HUDOGC|

|PQOKCX|

|GFOMPO|

|POIREJ|

 

So you are writing a method like findWord (char[][] letterMatrix, String

wordToFind) { ...

 

Another question might be to write a method that checked if a word was a

palindrome.

 

8.) If you don t know the answer to a question, don t try and bluff your way

through it because you ll be caught out in the end. Admit that you don t

know or that you haven t covered it yet in your course, it s alright to not

know the answer to everything.

 

9.) At the end of your interview it helps to ask questions and to seem

genuinely interested in working at the company. Of course, don t act

interested if you re not actually interested! There s no point trying to get

a place in a job you won t enjoy and somebody else would have benefited

from. Research the company beforehand and have a list of questions you would

like answered.

 

   - What languages they used?

   - What IDE's they used?

   - What sort of work I should be expecting?

   - What the social life was like at the company?

 

All the Best to all you guys there. We hope these tips will help you in

Interview.