What are the kinds of questions I need to prepare for if I am having an interview with a tech company?
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Slides from a presentation for Tech Under 20 event where I talked about interview questions candidates should prepare for when interviewing with tech companies
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What are the kinds of questions I need to prepare for if I am having an interview with a tech company?
- 1. What are the kinds of questions I need to prepare for if I am having an interview with a tech company? Mark Arteaga, RedBit
- 3. General Questions • Tell me about yourself? • What are you most interested in working on? • Do you like to work alone or as part of a team? • What do you do in your spare time? • If a friend needs help at 1am, what do you do?
- 4. Specific Questions? • What kind of experience do you have with XYZ language / program / application? • Tell me about projects you’ve worked on? • Do you have examples of your work? • What podcasts do you listen to? • How do you keep up to date with the latest tech, design trends? • What’s the latest conference/meetup you attended (physically or virtually)
- 5. Are you an explorer or have the ‘hacker’ mentality?
- 6. Are you an explorer or have the ‘hacker’ mentality? • Do you try to break things and then fix? • Do you question how things work? • Do you question why something was done a certain way? • Do you envision a better way to do things? • Do you want to share your knowledge? • Are you exploring on the weekends or late at night? • Are things never perfect?
- 7. Real Tech Company Questions • How would you direct traffic in the result of a catastrophic earthquake? – Salesforce • What is a product you love but is marketed very badly? How would you market it differently? – Microsoft • Jeff Bezos walks into your office and says you can have a million dollars to launch your best entrepreneurial idea. What is it? – Amazon • How do you deal with difficult people? – Texas Instruments • What's the simplest way you can break a clock? – Apple source: businessinsider.com
- 8. Real Tech Company Questions (MSFT) • On my way to California, I saw a man with 5 wives. Each wife had 5 bags. Each bag had 5 cats. Each cat had 5 kittens. Kitten, cats, bags, wives. How many were going to California? • How do you test a water bottle? • How can you reduce this code to one line source: businessinsider.com
- 9. Please Do … • Be on time – be early • Turn off your device • Dress presentably – business casual • Research the company • Know the name of the person / title you are being interviewed by • Think about your answer / speak directly / use eye contact • Send a thank you
- 10. Please Do • Bring examples of what you have created • Bring source code and be prepared to explain it • Show me your • GitHub account (or other source repos) • Portfolio if you are a designer • Show me side projects and explain them to me
- 11. Please Don’t • Lie about your skills • Lie about something easily found on social media • Don’t try to pass work as your own if you didn’t create it • Don’t try to pass work as your own if another team member did it If you get hired and I find out, I will fire you. Someone did this and lasted 1day.
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- Most candidates come in with the mentality of ‘what can this company provide for me?’ but what they should do is have the mentality of ‘what can I provide to this company and contribute?’ … How do you stand out? And it really depends on what type of job you want, are you wanting to get into a corp dev environment where things go a bit slower or startup/fast paced environment where you are working on multiple things.
- Questions about what you are like on and to see if you would be a good fit, basically want to find out you are dependable, trustworthy etc.
- Here I’m trying to figure out what is your technical level or your design levels. This is all dependent on your position you are applying to
- Here I’m trying to find out how much you love this industry, do you think about it all the time, if something is not working do you keep at it or do you just say ‘well it’s 5pm time to go’. In this industry things are always changing and something new comes out everyday