This presentation gives a guidelines, hints and best practices about passing an interview for software engineering / IT / computer programming job. It discusses the typical mistakes and how to avoid them, the typical interview questions for computer programmer / software engineer jobs, as well as the entire interview preparation process.
The author Svetlin Nakov (http://www.nakov.com) has long experience in conducting interviews for hiring computer programmers, software engineers and IT professionals.
27. Typical General Questions Where are you from? What High school have you graduated? What University have you graduated or you are studying now? When you started programming? How many books about computer programming you have read? What was the name of the last? Do you believe that computer programming is your passion and your future job? Can you work on full time (8 hours/day)? If not how many hours a week you can work?
28. Typical General Questions (2) What are your English skills? Can you freely talk on the telephone in English? What are your plans for the next few years? How you see your career after 2 or 3 years? How you inform yourself about new technologies? Do you read news or blogs? Which sites? Shall you study more after you graduate your current University degree? Maybe abroad? Describe your typical work day.