Interview Tips for Information Technology Professionals

How to Ace that IT interview – Part 1

We see very few companies give their people, outside of HR, training on interviewing. For most IT positions, the company IT manager or programmer conducting the interview has not done a lot of interviewing. They inevitably ask questions they have been asked when they were job searching.  This gives the candidate a great opportunity to influence the interview process in your favor. We are not talking about some machiavillain twist. Understanding where the company is coming from and learning what questions to ask can help you make a great impression in the IT interview. Here are some things to [...]

How to do a Better Technical Interview

I cannot even count how many technical interviews I’ve done. No less than 500. There were phases in my career where I continuously did 4-6 a week for weeks on end. At least half of those were done the wrong way. Luckily it was the first half. From this, I have learned how to do a better technical interview. I’ve noticed when a lot of people do technical interviews, they fall into the same trap I first fell into. They focus on whether the candidate knows the same technical trivia the interviewer knows. On a software team, most of [...]