I remember my first technical interview very clearly. I entered a dimly-lit office with bare concrete walls and floors. Everybody there looked like they were counting down the minutes until they could leave. I sat at a pop-up table and a crusty-looking man with a cane sat down across from me. In his hand he had at least five pages of interview questions. He handed them to one of his employees, muttered a few gruff instructions, and ten minutes later he was fast asleep on his chair as the employee read the questions aloud.
The questions all sounded something like this:
"Can you explain the interaction between XEP and YAR/TR in a distributed local network?"
I said "I don't know" at least 50 times and then the interview was over.
A couple of days later I got a one-line email from them that said:
"We cannot hire you because you do not know much about the Internet."
(I kid you not.)
There's no way I could pass that interview today or tomorrow or in 10 years, either. And I don't feel bad about it. Not a single person I saw in that office looked remotely happy.
Despite not knowing much about the Internet, I went on to become a well-employed web developer (and people seem to think I'm competent at it).
Long story short, don't sweat it. You will fail some technical interviews and pass others, and that's okay.
I once was invited for an interview in a local company, that seemed to be considered among the biggest in my city. I was quiet happy about it and well prepared too!
After being done with the HR with small questions about my previous job and education and blah blah blah! I finally got to my technical interview.
The guy who was interviewing me, was a senior software engineer at that company and had been working there for a couple of years. He invited me to his office and handed me back my resume to write answers on the back of the page (yeah, that's exactly what happened).
It was a junior front-end developer's interview. 15 minutes through interview, he got a call on his cell. He picked up the call. That was probably from one of his friends and they were planning to hang out that night. 15 minutes, he talked and laughed and cursed on that call and I sat in front of him thinking "what a D"!
After continuing, he started questions about the frameworks that I had never worked on. I told him a couple of times that I don't know about this stuff but he just kept on going. And for the next 1 hour, I briefly said "I don't know that" even though I did know a whole bunch of those questions.
And then I asked him what's actually going on and he told me that they had already hired someone. So he was just messing around with me! I left in a state of anger and disappointment and took my resume with me!
You do get to get to experience these kind of interviews in your career where you just wanna get it done with and never look back again. They key is to never regret. Just take it positively and think of it as an experience that you ought to had in your life and move on.
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I remember my first technical interview very clearly. I entered a dimly-lit office with bare concrete walls and floors. Everybody there looked like they were counting down the minutes until they could leave. I sat at a pop-up table and a crusty-looking man with a cane sat down across from me. In his hand he had at least five pages of interview questions. He handed them to one of his employees, muttered a few gruff instructions, and ten minutes later he was fast asleep on his chair as the employee read the questions aloud.
The questions all sounded something like this:
"Can you explain the interaction between XEP and YAR/TR in a distributed local network?"
I said "I don't know" at least 50 times and then the interview was over.
A couple of days later I got a one-line email from them that said:
"We cannot hire you because you do not know much about the Internet."
(I kid you not.)
There's no way I could pass that interview today or tomorrow or in 10 years, either. And I don't feel bad about it. Not a single person I saw in that office looked remotely happy.
Despite not knowing much about the Internet, I went on to become a well-employed web developer (and people seem to think I'm competent at it).
Long story short, don't sweat it. You will fail some technical interviews and pass others, and that's okay.
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I once was invited for an interview in a local company, that seemed to be considered among the biggest in my city. I was quiet happy about it and well prepared too!
After being done with the HR with small questions about my previous job and education and blah blah blah! I finally got to my technical interview.
The guy who was interviewing me, was a senior software engineer at that company and had been working there for a couple of years. He invited me to his office and handed me back my resume to write answers on the back of the page (yeah, that's exactly what happened).
It was a junior front-end developer's interview. 15 minutes through interview, he got a call on his cell. He picked up the call. That was probably from one of his friends and they were planning to hang out that night. 15 minutes, he talked and laughed and cursed on that call and I sat in front of him thinking "what a D"!
After continuing, he started questions about the frameworks that I had never worked on. I told him a couple of times that I don't know about this stuff but he just kept on going. And for the next 1 hour, I briefly said "I don't know that" even though I did know a whole bunch of those questions.
And then I asked him what's actually going on and he told me that they had already hired someone. So he was just messing around with me! I left in a state of anger and disappointment and took my resume with me!
You do get to get to experience these kind of interviews in your career where you just wanna get it done with and never look back again. They key is to never regret. Just take it positively and think of it as an experience that you ought to had in your life and move on.