Technical interviews can be intimidating, especially if you’re feeling rushed or underprepared. However, with a little bit of focus, it is possible to get a lot of preparation done in a short amount of time.
Keep that in mind!!
The technical interview is TOTALLY not intended to deceive you. Instead, it’s to observe your technical approach, how you deal with tech challenges you would have in the real world once you land the job.
During a technical interview, hiring managers can evaluate how you approach and overcome real-world problems as well as measure the depth and breadth of your skill set and general knowledge using coding challenges, word problems, peer discussions, games and brain teasers.
This article is going to help you in your search about technical interviews in general, including how they’re normally structured, the questions that are generally asked and the outcomes that the interviewers hope to assess.
We are also going to guide you about some example questions that employers might throw at you, and the best ways to prepare for them.
Here are some tips for how to make the most of your 20 minutes before a technical interview:
Take a few minutes to read through the job posting and make a list of the specific technologies and skills that the company is looking for. These are the areas that you should focus on during your preparation.
Research the company and its products or services. This will give you a better understanding of the company’s technical needs and challenges, and will help you prepare for questions about how your skills and experience can be applied to the company’s specific needs.
Review your resume, make sure you are familiar with all of the projects and technologies listed on your resume. You may be asked to discuss these in detail during the interview, so it’s important to be able to speak confidently about your experience.
ONLY write the skills that you are actually hands on.
Practice answering common interview questions
There are many common technical interview questions that you can find online, such as “What is a bubble sort?”, “Explain the difference between a stack and a queue?”, or “What is a hash table?”.
This will help you feel more comfortable speaking about technical topics RELATED TO YOUR TECH STACK during the interview.
Take some time to practice explaining the concepts and algorithms behind these questions out loud.
Here are a few examples:
Review your past projects
You are being interviewed because the interviewer thinks that your past experience is valuable for their current job requirements.
This is very important to understand because the company is interested to know how your past projects and tech experiences can help them in building their products or services.
Your detailed research about the company and its services/ products would help you relate your past experience with their current requirements. Learn about the challenges that the company is facing and try to present them with multiple solutions and approaches from your experience.
Many technical interviews involve automatics code tests like with test Gorilla or live screen share tests or recorded code tests.
In addition to writing code, it is also important to be able to debug your code. Practice finding and fixing errors in your code, as this is a common part of the coding process.
In a technical interview, you will often be given a time limit to complete a coding challenge. Practice working under time pressure by timing yourself as you work through practice problems.
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