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By: Interviewer, Thu Jul 1st, 2010
You are a programmer and you are looking for a job. You are wondering what they are going to ask in your interview. What should you prepare for? What topics should you read? What answers should you practice?
It will be useful to go through possible programming interview questions to prepare yourself. One of the worst moments is to face a question that surprises you and leaves you unable to speak like a dear in the headlights.
You have submitted your resume to countless job advertisements and now you have an interview scheduled. This is your chance to leave a good impression and get the job offer. To succeed in an interview, you need to be confident and you need to be prepared. During the interview your body language needs to be right. You need to be able to answer the questions and you need to be able to back your claims you have listed on your resume.
So, what will they ask?
Details depend on the interviewer's style. Some are technical, some are more behaviour oriented. They will probably ask technical questions related to your profession. When done right, this is not so much to measure your specific knowledge about a subject, but more about measuring how much you have achieved and how passionate and interested you are in a particular subject. If you just skirt the meat of it and talk about basics and the minimum, it might show that you are not that interested in it and maybe you are ready to put in long hours and sweat to excell in it. Interviews for IT and Engineering might have a healthy dose of technical grilling. If you have mentioned technical subjects in your resume, you may want to read about them and collect your thoughts before the interview.
Behavioral Questions are probably the most common type that candidates face. A company that is looking to hire an employee not only invests in technical knowledge but also your character, honesty, integrity, dignity. Technical knowledge can perhaps be acquired in time. But certain character traits are hard to change. Hiring managers will typically try to identify trouble makers and eliminate them and they will try to pick the best match to their working culture after this interview process. Note that this is about being the best match. There is usually no absolute right or wrong answer, but it helps to prepare and anticipate the question and be ready with an asnwer that has high potential to get points.