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IT Jobs: Acing the Technical Interview

The tech job interview strikes fear into candidates, partially because it forces them to face unknown variables. This guide is intended to help you practice beforehand — upping your confidence when you’re in the hot seat. The purpose of the technical interview is ostensibly to evaluate your level of knowledge or skill in the topic […]

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Deb Shinder
Jan 10, 2011
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The tech job interview strikes fear into candidates, partially because it forces them to face unknown variables. This guide is intended to help you practice beforehand — upping your confidence when you’re in the hot seat.


The purpose of the technical interview is ostensibly to evaluate your level
of knowledge or skill in the topic areas relevant to the position for which
you’re being considered. However, there’s more going on in most interviews than
that. In reality, as you struggle to explain the differences between DHCP and
BOOTP or frantically search your memory for the best definition of
“asynchronous,” your interviewer is likely to be judging you on any or
all of the following:

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