Notes from a Dozen Software Interviews
When I graduated from MIT in 2008, I failed many job interviews.
I claimed "The people hired over me are not better. They are just good at interviewing."
My poor attitude kept the number of job offers at zero.
Eventually I learned that all of my successful classmates had spent time to prepare.
So I solved a few practice problems and landed a job with Microsoft in Redmond.
Fast forward to the summer of 2014, I passed 9 out of 10 screening interviews (only failed the first one)
and received multiple amazing offers within three weeks.
Linked below is a collection of tips and every interview question I was asked.
I hope you can achieve greater success.
Table of Contents
- Interview questions
- Getting Interviews
- Preparing for Interviews
- Three tips no one else will tell you
- More comprehensive list of tips and notes
Questions? Comments?
Without my friends I wouldn't have
passed gotten any interviews in the first place. In no particular order, I would like to thank:
Darene, Rajesh, Jeff, Danny, Brian, Megha, Chinese Mark, German Mark,
Sameer, Alex, Andrew, Marcus, Roger, Rich, Shahaf, Ravi, David, Robert,
BJ, Davut, Lei, Hung, Joel, Aish, Thomas, Makarand,
Ravi, Ashok, Mike, Mihir, Vu, Pavan, Zoltan.
And a big thank you to all recruiters,
interviewers, and hiring managers for giving me a chance.
Lastly, without my loving girlfriend Anny, I would have given up a long time ago.