How to CRUSH it in Technical Interviews
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Schedule
6:00pm - Welcome Time and food from Marathon Consulting
6:30pm - Announcements
6:45pm - Lightning Talk by Erin Mullinax - User Experience and Accessibility – Making the Web Better for Everyone
7:00pm - Main Presentation
8:00pm - Wrap up and Raffle
Main Presentation: Tom Marsden
As a developer, I have been the interviewee and interviewer many times in many different settings. I have been in interviews, where not one technical question has been asked and interviews where I was grilled over 5 hours. Now as an interviewer I’m trying to understand if the giving candidate has an amplitude and the skills we are looking for. Nothing is more painful, than trying to code in a phone interview. You wouldn’t ask a painter to teach you how to paint over the phone, so why do it for technical interviews? As a result, the industry has been moving to trying to do online screening or tests. This talk hopes to cover some general technical interview suggestions, and as an example go through some sample online technical assessments as a group and talk about how to approach it. This is a key to avoid freezing in the situation.
Tom Marsden
Tom Marsden is an associate vice-president at Marathon Consulting. He has been a software consultant at Marathon for over 5 years working on many different and challenging projects including an application that scans and analyzes silicon wafers. Tom is first and foremost a developer who has been building and designing software solutions since 1996. Tom has had a chance to sharpen his tools out on the west coast with companies like Google and Amazon before settling on the east coast in Virginia, moving from Canada. Tom has developed in many different languages for many different domains and enjoys the challenges that picking up new technologies brings. His recent development experience have mostly being in the Microsoft Stack using ASP.Net MVC, C#, and WPF.
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