You read the job ads and submitted your resume even though your skills only matched two or three of the dozens of TLAs thrown at you. Now you’ve been called for the interview and you’re nervous. Don’t be!
The best way to prepare yourself for the interview is to put yourself in your interviewers’ shoes, and ask yourself “what is the interviewer looking for?” Understand the reasoning behind the interviewers’ questions, give him the information he needs to make the right decision about you.
Show them that you’re more than a programmer. When I interviewed candidates I wanted someone who had delivered projects, not just programmed a module inside a package. Someone who had worked through the design and deployment issues is much more valuable than some one who knows the alphabet soup of computer languages but has done the same thing over and over throughout his career.
You are not your resume; show me you’re a person. Instead of going through a mental checklist, talk to me. When I ask about your previous questions go beyond the question I’ve asked, explain the reasons behind the decisions you made, why did you choose REST over SOAP, what tools did you use? Tell me how you overcame problems and handled surprises, what parts of the project did you enjoy the most, what would you do differently now?
If you’ve done these things then the interviewer will have a good idea how you would handle a real project; if the salary negotiations go great, you’re hired!
Good luck with your next interview.
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