{"id":627,"date":"2010-12-14T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2010-12-14T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:05:17","slug":"tech-job-interview-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Tech job interview experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realised recently that whilst I know quite a bit about job interviews in the academic world (indeed, a little more than I’d like) I am quite in the dark about the situation in industry. So I put a call out on the fabulous BCSWomen list for more information and got a mailbox full of interesting and insightful responses. I’ve collated these into a a PDF that you can find here<\/a> (suitably anonymised). <\/p>\r\n\r\n

The executive summary? Well, if you’re going for a graduate position you can expect a day or more of assessment, which will include an interview of an hour or more and a battery of tests (psychometric, skills, teamwork…). A lot of other jobs will have a two-stage interview, with the first part being a telephone or online interview. On average, interviews are conducted by 3 people. Psychometric and skills tests (e.g., programming) are common. And you can’t assume that any element of the visit\/interview experience is entirely informal – the lunch, drinks after, the tour… can all feed back into the process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

But you should read the whole document – there are some excellent pieces of advice from real-life recruiters, and some fascinating anecdotes. If you’re teaching computing students, or are a computing student, or are looking for work in the tech sphere, it could be very useful reading. Aren’t BCSWomen great?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Any further comments or experiences about tech interviews – from either side of the desk – are welcome. I think this informal survey has given me a much better idea of what we’re preparing our students for, but I’m always up for the broader picture so please leave a comment if you’ve got any interesting or relevant (or funny:) tech interview anecdotes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realised recently that whilst I know quite a bit about job interviews in the academic world (indeed, a little more than I’d like) I am quite in the dark about the situation in industry. So I put a call out on the fabulous BCSWomen list for more information and got a mailbox full of interesting and insightful responses. I’ve collated these into a a PDF that you can find here (suitably anonymised). The executive summary? Well, if you’re going for a graduate position you can expect a day or more of assessment, which will include an interview of an hour or more and aRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-careers","category-geekiness","category-wic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}