Women In Computer Science will be running a new event this term, to help students prepare for technical interviews (in advance of co-op, summer-internship, and employment interviews).
Saturday, January 16, 1 - 4 p.m. QNC ground floor and second floor atriums (presentation room to be announced).
Please register!
Bring your own copy of Cracking the Code Interview (or other) book!
Details
Many of the top tech companies conduct what are called "technical interviews" when interviewing candidates for technical positions. You can think of such interviews as oral exams about your technical knowledge, and questions can cover details about programming languages, OO design, data structures and algorithms. It is best to prepare for such interviews in advance rather than go into them cold. As a UW CS student, you know your stuff.
But it helps to have practiced answering interview-like questions:
-
so
that
you
can
answer
questions
quickly
and
confidently
-
so
that
you
are
up
on
content
covered
throughout
your
studies
here
(and
not
just
on
content
from
this
term’s
courses)
-
so
that
you
demonstrate
to
the
interviewer
that
you
cared
enough
about
their
interview
to
prepare
for
it.
One of the best ways to prepare is to work through typical problems, as exemplified in preparation books like Cracking the Code Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions.
And one of the best ways to work through a preparation book like Cracking the Code Interview is to form a small study group of two to four students who get together regularly and *work through* all of the problems in the book.
On
Saturday
January
16,
1
-
4
p.m.,
WICS
will
run
a
kick-off
event
for
students
who
want
to
prepare
for
a
technical
interview.
The
event
will
start
with
speakers
from
SAP
and
Google,
who
will
talk
about:
-
what
a
technical
interview
is
like
at
their
company
(for
junior
students,
for
senior
students)
-
advice
on
how
to
prepare
for
such
an
interview
-
some
interview
tips
-
Q&A
After the presentation, we’ll run a clustering exercise to group attendees into initial study groups, to start working through the Cracking the Code Interview book (or another book of your choice). We’ll hold the study groups in the QNC ground floor and second floor atriums. We’ll have tables and chairs set up for study groups. We’ll provide whiteboard pens and erasers for writing on the walls. And we’ll provide snacks.
Please register, indicating what courses you’ve taken (so that we have a sense of what the clusters of study groups will be like).
Hope to see you there!