Technical interviews

At the time of writing this, I have had one job as an IT consultant at Netcompany. I have had around 5 technical interviews, all with different ways to screen the candidate.

All places have had an initial “get to know each-other first time interview”, then the technical second interview is a bit different.

Whiteboard drawing

My first IT consultant job had a technical interview where you had to make a diagram of a case management system. Things to consider was:

• This was a new system, but the old system (legacy) was still in use
• User privilege levels
• SSL / https
• Modular design / components

No coding at all, just boxes and arrows.

Hackerrank test

A company sent me a Hackerrank test before even having the first interview. It consisted of:

• Some multiple choice questions, basic java, javascript and web related questions
• Algorithms, coding in language of choice, one question was to find the two complement of a binary number and return it in decimal form
• Databases / SQL

Home exam

I have had two home exams, both with two hours to finnish:

• Code a vending machine system and make a small webapp “hello world” with a javascript framework
• Code a system for managing sales of cakes

Both were in Java.

IQ tests

Tests testing:

• Deductive
• Inductive
• Numeracy