Nailing the Interview

Question 1

Knowledge: Know about the company

Answer 1

Their vision
Their strategy
Current events
Know your skills
your strengths and weakness
How do you fix your weakness
own your resume
Know the job description
- Know how you can take your skills and map to what they are looking for. Align you skills, and correlate, then explain

Question 2

Body Language

Answer 2

Confidence
Speak up
Speak positively
Use affirmative words
Make eye contact, small bits
Triangle around face
Don't look at the mouth so much
Avoid blinking
Don't show weakness

Question 3

Good handshakes

Answer 3

Men
Eye contact
Extend hand still making eye contact
Look down, find hand, lock in, reestablish eye contact
3 palms
Firm, not too firm
Dry

Question 4

Picture

Answer 4

Mirror Body Language Cues
Never use closed body language
1. Don't cross arm
2. Don't fold legs
3. Don't fold hands/fingers
4. Don't cover anything
5. Avoid distracting behavior (fidgeting, rubbing)
6. Don't sit down if the interviewer is not in the room

Do
1. Hand on your sides
2. Good posture
3. Open hand gesture
4. Get a line of sight between you and the interviewer
5. Shoulders slightly clinched back
6. Use open hand gestures
7. Stand and wait for the interviewer
8. Stay in the personal distance zone, 3-5ft
9. Smile
10. Watch something funny before interview
11. Should be natural
12 Open ended question, ask them what they think if you think they are open to questions

Question 5

Dress for success

Answer 5

Suits and ties for men
Dark colored suit
Light shirt
Appropriate tie color
Don't do loud and flashy colors
Grooming
1. Haircut
2. Shave
3. Shower
4. Teeth

Question 6

Coding Challenge

Answer 6

Getting Fibonacci - iteration and Recursion
Reverse String
Swap two integers without using a third

Ask questions about the coding challenge

1. Gather requirements
2. Analyze requirements
3. Write them out
4. Talk through brute-force solution
5. Write code

Question 7

Phone and Skype

Answer 7

Make sure all technology you're using is working ahead of time.
Do practice run with colleague
1. Ask about Dress
2. Body language
3. Eye contact

When you get on the phone, greet them, ask them if they can see and hear you

1. Identify problems right off the back
2. Can you repeat that, i didn’t catch that
3. Use earbuds, not headset
4. Look behind you!
5. Prepare your settings
6. Plain background
7. Have a backup plan incase technology fails, be prepared

Question 8

STAR method

Answer 8

Situation
Task
Action
Result

if they ask you a question of a situation, respond like so.