Do you know what sort of sector(s) the company is in? What sort of technologies are you likely to be working with? What would the common tasks you'd be expected to know about be?
My department generally does database-y stuff, so our technical questions are all geared around that - joins, transactions, query optimisation, security. Our app development department covers a bit of that, but also more about the C# side of things, around object orientation, interfaces, web services, user interfaces, and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah, from what i was reading last night a lot of companies so that sort of algorithm testing.
We had a talk in uni from the head of security there and he talked a little about OWASP so I'll definitely check that out.
The job posting said about supporting the transition from old tech to new cloud based platforms. And I'm sure I read something about being able to use different languages but can't find that bit now.
The person doing a similar role I know there has been learning JavaScript and JAX-RS.
Trying to remember what I was asked about on the phone:
Types of testing.
Difference between abstract class and interface.
What is stateless.
How to ensure a program runs error free.
Something about source control I had no clue about.
Agile development.
It's civil service, the driving people. And as I said in the last post using new cloud based platforms. Sounds fun.
Well I had my interview on Wednesday. I think the actual interview went pretty well. Lots of general questions about OOP, web services, databases, scaling, testing.
Unfortunately the coding exercise didn't go so well. It was a task to assess my skills, no algorithms. Didn't get a great deal of it done, definitely made some mistakes and by brain just seemed to stop working. Half an hour went so quick too.
So wait and see now I guess.
I found out today I got the job. Gonna be working for the DVLA on their cloud based systems.
Hoorah!
:-{) (beer) (cheer)
weeeeeyyyyyy. Well done. Is this your first coding job? I seem to remember you learning all this in your spare time while doing kitchen fitting or something. Good work!
Thanks. Yeah, still doing the kitchens, although not for long. It'll be my first coding job, yeah. Can't wait.
Genuinely very happy for you. And very impressed you've taken the leap, gone back in to education and found a job that you feel will be more worthwhile.