TECHNICAL INTERVIEW DEMYSTIFIED-II

In the previous article TECHNICAL INTERVIEW DEMYSTIFIED – I we have discussed about the probable questions from the most important subjects and adding to that, I would now discuss about the other important aspect of technical interview on which you would be quizzed to the extreme (at timesL).

i.e   Projects/Internships & Papers Presented (Optional)

Project is part and parcel of the curriculum for each and every engineering student and the quality of this project shows the student’s experience, expertise and exposure to various technologies and methodologies.

Now when you were asked this question,

Tell me about your projects (or) what are all the projects you have done?

Many wonder where to start, so let me clear your doubts about this here. Now before you answer this question, you should know the following basic things about your project:

1. Your Project Name (don’t laugh this happened before and I saw people not able to pronounce their project names)
2. Reason for choosing this project over many other projects present out there, I mean the idea behind this project.
3.  Technologies used and your role in the project.
4. Entire project architecture and design (includes UML diagrams and Schema)
5. You should be able to write part of the code from your project (not certain that you will be asked about this).
6. Problems faced during the project (if you have done your project, else use the famous words like “faced problem with requirement gathering”, “problem with some part of code which you were not able to do”) and you should also explain about how you have overcome them.

When the interviewer asks about projects , he /she knows that only 1% of the whole engineering students genuinely do the projects as many would only pay money and get the source code, having said that they would only expect you to know the basics of what every project in common has.

So, please make sure that you know the architecture/design of the project and practice well about how to demonstrate your project in an efficient way.

Papers

Not everyone would have presented papers in conferences and symposiums, but if you have done so and kept them on your resume be ready to answer some simple questions on the topics you have presented.

You may be asked to give a shorter version of that presentation which you given previously or you might be asked to assume that there is a slide show of your presentation and give a mock demo(who knows, you might be asked)

Finally, I would say this :

“In this world of uncertainty, nothing is certain and so every interview is unique in its own way and to be through the interview, prepare well for the worst possible scenario and give your best and success would follow”