Best advice for an Tech interview?

How does Sup Forums prepare for IT interviews?

I got a great interview for an IT job with the local utilities company, but am afraid I'll be stumped on some kind of "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" question

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I don’t. I walk in, I smile, I answer some questions, and they offer me the job. People take job interviews too seriously. My last job interview, I wore flip flops.

Imagine that you are director of your own company: “user PTY LTD”
What products and services can you offer your clients? How would you market your offerings?

People who ask these kinds of questions might be out to steal your ideas.

Do you NEETs have dreams about interviews?

I just hope they wont ask me to find the sum of all primes under 2 million

Try to relax: if you've gotten to the interview, they've already decided that you're qualified (on paper).

They might ask you a question to make sure you're not bullshitting, but most of the exercise is to determine if they like you and if you'll fit with their team/ethic/environment bla bla bla.

If it helps, imagine you're checking them out, you are going to have to share carpet with these cunts for 40+hours a week. you don't need this job

Somebody will have done a course on interview techniques at some point and will throw something at you like "we notice you have 4 spelling mistakes in your covering letter alone, what do you say to that"?

You go "oops", shrug and smile

...

I assure you, I am not a NEET. Tech interviews, especially dev interviews, are a very unique beast.

Yeah, at one point there's tricky psychological question. "What do you do when someone is getting in your nerves?" crap.

sap.com/corporate/en/company/diversity/differently-abled.html
>SAP's groundbreaking Autism at Work program, launched in May 2013, integrates people with autism into the workforce. We have a corporate goal to employ 650 colleagues on the autism spectrum by 2020. The initiative currently includes nearly 120 colleagues filling over 20 different positions, and is active in nine countries

there you go OP, hope.

less dickishly: interviews vary based off the job, employer, position, and the hiring manager. some places have very standardized interviews, others don't.

if you had a phone interview then you'll probably have a rough idea of the direction

tech questions are easier if you know your shit
soft skills shit like strengths and weaknesses, you can generally be honest on your strengths
weaknesses, you want to pick stuff that rings true but how you address them (e.g. can't keep a schedule in my head so I use technology to keep a task list / calendar), etc.

Much better to be a NEET than to piece together piles of enterprise shitware.

Tech interviews are often copycatted and cargo-culted from big name tech firms in Silicon Valley.
Silly riddles have almost nothing to do with making web apps, which is what most "developers" end up doing.

"What's your biggest weakness as a person"
Seriously piss off, who are you, my shrink?

My wife tells me she answered this one with "I don't sell myself well enough at interviews", but you can get away with cocky stuff like that as a female

"My biggest weakness is not having enough money, and having to put up with bullshit job interviews"

depends on the company, I got hired at SAP (wasn't the autism at work program) and I saw nothing like that in the interviews.

Although that interview was six years ago, so things could have changed.

Most companies particularly those in regulated industries like utilities fuck around less in the interview process, it's more standardized.

I was interviewed by someone who seemingly had autism. Gave me a stupid riddle that involved coming up with a recursive formula.

SAP in Europe?

Enterprise gigs pay well, but they are so soul sucking.

SAP in the US.

I find the work difficult at times and really quite a bit enjoyable at others. I work directly with customers a lot and the attitude/approach of the customer has a lot to do with it. It takes two to tango.

What's difficult about it? Just smile and tell the custies that everything is a-okay.

>much better to be a lonely slob living with his parents than enjoying life

compared to having to fill space for 8 hours a day, and staring at pointless text and charts?

Some customers have security teams that won't give us access or restrictive configurations. Others give us what we need and the remote logons to their systems work.

Some are easy to work with and treat us with respect. Others treat us like idiots (even though 98% of the time these customers have ignored directions or done something grossly wrong to cause a problem). Either case it does not help.

Some look to blame us for everything then everyone falls back to conservative positions rather than trying to figure it out without fingerpointing as fast as possible.

That's what many describe as soul sucking. Oh well, maybe you'll get lucky and someone in your office will go postal.

Stop asking for SAP_ALL you lazy cunt we have audits to be compliant with.

t. GRC nigger

I work on SolMan user, with all of the frameworks and no real roles defined by security or the business in SolMan other than the canned stuff I don't really have a choice.

as a NEET i have nightmares about my failed life and tech career that never began for arbitrary mundane reasons