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Phone interview, bleh

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Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
March 26 2008 16:03 GMT
#1
Got a phone interview that turned out to be a technical screen that I was unprepared for and got owned. In hindsight I should have expected that it was a tech screen. Stupid mistake.

Worst thing is that I would have known the answers to every question they asked (minus one about XML) if I had that interview 2 months ago while I was still in school when I was using the concepts/languages in question. They were the most basic of basic questions. I felt like someone was asking me my name and I forgot it. You know you should know and you know that you look stupid as hell not being able to answer.

I guess I can take this experience as a wake up call. I need to brush up on my programming skills.

By the way, does anyone know the escape character/sequence for XML? I was asked that and I was trying to remember what it was but after the interview I tried looking it up and there doesn't appear to be one. There are substitute characters for certain common ones like "<" but no escape character like "\" in sh. I have a feeling it was a joke question.

"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
o3.power91
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Bahrain5288 Posts
March 26 2008 16:18 GMT
#2
Wow that sucks man
omgbnetsux
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States3749 Posts
March 26 2008 16:20 GMT
#3
Chalk it up as a learning experience. Everyone fucks up in interviews at some point. There's a ton of jobs out there and you'll just get better after every interview.
rpf
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2705 Posts
March 26 2008 16:35 GMT
#4
You can't win 'em all.
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud
Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
March 26 2008 16:36 GMT
#5
Don't feel too bad about it. Just think of this as practice.

Typically, most of the questions are not so hard that you won't know the answer to most of them. What it ends up coming down to is whether you can answer the questions in a pressure setting.

In my opinion, these kind of interviews are stupid, because of the fact that they often don't test intelligence, but dry knowledge. It's almost like studying for a standardized test, with all the memorizing of vocabulary and such.

In truth, the real answer to any simple technical question is "Search Google". If only they accepted that answer in interviews...
omgbnetsux
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States3749 Posts
March 26 2008 16:37 GMT
#6
Oh and make sure to write down all the questions for future studying. Its always good to review past interview questions (all types, not just technical) for future interviews.
Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
March 26 2008 17:41 GMT
#7
On March 27 2008 01:37 omgbnetsux wrote:
Oh and make sure to write down all the questions for future studying. Its always good to review past interview questions (all types, not just technical) for future interviews.

You know, as blatantly obvious as that may seem I haven't been doing that. It never occurred to me that I should copy down the stuff asked of me for future reference, damn I feel dumb. Thanks for the tip, common sense really should have dictated that I start doing that a long time ago.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm not really bummed out by it, just a little disappointed since I did know the answers in my brain somewhere. After looking them up briefly online all the stuff I learned came rushing back fast. Definitely a learning experience.
"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
Gokey
Profile Joined November 2006
United States2722 Posts
March 26 2008 18:56 GMT
#8
wow, they sprung one on you? did you get any warning at all you were gonna get grilled?
Jayson X
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Switzerland2431 Posts
March 26 2008 19:38 GMT
#9
*fakehissing*what?*somemorefakehissing*i ca un-erst-a-d 'u call ba-ckk in....ermm..an hour*click*
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