Recently, I interviewed more than ten companies, big and small, and spent some time to sort out 14 interview experience, hoping to help you.

1. Prepare carefully and comb in time before the interview

You can and you can make it clear in an interview are two different things. Not to back knowledge points out bragging force, but to comb their own good ideas, good language organization. I’m afraid I may not remember all the details of a project I just did a few months ago if YOU are asked to talk about it without a project review.

2. Make sure to review after each face

After the interview, polish up the areas you didn’t express well, and organize answers to frequently asked questions, especially about projects. The answers on site are usually very logical and confusing. Even at the end of the interview, the author still felt it was difficult to tell the highlights of the project. After all, my former employer was an outsourcing company, and I didn’t have the opportunity to do in-depth work on many technical points.

3. Your resume is not set in stone. Adjust it

Basic each side of a proposal to adjust the details, apply for different positions, the focus of the resume should be different, so for the delivery of the position, resume to do different degrees of optimization. For desired positions, prepare a separate resume that is biased against the job description. This will lead to a higher acceptance rate and will make it easier for the interviewer to catch your fit with the position during the interview.

4. Don’t assume inner magic unless you have a strong relationship.

For most people, the role of extrapolation is to pass the resume, other aspects of the role I’m not very good at evaluating, everyone has different resources. If you get the Offer and the referrer gets the referral bonus, you will fail, and the referrer will not be good. You need to be tough, of course, this is just your own opinion.

5. Pace yourself, or the interview can be grueling.

The pace of interview is different in each company, so you can ask HR in advance. For example, the average interview for a position in Ali takes one month, while in Didi, I had two interviews in the morning and three in the afternoon, making the progress very fast. The pace of the interview was basically out of order, with an average of 1.5 phone calls per day for several days. It was really a test of physical strength. Suggest comprehensive research can be cast post, in accordance with [guarantee] [satisfaction] [challenge] three files opened gradient cast resume, after all, you can only choose one, are cast to a grade in the meaning is not big.

6. Be wary of job applications

There will be a lot of people asking for your resume, they are not really interested in you, they just send out a mass message telling you not to give out your resume, it can be scary. The author himself the first interview of the ant gold service, is recruiting software in the other said “see resume” first, the results changed hands to push, no experience at that time, don’t know what the department requirements completely, also don’t know the interview appointment, you can also put off a result driving a duck on the first interview is planted, review on the table and ate a very ugly bad review, very affect the mood.

7. Have a good attitude towards different interviewers during the interview

Don’t too bad, people want to also don’t people think too good, want to let you have will help you find a bright spot, let you have the chance to expound, don’t want to let you will stare at you not point has been asked, at any time waiting to magnify your any loophole, the interview you will meet all kinds of people, as a kind of experience, it is good to be counted. What impressed me most was the technical face officer of zhengcai Cloud, who gave me a lot of advice and guidance after the interview, and benefited a lot.

8. Try not to talk too much during the interview

Be fond of of each interviewer is different, some people I hope you don’t know he said don’t know, some people want to listen to your ideas and speculate that myself during the interview, some interviewer said “don’t know if it’s ok, you can talk about ideas, or if you do, what do you do”, also some interviewer opening and said “I’m asking each point you simple statement, If I am interested, I will ask myself “, in the case of not clear preference of the other party, suggest fewer words, the more you say, the more loopholes there are, and it is easy to encounter minefields and cause aversion.

9. Try to send your resume to HR and technical friends

So even if no end, also can know about what is the problem, the principle of the evaluation result is kept secret, but you can come on each other for their own inadequate points provide some key information, in order to clear the direction of next effort, the interview is never a decided to the final result, once planted, to face the other line, If you really want to work for a company or position, come back in a year or two. If you send your resume to a headhunter, you may be passed on to a competitor with the same qualifications. If you are hired, you have to pay the headhunter. If you send your resume to someone you don’t know, there is a high risk that you won’t get any further information.

10. I highly recommend that you try for an interview

On a regular basis to understand the technology trends of metal and the level of the interviewer to you assess conditions, every factory is different, your school, professional technology, work history, working years, project management experience, and so on can be as indexes, especially a halfway decent approach to code like the farmers, don’t use the online experience to themselves, the difference is too big. Many of us feel “inferior” and like we “can’t do anything,” but there’s a big difference between feeling inferior and being slapped down in a job interview, which is painful but can force you to change and get out of your comfort zone.

The interview is a matching game

It’s not that the more awesome you are, the better the results will be. The key word in the interview is [match]. Most of the interviewees are inferior, please be good to yourself, pass, tell yourself “good luck, continue to work hard, to live up to the appreciation of others”, not, it doesn’t matter, tell yourself “bad luck, continue to work hard, one day someone will appreciate.” Pay attention to the skills that come up in the interview, but don’t take the results too seriously. Sometimes the company’s thinking isn’t that complicated, just that it’s looking for someone younger and cheaper.

Big companies have “control” over older programmers, whether employers admit it or not.

13. Be a brilliant programmer

Whatever it is, there must be something different from ordinary candidates. It may be business combing ability, resource coordination ability, cross-end development, cross-stack development, or a specific technology is very good, but it must have, if not, then start to develop one.


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