54. How Do You Prepare For A Technical Interview?

How do I prepare for a technical interview? What should I study? How do I get the practice I need to be ready for a technical interview? How do I make sure I won't freeze up? These are the questions we will tackle in this episode of Dev Questions.

[shilpitiwari]

This video felt like a therapy session. Being myself a full stack developer, I struggle every time before an interview because every job description seems like they are looking for an entire IT department in one person. .Net, Angular, Database, Cloud, Microservices, Devops etc etc..How can anyone know everything so perfect and anwer exactly what an interviewer wants to listen. I think more than aspirants, people who interview candidates need to view this video. Because at the end of the day we don't need to hire a computer for the job, but we need to hire someone who can make a computer work and solve real life problems..

[lilagraz]

This content deserves lot of views. As a developer taking my leap to apply on a senior role, it always fears me wondering what if I couldn't answer all the questions. It makes me a get a little bit discouraged. But this content really lifts me up and be reminded to just relax and be smart enough on your reponse when you don't know a technical question.

[armnpk]

"Relax, be Honest and I don't know but..." is probably the best way to go. Thank you Tim! Loved the video

[raiker]

There couldn't of been a better timing for a video like this from you, Tim. Thank you!

[nicholasbear]

This got me my first SWE job over a year ago and here I am watching while preparing to interview again. Thank you!

[rcsoftg]

I'm having my first ever technical interview in a few days and I have to tell you this video really helped me a lot to deal with the massive pressure I'm feeling right now. You have my likes and subscribe!

[stomic]

This is the best and most honest video on how to ace an interview. This is exactly what I look for in people I'm interviewing. I just want to see how they think, and how they will find this info out. I want to see their normal day at work.

[sidneiramalho]

Hi I just want to say thanks for your video. I'm not in the IT sector but was preparing myself to a technical interview and came across your video. I was cramming information for my interview and after I paused and watched your video I deleted everything I was writing for two days. The only thing I told myself was "this is the technical experience I have of is good fine if not, maybe the job is not for me. Today I received an offer and will start working on May 1st. So again, thank you for your video and honesty. God bless you.

[marcelandrearosalesperezro]

This throws light on me, I am always ultra nervous in technical interviews, I really thought only those "perfect" coders, writing lines like if they were movie hackers is what companies wanted to see. I do consider myself as good coder, I have worked in several projects and yet I don't know everything... Before watching this vedeo I really believed that was a kind of "dissability" and proving I am a good developer my most difficult task. Thanks, this new knowledge takes a ton away from my shoulders. :D

[megamerchannel]

Recently I've been going through some interviews, some being utterly disappointing and some being really enjoyable, the disappointing ones having a negative impact on my self confidence.

I would like to thank you Tim for some really motivating words and thoughts, knowing that not being "able" to give textbook answers to certain technical questions is not a shame, does a lot.

[sglasgowaz]

Great video as always and you always say what I say to people. For me, the technical interview is the way I determine if I want to work with someone or if I want them to work with me. Some interviews drive me nuts, and on both sides when someone else is involved who thinks they are know it all. I am still amazed at how marking a method at compile time as obsolete isn't known by ppl who expect someone to remember something else, but because someone doesn't know off the top of their head how to do some specialized thing 1% would only know makes ppl think someone isn't qualified. I literally had that argument with someone after we interviewed who was more than qualified that one person said they didn't know enough because their question they couldn't answer.

Keep in mind, the interview is not just them interviewing you but you interviewing them. Listen to how they ask questions and ask questions back.

[isaacasare]

I really needed to watch this video. U have no idea the kind of stress and pressure u have taken off my shoulders. I feel so relax now. I'm having a tech interview in 2 hours. Thanks Tim

[mrjunaidali]

I usually tell straight forward in my interviews that I might don't the exact syntax but I do know what to search and what I need to search for my problem. So I can implement it.

[williamroncallo]

Good video ... when I heard Tim say just relax, right off the bat, I thought this was going to go nowhere. So many people give that advice, but never say how. However, I was very grateful that Tim did not just stop there and gave advice on the how. Thanks Tim!

[Nahuel_Ramos]

I have a technical interview in literally 3 hours, what a timing! Checking this out, hope it helps... Thanks for the amazing content man!!! ':- )

[LiveMahs]

This is great. I am ramping up my studying/applying as I want to move from jr to mid-level with a different company this year. Thank you for the information. I know this will help, as I've had interviews in the past that went wrong because I wasn't sure what to say when I didn't know the answer to a question.

[ademineshat]

Absolutely true. The best interview is to show who you are, relax, breathe, If you don't know anything do just like Tim said. It's true believe me, I've done the same thing 👍 thanks for sharing Tim, best Man

[codelta]

Wow this couldn't have had come out at a better time
I'm preparing myself for interviews .
Thanks Tim!

[dianasaasaa]

I felt like you were coaching me personally. Great video!

[stephendalessandri]

I'm preparing for a technical interview in 4 days. I know I wouldn't have got this far without Tim's Foundation in C# course series. Thank you, Tim, for creating such helpful content. 😊