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Technical Screening Interview Practice Guide

This guide contains instructions for the Technical Screening Interview Practice session of the Technical Interviewing Basics webinar.

Preparation for Taking Notes, Making Observations, etc.

For quick notes and observations, the Interviewer may want to copy/paste the following "URL" into the browswer's address bar:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable style="font-family: Menlo">

Interview (5 minutes)

  • As Pairs in Breakout Rooms...

  • The Interviewer will ask the Candidate the following two tech questions:

    1. Explain the difference between let and const
    2. What is returned by the expression ‘hello’ || ‘goodbye’

  • Switch roles and ask these two tech questions:

    1. Explain the difference between the == and === operators
    2. What is the best array method for checking if an array contains a certain value?

Reflect and discuss the following with your pair (5 minutes)

As the Interviewer

  • What was your goal when asking the questions?
  • Did the candidate answer/react the way you intended?
  • How might these insights prepare you to be a better candidate?

As the Candidate

  • What did you do that went well during the interview?
  • What did you do that didn’t go so well?
  • How might you approach a similar interview differently?
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