This is the last job prep day before two important interrogative events: a job fair December 5th, and American Thanksgiving, November 28. We're going to practice responding to questions in pairs. Explicitly state who you are before starting to ask questions - you'd say different things to your uncle over mashed potatoes than you would to an engineer at the job fair from Etsy.
We'll also share solutions to interview questions / programming problems we're finding tough - I want to check in with some people on recursion in particular.
Here's a script to choose questions from:
- What's Hacker School? (Try telling this to a skeptical interviewer - it's not your job to defend Hacker School! Just to tell your story)
- What language did they teach you there?
- What have you been working on at Hacker School?
- What's the coolest thing you made at Hacker School?
- What are you interested in?
- What's your background?
- Why did you go to Hacker School?
- What do you think of Clojure/Javascript/Canvas/Generators/code-as-data/macros/mongo/any concept or buzzword (Try one you haven't heard of, listen to an explanation of what it is, ask questions to try to understand)
- Can you explain closures/the internet/the web/dynamic web pages/for loops/blocks, procs and lambdas/decorators/browser event bubbling/any topic or concept? (Try one that you don't know the answer to)
- What did you do in your last position?