Conducting the interviews is a part of day-to-day job for any senior software developer. During my career I have conducted more than 200 interviews trying to find the best, the smartest, and the most talented software developers, test engineers and program managers for my companies. There is no doubt, interviewing is a skill worth developing for performing interviews and recognizing great talent, high technical level and passion for technology. From the other side of the table, going through the interview process, answering questions and proving yourself to be a great match for the position you desire is no less important.
Oftentimes a great performer and highly technical person starts searching for the new job and fails to get through even the prescreening stage, while a junior developer, recently graduated from the university, breezes though and impresses even the toughest of technical interviewers. What is the secret? How one can prepare for the interview in the companies well-known for the highest level of technical standards, toughest interviews and unsolvable problems? What are the most common elements of any technical interview?
Thinking about these questions and chatting with my friends and colleagues, I formed the idea of “Interview Patterns”. The idea is quite simple but often overlooked by job seekers. In analogies with mathematical basis which is the minimal set of vectors necessary to define all other vectors in the space, there are basis interview questions and techniques which would let you solve big subset of related problems. The ability to recognize interview pattern (i.e. what is the intend of the question) and apply basis solution would not only give you powerful tool to solve the problem but also impress interviewer with your structural approach.
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