What you could be asked at
your interview
On line job sources
The questions that you are asked on your
interview can really vary depending on who you
are interviewing with. Some firms (such as
Microsoft) will ask you questions that actually
involve sitting down and writing code on the
spot. Their questions might be like "Write
atoi" or "implement a doubly linked
list" Just as a warning, they change their
questions throughout the day, so asking someone
else what they had to do will probably give you a
good idea about the general type of question they
are asking, but they won't be good for telling
you about what question you are going to be
asked. For some questions that will get you
thinking in the right direction (don't worry if
you don't understand it all; I haven't been asked
any of those questions), take a look at An old discussion on
interview questions Trying to get interviews
at the same place as all of your friends are
interviewing with can also allow you to get a
better idea about what sort of questions will be
asked.
- Duke's Career Development
Center
- The easiest place to start is the On Campus Recruiting page.
In order to get onto this page, you will
need your userid and password (which are
not the same as whatever you have for
other accounts). You may want to go in
and take a training course about how to
use the whole careernet. However, it is
not as difficult to use as it was
pre-www, so if you feel confident, just
call up the CDC at 660-1070 and ask them
for your username and password.
The
first time that you log in, you will be
asked some questions so that they can
tell you about upcoming events better.
Please be aware that if you sign up for
mailing lists (a good idea) you should
also make sure you keep the instructions
on how to unsubscribe,
because they have a tendency to become
annoying after awhile.
From here, you can look through the
different people who are coming to visit.
Choose the "OCR Employer Job
Descriptions & Interview Signup
(Chronological)" option. If there
are "**" in front of a job
description, that means that they are
invite only, so you can only sign up if
you have turned in your resume &
gotten mail back from them inviting you
to sign up. Many firms will start out
invite only and then change to open as
the date approaches; Microsoft did this
last year. So keep your eyes open,
especially in the last week. Please also
note that the schedule freezes sometime
shortly before the interview (48 or 24
hours before hand), so you can't just
decide the day that a company is coming
that you want to interview there.
- Another good place to look is on jobtrak You can get to
there from the Jobs, Jobs, Jobs Page
The Jobs, Jobs, Jobs page should be your
second stop if you can't find any on
campus opportunities that suit you. (You
can also get to the on campus things, but
paradoxically, the best way to get to the
interview sign up page seems to be to go
through the "Mailing Lists"
link. Don't ask me why, I just know that
the On-Campus Recruiting menu will take
you through a bunch of choices for
restricting what you want to look at, and
last time I talked to Dr. O'Connor about
this, she said that it didn't work and
that we shouldn't use it. Admittedly this
was awhile ago, but it's pretty easy to
fish out computer science jobs on the
signup list anyway.
Back to jobtrak...
when you get there, it will ask you to
identify your school and password. Your
password should be blank; it checks where
the browser is registered to to figure it
out. Follow the links and the
instructions
- The last Duke stop should be the Internship Exchange
page. Please be aware that some of these
jobs seem to be seriously out of date,
which is why I recommend checking them
last; you may have to wade awhile before
finding what you're looking for.
- ACM's Getting an Internship
Page
- Finally, worst comes to worst, try just
going to a company's homepage and looking
for hiring information. I know people who
have gotten jobs this way.
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