Through to second round 'Technicial' Interview

Firefox11

Hey. Ok I had and an interview last Friday which is for a electronic technician. I have been told that they want me for the second round 'technical' Interview tomorrow.

Now while I have had spent several years of working in the Industry, It was some years back and my skills and knowledge are quite rusty.

It's been some years since I did any interviews so what I would like to know if any one has experienced an technical interview and what was it like? Did they go into much detail? How did you feel you did?

Thanks.

seamus

I can only offer my experience in terms of what we do. But generally technical interviews go one of two ways here:

1. There's a set list of questions that you're asked and boxes are ticked. Questions aren't necessarily binary ones with correct answers, they can be technical teasers designed to expose what your thought processes are like, what your general knowledge is like (i.e. what technologies or processes would you choose) and so forth

2. You are sat opposite a highly experienced engineer (or two) who just start shooting the breeze with you and asking you technical questions off the top of their head. The more you get the questions right, the deeper they delve into your knowledge and the more difficult the questions become.


In both scenarios, bull****ters get picked up on and discarded very quickly because they tend to back themselves into corners that they can't talk their way out of. The people who tend to do the best are the ones who admit that they don't know something or they can't entirely remember the details of it.

Granted, what we do is technology rather than electronic engineering, but I can't imagine the overall process being very different.