Job Interview In Two Days -- Tips?

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Originally Posted by gekko

I was actually asking if it was a programming job because it's the only field I have ever heard of which is more like a test than an interview. I would've provided some advice had I known it was a programming interview.

But yes, whiteboard coding is quite common (and entire books have been published on the subjects). So are providing code samples, or taking a small programming test before they proceed with the interview process. Unless the company comes to you, I would be surprised if you ever avoid writing code entirely.

I wish I had mentioned it then! It was all of a sudden, so I didn't get to post as much as I wanted here. I did have fore-warning that I would have a whiteboard test, but I wasn't too worried about it.

What are a couple tips you would have given? Any thoughts on what I did right or wrong from the description I gave?

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Out of curiosity, do you know what languages/technologies you would be using on the job?

The languages I know they use are C and then Bash/Python. They do a lot of embedded work, so that's what the C is for. They also must interface their products with major OSes, including Unix/Linux, so that's my guess where Bash/Python come in.

I know next to nothing about Bash/Python, and I didn't mince words on that for better or worse. But I have done Javascript and PHP, which apparently are similar. They're scripting languages, and in my experience, scripting is like programming lite. I have no problem learning any language, let alone a scripting language -- and have the experience to show that.