On Sunday 24 Apr 2011 16:48:10 Akhthar Parvez K wrote: > Hi Jyoti, > > On Thursday 21 Apr 2011, Jyoti wrote: > > Please give me any link or any tutorial which will be helpful for > > preparation of PERL interview. > > I don't honestly think someone would write an article or tutorial about > "preparing for a Perl interview". That should actually split into two: > Learning Perl and Preparing for an interview. > > And here's some free advice and feel free to take it if you like :-D > > #1 - Never learn for an interview; but learn for the job. > #2 - Apply for an interview only if you're fit enough. - If you don't think > your skill set don't match with the requirements of the company, just > don't apply. You're thus doing a favor to yourself and everyone else. #3 - > Once you apply, just be ready to face an interview any time. > #4 - Trust your abilities and be confident - This is the most important > part and would let you handle the interview in the best possible way. #5 - > Never give a wrong answer - If at all you receive a question that you > don't know, do not panic, just be smart and divert the question so you can > answer what you know. #6 - Please your interviewer with well explained > responses. >
Some more advice from my experience: 1. Be yourself. Be honest. If you don't like Java/Perl/Python/COBOL/Lisp/C/C++/whatever, say so. Google hires many Python programmers to write Java, and even many Perl programmers to write Python or Java or whatever (yes, some people code even Python against their preferences). If you lie, you will eventually get caught, possibly after being hired and then fired immediately. 2. Seek good workplaces. A lot of workplaces there are crap. It's hard to know how many, but see http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=79 (= Version Control and "the 80%"). To paraphrase on what Tolstoy said "All good workplaces are the same. Every bad workplace is bad in its own way.". Often times, I realised I knew things much better in most respects than my superiors based on what I read in various software management and software development in general on the Web. It's hard the way a workplace is managed as an underling (at least if you're not being very assertive.) and it is a good idea to make sure that your boss (your CTO/etc.) have heard of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ , knows what Extreme Programming is about mostly, understands test-driven development, has read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", does not require more than 40 hours/week weekday (otherwise you *will* be burned out), etc. He does not have to agree to everything every software management "guru" out there says (which is often contradictory), but he has to be able to explain why he deviates from it. Whether he prefers to use Perl or Python or Java or C or whatever (some of which are only useful in completely different contexts) is less critical. 3. Don't give up. Finding a job is hard now in the post-bubble world. Employers are very picky and careful, and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html says that if you have a little doubt, it means no hire, which some employers may practise deliberately or subconsciously. It can sometimes take a lot of time to find a good job after you left the original one (for whatever reason), but you should be able to find one, because it seems that in IT centres, all fields nowadays are desperately looking for clueful programmers. If you're good, you will likely find a job soon enough. 4. Whether working or not, always try to improve your existing skills (which you consider important enough and not passé), become experienced in more technologies (what I call "horizontal learning" because it's impossible to 100% master a complete fields such as RoR/CPAN/Python/etc. and you should not wait to know everything to know about it to learn more stuff), and also improve your spoken and written English (and your native languages), because it is one of the most important skills that any person can possess, and naturally, every programmer. ----------- OK, these are the things off the top of my head. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ Ran Eilam To Shlomi Fish: so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
