Hi, I missed out a really great session by mbuf on "Preparing for Interviews". I slept through but luckily I had IRC running on waartaa, so I went through the logs.
It did clear lot of doubts and also mbuf mentioned some very important points to keep in mind. I did do mistakes during interview that mbuf mentioned today, but as he said every interview is an experience. It would be great to have another follow-up session sometime soon. I also wanted to share some experience - I love to work on OSS projects and they are my main area of interest. But some of my seniors had told that some companies (who make proprietary software) don't like it when a candidate mentions Open Source and are lot into F/OSS. I don't know how true that is, maybe mbuf can share some insights ? I did a mistake of mentioning my favorite subjects as Area of Interest but they bombarded me with lot of in-depth questions that usually isn't taught in the classes. One of the interviewer was our alumni and he told me that you should only mention those 'Area of Interests' that you have good knowledge of rather than what your employer wants, and can drive the interview in your area of interest. So I went back and updated my area of interest to GNU/Linux and OSS, and as mbuf mentioned in the session "Do a job which interests you, and not think about money or other things". That is indeed true and if you get rejected because your and employers area of interest doesn't match then the job is not for you. -- Jackson Isaac S7 B.Tech CSE Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham jacksonisaac.wordpress.com Github/JacksonIsaac _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
