Internship interview questions.

[chusteczka]

At one of my interviews while in school, the company visited campus and met with a group of us at a restaurant for dinner with one representative sitting at each table. The company representative at my table was the only person at the table without a silverware setting. While he was being bugged by other nerds about things like linux, I got up and walked over to an empty table, grabbed an unused silverware and napkin setting, returned with it, gave it to him, and did not say a word the rest of the dinner (because he was capitalized by the others so much).

I do not know if my action helped but they did ask me to their office location for a second interview.

During another interview, they showed me a baby's plastic toy. A small steering wheel with buttons, lights, and sounds to simulate driving a car. They then asked me to create an object oriented class structure to operate that steering wheel, in whatever language I wanted to show it in.

Another interview asked about operating systems signals, semaphores, and race conditions.

Another interview asked about the advantages a database management system has over flat files.

 

[Hacp]

Assuming it's a technical job, it's important that you know your stuff, but don't forget a large part of an interview is behavioral too. You want to strike a balance between likable and professional.

Thats what I'm worried about. I do well in school but if I don't have a reference, then I'm screwed. I can't memorize all the equations for everything I ever learned. Its just impossible!