Ace the IT Interview: The Best Interviewing Strategies for It Professionals (CONSUMER APPL & HARDWARE - OMG)

Fabolous starting point to understand the levels of competence which IT persons deploy and a great help to know what we are looking for when we are creating a team.

This book is highly recommended for those trying to break into IT or those who have never hired anyone in IT. I also recommend this book for foreign IT professionals who wants an insight on what American IT organizations are looking for.The book takes you to the perspective of the hiring manager and identifies exactly what the IT hiring manager is looking for.Don't let the plethora of help-wanted ads fool you. Finding a quality IT job even for seasoned professionals is not easy.The book can provide an edge, but much of it is still common sense for those who have many years of experience.The book provides serveral key interview questions and how one should prepare and approach the interview. You would need to be prepared for both the technical portion and the soft-skills. Remember, hiring you entails risk and it is your job to convince that you are a low-risk high-benefit hire.The book also provides some resume tips but not much. The author's other book, "Ace the IT Resume" has far more resume examples and there is a significant overlap between the two books.The book was published in 2007 when the IT job market wasn't bad (not great either) and I think this book needs a post Great Recession update. If anything, IT professionals need more of an edge and the average age of IT workforce has risen due to lower number of college students majoring in Computer Science and Information Systems.

I got this book to help prepare me for an impending Job Interview and i have to say it has helped immensely, i have been able to tweak my interview style to not only land the job i wanted but also to convey a real sense of competency that i have lacked in the past. One thing that IT people have a problem with typically is that we can sometimes suck at explaining what we know, this book helped me to realize that i need to adjust my interviews to show what i know.

This is a pretty decent book to go thru a couple of times while you are hunting for jobs. For any single person, only a portion of the book would be useful, seeing that it addressess various job functionalities sequentially, so be ready to skip ahead whenever you are reading. The structure of the book is very good, and the language is direct, neither too preachy nor condescending. I liked the fact that I could look up the positions I am after, and base my preparations on what this book tells me to expect : it makes it easier for anybody to know what to prepare for.At the same time, this book does not pretend to be comprehensive : a Java programmer might easily be asked many more questions than what appear here, and of different types too. But if you are paying attention while going thru the given questions, you could easily identify what exactly you would be found lacking in if you were in the hot seat right this moment.For the price of a book, definitely worth it.

I am 52 years old and have been in IT since 1987. I stay current and have had plenty of interviews. Since I am now applying for new management position at a new large corporation I thought I should brush up my interview skills.I feel this book really added value in my preparation. In addition this book really focused me on what the interviewer wants to see and hear. I changed many of my approaches based on this book.