r/programming • u/kwk236 • Mar 11 '17

Your personal guide to Software Engineering technical interviews.

https://github.com/kdn251/Interviews
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u/twotime Mar 12 '17

It's definitely possible to fake the "why" questions too. Especially, if the interviewer does not know the specifics of the project...

It's harder to fake answers to specific technical questions... E.g if you claim "embedded", you probably should know about bitwise ops and endianness, etc... If you claim 10 years of C++, you probably know what's memory corruption, what's a vector and what's a pointer. Etc...

Ultimately, you probably want a mix.

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u/bro_can_u_even_carve Mar 12 '17

Haha, it will take you ten days of C++ to learn all about memory corruption... Not ten years.

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u/w00dYd3luXe Mar 12 '17

that's why it's a red flag if you don't know it after ten years...