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Summary: Practical and specific
Review: As a IT recruiter in Korea, I do many interviews in all fields in IT industry. Being more universal than anything else, the computer languages and the hardware/software that we use in Korea are often identical to the ones used in the U.S. This book helps me to understand different type of jobs available in the IT industry and questions that I can use as a reference. If, possible, it would be beneficial to find a way to widely promote this book to technical professionals in Korea.
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Summary: The questions are junk!
Review: As a MCP, I was asked to review the VB5 section and found over half of the questions didn't prove anything other than you knew the answer to the question. They don't have anything to do with knowing how to program business solutions in VB. Many of the questions have wrong answers.
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Summary: This book comes highly recommended.
Review: I am ready to do my technical interviews, and the school I attended recommended this book both as a review and a preparation for what to expect on the interview. However, I see that others have found some errors in it. Is there anyone that knows of a book of this type without the errors? Let us know please.
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Summary: Stay away from this book
Review: I have a solid background in C/C++ and I was hoping to fill in some gaps in other areas with this book. Unfortunately, given the poor quaility of the C/C++ information (and the sometimes-silly stuff in the "how to interview" section), I really don't trust what's in the rest of the volume.The C/C++ chapter is divided into "beginner", "intermediate", and "advanced" sections. Instead, they should be labeled "unbelievably trivial", "very trivial", and "trivial". Even worse, much of the information is presented in a misleading or incorrect fashion. I suppose this is to be expected, given that the main credentials of the person who wrote the C/C++ section are a music degree and the ability to play the string bass. If I were giving an interview and I heard a candidate parroting the C/C++ answers in this book, I would promptly show him/her to the door. Instead, get a copy of: "Programming Interviews Exposed" by Mongan and Suojanen.
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Summary: Good idea, but too many incorrect answers
Review: I liked the concept of this book, presenting some typical questions that might be asked during a technical interview. But in the section that I read (Visual Basic 5.0), I found that many of the answers were totally incorrect. A study guide that gives out wrong info is worse than no study guide at all. To be fair, I only read through the VB5 chapter, and the other chapters may be more accurate. But if you're thinking about purchasing this book, be warned.
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Summary: How to get the best job in the computer industry?
Review: I think that line (which appears on the cover) should be changed to "How to get the easiest job in the computer industry?". The questions in this book are just for beginners(unlike what it says on the cover "answers to 2000 tough questions"). If you are really looking for a serious job in computer industry, this book is worthless to you.
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Summary: Glaring technical errors guarantee you'll not get hired
Review: I thumbed through this at Borders, and I had to post commentary here to keep people away. The errors just in the web section were enough. "What are ways to emphasize text"? they ask in the web section. "Use the Blink tag"?!? They also refer to TCP/IP as a generic name for a suite of protocols such as SMTP, HTTP and DNS. Wrong wrong wrong. On the other hand, I figure that if someone is buying this book to scam their way into a job that they don't know anything about, perhaps the incorrect answers are what they deserve.
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Summary: Mainframe questions OK. What about newer technology answers
Review: I was planning to buy this book on-line. Good thing I borrowed this book first from our company technical library. COBOL, DB2 & MVS questions are most frequently asked basic questions that I faced in tech interviews in past 10 years. However, Visual Basic section has unfavourable readers review. Since I am upgrading my skills in Client/server technology, I am quite concerned about accuracy of questions of VB and Web sections. I would rather continue to earn triple income as a Mainframe Y2K consultant (as book suggested) than land a best job in Visual Basic or Java/Web, based on wrong or misleading answers from this book. Publisher/Authors need to pay attention to an unbiased on-line reviews of this book. However, the initial sections of interview prep, Y2K strategies, Project Management etc. are really good and useful. In conclusion, don't judge this book just by the cover with a listing of impressive technologies and also remember, your Y2K triple income won't last much past Y2K!! It's *not* a 'get rich quick' scheme.
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Summary: Mainframe questions OK. What about newer technology answers
Review: I was planning to buy this book on-line. Good thing I borrowed this book first from our company technical library. COBOL, DB2 & MVS questions are most frequently asked basic questions that I faced in tech interviews in past 10 years. However, Visual Basic section has unfavourable readers review. Since I am upgrading my skills in Client/server technology, I am quite concerned about accuracy of questions of VB and Web sections. I would rather continue to earn triple income as a Mainframe Y2K consultant (as book suggested) than land a best job in Visual Basic or Java/Web, based on wrong or misleading answers from this book. Publisher/Authors need to pay attention to an unbiased on-line reviews of this book. However, the initial sections of interview prep, Y2K strategies, Project Management etc. are really good and useful. In conclusion, don't judge this book just by the cover with a listing of impressive technologies and also remember, your Y2K triple income won't last much past Y2K!! It's *not* a 'get rich quick' scheme.
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Summary: How to Ace the Technical Interview
Review: If you are a job seeker, this book will probably not be a big help. If you are a recruiter seeking technical questions to ask in an interview, this book offers a wide variety of technical questions in many different areas including C/C++, VB, Java, SQL, and many more.
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