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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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Summary: No PeopleSoft questions in this book
Review: No peoplesoft like the editorial review claims. Plus, this book has very little useful information about interviewing. It's just a bunch of technical questions organized by chapter. The Oracle questions are out of date, for version 8i which was released in 1999. Don't get this book for help on how to interview. Get "Ace the IT job interview". I am glad I only paid $3 for this. It is barely worth that.
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Summary: ACE the Technical Interview
Review: Should focus more on the questions asked and should seperate C and C++ questions.
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Summary: Poor Editing
Review: The book is filled with valuable information but you generally have to read the answers, and sometimes the questions, at least twice because the book is poorly written. It's as if nobody took the time to proofread - which is pretty sad for a FOURTH edition. Even the entries that are well thought out tend to be filled with sentence fragments and clauses, making it very difficult to read and more importantly, COMPREHEND! I'm no English professor but I can recognize when something can be written more clearly.
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Summary: Updated and expanded to include Y2K job opportunities
Review: The computer industry is exploding with new opportunities, especially as companies scramble to prepare for the Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion. ACE THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW: How to Get the Best Job in the Computer Industry by Michael Rothstein provides the information needed to obtain a better understanding of the problems, solutions, and the skill sets required for landing a better paying job involving Year 2000 conversions. Due to two missing digits (known as century), many computer programs must be reviewed, fixed, and tested so they will work with the century 2000. How this translates to computing professionals: · One trillion lines of code have to be changed, tested and turned over to production prior to December 31, 1999.
· Due to the volume of changes that must be made, a tremendous number of people are needed as soon as possible.
· Thus, salaries and need for data processing personnel continue to rise, at least until the beginning of the year 2000. ACE THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW is the guide that prepares readers to land a position fast, because it contains proven answers to the 2000 toughest job-interview questions. Step by step, industry pro Michael Rothstein shows readers how to track down the Y2K opportunities. With thorough instruction on how to convey knowledge of COBOL, Project Manager, AS/400, Quality Control Testing, Y2K Methodology, C/S Systems, CICS, IDMS, Java, Visual Basic, Oracle, PowerBuilder, MVS, UNIX Sybase, and other technologies, ACE THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW places readers in the position of making more money than ever expected.
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Summary: Good book to refresh before interview
Review: The question and answer format makes the book easy to read. Very relevant questions and explanations provided. Handy for a consultant who has to attend interview at the end of every assignment. I gave 8 because each topic needs more pages to be comprehensive.
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Summary: Should be pulled from the shelves!!!!!!!!
Review: The Visual Basic 5.0 section contains errors too numerous to skip over. Here are some examples. Most are from question and answer format. These are not picky errors. They are total misrepresentations of the language. I know enough VB to find these answers. I would like to use the other sections of the book to learn from, but if these mistakes can get printed, the other sections can not possibly be worth the risk of learning from. p428 q1 Totally false. There is no Menu Design window. It is a Menu Editor window located under the Tools menu. q3 "What does the "at" sign character (@) in front of a letter do?" Answer is totally false. Should be the ampersand character (&). q4 Menu Design reference q5 " q7 These do not match what I have. All versions should have Exit. Correct? p429 q11 Not the Environments tab, the Editor Format tab q12 Your answer produces an error. Should be "...as String*20" p430 q3 Wrong. You use F8 to Step Into code, Shift +F8 to Step Over, and CTRL +Shift +F8 to Step Out p431 q8 Wrong. Just use ListCount. That is 9 errors on 4 pages. Many more follow. The writer did not know VB 5.0!
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Summary: Useful for more than just scamming your way into a job
Review: There's a lot of useful information in this book, but I use it for a different purpose than for that which it is advertised. It's good for IT managers and other computer generalists, who want to stay on top of the trends, compare and contrast technologies, etc. For example, I've never worked with Oracle in my life. What does it do? What is included with Oracle? I can answer these basic questions here. The detailed "sample interview questions", on the other hand, are completely useless. I would say it is dishonest to pretend you have more experience in technology X than you actually do for the purposes of lying your way into a job for which you are not qualified. Reading the little "sample questions" section on X is not going to turn you into an X expert or even a competent X professional, and you won't be able to maintain the illusion long once you are actually on the job, and working with X in all its hairy reality.
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Summary: Useful for more than just scamming your way into a job
Review: There's a lot of useful information in this book, but I use it for a different purpose than for that which it is advertised. It's good for IT managers and other computer generalists, who want to stay on top of the trends, compare and contrast technologies, etc. For example, I've never worked with Oracle in my life. What does it do? What is included with Oracle? I can answer these basic questions here. The detailed "sample interview questions", on the other hand, are completely useless. I would say it is dishonest to pretend you have more experience in technology X than you actually do for the purposes of lying your way into a job for which you are not qualified. Reading the little "sample questions" section on X is not going to turn you into an X expert or even a competent X professional, and you won't be able to maintain the illusion long once you are actually on the job, and working with X in all its hairy reality.
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Summary: Poor
Review: This book suffers from poor editing,poor questions for VB, C++, Java and SQL. Many wrong and poor explanations and answers. I have no idea about Mainframe, Cisco etc sections. Only ASP section is worth reading with a comprehensive coverage of the topic. I have never returned a book. This is the first one which I had to return.
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