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Today at $DAYJOB I'm the technical member of an interview panel for a couple of
candidates. So naturally I have to do technical interview questions. Which I'm
pretty terrible at, and over the last few years I've discovered that, as far as
I can tell, everyone in the industry is terrible at. So I'm mainly trying to
avoid the pitfalls that people in the industry fall into.
This is an entry-level position that we're interviewing for, so not being able
to answer the questions isn't a weed-out; we're more interested in how someone
handles not knowing the answer (though knowing it would be a big plus). Even so,
I've asked some very basic SQL questions, some of them basic syntax questions,
and one of them more conceptual.
Done with the first interview; two more to go.