Ace the Technical Interview
Author: Michael Rothstein, Daniel Rothstein
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ISBN: 0072126221
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (27 October, 2000)
Sales Rank: 51,020
Average Customer Rating: 2.31 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Mainframe questions OK. What about newer technology answers
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.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Stay away from this book
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.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Poor
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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