IT Interview Guide for Freshers

Book excerpt: Gold mine of critical IT interview Q&A for freshersKey Features Understand various best practices, principles, concepts, and guidelines Common pitfalls to avoid during interviews Trending programming languages including Python and R. Tools, best practices, techniques, and processes Methodologies and processes for DevOps, microarchitecture, SDLC, APIs, SOA integration Best practices and programming standards Holistic view of key concepts, principles, and best practicesDescriptionAre you a fresher looking to pass your first IT interview and get your hands on that dream job of yours? This is the best choice for you to make. By emphasising on the importance of sufficient preparation, this book will help aspirants prepare for the IT interview process. With this practical hands-on guide, readers will not only learn industry-standard IT interview practices and tips, but will also get curated, situation-specific, and timeline-specific interview preparation techniques that will help them take a leap ahead of others in the queue. This book includes sample questions asked by top IT companies while hiring and the readers can expect a similar set of questions in their interview. The book also offers hints on solving them as you move ahead, and each hint is customized similar to how your actual interview is likely to progress. Whether you are planning to prepare for an interview through a semester for six months or preparing for just a weekend coding competition, this book will have all the necessary information that will lead you to your first successful job.What you will learn This is a comprehensive book on IT interviews for aspirants with profiles ranging from freshers to experienced (up to four years' experience) and with different backgrounds such as BE, BCA, BSc, BCom, and MCA.This reference guide for freshers has a double advantage: It will guide them for their interview and discussions. It will help interview panels in selecting candidates for their practice/units while bringing in standardization in the selection process. This book has more than five hundred questions in eight domains, including a chapter on trending programming languages (Python and R). It presents an exhaustive question bank with special emphasis on practical scenarios and business cases. It covers all the key domains including data structures, OOPs, DBMS, OS, methodologies and processes, programming languages, and digital technologies. The book includes a section on frameworks and methodologies for quality assurance and testing, DevOps, Agile, Scrum, APIs, microservices, and SOA. Based on our experience, the assurance is that at least 80% of the content will be discussed during a typical interview. The book also has a section on pre- and post-interview preparations. The coverage is extensive in terms of depth and breadth of domains addressed in the book. But it can be referred to for selective reading as per the choice of domain. The book has more than a hundred diagrams depicting various scenarios, models, and methodologies.Who this book is for Students: IT and other computer science streams Freshers from IT and computer science institutes Programmers/Software engineers/Developers: 0-4 years' experience Interview panelsTable of contents1. Introduction2. Written Test & Group Discussion3. Interview Preparations4. Data Structure & Algorithms5. Operating System6. Object-oriented Programming (OOP)7. C/C++ Programming8. Java Programming9. Database Management System (DBMS)10. Trending Programming Languages: Python & R11. Methodologies & Processes12. HR RoundAbout the authorSameer Paradkar is an Enterprise Architect with more than fifteen years of extensive experience in the ICT industry that spans across consulting, product development, and systems integration. He has been awarded certifications in Open Group TOGAF, Oracle Master Java EA[AJ2] , TM Forum NGOSS, IBM SOA Solutions, IBM Cloud Solutions, IBM MobileFirst, ITIL V3, COBIT 5, and AWS. He serves as an advisory architect on Enterprise Architecture programs and continues to work as a Subject Matter Expert. He has worked on multiple architecture transformation and modernization engagements in the USA, the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East where he has presented a phased roadmap for maximizing business value while minimizing costs and risks[AJ3] .Sameer is part of the Architecture Group within Atos. Prior to Atos, he has worked in organizations like EY - IT Advisory, IBM GBS, Wipro Consulting Services, Tech Mahindra, and Infosys Technologies, and he has specialized in IT strategies and enterprise transformation engagements.LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/sameerparadkar