Lunch with Sharon Goldberg
Mon. 11/16
CIT 3rd floor atrium @ 1:00
WiCS and the CS DUG will be hosting luch with Sharon Goldberg, a researcher at Microsoft Research, New England and soon-to-be assistant professor at Boston University. Please RSVP!

This Is How We Roll
Tue. 11/17
CIT 3rd floor atrium @ 4:30
Apple! WiCS! Sushi! Raffles! What more could you possibly want out of life?! RSVP to wics [at] cs [dot] brown [dot] edu.

Resources: Interviews

Technical Interviews

How to Survive a Technical Interview - Brown CS alumna Janete Perez was kind enough to present these slides at Kabob & Jobs during the fall of '08. This is quite possibly the ultimate guide to technical interviews.

Job Interview Wiki - A wiki devoted to interviewing within the IT industry. Includes questions related to particular fields, questions asked by individual companies, questions specific to a variety of languages, and questions from non-IT disciplines (e.g. physics).

Common Interview Questions (as recorded by WiCS) - The collective experience of previous generations of WiCS at your fingertips! A great way to prepare for technical interviews.

TechnicalInterview.com - A site which explains the interview process from start to finish. Includes questions and solutions.

Microsoft Interview Questions - Interview questions commonly used by Microsoft, sorted into four categories: riddles, algorithms, applications, and "thinkers".

Google Interview Questions - A collection of interview questions used at Google.

50 Common Interview Questions & Answers - Includes good (and not-so-good) ways to respond to common interview questions.

General Interviewing Skills

Effective Interviewing - The Brown University Career Development Center's surprisingly comprehensive guide to interviewing. The non-technical portion of the interview is often times what catches CS students up, so make sure to check this one out.

The Informational Interview: What Not to Say and More (Wise Bread) - How to get the recruiter's interest and proceed to the first round of interviewing.

Body Language Decoded (Forbes.com) - Common body language mistakes. Hint: don't twirl your hair.