Ace the Technical Interview: Includes Y2K Job Opportunities (Paperback)

by Michael F. Rothstein (Author)

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Product Description
How do you make the bestselling computer career guide even better? By adding brand-new data on Year 2000 (Y2K) jobs, plus full updated information on COBOL, Project Manager, AS/400, Quality Control - Testing, Y2K Methodology, C/S Systems, CICS, IDMS, Java, Visual Basic, Delphi, Power Builder, Oracle, MVS, UNIX, RS/6000, Sybase, DB2, and other areas of expertise. Michael Rothstein shows how to ace Y2K interviews (with 300+ specific Q&As)...double and even triple you income as a Y2K or general consultant...and emerge as top dog in any computer interview, thanks to strategy tips and 2000 proven Q&As.

From the Back Cover
The computer field is bursting with new opportunities, especially as companies scramble to prpepare for the Year 2000 conversion! Grab your share of the wealth. The first step is to forget all the other so-called computer career guides. Only Ace the Technical Interview points you precisely to where you want to be, especially if your sights are set on the Y2K bonanza. This is the only guide that prepares you to land a position fast, because it contains proven answers to the 2000 toughest job-interview questions - the stumpers that employers use to sort out the best from the rest. So screen yourself in. Step-by-step industry pro Michael Rothstein will show you how to track down the Y2K opportunities...dazzle interviewers with your command of COBOL. Project Visual Basic, Delph, PowerBuilder, Oracle, MVS, UNIX, RS/6000, Sybase, DB2, and other technologies...and make more money than you ever dreamed possible.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 497 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 2nd edition (March 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070540489
• ISBN-13: 978-0070540484
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #564,049 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to Ace the Technical Interview, January 25, 2000

By	Katrina (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

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.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Glaring technical errors guarantee you'll not get hired, April 19, 1999

By	Andy Lester (McHenry, IL) - See all my reviews

I thumbed through this at Borders, and I had to post commentary here to keep people away. The errors just in the web section were enough.

"What are ways to emphasize text"? they ask in the web section. "Use the Blink tag"?!?

They also refer to TCP/IP as a generic name for a suite of protocols such as SMTP, HTTP and DNS. Wrong wrong wrong.

On the other hand, I figure that if someone is buying this book to scam their way into a job that they don't know anything about, perhaps the incorrect answers are what they deserve.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away from this book, January 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Ace the Technical Interview (Paperback)

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.