Interview Guidelines
Its very important during interview to be clear about what position you are targeting. Depending on what positions you are targeting the interviewer shoots you questions. Example if you are looking for a project manager position you will be asked around 20% technical questions and 80% management.
"Interview is a contract between the employer and candidate to achieve specific goals."
So employer is looking for a suitable canddiate and candidate looks for a better career. Normally in interviews the employer is very clear about what type of candidate he is looking for. But 90% times the candidate is not clear about the positions he is looking for.
How many times it has happened with you that you have given a whole interview and when you mentioned the position you are looking for.. pat comes the answer, "we donot have any requirements for this position". So be clarified about the position right from when you start the interview.
Following are the number of years of experience according to position.
1. Junior engineers are specially fresher and work under software engineers.
2. Software engineers have around 1 to 2 years of experience. Interviewer expects software engineers to be technically at a medium level.
3. Senior Software Engineers have around 2 to 4 years of experience. Interviewer expects them to technically be very strong.
4. Project leads should handle majority technical aspect of porject and should have around 4 to 8 years of experience. They are also indirect architect of the project. Interviwer expects them to be technically strong and in terms of architecture to be decent. Interviewer also expects them to have people mangement skills.
5. Project Manager are expected to be around 40% technically strong and should have experience about 10 years plus. But they are more interviewed from aspect of project management, client interaction, people mangement, proposal preparation etc.
so now judge where you stand, and where you want to go................