This document provides an outline for cracking the interview process. It discusses preparing for technical and HR interviews by understanding job requirements, customizing your resume, and practicing common interview styles and mistakes to avoid. The key steps are to research available jobs and companies, select target opportunities, and thoroughly prepare for both the technical and HR aspects of the interview.

1. Cracking the
Interview
Amr Ali Abdelnaby

2. Outline
 Before the technical interview
 During the technical interview
 During the HR interview
 Q&A
 Simulation of a technical Interview

3. Before the Technical
Interview
1. Scan the jobs available @ different companies
2. Select the target jobs or target companies
3. Understand the job requirements
4. Try to know the interview style
5. Prepare well before job application
6. Modify your CV to suit the job

4. Companies with Job Openings

5. Key to Success
Achievements
Expectations
Success

6. Learning Tracks for Available
Jobs
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SW Testing
SW Design
RTOS
SW Testing Jobs SW Development
Jobs

7. A Winning CV
 CV
 Jobs
 Education
 Skills
 References
 Follow a chronological order
 Be factual (no missing – no hidden – no extra info)
 Be relevant (you are applying for an embedded job)
 Less is more

8. Did you Do your Homework?
Interviewer/Interviewee
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9. During the Technical
Interview
 Know your interviewer as he/she wants to know you
 Be confident
 Be moderately interactive
 Be honest
 Avoid having a red face

10. Interview Styles
 CV-driven interview
 Checklist-driven interview
 Job description – driven interview

11. Deadly Technical Interview
Mistakes
 Poor preparation
 Too much
communication
 Talk too much
 Do not talk enough
 Giving the wrong answer
 Following up

12. HR Interview is not a
Technical Interview
HR Interview
 Personality
 Countermeasures hardly
taken
 Non-technical
interviewer
Technical Interview
 Technicality
 Countermeasures easily
taken
 Technical interviewer

13. Deadly HR Interview Mistakes
 Poor communication skills
 Dress inappropriately
 Fuzzy facts
 Badmouthing past employers
 Not following up