Would you like to know how to answer the tricky tech
interview questions? If so, this video is for you?
In this video, we will discuss the key tech interview questions we will specifically cover
the tricky tech interview questions those tech interview gotchas that can kill your
tech interview either before you start the interview or during the interview.
Now most of the questions we'll cover today will actually be tech interview behavioral questions,
some of them will be more related to your class and your fondness when it comes to building a
great tech career. Your tech interview mastery is essential if you didn't know most tech jobs
have a 50 to $100,000 pay range between the top and bottom paid person on the team for
the same job and how well you get paid is dependent upon how much you impress
the hiring manager on your interview. And we want you to know how to sell yourself
and position yourself for maximum success. So please keep watching this video and wait
until the end for some free things that we have to help you in your technology career.
Tech interview questions that we will cover today include what are your salary expectations? Tell
me about a time that you failed. Tell me about your strengths and your weaknesses. And have you
ever disagreed with your manager? The first tech interview question we will cover today are what
are your salary expectations? This is a tricky tech interview question. And in 90 plus percentage
of cases you should not answer this question. If you ask her this question, you're going to have
two problems. One is you may not get the interview as you price yourself out of the market. Or even
worse, you get pigeonholed to a lower salary before you've had a chance to actually interview
for the position. So don't make this pre interview mistake. Let's be fair, you would not buy a house,
a car or anything without truly understanding the product. And you can't tell someone your salary
expectations until you truly understand the job. And you won't know about the job until you speak
to the hiring manager, you're not going to get anything from a job description. Effectively,
they're almost worthless, but the interviewer will tell you exactly what the job is,
you will have a chance to interview the company interview the hiring manager and find out if it's
right for you. I want you to really remember that in that interview, it's equally important for you
to interview the employer as it is for them to interview you. So I don't want you to answer this
question, I want you to treat the interview as a sales call. Because it really is you are selling
your services to the employer and you want to sell your services for the maximum dollar pound
or whatever the local currency is in your part of the world. So take a lesson from the best
sales professionals excellent sales reps do not provide pricing until the customer is excited by
the product. That's how they sell for maximum price. And you should do the same for you. We
want you to get the maximum salary and there is a huge pay range for most tech jobs, generally
speaking between 50 and $100,000 between the top and bottom papers and the possession. So while
the employer and then you'll be at the top end of this range, and in many cases, if you weld them,
you can even get a better job than the one you applied for. I've only worked for five companies
on my first tech interview, it was for a network engineer position. And I had no experience no
background whatsoever, but I wowed them so much on the position. They actually hired me for a
network engineer for and I applied to be a network engineer one. And there was a network engineer
two, three and four. And I was I was hired as a network engineer for with zero experience. Of
course, I did spend two weeks preparing for that interview. And so showed you on another interview,
I applied to be an Enterprise Architect. Instead, I was offered a distinguished architect position
with a much higher pay, and it was a much bigger position. So don't sell yourself short while I'm
on the interview, and then negotiate your salary don't provide an answer to this question. But you
do need to respond to the question on what are your salary expectations. And there are many
approaches to giving the perfect answer here and we cover them all in our tech interview Mastery
program. But for the sake of this video, I want to give you one option to think about a simple
response could be I'm more concerned with finding the perfect fit than just salary, I want to be in
a place where I know I can deliver maximum benefit to the employer and be in a place where I can
build a long term successful career. And after the interview, we will both know each other so
much better. And I will be able to be able to give you a much more definitive answer. So the
plan is you need to punt that until the interview is actually over when you know them, and they know
you and you've had a chance to wow them and show them how wonderful your next question is to tell
me about a time that you felt. Now this is another tech interview gotcha question. And it can either
kick you out of the room and end it or get you hired. See the thing is, let's face it, everybody
fails at some point in their career. And if you haven't failed, it means you haven't tried and no
employer ever wants someone that doesn't try or hasn't tried because it's going to show that you
won't try for them. What matters is not that you failed. It's how that you failed during the time
that you fail. Did you leverage all the resources at your disposal? Did you communicate effectively?
Did you manage the expectations of all key stakeholders during the failure? Did you damage
the relationship with others? Or did you build deeper relationships? Or were you at least able
to salvage those relationships? Was the customer upset? If, if applicable? And if so, how did you
make the customer happy? How did you remedy the solution? Now, since you made a mistake,
what have you done to make sure that you've not made the same mistake again? And what are
you doing to avoid future mistakes? What did you learn in the process of making mistakes that makes
you better prepared for the future? These are what the employer is truly asking about. So make
sure you address these in your response. The next interview question is Tell me about your strengths
and weaknesses? Or tell me about your weaknesses. Right now? I'm just going to cover the weaknesses.
We all have weaknesses and how you answer the what are your weaknesses is a critical tech interview
question. So you must have one because we all have weaknesses. What the employer is trying to see is
if they can live with you, and your weaknesses, but they also want to know if you know yourself,
and this is very critical. So why does the employer want to know if you know yourself? Well,
I'll read you a passage from the Art of War, which tells you everything you need to know if you know
the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of 100 battles. If you know yourself,
but not your enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. And if you know
neither yourself nor your enemy, you will succumb in every battle. So let's face it, business is
war. And the employer wants to know that you will be a good soldier fighting for them on their team.
So you must know yourself. Now to be fair, you must be able to tell them about a real weakness.
And you must sound authentic, which only comes out of honesty. So let's evaluate weaknesses. If you
have a knowledge gap, no big deal, an employer can simply send you for training. But there
are showstopper weaknesses, and these weaknesses will immediately disqualify you from the job. So
if you have any of these don't mention these. And truthfully, if you have any of these weaknesses,
we strongly recommend that you get helped to overcome these weaknesses,
as you have a much better life and career. Some of the critical showstopper weaknesses are laziness,
or the inability to get along with others, or a violent temper or the unwillingness to be a
team player. So give a realistic example of a true weakness, a weakness that will not scare away the
employer. For example, one of my weaknesses is my organization skills. So I might say something like
my weakness is my organizational skills by nature, I'm not the most organized person in the world.
So to mitigate these weaknesses, I keep a set of checklists to make sure that I stay organized. The
next tricky tech interview question is, have you ever disagreed with your manager? When you analyze
the question, you really want to know what they're actually assessing? And what they're assessing? Is
your problem solving skills, your communication skills, your emotional intelligence? So you need
to answer this question in a manner that's going to highlight your emotional intelligence, your
problem solving skills, your leadership skills and communication skills, because that's what they're
really trying to gauge. Now. When you answer this question, I need you to be positive in your
response. And be respectful of your manager even if they were wrong, because the manager wants to
know that you can take direction and be respectful from the manager, because they too may be wrong
sometime. And in your response, I need you to stick with professional issues. Now. Ideally,
pick a conflict that had a positive outcome. Keep your story simple, and keep the listeners engaged.
And please keep reading their body language along the way, so you know when to keep talking and when
to stop talking based upon the interviewer his body language. As you can tell, these questions
are far deeper than what the employer is just asking you on this tech interview question
because they're trying to find out who you are, and if you're a good fit for their organization,
if you truly want to maximize your interview success, we have a tech interview Mastery program
that will give you a complete unfair advantage to win the interview over everyone else that's
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