I’ve found a few different websites that list technical interview questions for different skill sets, but one stuck out to me because it seemed very easy to understand and navigate through.‚ The website DevBistro is a site that serves several different functions: a place for recruiters and employers to post jobs for a fee, search resumes, a place to read tech articles and learn about technology, and a place where technical interview questions and answers have been complied.‚ 

These questions have been taken from multiple sources such as a website called TechInterviews (which I find is difficult to navigate through and some of the links don’t seem to work), and some have even been submitted by candidates who have been asked these questions by specific employers.

On this particular site, they have a number of different tech categories listed, and each one includes multiple questions and answers about the technology.‚ A lot of the questions and answers are written in a way that a recruiter would understand if the candidate is answering the question wrong or not.‚ For the questions that don’t have answers with them, those questions could be asked by the recruiter and then the answers could be reviewed by someone who you feel is an expert with that technology who could properly grade the answers given.

Recruiters can also learn from looking at the interview questions and answers.‚ We aren’t going to understand everything, but it could always be helpful in becoming more confident when a candidate is talking technical with you.

Even though this article was written during the “Dot Com” era in 1999, I feel as if IT Recruiters are going through a similar situation now.‚ In a lot of markets, there are fewer candidates readily available, so we are forced to come up with creative methods to find those perfect candidates.‚ If you weren’t already aware of some of the techniques discussed in this article that employers are trying to avoid, now you have learned some new tricks.‚ 

Dialing different desk numbers through a phone directory, paying for hard copies of employee directories, and doing some thorough web searches for employees of specific companies are methods that employers are well aware of.‚ I don’t think any company can really prevent recruiters from getting to their employees, one way or another.‚ A few years ago, I had the VP of HR from a company call me directly and tell me to stop emailing her employees from a directory that I had obtained legally.‚ Ironically, there was a pretty high rate of response from the employees that I did contact, and it was a great way for me to find some passive candidates and get referrals.

I hope you also find this article interesting.‚ As recruiters, we need to continue to come up with ways to find these hard-to-find passive candidates, especially as employers tighten security to keep us out.

Here are some excerpts:

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For years, heavy users of Internet games and chat groups have conversed in their own written language, often indecipherable to outsiders. Now, some of those online words are gaining currency in popular culture — even in spoken form.‚ Online gamers use “pwn” to describe annihilating an opponent, or owning them. The word came from misspelling “own” by gamers typing quickly and striking the letter P instead of the neighboring letter O. Other words substitute symbols or numbers for similar-looking letters, such as the number 3 for the letter E. The language is sometimes called elite speak, or leetspeak, written as l33t 5p34k. The letter A, for example, can have several replacements, including 4, /\, @ , /-\, ^, and aye. As the Internet becomes more prevalent, leetspeak, including acronyms that used to appear only in text messages like “LOL” for laughing out loud, is finding a voice.

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Some suggest such verbal creations are nothing new and are integral to how language evolves. Gail Kern Paster, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., has reason to believe that a certain English poet and playwright would cheer the latest linguistic leap. Just as the rise of the printed word and the theater spurred many new expressions during Shakespeare’s time, the computer revolution, she notes, has necessitated its own vocabulary — like “logging in” and “Web site.”

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A couple of years ago, Katherine Blashki, a professor of new media studies, didn’t understand some of the words used by her students at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her subsequent, semester-long research on the subject found their use of leetspeak stemmed partly from wanting to find faster ways to express themselves online. As with other forms of jargon, it also enhanced a sense of belonging to a community, she says.

Source: The Wall Street Journal Online‚ 

Check out the link here which explains what they did step-by-step.