Peer Screening

Mindcircuit’s goal is to dramatically reduce resume review and interviewing time and avoid costly mis-hires. Our Technical Consultants are technology hiring managers themselves, experienced at interviewing and hiring at multiple levels. We employ deep-probe interviewing methods, asking increasingly challenging questions until the candidate’s depth as been reached. Our interview scripts are standardized but flexible.

Sample Project Manager Interview Questions

How do you scope a project?

How do you handle change requests?

When your clients have questions, do they contact your technical

leads directly or are you always involved?

Discuss a time when a project schedule slipped badly: why did it

happen and what did you do about it?

Do you feel it is necessary to be technical to be a good technical project manager?

Discuss how you have managed conflicts between development and Q/A.

Sample J2EE Developer Interview Questions

• When would you use a hashtable collection vs an arraylist?
• Explain when to use the 3 types of JDBC statements?
• When would you opt for BMP over CMP?
• How do you handle logging in your applications?
• Describe the different EJB transaction attributes
• How is an abstract class different from an interface?
• How does your app server manage state in a server farm?

Sample Database Developer Interview Questions

• Explain the difference between inner and outer joins.
• Are tables always indexed on primary keys?
• What is a union query?
• What is referential integrity and why is it important?
• What is a cursor used for? Describe the syntax for usage.
• How are views different from temp tables?
• When do you want to de-normalize?