Week 8 - Interviewing
Today, we’ll talk about what the interview for FAC is like
None of us here are on the interview panel, and won’t be making decisions on who gets onto the programme
We want to give you the chance to practice for an interview
The FAC interview has three parts:
Tell the interview panel about yourself, and why you want to be a developer
Answer questions about what you’ve learnt throughout the application process
You’ll be asked questions related to a set of learning outcomes from the application projects
Look at some code which you haven’t written and talk about what it does
You’ll be given a GitHub repository and some instructions
from our mentors
to practise
In groups of 3, take turns playing the role of:
Interviewer asks questions to the interviewee and assesses their responses
Interviewee answers questions from the interviewer and aims to meet interview criteria
Observer remains silent during the interview and gives feedback at the end of the round
the observer will keep time and move the interview on to the next stage
Take 8 minutes for each stage of the interview:
This leaves 6 minutes for the observer to give feedback to the interviewee and interviewer