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Hire thy Gator Interview Exercises

Technical interviews act as gatekeepers for securing jobs in the tech industry. In this assessment, students were introduced to the technical interview process through a panel consisting of teaching assistants who have previously cracked technical interviews. This was followed by a role play exercise where two teaching assistants act as an interviewer and an interviewee and go through a mock technical interview. After the role-play, students were asked to work in pairs, interviewing each other, first in the middle of the semester (Week 8) and second in the last week of the course (Week 14). They were asked to work with self-selected peers in the first interview and were randomly paired with another student in the second iteration. This was done so that we could scaffold the social interaction and reduce interview anxiety. This assessment was designed to generate awareness of the technical interview process and build students’ confidence in succeeding them in the future.