Category Archives: IT Industry

C++ Hard Interview Questions – part1

1. Why don’t we have virtual constructors? The virtual mechanism, though used without the knowledge of the complete type of the object, works only on fully-constructed objects. But, in ord......

Indian IT industry to recruit 98000 engineers

This is by far the best news of 2010 for India. I was overjoyed when I read this in the newspaper today. Economy has showed signs of reviving in the developed countries such as the UK and the US......

How important motivator is salary hike to change a job

Recession is over in India. There are jobs in IT companies available. More than 60% of my friends have changed jobs. For few of them, salary hike was top most priority, for few it was the role, ......

C++ Medium Interview Questions – part2

This post is a part of an ongoing series of C++ Interview Questions. This is Second part of the two parts of C++ interview questions with medium difficulty. These questions were handpicked by th......

Resignation Letter templates

Below are resignation letter templates in ready to copy format. Be sure to change the names in the letter Resignation Letter Template -1 Resignation Letter Template -2 Resignation Letter......

Would you hire samuel, a frank guy who speaks his mind at interviews

This interview is my imaginary work, a sample response for 50 commonly asked interview questions, attempting to answer few of the most tricky HR questions ever asked. A fictitious software profe......

Change your job profile with least efforts

I recently got an email from one of our readers. “Hi, I’m an experienced software engineer working for an IT company as a software developer. I would like to change my job profile t......

You may be working for the Sun, but you are no exception

The world’s largest business software company, Oracle’s recent deal for acquisition of Sun Microsystems is alleged to be deliberately delayed by Oracle. According to few legal exper......

Interview with The Working Geek

This is an interview of Andy Lester with Interview Mantra, on tips for job hunters and on his book “Land the Tech Job you Love“, which is about new guidelines for tech job hunting. ......

Bugs can get you a software job

You are a software developer/tester sitting in an interview, trying to get this great job. Dozens of applicants are waiting in the hall for their turn. Your chances don’t look high. How c......