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# How to prepare for a technical interview
- URL: https://www.jvrc.ca/how-to-prepare-for-a-technical-interview/
- Published: 2026-02-19T21:27:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T20:28:30.000Z
- Author: Javier Cervantes
- Tags: existing-topic, rubyforum

When you’re actively looking for a new position, you’ll need to be ready to take technical interviews.

Here are some strategies and recommendations you can use to avoid getting stuck.

## Step up your game

- Start getting ready with a high-level intro about you.
- Prepare to talk about your previous jobs, projects, education and training.
- Refresh your knowledge on concepts, technologies and skills mentioned in the position.
- Be read to explain a real-life scenario of a typical production application and everything you need to run it efficiently and securely.
- Map the requirements of the position with your own experience, there might not be a 100% match, but it’s important that you can talk about that.
- Review your CV and make notes of things you would ask to yourself

## Get some questions ready

It’s important that you review the role and the company so you can make good questions to your interviewer, here are some examples:

- What is the tech stack you’re currently in the projects?
- What are the coding guidelines?
- Are there any current pains or challenges on the projects? How are you working on them or around them?
- What’s the culture about documentation and mentorship?
- How do you test a new feature that is being released?
- How does your testing suite like?
- What other CI/CD elements are important to you?
- Do you have big initiatives coming up? (Single sign on, upgrade, etc)

## Practice, practice, practice

- Try to do a mock interview or practice with someone else.
- If you haven’t worked with the technologies they are requesting, make sure you can run and test some code locally.
- Take a look at some of your previous changes/pull requests and practice doing a review.
- Review their source code of a couple of libraries you use frequently.
- Choose a small project to perform all the activities you would do if you were working on it: install, run tests, CI pipeline, deployment, logging, monitoring, etc.

## Test your setup in advance

- Make sure you test the conference link in advance, it might require installing a new tool or there might be a pending update.
- Test all your audio configuration with the headphones you’ll be using that day.
- Make sure you can share you’re screen, sometimes the system will require additional permissions (or a restart)
- Review your video configuration and background, keep it simple and professional.
- Plan to arrive a 5-10 minutes early in case you missed something.

## Important things to remember during the interview

- Keep your eyes to the camera and your head up.
- Speak with confidence about your achievements and skills.
- Don’t limit yourself, talk about positive elements you can skip your shortcomings and limitations.
- Talk slower and louder than you would normally do (We tend to lower the voice and rush when nervous)
- If you don’t have the answer to a question, instead of just saying “I don’t know”, speak about other similar things you’ve done or ask them for more details instead.
- If you don’t understand the question, you can ask or repeat what you understood to confirm.