Preparing for a technical interview

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I have a good 8 years of technical experience and for the last 1-2 years, I have been managing a team. I have decided to move back to the technical side and started preparing for it. I have started reading the basics and have read the official docs/blogs of my relevant skill set; There are many new things that I have learnt during this course.



Now, while attending interviews, I am able to answer direct questions; but when a simple concept based question/program is asked, I blank out. Later, when the interviewer explains how it works, I feel I should have known with the concepts that I already know.



I was wondering how the experts do it. How do they grasp the concepts? What is the pattern they follow to apply the concepts while programming or solving a question? What other sources(like SO) do I refer to for such grasping such conceptual knowledge?



For an analogy, I personally feel like a person who knows alphabets of a language, a little vocabulary but unable to make a meaningful paragraph or a story from that vocabulary. If asked the kind/number of alphabets or the meanings of those words, I can easily answer.



P.S: I am not tensed or fidget during interviews. I keep my cool. Nor is the gap an excuse.






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    I have a good 8 years of technical experience and for the last 1-2 years, I have been managing a team. I have decided to move back to the technical side and started preparing for it. I have started reading the basics and have read the official docs/blogs of my relevant skill set; There are many new things that I have learnt during this course.



    Now, while attending interviews, I am able to answer direct questions; but when a simple concept based question/program is asked, I blank out. Later, when the interviewer explains how it works, I feel I should have known with the concepts that I already know.



    I was wondering how the experts do it. How do they grasp the concepts? What is the pattern they follow to apply the concepts while programming or solving a question? What other sources(like SO) do I refer to for such grasping such conceptual knowledge?



    For an analogy, I personally feel like a person who knows alphabets of a language, a little vocabulary but unable to make a meaningful paragraph or a story from that vocabulary. If asked the kind/number of alphabets or the meanings of those words, I can easily answer.



    P.S: I am not tensed or fidget during interviews. I keep my cool. Nor is the gap an excuse.






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      Now, while attending interviews, I am able to answer direct questions; but when a simple concept based question/program is asked, I blank out. Later, when the interviewer explains how it works, I feel I should have known with the concepts that I already know.



      I was wondering how the experts do it. How do they grasp the concepts? What is the pattern they follow to apply the concepts while programming or solving a question? What other sources(like SO) do I refer to for such grasping such conceptual knowledge?



      For an analogy, I personally feel like a person who knows alphabets of a language, a little vocabulary but unable to make a meaningful paragraph or a story from that vocabulary. If asked the kind/number of alphabets or the meanings of those words, I can easily answer.



      P.S: I am not tensed or fidget during interviews. I keep my cool. Nor is the gap an excuse.






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      I have a good 8 years of technical experience and for the last 1-2 years, I have been managing a team. I have decided to move back to the technical side and started preparing for it. I have started reading the basics and have read the official docs/blogs of my relevant skill set; There are many new things that I have learnt during this course.



      Now, while attending interviews, I am able to answer direct questions; but when a simple concept based question/program is asked, I blank out. Later, when the interviewer explains how it works, I feel I should have known with the concepts that I already know.



      I was wondering how the experts do it. How do they grasp the concepts? What is the pattern they follow to apply the concepts while programming or solving a question? What other sources(like SO) do I refer to for such grasping such conceptual knowledge?



      For an analogy, I personally feel like a person who knows alphabets of a language, a little vocabulary but unable to make a meaningful paragraph or a story from that vocabulary. If asked the kind/number of alphabets or the meanings of those words, I can easily answer.



      P.S: I am not tensed or fidget during interviews. I keep my cool. Nor is the gap an excuse.






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