Interview Questions Flashcards
Tell us why we should hire you for this position?
- Knows IS domain
- Current programming skills and experience
- Work closely with programming team
- Inspired to grow at IUSD
- Eager to learn and build experience
How do you deal with working with someone who is difficult?
- Open minded person
- Realize everyone sees - things differently
- Compromise
- Outsider’s perspective
What was a mistake you made at work and how did you handle it?
- Donna helpdesk
- Tell story
- Reaction
- Lesson and prevention
- Personality = Accountability and learning experience
Skills developing?
Studying SQL
- Drills
- On the job
Studying C#
- Master class
- Building applications
Developers
- During work = Interested
- Projects = Debug/Coding
Explain a time there was ever a conflict between you and a coworker/manager, and how you handled it.
- Mention MySchoolBucks rep
- Empathy and Impact
- Understood where Eric was coming from
- Compromise
- Solution
What’s your opinion on MVC?
- Efficient and effective
- Easier to work on complex applications
- Controller - Middle man
- Model - Data Logic
- View - UI
- Interesting 3 components
How would you deliver specific data to a vendor?
- Know how Data is Handled
- Query
- Export
- Get Confirmation
- Send and CC
What’s a project you are proud of and why are you proud of it?
- Staff Tracker
- Why you built it
- How it works
- How it relates with IUSD
- Proud because…
If we called your last boss, what would they say about you?
- Responsible and Trustworthy
- Collaborator
- Go-to person
- Always willing to help
Do you know how to program applications with data?
- Answer
- Then and now
- Intrigued to learn, so built app
- Building app allowed you to…
- Confidently say, yes
Tell us about yourself.
- Who you are
- Go-to person for BS
- 600 tickets
- Best next step: Staying and interest/goal
What is your greatest strength?
- Rapport = Excellent communication
- Trust
- Describe strength experience
- Business systems requestors
- Carol-Lynn
What is your weakness?
- Too much time troubleshooting
- Steps to Improve
- Improvements
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
- Learn and grow, systems programmatically, master processes and workflows, expand knowledge
- Dedicated dev for complex issues
- Lead role to make big impact
If they ask you a technical question and you don’t know the answer just…
- Be honest
- Give me some time and I can get you the answer
- Show what you would do to find the answer
