IT Technical Interview over Skype
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My manager loves asking the question "What was your biggest mistake and how did you go about remedying it?". All he wants to hear is "I informed my line manager immediately" regardless of what the mistake was, everyone makes mistakes.
The guy who was in my role previously managed to restore a UAT database over the Live database one day. He never lived that one down
The guy who was in my role previously managed to restore a UAT database over the Live database one day. He never lived that one down
In the old days, maybe. There are LOTS of companies who have 100's of employees who have international offices. Many of whom own zero infrastructure (aside from desktops/laptops).
You're assuming this is a UK company who has branched out into the US?
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My manager loves asking the question "What was your biggest mistake and how did you go about remedying it?". All he wants to hear is "I informed my line manager immediately" regardless of what the mistake was, everyone makes mistakes.
The guy who was in my role previously managed to restore a UAT database over the Live database one day. He never lived that one down
"Well... hmm... I'd have to say my biggest mistake was getting married. To remedy that, I beat her to death."
Company I work for has 2 offices, 1 in US and 1 in the UK and there is 15 of us total. Also have 2 people working from home in various locations.
The company I work for has less than 100 staff total, but we have offices in LA, Singapore, South Africa, Spain and Chile
The company I work for has less than 100 staff total, but we have offices in LA, Singapore, South Africa, Spain and Chile
Exactly. Gone are the days of needing lots of people or infrastructure to break into new regions.
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Working in IT for a company with about 200 employees, office in america office in france.
Not that many servers / large infrastucture, mostly in out UK office with vpn connections.
lulz.
99% of situations turn out easier than you think they're going to be.
Our company first gives a technical programming challenge (lasting 1 to 3 days depending on the role). If the candidate does very well then we tend to give a quick skype interview to check their submission is their own and they are as smart as they appear to be, but mainly that they are not a psychopath. They are then given a tentative job offer and are flown over to chat with us and we basically try to persuade them to work for us. People that did well at the programming challenge likely can walk into any job and will have multiple job offers.
On rare occasions someone who was borderline on the programming challenge will be skyped to see if it is worth flying them over for interview but it is normally safer just to reject.
A majority of people who succeed at the programming challenge are flown in, although only around 40% of people pass the programming test.
On rare occasions someone who was borderline on the programming challenge will be skyped to see if it is worth flying them over for interview but it is normally safer just to reject.
A majority of people who succeed at the programming challenge are flown in, although only around 40% of people pass the programming test.
well done!
I was going to post about my really bad phone interview (2 hours of intense mental probing that left me completely embarrassed) but thought I would abstain until your interview passed!