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First they'll draw a huge diagram on the whiteboard with many, many different technologies to describe their stack. This is mainly a distraction and serves only to confuse you so you have to ferret out the important parts of the question, which was something like: We have a new commenting system that is being announced live on television by our CEO and when it is announced we will hit the button and launch it while they are on live TV and we absolutely can not roll back or fall over when it goes live. It is being tested by QA and they took a handful of links from the logs and replayed them in a loop many times very quickly to load test and everything seems okay. If you are the Head Of Engineering and your job rests on the successful deploy of this commenting system without issue. Are you satisfied with this QA and if not what would you do differently? (The commenting system is a black box implemented by our parent company by Java PhDs who are unavailable to get any real information out of other than "everything will work.")
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Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Huffington Post

3.7★
Jan 16, 2017

First they'll draw a huge diagram on the whiteboard with many, many different technologies to describe their stack. This is mainly a distraction and serves only to confuse you so you have to ferret out the important parts of the question, which was something like: We have a new commenting system that is being announced live on television by our CEO and when it is announced we will hit the button and launch it while they are on live TV and we absolutely can not roll back or fall over when it goes live. It is being tested by QA and they took a handful of links from the logs and replayed them in a loop many times very quickly to load test and everything seems okay. If you are the Head Of Engineering and your job rests on the successful deploy of this commenting system without issue. Are you satisfied with this QA and if not what would you do differently? (The commenting system is a black box implemented by our parent company by Java PhDs who are unavailable to get any real information out of other than "everything will work.")

(I paraphrase) 'you talked about your experience documenting maintenance for future use in diagnosing issues with your maintenance program, could you give me an example of a time where you and your team actually used that documentation to troubleshoot a failure, and what steps you took to fix the issue?'
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Systems Engineer I

Interviewed at SDGblue

4.7★
Jan 27, 2017

(I paraphrase) 'you talked about your experience documenting maintenance for future use in diagnosing issues with your maintenance program, could you give me an example of a time where you and your team actually used that documentation to troubleshoot a failure, and what steps you took to fix the issue?'

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