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I was repeatedly asked technical questions despite the job not requiring me to be technical. The managers clearly doubted my ability to do the job solely because I was not technical, despite having experience in managing technical staff before. Had I known they really wanted an engineer, I would not have wasted 5 hours of my time.
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Customer Focused Technical Support Manager

Interviewed at Juniper Networks

4.2
Jul 2, 2013

I was repeatedly asked technical questions despite the job not requiring me to be technical. The managers clearly doubted my ability to do the job solely because I was not technical, despite having experience in managing technical staff before. Had I known they really wanted an engineer, I would not have wasted 5 hours of my time.

Scrum teams or pods were described as meeting 5 of 20 a point metric in completing expected work during two week sprints. I do not know if the performance shortfalls were discussed in daily standups. I do not know if there were reflections at the end of a sprint. This scenario was described then the question posed: how would you improve performance? After this being asked the third time, I finally replied "well three strikes and you are out I suppose." Frustrating. But then to key to the performance issues fell in place -- for me. Perhaps the question should have been: tell me how to solve this, then you can go on your way. :-)
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Technical Architect/Development Manager

Interviewed at IHG Hotels and Resorts

3.9
Feb 18, 2017

Scrum teams or pods were described as meeting 5 of 20 a point metric in completing expected work during two week sprints. I do not know if the performance shortfalls were discussed in daily standups. I do not know if there were reflections at the end of a sprint. This scenario was described then the question posed: how would you improve performance? After this being asked the third time, I finally replied "well three strikes and you are out I suppose." Frustrating. But then to key to the performance issues fell in place -- for me. Perhaps the question should have been: tell me how to solve this, then you can go on your way. :-)

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