Interview Practice Questions

Q1: Why are you leaving your current position?
The organization I was working for was restructuring by reducing significant number of jobs, I was notified that my job was targeted, so accepting early retirement and a pension seemed to make the most sense at the time. I officially separated October 1st!

Q2: Why are you interested in this position, and what sounds most exciting about it?
I loved being a server admin, but I wanted to be the application owner, who had ISSO duties for their applications. They were my buddies, but I felt like taking ownership of a role, so that I can intimately be involved in all of the stages of development, troubleshooting, vulnerability mitigation. I want to be a leaadeer

Q3: What interests you most about our company, and what would you like to get from it?
Rolls-Royce - you made the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) system in the F35, - the collaboration, the precision - you know I am driven you are engineering, marketing, role models, and I see myself as application of disciplined

Q4: What is a key contribution that you can bring to this role?
Holistic approach to ensuring maximum uptime, optimizing performance, mitigating vulnerabilities by talking to the stakeholders, documenting - you can document procedures that you don't know based on inference / best guess / research and then when you get to the hands jon stage you rework the documentatijon. That's jwhat I did for the eidisccovery program. I used archived emails, examined configuration of servers,

Q5: Are you willing to travel? How often?
For more than a week twice a year, otherwise once a month two nights at most. I need to arrange for a caregiver.

Q6: What is your expected salary requirement?
My pay right now is $110, so anywhere between $90 and $110 is awesome

Q7: How do you approach learning new skills or technologies?

Q8: How would you balance completing an time sensitive project while addressing urgent issues that pop up?

Q9: What motivates you to do your best work?
I always want to be

Q10: What do you consider your strongest communication skills, and what aspects of communication do you find most challenging?
Writing for specific audiences. Sometimes I start out with one opinion: our team absolutely needs to take one stance against adoption of something, and by logically working through th thought process, my writing convinced me to to take the opposite approach and embrace the new technology or process. I don't feel I can express myself the same way when I text. Also, if I haven't thought about a question before - like in an interview - I would prefer to write about it instead of answering it on the spot, because the thought process is different. Writing is more structured.

Q11: How do you handle a frustrated or upset client who is experiencing technical difficulties?
First, show understanding by reaffirming how terrible it would be to have their project not working because of the technical problem, have them describe the symptoms, ideally have them demonstrate the problem, take notes on the symtoms, check if other users are having similar problems to determine if the issue is just on the computer, or with the entire system, research possible root causes. Suggest a possible