2024

Question 1

Describe a time when you made a critical error in your work.

Answer 1

checking in on Friday.

Question 2

*Describe a situation when you had to make a major decision under time constraints.

Answer 2

AME losing cluster availability

Question 3

*Tell me about an unpopular decision you’ve had to make.

Answer 3

Surface project need people to make a lot of changes.

Question 4

Tell me about a situation when you had multiple alternatives from which to choose. What steps did you take to determine the most appropriate alternative?

Answer 4

GraphRAG KT to Besudha, there are many opportunities that I’d mention. everyone is a choice to make. it’s always a balance between resourcing constrain and customer impact.

Question 5

Uncover something that could be problematic, what I did before it became an issue.

Answer 5

Surface project - SQLizer, Blueshift, EDP, Xlow retiring.

Question 6

Overcome difficulty / remove obstacle

Answer 6

Telegram phone number getting banned.

Question 7

Long term project

Answer 7

Surface project

Question 8

Motivate other on a challenging project

Answer 8

EDP

Question 9

Most difficult project

Answer 9

GraphRAG
- new tech
- black box
- deadline
- distraction (SFI, losing vendor)

Question 10

Persuade others with different view

Answer 10

RCADe

Question 11

Persuade w/o authority

Answer 11

Surface Project

Question 12

Influence multiple stake holders

Answer 12

RCADe

Question 13

convince stake holder of an idea.

Answer 13

Kusto

Question 14

Suggest idea that address customer E2E experience

Answer 14

Surface Project reduce time

Question 15

identified risk and address the risk

Answer 15

Surface Project - tech retirement

Question 16

Innovative idea failed

Answer 16

parsing pbit file

Question 17

make adjustment based on customer experience

Answer 17

DaaS

Question 18

complaint from customer

Answer 18

MTAC on DaaS

Question 19

anticipating needs

Answer 19

always thinking about how the user will use this. and vet with them.
gomathi on morning reporting
mtac on DaaS json structure for expansion

Question 20

diffiulty understanding customer needs

Answer 20

MTAC

Question 21

fell short on meeting customer need

Answer 21

MTAC - needs external documents, needs citation, drop sanction.

Question 22

mehtod to understand customer needs

Answer 22

talk to them. sometimes through PM. through telemetry. through feedback. through forums.

Question 23

cross functional team success

Answer 23

Surface Project - xflow, cosmos, windows, fundamentals, windows data science, kusto, Surface dev, PM, test. Blueshift EDP,

Question 24

developed relationship for success

Answer 24

EDP , MTAC fro Telegram, Serena for DaaS, Telegram, and GraphRAG

Question 25

Resolve issues with other team

Answer 25

MSR on GraphRAG
Assimov on telemetry
Kusto

Question 26

conflict with other teammate

Answer 26

GraphRAG on entity resolution

Question 27

unsuccessful collaboration

Answer 27

RCADe

Question 28

propose change in job duty

Answer 28

Rick did not assign my work.

Question 29

project with little info

Answer 29

Surface Project was my proposal. so was telegram and Copilot

Question 30

Didn’t go as plan, need to change priority.

Answer 30

GraphRAG
- MVP
- then need to add 8000 documents
- then need to look into SMT s
- then SFI
- then wants to drop sanction
- then needs to have citation
- then needs to move asure search to back end
- then needs to move entity merge to back end
- then wants to do entity resolution in 2 phases