Ballbuster Q's / Resume Q's

Question 1

Background/Explainer Speech

Answer 1

So I’ll give you the quick rundown since it’s easy to get confused by my resume the way my mentors had me put it together:

• Before I even finished college in 2008, I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but by the time I learned this about myself it was too late to pivot quickly.
• Marketing found me, and I made a surprisingly deep run in that world. After a few years I started my own company–you’ll probably hear “freelancing”, but no– I actually walked into the boardrooms of Inc 5000 and venture capital companies and signed them by myself. The whole way though, I had my hands on automation, code and data and never forgot my calling to software until I found my out.
• I sold my clients, got my Software Engineering certification from Flatiron School and am now developing my own apps and creating/updating SEO websites while I make the leap to a role where I can do something bigger.

Question 2

Describe your education at Flatiron.

Answer 2

• I completed the full stack software engineering program, which is over 1,000 hours.
• Stack taught
• portfolio based, active github
• lang ag

Question 3

Describe your experience with HTML.

Answer 3

• With SEO, you learn this early.
• Tagging
• on pg Opt
• structured snippets
• pagespeed insights

Question 4

Describe your experience with CSS.

Answer 4

• Wireframes
• Templates
• Bootstrap-

Question 5

Describe your experience with JavaScript.

Answer 5

• BAS ads

Question 6

Describe your experience with REST/SOAP.

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Question 7

Describe your experience with JSON.

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Question 8

Describe your experience with jQuery.

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Question 9

Describe your experience with OOP.

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Question 10

Describe your experience with Test Driven Development.

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Question 11

Describe your experience with SQL.

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Question 12

Describe your experience with OOP.

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Question 13

Describe your experience with Ruby/Rails.

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Question 14

Describe your experience with APIs.

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Question 15

Describe your experience with SPSS.

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Question 16

Describe your experience with React.

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Question 17

Describe your experience with Redux.

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Question 18

Describe your experience with OOP.

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Question 19

Describe your experience with R.

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Question 20

Why switch to engineering?

Answer 20

• I’m someone that needs to succeed on merit, to plan and build useful things, to automate, and to be around good, sharp people.

Question 21

Why are you leaving Aletheia?

Answer 21

• I’m ready for the next progression in my career.

Question 22

What do you do at Aletheia? Day to day?

Answer 22

• One thing I do is contract work where I create and edit pretty vanilla small business websites using an internal CMS. I’ll edit & write tags, troubleshoot bugs, update the database. - I also assist with marketing campaign planning, analysis & iteration.
• BUT My most relevant experience with modern frameworks comes from my Github projects. They are the beginnings of products I aim to turn into something I can sell.

Question 23

Ale- Tell me how your web scrapers work.

Answer 23

• Mostly written in the imacros domain-specific language, there may be some javascript sprinkled in when I needed conditional logic. My scrapers generally pulled from and wrote to .csv files, used said data in search queries, then scraped list and detail pages and spit out a structured CSV.

Question 24

BAS - Tell me how your Google Ads scripts work.

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Question 25

Yodle - Tell me how your formulas worked.

Answer 25

• It’s been some time, but I believed we used a combo of visual basic and excel formulas. We had two layers of what we called “spinning”, one was at the word or phrase level, and one was at the sentence level. There was some manual proofing to catch outliers that read too strangely. The other was a scheduling feature that let us know which clients were due for a post based on status, last post date, and current performance pulled from SQL.

Question 26

Yodle - Tell me how your regression models worked.

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