Behavoiral Flashcards
Describe a situation you had when you couldn’t solve a problem. What was the outcome.
I had a performance issue with a report. To produce this report required many complex queries.
I optimzed
- Stored Procedures
- Queries
- Modified the indexes.
Although, I was able to reduce the report generations to about 30 seconds I was not able to do it under 10 seconds. I couldn’t sacifice anymore resources for the report. However, I did take the most used user defined crateria and optimized them.
The data model was pretty bad, for instance 14 varchar primary key, many foriegn key references, etc. The
Give an example of an occasion when you used logic to solve a problem.
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Give an example of a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved it.
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Give an example of a goal you didn’t meet and how you handled it.
I wrote a small but important application to handle Fetal Death Records. A few months after inital release the some data problems surfaced.
Describe a stressful situation at work and how you handled it.
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Tell me about how you worked effectively under pressure.
Although, I did not like to work under pressure and I think consistent pressure is detrimental to productivity. However, when it necessary, pressure focus me to get the task done. I tend to tune many other distractions out.
How do you handle a challenge?
I tend to like a challenge because it allows to me apply my knowledge and experience to solving the problem and I learn something.
But I also think it is a challenge to review own code/solutions and be objective. Look it critically to find improvements and apply them.
Have you been in a situation where you didn’t have enough work to do?
Yes, many times.
I use this time to refactor, optimized, and do the things you normally can’t because of time constraints.
Have you ever made a mistake? How did you handle it?
.I wrote a small but important application to handle Fetal Death Records. A few months after initial release the some data problems surfaced. I troubleshoot the problem and stated I could fix in 5 days. Two days into the fix my system crashed and I was working in Safe Mode. I managed to fix the application on schedule. The mistake I made was I skip one my finale test cases so I can release it on time—coders were waiting on me. I decided to test the final test case and it failed. It was rare case but I owned up to it request the coding to be held until I fixed the rare case.
7474747474747474747474Describe a decision you made that was unpopular and how you handled implementing it.
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Did you every make a risky decision? Why? How did you handle it?
Risky decisions with si are left for the stakeholders to make. However, I have come across situations when I
Did you ever postpone making a decision? Why?
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Have you ever dealt with company policy you weren’t in agreement with? How?
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Have you gone above and beyond the call of duty? If so, how?
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When you worked on multiple projects how did you prioritize?
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