Job Interview

Question 1

How could you improve the app?

Answer 1

• make it more bubbly
o integrate the ads more into the structure of the app instead of a banner
• grindr for equality
o implement more into the app
• Integrate more community based features into the app.
• Scissr, Grindher
o I don’t what the companies goals are in regards to that but it to me it seems rather difficult for lesbians to use.
o Read about difficulties with men pretending to be women

Question 2

Describe youself

Answer 2

Personal 
	o My name is sam
	o I volunteered with the pride centre at my university for a few years
		 Helped keep the space open
		 Helped set up and decorate events
	o I love working with people
	Academic
	o Bioinformatics
		 High honours
	o Computer Science
	o Semester in Stockholm
	Work experience
	o Research within Bioinformatics labs
		 Cancer and bone marrow
		 Like doing front end more
		 Like creating something that people can interact with
	o Run company called web dexter design
		 Created my own website
		 Website for suddenly Saskatchewan
		 Created using react -> skills would transfer to React Native
	o Taught game development to youth 
	Skills
	o iOS development
		 Yapper
			• Social media
			• Firebase
			• Cocoapods
		 SealSounds
			• Crybaby learns to swim
			• Make sure you download it after this phonecall, it’s really important

Question 3

Greatest Weakness

Answer 3

Mostly self taught for iOS development
o Not a lot of experience developing with a team
 Would really like to develop with a team to improve my coding practices

Question 4

Greatest Strength

Answer 4

• I can teach myself a lot. The app on my website was created by teaching myself iOS development
o as well the websites that I have created.
• Very motivated
• I’m very interested in iOS development and have been building my skills towards doing this.
• I’m certain that iOS development is the field of Computer Science that I want to be doing, it’s just so much nicer.

Question 5

Why should we hire you

Answer 5

• I’m going to get things done and I’m going to make them look nice
• I’m devoted to helping the LGBTQ community
o Where I live the community isn’t very strong
• I’m always learning
• I try to stay really informed
o I try to read articles that reflect points of view which I haven’t considered before

Question 6

How will your past experience help with this role

Answer 6

•	Running the company 
	o Improved my skills teaching myself
	o Given me experience with iOS, Swift, React
		 Webpack
		 Firebase
• Binf lab
	o Taught me to remake programs to get them the right way
	o python

Question 7

Talk about your education

Answer 7

• School
	o Web Development
		 Taught me a lot of the theory fundamentals
		• REST
		• Networks
	o Mobile and cloud computing
		 REST
		 SOAP
		 ERLANG
			• Most scalable for communicating
	 Functional programming
	o Database course
	• Stockholm
		o Queer communities are quite different in other countries
		o My university in Saskatchewan actually had better support for Queer people than in Stockholm

Question 8

What interests you about the position and the work

Answer 8

• I like doing socially beneficial work. I would love to be able to incorporate it with my day job.
• This job would combine my professional skills with the things that I’m passionate for

Question 9

What do you know about the company

Answer 9

• Grindr for Equality
o Would love to integrate the resources listed online into the app
• Gaymoji
• Into
• A lot of people view Grindr as a hookup app
o Not everyone
o Here it’s different for urban vs rural communities
 I live in a small city

Question 10

How did you resolve a conflict

Answer 10

• Usually with empathy and understanding
• Apologize for my mistakes
• Work hard to find a resolution
• Jeff really unmotivated
o Didn’t seem like he didn’t want to do it
 Just looked up youtube videos on Yu-Gi-Oh and stuff a lot
o I had worked for his dad in the past
 His dad was very motivated
 Expected that he would probably go down a similar path in the future
o Set him up to succeed
o Made sure I gave him periodic attention
o Tried to understand why he wasn’t motivated
o Tried to encourage him in a way that he would enjoy it

Question 11

Do you have any questions for us

Answer 11

• Where do you see the future of the company?
• How large is the company?
• How experienced would my co-workers be?
• How passionate would my co-workers be?