My Softskills 2 Flashcards
1
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Innovative
A
- apply latest achievements and methodologies
- constantly looking for ways to improve workflows, processes of own and teammates
2
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Pragmatic
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- come up with simple, effective, efficient solutions
- keeps to and believes in the KISS principle
- avoid overengineering, unpractical or academic level solutions
- takes into consideration costs and deadlines
3
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Attentive to details
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- approach problems from high level, but drill down to details to examine the feasibility of the proposed solutions
- wants to know how bits of a solutions fit together to make sure that it will work in practice and not just in theory
4
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Customer orientation
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- keeps customers need in mind when approaching problems and developments
- build products that are appealing to customers in terms of both usability and appearance
- customer satisfactions motivates me, makes me proud when they like what I do, they like the products that we make
5
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Quality awareness
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- I believe that quality products sell themselves
- it is crucial to apply techniquest in daily development that ensures and improves the quality of code that is produced
- I apply automated code review tools like PMD, Checkstyle, CI, peer review
6
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Analytical
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- instead of “trial and error” approach I want to understand why things happen, when we have a problem what are the circuimstances
- being analitical ensures that solutions given are proper and free of side effects
7
Q
Cooperative
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- believes that two heads are better than one
- listens to others opinions
- others may have better respects that help creating better solutions
- not afraid to accept others opinions
8
Q
Eager to learn
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- I think it is crucial to keep up with the latest developments of software engineering
- enjoy learning new programming languages, frameworks or methodologies
- try to put the latest technologies into practice
9
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Problem solving
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- good in effectively solving technical problems emerging during developments
- attentive to deadlines and costs when suggesting solutions to problems
- able to come up with workarounds as required
- able to judge whether solutions are feasible or not and able to recommend or reject solutions according to
10
Q
5 strengths
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- Eager to learn new things
- Attentive to details
- Precise
- Helpful with coworkers
- Pragmatic
11
Q
5 weaknesses
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- sometimes too straightforward, when should not be
- I’m not good in paperwork, administration
- Sometimes I communicate only as much as necessary
- I’m a bit perfectionist sometimes, but usually I am able to suppress it, and I can handle that
- I don’t praise people too much. I take it for granted that my collegues do their job well and do not praise them for good performance
12
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What interests you the most?
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- back-end development (large apps, not scripts)
- product development
- BigData
- data processing
- networking
- large scale systems
- mainly development
- automation (infrastructure management automation)
- infrastructures
- mainly development, party operations, but not mainly operations. DevOps is new to me but I’d certainly do it.
13
Q
Which AWS teams interest you the most and why?
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CloudWatch
- really interested in BigData and NoSQL
- processing and visualizing huge amount of data in real time
DNS team
- the presentation on monday was really intersting
- the problems are
- what all other products depend and built on
Global Infrastructure Engineering
- automating infrastructure tasks maintenance
Databases
- DynamoDB
- RDS
- I have significant background in DB development
14
Q
Why should we hire you?
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- I want to specialize in cloud technologies
- I’m an all-rounder, who have experience with a wide range of technologies, platforms
- not only have technical experience in different technologies, but also have team leading experience
- I have participated in many successful projects what were delivered to customers on time
- I have more than 10 years of experience in commercial software development
- I’m not afraid to work with new tools, programming languages. I know that you work with a wide range of programming languages and technologies on a daily basis so you need someone who is not afraid to do things he has not done or seen before
15
Q
Share a rewarding team experience.
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- When we developed the AVL project we had a very motivated and collaborating team.
- we had very strict and short deadlines, but everyone was very helpful
- when someone finished his task earlier he would ask the other if he could help
- they tolerated our requests to do overtime without complaints as they understood how critical that project was to our company
- While developing the Clavis application some of our project managers highlighted how much he likes working with our development team as everytime we deliver a new product release we do it without defects and unlike the other development teams we always bring them releases that work without even minor problems or defects.
