Soft Skills Flashcards
Describe something you built and you are proud of….why…what…etc..
PERL automation framework at NetApp. And that led to the Crusher Test Bed and patent application
** Being Bold **
How would you envision operating in a FB style environment?
Being creating and solving problems. Taking initiatives.
How do you approach conflict? Disagreements you are personally having or seeing in others? Give example
I generally get along with co workers.
- Professionalism
- Open conversation.
- Try to give pros and cons.
- Try to be objective and use real data
- Resolve early on
Brent had a short term solution to assigning IPs to camera simulators. I had a long term solution scalable solution.
Tell me about a decision you made, implemented, and later regretted. Why?
Most recently choosing the wrong solution for the Web UI I wrote.
What is the type of person you find the most difficult to work with?
Someone who isn’t forthcoming with information. Not willing to mentor or help out other engineers.
Tell me about a time when you didn’t have enough information to begin a task or project. How did you move forward?
No documentation when I started at Rapt. I had to go through the product and use it and learn everything about it.
Tell me about a time when you needed to overcome external obstacles to complete a task.
Automation didn’t support volume creation for the platform I was testing. I had to work closely with the automation team to implement it quickly so I could complete the testing.
Tell me about something that happened at work in the last year that made it a truly great day.
Demo’ing the BriefCam solution in front of engineering and the VP of engineering.
Tell me about a time when you experienced failure in a project. What did you learn?
When I went through a performance run and completely missed some required settings for getting the best performance.
Describe when you had to use your influence to change the outcome of a decision.
Convincing VP of Product at Rapt to buy TestRail
What is your favorite task/type of work? Why?
Doing real work. Getting my hands dirty. Setting up equipment and solutions. Automating the setup or testing of the solution.
If you could not work in this sector, what career would you pursue?
Woodworking. Construction. I love building stuff.
In a team dynamic, what type of role do you tend to play (follow up to ask for examples).
Technical Lead. I usually lead the Jr QA engineers on my team. Give assignments. I manage the test plans, Agile stories. Ex. Netapp several examples, Pivot3 several examples
What does impact mean to you?
Helping my team. training, mentoring,
** Focus on impact **
How do you feel this role relates to the Facebook mission?
We can’t bring the world closer together if the Facebook employees have a difficult time getting their job done. What we do allows the employees to work more efficiently.
What has been the most challenging episode in your career? Why?
Starting at Rapt with a brand new technology. But it was also very rewarding. I learned that challenges make me a better engineer.
** Move Fast **
Why do you want to work at Facebook?
Member for over 11 years. Created neighborhood group, fantasy football group. Connect to friends and family.
Describe your ideal day at work
Accomplishing a task.
What is your understanding of Enterprise Engineering
At Facebook, it’s building custom product solutions tailored to the unique needs of Facebook. It’s our job to make Facebook employees work more efficiently and have a more connected experience at work.
Enterprise Engineering is looking for Systems Engineers. Our customers are Facebook’s employees, and we support the systems they rely on to keep the business growing and information safe. We use a combination of open source and off-the-shelf technologies, plus many of the tools developed to run facebook.com. You will be responsible for growing the Linux environment by solving configuration, authentication, and infrastructure problems at scale.
Tell me about a disagreement or conflict between you and a coworker.
Disagreement about the supported modes of a GPU.
What has been your most interesting bug so far?
Finding a performance issue when using a new GPU with BriefCam. It wasn’t performing as expected. I worked with BriefCam and we determined it wasn’t BriefCam Software. We then worked with Nvidia and determined it was the GPU driver that was at fault.
Tell me about a time you had to think outside the box
Bug matrix for prioritizing bugs
How do you work under pressure
- I work at a quicker pace.
- Keep a level head
- Handle tasks 1 at a time in a prioritized manner
- More pressure more reward
When did you lead a team through a sticky situation?
When Pivot3 laid off a good portion of the company and changed direction of the company to focus on Surveillance. I volunteered to train all of engineering to get the team up to speed on that product line.
