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These are all questions I was asked in the different interviews: Tell me about a time you... -gave great guest service -made a mistake with significant impact -had a difference of opinion with someone but maintained a professional relationship -leveraged a team or individual to accomplish something -had to deliver constructive feedback -had to use active listening -had to take initiative to solve a problem -had to consult others on a decision that would affect them -received feedback you weren't expecting and how you handled it -changed your day to day activities because of a long-term goal -remained optimistic in in the face of difficulties -gave up a commitment to satisfy another
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Executive Team Leader

Interviewed at Target

3.5
Jan 31, 2015

These are all questions I was asked in the different interviews: Tell me about a time you... -gave great guest service -made a mistake with significant impact -had a difference of opinion with someone but maintained a professional relationship -leveraged a team or individual to accomplish something -had to deliver constructive feedback -had to use active listening -had to take initiative to solve a problem -had to consult others on a decision that would affect them -received feedback you weren't expecting and how you handled it -changed your day to day activities because of a long-term goal -remained optimistic in in the face of difficulties -gave up a commitment to satisfy another

As above; it starts with a massive take home coding challenge. Basically you're given a very vague problem statement and a small amount of example data (carefully chosen to NOT cover any interesting edge cases), and must come up with an entire solution (design, implementation, API, test cases, code coverage, documentation, everything), all finished to the level you'd expect in production code (ie, full test coverage, edge cases thought about, errors handled, consistent method names, use a logging framework, everything). Don't be surprised if you fail due to something like "we told you we wanted logs, but we didn't tell you what would be consuming the logs, and you guessed wrong, so the formatting of the log messages isn't quite what we expected". Yes, it's THAT nit picky. And no, you can't ask questions during the process.
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Lead Engineer

Interviewed at Octopus Deploy

4.8
Jul 17, 2022

As above; it starts with a massive take home coding challenge. Basically you're given a very vague problem statement and a small amount of example data (carefully chosen to NOT cover any interesting edge cases), and must come up with an entire solution (design, implementation, API, test cases, code coverage, documentation, everything), all finished to the level you'd expect in production code (ie, full test coverage, edge cases thought about, errors handled, consistent method names, use a logging framework, everything). Don't be surprised if you fail due to something like "we told you we wanted logs, but we didn't tell you what would be consuming the logs, and you guessed wrong, so the formatting of the log messages isn't quite what we expected". Yes, it's THAT nit picky. And no, you can't ask questions during the process.

She didn't ask any questions to see how I would be as a teacher. Most unexpected question was "Did you bring your resume?" It was submitted with the online application. Why would I bring another copy when she can just print it out?
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Lead Teacher

Interviewed at The Goddard School

3.4
Aug 24, 2013

She didn't ask any questions to see how I would be as a teacher. Most unexpected question was "Did you bring your resume?" It was submitted with the online application. Why would I bring another copy when she can just print it out?

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