IT Job Interview

Archive for September, 2006

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How do you resolve conflicts and issues when there is a disagreement among different parties involved in the project?

“Depending on the specific situation, I may use different approaches to resolve different conflicts.  First I would try to understand the situation, know what’s going on and analyze the issues.  I would work as a mediator to bring all parties together and talk it out.  I would listen carefully to all of them and help […]

How do you lead the effort to plan and jump-start a new IT project?

That’s a typical question for project manager or project lead.  It does not ask you the experience, so you can talk the talk.  All you need to understand is the project lifecycle.
“First I would get to know all parties involved in the projects, - learn who is the stakeholder?  who is the customer? who is […]

What is your approach to learn a new software or system?

“I feel the most effective approach to learn new software is to actually do it.  Whenever possible I would install the software on my own test environment and play with it.  This way I could learn the tool’s functionalities and build hands-on skill fast.  That’s how I learned Visual Studio.NET.  I setup the evaluation software […]

This position has a lot of responsibility and several tasks often come at you at once with all of them having high priorities. How do you deal with this type of a situation and what tools have you used to help you manage your tasks to ensure nothing gets left out?

It is actually 2 questions, - how to handle priorities, and how to manage tasks.
“It’s important to communicate with managers and users to solve conflicts.  Although all tasks are in high priorities, some must be higher than others.  I would look into each task in detail and talk to my manger to analyze the priority.  […]

Please describe how you have worked with a team to accomplish a project?

“I can perform my job independently, I also enjoy work in a team environment.  In the past I’ve worked as a team member and team leader as well.  In my last project I was the team leader with a development team of 8 developers for a Java web application development.  As the team lead I […]

Please describe your experience preparing written documents? Who was your audience?

Give all documentations you made or you may have created.
“I’ve created tons of documentations in my past jobs, such as…”
Here’s list of documentations common for IT:
Requirement Analysis document
Functional Specification
Technical Specification
User’s Manual
Technical Guide
Operational Procedures Guide
Coding Convention Doc
Project Proposal
RFP - Requirement for Proposal
RFO - Request for Offer
FSR - Feasibility Study Report
BCP - Budget Change Proposal

Do you have any experience in data acquisition, data migration, and/or data mapping using either ETL (extract, transform, load) tools or customized data conversion solutions?

If you have used any ETL tools, explain it; otherwise say you developed customized scripting process by yourself.
“In most of data migration projects I developed customized scripting processes.  I’ve developed BCP scripts along with Windows’ batch scripting to migrate data from flat files into Sybase database.  I used Oracle’s SQL Loader a lot to load […]

What are your considerations on business and technical aspects if you are asked to analyze a data consolidation project which brings enterprise data from multiple business functions and platforms to a centralized RDBMS?

If you cannot catch up all the information like this one, you may ask for repeating the question.  Try to grab the keywords when listening.  A long question may sound complicated, but if you can catch the key aspects, it shouldn’t be too hard.  The key to answer this question is to explain the purpose […]

What methodologies, procedures, or tools have you used for planning a data integration project?

In fact, there is no widely accepted methodology for data integration.  But you can just mention the standardized systems development lifecycle methodology and explains the general steps to make data integration project going.
“I’ve worked on several data integration projects in the past.  I am not aware of any widely accepted methodologies specific for data integration.  […]

Describe your experience in evaluating and selecting technologies and software tools best suitable for a systems development/integration project?

This question has 2 aspects, tools evaluation and systems development.  Your answer should cover both and it’s better to give an example.
“In past jobs I had opportunities to evaluate software tools and make decisions best for the project.  Before I started to evaluate a software or technology, it’s important for me to analyze the project […]

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