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Interview #3 - Tech To Worker Initial Questions Note: Interviewer was the original "Systems Operations Leader" IT supervisor. Recent Uni grad very young and an extremely nervous wreck to be interviewing myself being a decade more experienced and a lot more confident. He will become more confident as he ages I am sure but needs to work on less vocal ticks between words or interruptions when others are trying to talk to him. Note 2: The CTO was also in this room to provide support to the tech. 1) Mmm, uhh. We have a lot of tickets. Have you ever uhh. Mmm. Used ticketing software before? 2) Uhh. We have uhh. We need a site to site VPN set up. Do you uhh. Know how to make it secure? 3) Can you tell me what steps you uhh. Would do to do that? Make it secure? Mmmm. 4) We uhh. Want to use software for VPNs. What mmm, are your thoughts? Mmm? Hardware or software VPNs? 5) We have a ticket to virtualize uhh. Computers. How would you uhh, do that? 6) Could you mm. Uhh well. Virtualize video across the internet so uhh. We don't need to run long HDMI cables across mmmm. Everywhere. 7) Is there uhhh. Anything I can answer? Mmmm?
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Systems Operations Leader

Interviewed at Activate Games

3.3★
Sep 19, 2023

Interview #3 - Tech To Worker Initial Questions Note: Interviewer was the original "Systems Operations Leader" IT supervisor. Recent Uni grad very young and an extremely nervous wreck to be interviewing myself being a decade more experienced and a lot more confident. He will become more confident as he ages I am sure but needs to work on less vocal ticks between words or interruptions when others are trying to talk to him. Note 2: The CTO was also in this room to provide support to the tech. 1) Mmm, uhh. We have a lot of tickets. Have you ever uhh. Mmm. Used ticketing software before? 2) Uhh. We have uhh. We need a site to site VPN set up. Do you uhh. Know how to make it secure? 3) Can you tell me what steps you uhh. Would do to do that? Make it secure? Mmmm. 4) We uhh. Want to use software for VPNs. What mmm, are your thoughts? Mmm? Hardware or software VPNs? 5) We have a ticket to virtualize uhh. Computers. How would you uhh, do that? 6) Could you mm. Uhh well. Virtualize video across the internet so uhh. We don't need to run long HDMI cables across mmmm. Everywhere. 7) Is there uhhh. Anything I can answer? Mmmm?

The most unexpected question was "Why are you better qualified than any of the internal candidates?" It was unexpected because it assumed that I felt I **was** better qualified, when in fact I couldn't speak to the qualifications of internal candidates.
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Operations Leader

Interviewed at Compass Minerals

3.2★
Sep 11, 2014

The most unexpected question was "Why are you better qualified than any of the internal candidates?" It was unexpected because it assumed that I felt I **was** better qualified, when in fact I couldn't speak to the qualifications of internal candidates.

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