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| 2. Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond for a customer. Why did you do it? How did the customer respond? What was the outcome? | 2. Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond for a customer. Why did you do it? How did the customer respond? What was the outcome? | ||
| - | * A customer wanted their location tracking app to work with the site. It uses different json data to push location data. After looking at the job and realizing it was doable in a reasonable time frame, I extended the API to include the new format. The result was better than I expected because then I enabled the format of two other apps and it started a small ecosystem of apps that were compatible with the site. | + | |
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| 2. Give me an example of a tough or critical piece of feedback you received. What was it and what did you do about it? | 2. Give me an example of a tough or critical piece of feedback you received. What was it and what did you do about it? | ||
| - | * My git commit messages are terse and need more detail. First I review the problem to verify it, went over my old messages. | + | * My git commit messages are terse and need more detail. First I review the problem to verify it, went over my old messages. |
| - | Yes some of them are short and dont describe what the patch actually does. I started putting more effort into patch descriptions. | + | |
| - | This was noticed as a positive change by my coworkers. | + | |
| ** Have backbone, Disagree ** | ** Have backbone, Disagree ** | ||
| - | 1. Tell me about a time when you strongly disagreed with your manager or peer on something you considered very important to the business. What was | + | 1. Tell me about a time when you strongly disagreed with your manager or peer on something you considered very important to the business. What was it and how did you handle it? Knowing what you know now, would you do anything differently? |
| - | it and how did you handle it? Knowing what you know now, would you do anything differently? | + | * Per customer custodial accounts vs one large pot; external circumstances I was unaware of, along the lines of minimum balances to earn interest; would have listened longer custodial partner; we had logs, they had logs. seemed safe enough. |
| - | * Per customer custodial accounts vs one large pot; external circumstances I was unaware of, along the lines of minimum balances to earn interest; would have listened longer | + | |
| - | custodial partner; we had logs, they had logs. seemed safe enough. | + | |
| 2. Describe a time when you took an unpopular stance in a meeting with peers and your leader. What was it? Why did you feel strongly about it? What did you do? What was the outcome? | 2. Describe a time when you took an unpopular stance in a meeting with peers and your leader. What was it? Why did you feel strongly about it? What did you do? What was the outcome? | ||
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