Field Service Technician Question:

☛ What interests you about this position?
☛ What are your technical certifications?
☛ What do you do to maintain your technical certifications?
☛ What automated-build tools or processes have you used?
☛ What development tools have you used?
☛ What languages have you programmed in?
☛ What source control tools have you used?
☛ What technical websites do you follow?
☛ Describe a time when you were able to improve upon the design that was originally suggested.
☛ Describe the most innovative change that you have initiated and what you did to implement this change.
☛ Given this problem (problem is based upon job requirements), what solution would you provide. Explain your thought process.
☛ How do you handle multiple deadlines?
☛ How do you keep current on this industry?
☛ How do you troubleshoot IT issues?
☛ Tell me about the most recent project you worked on. What were your responsibilities?
☛ Tell me about the project you are most proud of, and what your contribution was.
☛ Give an example of where you have applied your technical knowledge in a practical way.
☛ What is the biggest IT challenge you have faced and how did you handle it?
☛ You are working at a client site and the CTO of the client company has asked if she can see you. The CTO wants to know how much it would cost to bring in five more people on your team. She gives you very vague requirements of the job she is looking for you to do. What would you do?
☛ You have been asked to research a new business tool. You have come across two solutions. One is an on-premises solution, the other is cloud-based. Assuming they are functionally equivalent, why would you recommend one over the other?
☛ You have submitted a piece of code that has broken the client's website in production. You have found this bug while you were testing, and nobody else knows about it. What is your next move?
☛ You have learned that a business unit is managing a major component of the business using Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. What risks does this present, and what would you recommend be done to mitigate those risks?