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- who do you work with on a daily basis / describe the day to day role

translation : are you working with a well-defined team that puts out consistent work or is this place a clusterfuck with people coming and going on a weekly basis because management is incompetent

- how are decisions made / how will [team] be asked to accomplish things / who makes those decisions

translation: are the people making decisions that impact your work accountable to you / your team and do you have the ability to influence them or are they dictated from on high or even worse forced upon you by a hostile entity

- what are the company's primary values? what characteristics are you looking for in a candidate in relation to those primary values?

translation: if they say 'uhhhhhhhhhh' here it's a red flag. if they throw gibberish at you it's not a red flag but it's not a good look either. this should get a human bean answer

- what would be expected of me for the first / three / six months? What will success look like in this position, how will it be measured?

translation: same as the last one.

- what sort of training/mentoring/career dev things are here

translation: they should also be able to answer this without thinking. if they hesitate or bullshit you it's a red flag

- what's the most impressive thing you've seen out of someone else you've interviewed recently

translation: what qualities are people here impressed with. what caliber of candidates are you also considering.

- What do you see as the most challenging aspect of this job?

translation: every job has some bullshit aspect to it. this is their chance to lay it on softly and your chance to decide if it's a particular brand of bullshit you can put up with

- how do you set milestones/deliverables for projects and how does your team react when it's clear they won't be met

translation: are you going to work me like a slave when we don't hit the deadline we never agreed to

- when was the last time you took pto / how much did you take / what did you do

translation: without fail lovely interviewers for lovely companies will try to deflect this one. if they try to say 'oh no don't worry about that' or respond with their actual pto policy just reiterate that they didn't answer your question. when was the last time YOU took pto

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What's the company's biggest threat to success this year, and how will I be able to help overcome it in this role?
Are there any projects that are in the pipeline that I would be working on right away?
What would be expected of me for the first / three / six months? What will success look like in this position, how will it be measured?
Would I be working as part of a team, and what does the team currently look like?
What sort of training/mentoring/career dev things are here?
What do you see as the most challenging aspect of this job?
How is the infrastructure now? Datacenter? Cloud? Backups? Security?
Who do you work with on a daily basis / describe the day to day role?

What are the company's primary values? what characteristics are you looking for in a candidate in relation to those primary values?
Based on what we've talked about now is there anything you feel I could address in regards to the position?

What's the most impressive thing you've seen out of someone else you've interviewed recently?

How do you set milestones/deliverables for projects and how does your team react when it's clear they won't be met?

When was the last time you took pto / how much did you take / what did you do?
Is there travel to other sites or is that based on the help desk? How often generally?
Why did last guy leave?
How do compensate for incidents outside of normal working hours?
Do you have an on-call rotation?
Do you have a WFH policy?
What is your vacation policy?
If I had to handle a ticket while on PTO, what is your policy to compensate for that?
When was your last tech refresh?
What is the oldest server in production, and what is its role?
How are decisions made / how will [team] be asked to accomplish things / who makes those decisions?

Vendor Management

How is relationship management integrated into your team's operations?
What's your process?
Do you have monthly sync-up calls\communication?
What happens in an emergency\problems arise?
How are issues addressed?
What are the pain points people are suffering?
Who puts together agenda items?

Managerial

What are the company's primary values? what characteristics are you looking for in a candidate in relation to those primary values?
What's your definition of an awesome manager?
What's the most impressive thing you've seen out of someone else you've interviewed recently?
How do you define success?
How would you describe the work environment here—is the work typically collaborative or more independent?
What does failure\mistakes look like in the company? Miss a goal, miss a deadline, miss daily metrics.
What criteria did your last company use to reward employees?
Can you give me an example of how I would collaborate with my manager?


Day to day\Informational

How would your direct reports describe your management style?
When was the last time you took pto / how much did you take / what did you do?
Do you have an on-call rotation?
Do you have a WFH policy?
Role as Service Manager what percentage of technical?


Is there anything I've said that makes you doubt I would be a great fit for this position?

quote:

The pipeline is driven from a spreadsheet which the security team can validate

quote:

- when was the last time you took pto / how much did you take / what did you do

KillHour posted:

I've never just copy-pasted a quote from teams in here but you can't improve on perfection



Edit: This is permissions management on the sensitive containerized information system for a :checks notes: 11-figure-revenue company in a heavily regulated industry.

Defenestrategy posted:

If someone asked whats the biggest threat to the company mission and I said world peace would that be a good or bad answer? I work in the military industrial complex.

KillHour posted:

I chuckled at this one because I would look like an idiot trying to remember exactly when it was. Not because I never take PTO but because I take it often enough that it's not particularly memorable and "what I did" is usually "played video games for a week."

George H.W. oval office posted:

https://twitter.com/TrackInflation/status/1582037239718383616?s=20&t=4dzgPcaml-QoLXzyrbrWMA

lol

Internet Explorer posted:

lol

CLAM DOWN posted:

I'm back at work after being off a couple weeks for surgery and some of these devs I swear to god they can't tie their loving shoes without me

tokin opposition posted:

(in america, you canadian swine)

tokin opposition posted:

get me citizenship and i will forgive you for loving up cheese fries with onions

CLAM DOWN posted:

BaseballPCHiker posted:

How much of a grind in general is consulting? Latest offer came in, its a significant pay raise for me, but Im a bit worried about work/life balance.

I asked all the usual questions about work/life balance, on-call, PTO, etc, and got all good answers back. But I am a bit worried that there may be some split between the sales half of the house and the technical side. Like the sales guys are all out drinking at the country club and the tech people are fine to work 40 hours a week if they know their poo poo inside and out and can bend over backwards to get stuff working for the customers. I may be speculating far to much there, I have no indications that the company is like that, but I've never worked for a consulting company before so I have no clue.

App13 posted:

What’s the IT sector like in Canada compared to the states? I live and work in New England right now, but I’m a Canadian citizen and always viewed that as a backup plan

App13 posted:

What’s the IT sector like in Canada compared to the states? I live and work in New England right now, but I’m a Canadian citizen and always viewed that as a backup plan

The Iron Rose posted:

Also minimal gun violence. Minimal gun violence is huge!

KillHour posted:

I would specifically ask about times where customers had unreasonable demands and how they were handled.

The Iron Rose posted:

I’ve never come close to wanting for work yet. Lots of jobs especially if you’re in a big tech hub (Toronto, Vancouver), and plenty of American firms with American salaries playing in the space too. Salaries are lower but mostly at the top end IME. You’re not going to find a lot of >200k TC jobs without going to the top tier tech companies or some particularly well funded startups though, but past a certain point it’s all just keeping score.


Also minimal gun violence. Minimal gun violence is huge!

i am a moron posted:

I would not trust any consulting company’s response to this fwiw

Sickening posted:

Both things can be true and often are.

Crossposting this from the security thread, but as of today I have two different conversations about this Uber CISO conviction and I have to say, this poo poo is loving wild and I am not seeing enough news about it.

As brazen as this guy was, the things he did are loving common. To say the rest of the officers of the company didn't know is laughable. While a CISO has a self serving obligation to hide poo poo for their own ego and marketability, there is ZERO loving chance that he acted alone in any of this.

rafikki posted:

Is this something new, or the case that was decided a week or two ago?

Thanks Ants posted:

Is someone trying to claim that a $100k payment was made by the guy acting alone?

Sickening posted:

"The evidence showed that, despite knowing in great detail that Uber had suffered another data breach directly responsive to the FTC’s inquiry, Sullivan continued to work with the Uber lawyers handling or overseeing that inquiry, including the General Counsel of Uber, and never mentioned the incident to them. Instead, he touted the work that he and his team had done on data security. Uber ultimately entered into a preliminary settlement with the FTC in summer 2016, supported fully by Sullivan, without disclosing the 2016 data breach to the FTC."

Sickening posted:

The evidence demonstrated that, shortly after learning the extent of the 2016 breach and rather than reporting it to the FTC, any other authorities, or Uber’s users, Sullivan executed a scheme to prevent any knowledge of the breach from reaching the FTC. For example, Sullivan told a subordinate that they “can’t let this get out,” instructed them that the information needed to be “tightly controlled,” and that the story outside of the security group was to be that “this investigation does not exist.” Sullivan then arranged to pay off the hackers in exchange for them signing non-disclosure agreements in which the hackers promised not to reveal the hack to anyone, and also contained the false representation that the hackers did not take or store any data in their hack. Uber paid the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin in December 2016, despite the fact that the hackers had refused to provide their true names. Uber was ultimately able to identify the two hackers in January of 2017 and required them to execute new copies of the non-disclosure agreements in their true names and emphasized that they were not allowed to talk about the hack to anyone else. Sullivan orchestrated these acts despite knowing that the hackers were hacking and extorting other companies as well as Uber, and that the hackers had obtained data from at least some of those other companies.

Thanks Ants posted:

Is someone trying to claim that a $100k payment was made by the guy acting alone?

The New York Times posted:

Mr. Sullivan said he would discuss the breach with Uber’s “A Team” of top executives, according to Mr. Clark’s testimony. He shared the matter with only one member of the A Team: the chief executive at the time, Travis Kalanick. Mr. Kalanick approved the $100,000 payment to the hackers, according to court documents.

Lawyers for Mr. Sullivan argued that he had merely been doing his job.

They argued that Mr. Sullivan and others had used the bug bounty program and the nondisclosure agreement to prevent user data from being leaked — and to identify the hackers — and that Mr. Sullivan had not concealed the incident from the F.T.C.