Help me with my homework

[noon]

Was wondering does anyone work in the IT field? I have a homework assignment that requires me to interview someone in the IT field. I have had no luck at all cold calling people. I guess they are too busy. bet they would help me if I tig o bitties. I digress here are the questions that I need answered if anyone wants to help. you can reply here or PM me. Thanks.

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[FONT=&quot]Interview questions:<o></o>[/FONT]​

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[FONT=&quot]1. What is your title? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2. What are your responsibilities?[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]3. What kinds of skills do you need to perform your job? <o></o>[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]4. Describe what you do during a typical day.<o>></o>[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]5. What other jobs have you held that might have helped prepare you for this position?[/FONT]
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6. Do you have people who work for you, and what do they do?

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]7. What is one of the most challenging things about the work you do?[/FONT]
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8. What time management tips could you suggest?[/FONT]
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9. How do you balance your family, job, work, and leisure time?[/FONT]
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10. What advice would you give to someone interested in this career?

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[Eni6mA18]

Hello im new here too! Im gian 24 manila! whats up?

 

[Mikey444]

Hello im new here too! Im gian 24 manila! whats up?

(jacked)

 

[jersey_emt]

Company name: ShermansTravel Media, LLC

1. What is your title?
Web Developer & Database Administrator

2. What are your responsibilities?
Maintain and develop new features for the QuickSearch portion of http://www.shermanstravel.com (http://quicksearch.shermanstravel.com).

Maintain and optimize the MySQL databases running our sites.

3. What kinds of skills do you need to perform your job?

Web development: PHP, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, general UNIX (Linux) knowledge
Database administration: General and MySQL-specific optimization knowledge (table indexing, etc.). Troubleshooting database issues.

4. Describe what you do during a typical day.

A typical day has be spending about 25% of my time fixing bugs uncovered by QA testing or by general use, 15% optimizing SQL queries (to make reports run faster, etc.), 40% developing new features (many of which are invisible to the end users, like updates to the administration tools for QuickSearch), and the rest to everything else, like phone calls, answering emails, meetings, etc. This is of course a very rough estimate and days vary greatly -- there really is no 'typical' day.

5. What other jobs have you held that might have helped prepare you for this position?

I have held web development jobs at two other locations.

6. Do you have people who work for you, and what do they do?

No, the development team at my company is small (8 developers) and we all are equals. There is a Director Of Technology who is our boss. We each do run various small projects, and direct & delegate responsibilities to other developers. But as said before, we are all equals.

7. What is one of the most challenging things about the work you do?

Dealing with constantly-changing requirements for new features. It's like having to hit a moving target.

8. What time management tips could you suggest?

We use SCRUM, and it has been working quite well. It also helps immensely with the scope creep mentioned in question #7, as requirements are set in each sprint and cannot be altered until the next sprint. People are much more careful and think things out more thoroughly now when asking for new features.

9. How do you balance your family, job, work, and leisure time?

Very easily. My boss truly believes that a healthy family and social life is a requirement for a successful business life. We only work overtime when it is absolutely necessary; otherwise, our boss is basically chasing us out the door!

10. What advice would you give to someone interested in this career?

While school an IT degree is of course extremely important, in this field, good experience trumps good education. For the majority of companies, a potential employee with a bachelor's degree plus four years of relevant experience would be hired over someone with a master's but with no experience.

Internships are one of the best ways to get that experience that even entry-level jobs require.

 

[jred321]

[FONT=&quot]Interview questions:<O></O>[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]<O></O>[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Company name: Travelers[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]1. What is your title? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]<O></O>[/FONT]Harder than it sounds. Officially I'm an IT Leadership Development Program Participant. Every year i get a new role, never with an actual title. This year I believe the title of my job would be Claim Research IT Lead but I work outside of Research a lot and really don't do any actual IT work like the name suggests
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[FONT=&quot]2. What are your responsibilities?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]<O></O>[/FONT]Manage two teams of contractors for two concurrent projects. Monitor progress, make sure they have the tools to do their jobs, make sure their job is being done correctly, make sure the customers are happy and their needs are being met.

[FONT=&quot]3. What kinds of skills do you need to perform your job? <O></O>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A mix of people skills and programming skills. I need to be able to sit down with a developer and understand what they're saying and be able to also sit down with a customer and translate what the IT person told me. I do not need to be able to code really well but it helps to be able to code as well as understand the IT environment of the company.<O></O>[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]4. Describe what you do during a typical day.<O>></O>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Go to lots of meetings. A combination of customer and team meetings, depending on the day. Also answer a lot of emails as well as create different Office documents - from Visios to Word docs, depending on what is going on to represent the work being done.<O></O>[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]5. What other jobs have you held that might have helped prepare you for this position?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Having been in three different positions in three years prior to landing in my current role definitely helped prepare me for this position. I started out as a developer which helped me to understand our IT environment as a whole, went to the Innovation Office where I had to go through different procurement processes which I currently have to do and also built different connections, and then also spent 6 months at a field office where I got to be hands on with both the customers of our company (people who buy insurance) as well as the customers of IT (people who work in the field office). That was an invaluable experience, though did not have a huge impact on where I am now because it was in a different part of the company.[/FONT]
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6. Do you have people who work for you, and what do they do?
Yes, two teams. One is a team of two onshore, 3 offshore developers who work to bring data into our Research environment and investigate any data abnormalities. The other team is one onshore (shared with the previous project) and 4 offshore developers who are working on essentially re-engineering an application

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]7. What is one of the most challenging things about the work you do?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Knowing who to go to when a need arises. Working in a large company getting things done is best accomplished by knowing the right person and figuring out who that right person is can sometimes be tough.[/FONT]
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8. What time management tips could you suggest?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Stay on top of email. If you fall behind there people who sent you the email will deem you unreliable and it's an overall bad move. Also I find it easiest to write down any tasks that I need to accomplish and cross them off when they're complete. Some people use Outlook tasks but until I can carry that to meetings all day every day paper and pen are for me.[/FONT]
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9. How do you balance your family, job, work, and leisure time?[/FONT]
Both me and the people around me recognize that we work to live instead of living to work. Because of that everyone recognizes that the expectation is never that you work 60+ hour weeks all the time. as long as you get things done in a reasonable time or can explain why they're not nobody questions anything and let you take time for outside of work activities as you please.
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10. What advice would you give to someone interested in this career?
1. IT is a customer service industry. Whether you work at an IT company or in an IT department of a company in a different industry, the most important thing is making sure the IT work being done matches the needs of the customer.
2. Understand the industry that you work in. This is especially important if you're working at a company whose products aren't IT. If that's the case everything that you do is done to support the business. You need to understand why the company does what it does and how your actions effect the people off the street who buy the products. Even though i'm in an IT role I work in the insurance industry so I better know about insurance[/FONT]