Certification Engineer Interview Questions

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Software Certification Analyst

Interviewed at Shift4

3.3
Apr 8, 2019

During interview 1 I was presented a touchscreen w/ 3 columns, each representing a portion of the electronic payment process. I was asked to place different pieces of information (credit card number, social security number, card holder name etc) into the columns I believed to be relevant.

Describe a skill or knowledge you acquired recently that has been impactful for you. Why did you make this investment? What has the outcome been for you and your team? What new skill would you like to learn? Why do you think this is important or timely or interesting? Why do you think you will be good at it? What kinds of software projects have you worked on before? Which operating systems, development environments, languages, databases? Why Python, and what’s your history with this language? Would you describe yourself as a high quality coder? Why? Would you describe yourself as an architect of resilient software? If so, why, and in which sorts of applications? What software products have you yourself led which shipped many releases to multiple customers? What was your role? What is your most senior role in a software engineering organisation? Describe your span of control, and the diversity of products, functions and teams you led. What is your proudest success as an engineering leader? Outline your thoughts on open source software development. What is important to get right in open source projects? What open source projects have you worked on? Have you been an open source maintainer, on which projects, and what was your role? Describe your experience building large systems with many services - web front ends, REST APIs, data stores, event processing and other kinds of integration between components. What are the key things to think about in regard to architecture, maintainability, and reliability in these large systems? How comprehensive would you say your knowledge of a Linux distribution is, from the kernel up? How familiar are you with low-level system architecture, runtimes and Linux distro packaging? How have you gained this knowledge? Describe your experience with large-scale IT operations, SAAS, or other running services, in a devops or IS or system administration capacity Describe your experience with public cloud based operations - how well do you understand large-scale public cloud estate management and developer experience? Outline your thoughts on quality in software development. What practices are most effective to drive improvements in quality? Outline your thoughts on documentation in large software projects. What practices should teams follow? What are great examples of open source docs? Outline your thoughts on user experience, usability and design in software. How do you lead teams to deliver outstanding user experience? Outline your thoughts on performance in software engineering. How do you ensure that your product is fast? Outline your thoughts on security in software engineering. How do you lead your engineers to improve their security posture and awareness? Outline your thoughts on devops and devsecops. Which practices are effective, and which are overrated?
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Hardware Certification Engineer

Interviewed at Canonical

3.2
Dec 10, 2024

Describe a skill or knowledge you acquired recently that has been impactful for you. Why did you make this investment? What has the outcome been for you and your team? What new skill would you like to learn? Why do you think this is important or timely or interesting? Why do you think you will be good at it? What kinds of software projects have you worked on before? Which operating systems, development environments, languages, databases? Why Python, and what’s your history with this language? Would you describe yourself as a high quality coder? Why? Would you describe yourself as an architect of resilient software? If so, why, and in which sorts of applications? What software products have you yourself led which shipped many releases to multiple customers? What was your role? What is your most senior role in a software engineering organisation? Describe your span of control, and the diversity of products, functions and teams you led. What is your proudest success as an engineering leader? Outline your thoughts on open source software development. What is important to get right in open source projects? What open source projects have you worked on? Have you been an open source maintainer, on which projects, and what was your role? Describe your experience building large systems with many services - web front ends, REST APIs, data stores, event processing and other kinds of integration between components. What are the key things to think about in regard to architecture, maintainability, and reliability in these large systems? How comprehensive would you say your knowledge of a Linux distribution is, from the kernel up? How familiar are you with low-level system architecture, runtimes and Linux distro packaging? How have you gained this knowledge? Describe your experience with large-scale IT operations, SAAS, or other running services, in a devops or IS or system administration capacity Describe your experience with public cloud based operations - how well do you understand large-scale public cloud estate management and developer experience? Outline your thoughts on quality in software development. What practices are most effective to drive improvements in quality? Outline your thoughts on documentation in large software projects. What practices should teams follow? What are great examples of open source docs? Outline your thoughts on user experience, usability and design in software. How do you lead teams to deliver outstanding user experience? Outline your thoughts on performance in software engineering. How do you ensure that your product is fast? Outline your thoughts on security in software engineering. How do you lead your engineers to improve their security posture and awareness? Outline your thoughts on devops and devsecops. Which practices are effective, and which are overrated?

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