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They gave me a written technical task. I had to write a short email to a user who could not access a business-critical application and was seeing “Error 403 Forbidden – you do not have permission to access this resource,” including any clarification questions and next steps. I then had to prioritise four Service Desk tickets (a payroll system not calculating pay correctly, a staff rota issue leaving wards short staffed, a director requesting a report and a routine database copy) by priority and order of work, explaining my reasoning.
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Associate Support Consultant

Interviewed at RLDatix

3.8
Nov 14, 2025

They gave me a written technical task. I had to write a short email to a user who could not access a business-critical application and was seeing “Error 403 Forbidden – you do not have permission to access this resource,” including any clarification questions and next steps. I then had to prioritise four Service Desk tickets (a payroll system not calculating pay correctly, a staff rota issue leaving wards short staffed, a director requesting a report and a routine database copy) by priority and order of work, explaining my reasoning.

- Can you describe a TCP handshake? - What is the difference between an A record and a CNAME? - Say a customer doesn't pay their bill, their account is eventually deleted, they didn't keep any backups of their app. The app is not recoverable and they are extremely upset. How would you handle that interaction? - What's the difference between object and block storage? - Can you explain what CI/CD is?
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Associate Cloud Support Engineer

Interviewed at DigitalOcean

3.4
Oct 13, 2022

- Can you describe a TCP handshake? - What is the difference between an A record and a CNAME? - Say a customer doesn't pay their bill, their account is eventually deleted, they didn't keep any backups of their app. The app is not recoverable and they are extremely upset. How would you handle that interaction? - What's the difference between object and block storage? - Can you explain what CI/CD is?

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