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      Software Development Interview

      Nov 22, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      San Antonio, TX
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zachry Group (San Antonio, TX) in Jan 2013

      Interview

      The interview questions are fairly typical non-technical questions. They conduct an initial interview and then a few weeks later will conduct a group interview. The initial interviewer asks why you applied to the position? How do you see yourself fitting in the future growth of Zachry? The group interview is an extension of this asking how you resolve workplace conflicts or communicate. The group interview is fairly general, non-technical, and promotes this idea that everyone is a cheerleader and the company doesn't have players or leaders. They won't ask any technical questions during this interview because it's unlikely that anyone in the interview here has the technical skills or background to do so. If you ask fairly basic technical questions, the general response will be "we just sort of wing it." As a company they spend hundreds of hours training people not to enter text in a non-text field, rather than programming a 5 line constraint to the field. If you ask about development platforms or APi's, you'll find that the IT managers are confused by these terms, There's no technical skills testing, no coding, no technical questions what-so-ever. Compared to other companies that would require you to perform a basic skills test of designing a short 75 line solution and answer three (3) critical design considerations to SQL password design (sanitize, salt, hash), these questions are non-existent at Zachry. It's also highly unlikely that Zachry enforces these industry accepted design standards, or any sort of complex password standard in any of their enterprise systems. I doubt that either your prospect co-workers or managers could answer basic questions about SQL query design, coding standards, or software design.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      - Where do you see yourself in five (5), ten (10), or twenty (20) years with us? This is kind of a joke considering the turnover in the software industry, and the fact that it takes some of the people here five (5) years to write a for-loop. - How do handle problems under stress? - In two (2) minutes or less, please describe your last position in detail. - What are some circumstances that you had to communicate with people from different backgrounds? - Describe technical details of your last position? (answer) The next series of questions will be ... What is an API? What do you mean design input constraints? Software testing and deployment? (Software testing and deployment is nearly non-existent here, so it's very likely that many managers will be confused at this point).
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