For me, it was important that we determined our goals as a team with the final stamp of approval from our manager. While this style of management really helped motivate me, I can thrive under any management style as long as expectations and goals for my work are clearly set.
In my current role, we have set timelines for our projects and this helps lay the framework for our goals. If hired for this position, my expectations of you as my manager would be to have goals clearly defined and a supportive atmosphere to be provided to work within.
How do you stay organized and on track when working on multiple projects or duties at the same time? Ryan Brunner wrote: "With any project that I am working on, I make sure to set benchmarks to meet deadlines ahead of time and set early personal deadlines to allow for some wiggle room.
To do this, I am a proponent of using the Microsoft Outlook calendar and tasks functions to help keep me organized. I find that this method helps me stay on track with multiple projects while also leaving me wiggle room each day to fight the high needs fires that do come up in this job.
Then, upon arriving the next day and working through emails from the previous evening, I can adjust my task list for the day if needed. I tend to set aside two hours per day to work on long-term project needs while focusing a majority of my time on the short-term needs.
When do you consider a project to be finished? How to Answer When answering this question, be sure to understand what the employer is truly asking. Ryan Brunner wrote: "In my mind, a project is never truly finished. Once it's rolled out, upgrades will have to be performed, quality checks will have to be completed, and the product will inevitably change based on customer needs, new technologies, and trends in the market. We have to take that all into consideration when working on a project and while maintaining the product that was completed as a result of the project.
I have a DUI from Since then I have maintained a clean record and I am willing to comply with any form of background check that you require. At QNX Software Systems, we rely on a full team effort to deliver top quality products to our customers.
Tell me about a time that you worked well as part of a team. Are you comfortable in a similar role here? How to Answer While this potential role with QNX Software Systems will require your to be an independent worker that can think on your feet, you will also need to work as part of a larger team that is working toward one common goal. Ryan Brunner wrote: "Throughout my career, I've always enjoyed working as part of a larger team on the job and this personal enjoyment started with my love of and participation in team sports like baseball and basketball.
Growing up playing sports, I learned that each team member brought a unique skill set that could help us achieve our goals. Through a great coaching staff that knew how to make these individual skills shine, this same philosophy holds true for a team that is looking to design a new software system. I know that my skills as an engineer are just part of the final product and I work very well with designers, architects, analysts and sales to help build the greatest system possible.
While I certainly can handle long days at my computer in solitude, my desire to work hand in hand with others really sets me apart from my peers in this field. I have excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills that, if hired here at QNX Software Systems, your entire team would appreciate from my first day on the job.
In your experience in software testing, would you consider yourself proficient in both testing and debugging processes? How to Answer As a reputable provider of software, QNX Software Systems relies on their software testing engineers to both test and debug their products when necessary.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "Yes, I definitely would consider myself proficient in both testing and debugging software. My current role that I've held for four years since graduating from college has exposed me to both processes. In testing, I use known conditions and predefined methods to test for expected outcomes to find errors within the system.
I utilize testing prior to new software rollouts. The debugging process happens to already released software that has had issues and comes with unknown conditions and unpredictable outcomes.
In this process, my goal is to find the cause of the error to fix it efficiently and effectively to roll an updated program back out to end users. If hired for this position, I would take the time to focus on debugging processes to bring myself up to speed while being able to hit the ground running on testing processes.
As a machine learning engineer, how do you avoid the curse of dimensionality in your designs? How to Answer To effectively answer this question, it is important to first understand what dimensionality means in reference to machine learning and how it can curse a project.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "A common example that I use with people to explain complications in dimensionality is dropping a pin on a 10 foot straight line. This would be relatively simple to find. Next, if you dropped the pin in a 10 foot by 10 foot square, the task of finding the pin becomes more difficult. Adding a third dimension to make a 10 foot cubed area makes it all the more difficult to find the pin if placed within it.
In bringing this back to machine learning, my job is to somehow make the three dimensional field that the machine will pull from easier to pull from. Last year, I was part of a team that developed a system for pulling public health data. We were able to set many variance thresholds that removed values that didn't change much from observation to observation.
After careful testing, the system was able to pull information quickly and accurately based on these thresholds. Most of my machine learning work has focused audio data. To avoid the curse of dimensionality within the systems I've designed, autoencoders have been tremendous in pulling information.
While a great amount of time and effort was needed to effectively train the systems, the work was well worth it in the end. As you reflect back on your career to this point in your search for a new position, what would you say is your ideal work environment or culture? How to Answer While using this question as a key indicator on how you'll fit with the team and the organization at QNX Software Systems, it will be very important for you to research as much as you can on the work environment at QNX Software Systems so you can match your priorities to that environment.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "As I begin this job search now 15 years out of college, I'm looking for an employer that promotes and encourages innovation, new ideas and collaboration among all members of the team. From what I know about QNX Software Systems from speaking with others, you sound like a perfect match for what I am looking for in a career. I am a casual person that believes in hard work, teamwork and having fun on the job. What do you consider to be a good litmus test for when you would automate a test process for a new system versus testing manually?
How to Answer As your role with QNX Software Systems will look to help further their automate testing processes for new systems, you will need to have a good sense for when automation makes sense and when it does not.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "Having been in automation in both manufacturing for many years and now software for the last three years, a common misconception among people is that automation can help improve any situation and that couldn't be further from the truth. The amount of time, effort and resources that goes into an automation process makes it ideal for repetitive tasks and tests that have multiple data sets.
If a testing process calls for unique and one time process, it would make the most sense to run that process manually. These automated tests work great because they run on similar systems following changes in code to ensure that no bugs remain in the system.
If our group of engineers are working on unique, one off type projects, my automation processes are not utilized. What role do you feel QA plays in software development and testing? How to Answer As an experience software testing engineer, quality assurance should be ingrained in your brain and your interviewer is looking to get a sense of your personal feelings towards it in your work with this question.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "As a test engineer, I take great pride in my role of ensuring that systems go out to consumers as error free as possible. In my current role, I take the time to learn all of the system specifications that are laid out by our design engineers and customize my testing to follow those specifications.
While creating effective testing processes on new software is extremely important in following QA protocols, the recording of defects, issuing of reports and assisting the designers on fixing issues are equally important parts of the process that I'd love to let shine here at QNX Software Systems.
How will you contribute to this trend? Ryan Brunner wrote: "I believe the best way to stay ahead of your competitors is to pay a big amount of attention to the fine details. When you put out a great product, others will try to mimic your work, but they will cut corners because they will feel rushed to get it out on the marketplace first. I will contribute to the success of QNX Software Systems by committing my most attentive work to you every day. People want simple, easy products, which they can understand.
What I've seen from my competitors lately is that they overcomplicate their products. I offer clean and consistent work that your buyers would relate to. Talk about a time when things didn't go as planned on the job. What was the situation and what allowed your to persevere in that situation?
How to Answer As a professional in the tech industry, you have likely had a project that failed, a promotion that passed you over or a meltdown occur at some point in time. Ryan Brunner wrote: "A couple of years ago in my first role as a UI designer out of college, my team was tasked with coming up with a very short notice proposal for a potential high end customer. With a week turnaround time, I set right to spending my time gathering information on the company to build a mock design.
When the proposal was submitted, I found out that the potential customer scoffed at my idea and the customer went with another organization's proposal for their use. The biggest piece of feedback that I got was that the UI design just wasn't conducive to the type of customers they were expecting.
From that point forward, whether it has been with short notice or long-term products, I take the time to communicate with key decision makers from clients to gather information for making my design as user friendly as possible.
After traveling onsite with the customer to spend time with them, I exchanged contact information with two of the key decision makers. In the weeks following, I was sending them follow up emails with our business proposals and was getting frustrated at the lack of response from the clients. After my manager had questioned the viability of the potential customer, I picked up the phone and called them directly.
It turns out that their responses back to me were being sent to a junk email folder that I neglected to consider. I apologized for the mistake, took action quickly and we came to a great agreement on future business together. After having a laugh about it with my boss, I now incorporate diligent communication follow ups both by phone and email with customers while also regularly checking all email inboxes.
Give an example of a time that you used a universal design practice in your work as a UI or UX designer. Why was it important to do this? How to Answer In the technology, software and mobile app fields today, accessibility is a huge topic. Ryan Brunner wrote: "From a very high level, the business success of a program really relies on being universally designed.
If we pigeon hole ourselves, a product will only reach a very limited group of end users. But taking that a step further, universal design is the morally right thing to do to help reach people that may not have access to the average program design.
Last year, I was part of a project that utilized a voice user interface for users that were deaf or hard of hearing. This simple yet effective design was a huge win for our current customers and in helping drive new business with our groundbreaking software. We live in a very diverse world and the programs that I've designed for in the past have certainly had the goal to reach a wide audience. Last year, based on some feedback from current customers, we switched our design to include a strong color contract to make the system much more user friendly to color blind users.
This was both a simple and very effective change to enhance the look of the program. If you were confronted with a time where you wouldn't be able to meet a deadline here at QNX Software Systems, what steps would you take when you made that realization? How to Answer At some point in any person's career, the inevitable happens and an important deadline needs to be missed.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "In my current position, I am very used to handling multiple tasks and projects on a day to day basis. Last year, my team was tasked with what started as a low priority project. After assembling a team to initially discuss the details and set a deadline for completion with our management, the project unfortunately fell off the radar of everyone on the team with many more high priority projects coming up each week.
As the initial project's deadline was within a week of being due, our CEO reached out to me for a progress report. I immediately took full responsibility for letting this fall off the radar and I ensured our CEO that we would have an updated timeline set by the end of the week.
In doing this and completing the project to his satisfaction, this was really the tipping point in our department moving forward utilizing a detailed project management tracking system. To this day, I can't say enough about how appreciative I am about utilizing this awesome system. Moving forward, you can rest assured knowing that I take full accountability for my actions and do what is necessary to communicate new expectations and meet them fully.
What was the deadline, why wasn't it met and what can be done are all important questions moving forward. From there, communicating to all key parties is extremely important and doing so in a timely manner is critical.
In this communication, taking accountability and setting new expectations for delivery in a concise and tactful manner will most often put stakeholders at ease and allow for successful completion.
What is one thing that really tests your patience when dealing with your coworkers? How to Answer While on the surface this question may seem like your interviewer is trying to get you to talk negatively about a situation, it is really more of a test to see what can potentially drive you crazy on the job in a team atmosphere and how you handle those situations.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "As a person that values diversity and differences of opinion in the workplace, there aren't many things that grind my personal gears when it comes to my colleagues.
While watching people show up late for meetings has bothered me internally because of how I am wired, I don't let it bother me on the exterior. We are all very busy in our lines of work and showing up a few minutes late is only normal from time to time. What do you feel are the primary features and benefits of the Java programming language? How to Answer As a company that utilizes Java, QNX Software Systems and your interviewer want to make sure that you have an understanding of the Java programming language and they do so by asking this question.
The other amazing feature that I've come to appreciate with Java is how robust the memory management is in exception handling and automatic garbage collection. What would you consider your technical specialty? How to Answer Do you have any particular areas of interest or ability?
Ryan Brunner wrote: "Computing and Network Communications has always been a solid area for me. I have a big interest in how network communication improves our daily lives and our overall business efficiency.
I see that you are looking for team members who are experts in network communications which is what caught my eye when I first saw your job posting. What do you feel is one of the top issues that is faced by data engineers today? How to Answer Being in the midst of the greatest technological revolution in the history of man, data engineers face many difficult issues in the work that they perform on a daily basis.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "Over the past couple of years, I've come to realize that one of the largest issues we face as data engineers is the large amounts of data that are needed to store and then draw information from. I have a lot of experience with cloud based data storage and also server based storage. The need for fast paced information is certainly to blame for this. To stay on top of the continuous integration landscape, I am happy to hear that new and improved systems are being created to stay more real-time and up to the minute.
Here at QNX Software Systems and working in the financial industry, how have you seen this need for real-time data impact your products? What SDLC models are you familiar in working with? How to Answer As a software engineer, you are very familiar with the software development life cycle. Ryan Brunner wrote: "During my training in software engineering and in my early career, the waterfall model was the standard. In this model, each phase of the development process happens in a set order and projects using this model are easily managed.
But over time, as the development projects that I have led have become more complicated and intricate, I have implemented the spiral model. This model has allowed the ability of end users to give feedback early on and often during development and helps to build a more customized product to our customers. Since our products are so tailored to the needs of our customers, we get a working product very early on in the process and then I work hand in hand with customers to fine tune the software moving forward.
It is a very effective model that has built a great reputation for our software among customers. I also have familiarity working with the iterative model and it has similar advantages to the agile model. If I were hired here at QNX Software Systems, can you expand on what models you use here in your software development life cycle?
Do you have experience working with different CASE tools? If so, what do you have experience with? How to Answer The world of software engineering has greatly benefited from advancements in computer aided software engineering tools. Ryan Brunner wrote: "In my current role, I regularly utilize both diagramming and web development tools.
The diagram tools assist our software projects by outlining the system data and components in a graphical form for us and this saves us a great amount of time while also being very reliable. The web development tools greatly help me visualize site changes that I am making because I don't have a deep background in web development.
If hired for this position, I'd look forward to learning other CASE tools for prototyping, quality assurance and maintenance. What experience do you have in the different types of software maintenance? How to Answer As a reputable company, QNX Software Systems takes their software maintenance processes seriously and your interviewer is looking to hear that you are familiar with the four different types of software maintenance.
Ryan Brunner wrote: "Being familiar with all four types of software maintenance, my most used method of maintenance in my current role is corrective. Based on bug reports from end users, I work through coding and logic issues to resolve issues in a timely and effective manner.
In the maintenance I perform, I never hesitate to pick up the phone and contact customers to hear first hand about what they are experiencing. By doing this, they feel like they are an important part of the process and it reflects well on me and my organization. Working in banking software that is used around the globe, I help perform system maintenance for changes in currency on a pretty regular basis. This work requires research and talking with end users to help adapt the programs for their use.
If hired here at QNX Software Systems, I also have experience performing perfective, preventative and corrective maintenance on software as well. What methods do you use to stay up-to-date on the latest trends in tech? How to Answer With technology constantly changing, employers want to know that they are hiring people who are committed to learning and growing. Ryan Brunner wrote: "I have leveraged a number of sources to stay up-to-date on my knowledge, including LinkedIn Learning and industry sites such as TechCrunch.
I'm also active on Github where I'm able to work on projects to grow my knowledge. Quora is a place where I lend my knowledge to others and also read about topics I may not be fully versed in, or want to learn more about. Save Article. Like Article. Last Updated : 03 Jan, Linux : Linux is a group of open source Unix-like operating systems which was developed by Linus Torvalds. It is a packaged of Linux distribution. Some of the mostly used Linux distribution are Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.
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