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Most of the interview questions revolved around scaling distribution organizations and the tactics and strategies related to this challenge. Toward the end of the process they provided me with some situational questions at which point I had time to prepare responses.
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Chief Revenue Officer

Interviewed at Glassdoor

3.9
Feb 4, 2016

Most of the interview questions revolved around scaling distribution organizations and the tactics and strategies related to this challenge. Toward the end of the process they provided me with some situational questions at which point I had time to prepare responses.

1. Tell us about yourself and your experience. Obviously know your elevator speech but have done enough research about the organization you can make it relatable to them 2. How do you establish policy/procedures across a geographically diverse enterprise? 3. What are the issues you would estimate in overseeing or managing a worldwide presence? 4. Tell us about your leadership /management style? What are your principles? 5. What challenges have you encountered realizing your vision? What approach would you take knowing what you know now? How would that apply to XXX agency? 6. How do you approach program management? Tell us about your experience, a major problem, and how you overcame? What signals do you look for? 7. Tell us about your personal principles? Work ethic and management styles? 8. What questions do you have of us? I would usually ask a couple of questions I came up with when reviewing annual reports and such to indicate I did my research. Some depended on the agency. What kind of candidate are you looking for specifically and how do you expect them to move the organization forward? What do their first 6 months on the job look like? I always ask about the hiring timeline last.
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Associate CIO (NESDIS)

Interviewed at National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

4.1
Mar 8, 2016

1. Tell us about yourself and your experience. Obviously know your elevator speech but have done enough research about the organization you can make it relatable to them 2. How do you establish policy/procedures across a geographically diverse enterprise? 3. What are the issues you would estimate in overseeing or managing a worldwide presence? 4. Tell us about your leadership /management style? What are your principles? 5. What challenges have you encountered realizing your vision? What approach would you take knowing what you know now? How would that apply to XXX agency? 6. How do you approach program management? Tell us about your experience, a major problem, and how you overcame? What signals do you look for? 7. Tell us about your personal principles? Work ethic and management styles? 8. What questions do you have of us? I would usually ask a couple of questions I came up with when reviewing annual reports and such to indicate I did my research. Some depended on the agency. What kind of candidate are you looking for specifically and how do you expect them to move the organization forward? What do their first 6 months on the job look like? I always ask about the hiring timeline last.

Given a legacy Perl/Oracle-based authenticator, serving 10,000+ entities, which builds granular user-by-user and table-by-table permissions as a series of regular expressions (grant superuser to *billing*, grant report-only to *social*security*, etc.), how would you redesign and seamlessly cut over the system to a more modern industry-standard (deny-by-default, RBAC/ABAC) model without impacting current user experience or requiring systemwide re-enrollment?
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Chief Architect

Interviewed at athenahealth

4.1
Dec 12, 2016

Given a legacy Perl/Oracle-based authenticator, serving 10,000+ entities, which builds granular user-by-user and table-by-table permissions as a series of regular expressions (grant superuser to *billing*, grant report-only to *social*security*, etc.), how would you redesign and seamlessly cut over the system to a more modern industry-standard (deny-by-default, RBAC/ABAC) model without impacting current user experience or requiring systemwide re-enrollment?

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