Hays Take Home Interview QnA Done by Achille K. - achille005/DevMaterials GitHub Wiki
What are you doing to improve yourself?
I have an account at Udemy.com/stackoverflow.com where i am constantly educating myself on new technologies i am also subscribed to few java tech and Spring framework Channel on youtube to know what people in tech are talking about. i like trying new technologies in my free times (weekends) i am currently preparing for my AWS Devops architect Certification
How did you resolve a conflict with a team mate?
A meeting (not emails) is always the solution and having a manager as mediator
What was your Main accomplishment on this project?
Used the technology to make the application easy to use by the customer - i have demonstrated this in our Gift Card Project (Home Depot). I have also shown this Project at Tin Roof Software to propose a solution for Data Consistency problem that we were having in our microservices ecosystem
What difficulties did you encounter
Get your good idea across and have your team mates believe in as well.
What could have done better?
I try to demo my ideas by building a prototype or just presenting it. That seems to often works. In instances where it doesn't It is ok to accept that your great ideas are not always suitable to everyone or in a given situation.
Can you build something in Java
Beside the company projects i have done, my daughter (9 yo) likes coding she was exposed to as game for kids - we have been trying to build Road Block games in Java.