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Honors Foundation Interview
Brayden Anderson
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Interviewed by: Brayden Anderson
Resource allocation is a vital part of working as part of a team in this field, both with manpower and with time. You must think critically of hte problem to evaluate how to split it up.
Application
Deciding where to focus efforts in a given project, given that software is always improving and you must maintain updates to respond to that new software.
How do you appreciate diverse perspectives in your workplace? Where is that helpful in the workflow process?
Where do you use information fluency? That is the ability to critically analyze information and draw conclusions about it (think scientist with the scientific method, or someone reading a book and grasping its underlying meaning).
At what times have skills from other jobs or things you have learned outside of your job helped you in your job?
What times has effective communication staved off disaster, and what times has ineffective communication created it? How important would you rate communication?
How are creativity and innovation used in your workspace? Do you often get space for it to be used? Time off, time to relax, etc.
In what areas of your job do you use leadership? How do you specifically use it, and how has it changed the way that something gets done?
How do you use Critical Thinking in your job on a more daily basis? What things do you have to critically think about?
Mine
Computer Science Major at Kennesaw, prospective Software Developer
Response
Question
How do you use Critical Thinking in your job on a more daily basis? What things do you have to critically think about?
Software Engineer
TiM's
Tim had been a software engineer at IBM for 17 years as a Quality Assurance Lead and Technical Head. IBM is a leading software company and the largest research company in the world.
Critical Thinking
Questions
Background
Honors Foundation Interview
Tim Thornburgh
Scrum is a thing I should learn to help develop leadership, making sure to keep channels clear for communication and everyone should know how to do their task and why its important.
Application
Uses 'Scrum': Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Defect Triage. Ensures every team member has opportunity to provide input. Makes sure everyone understands how and why, and ensuring why isn't "We've always done it that way"
Response
Question
In what areas of your job do you use leadership? How do you specifically use it, and how has it changed the way that something gets done?
Make sure that work is the time where work gets done, and if priorities on a project shift I too should shift mine. Acknowledge problems, and move past.
Application
Making sure that time at work is time that you are working, and remembering that when at work, priorities can shift but you remain dedicated to them. When the team has difficulties, acknowledging them helps.
Response
Question
How do you use professionalism? How has using it increased your team's opinion of you, or how have you used it to make the job flow smoother?
Hackathons are a great idea, promote creativity and teamwork. These result in new features for software.
Application
They take ideas from product management and make them a reality. Quarterly 'Hackathons' to come up with new ideas and innovations to improve software
Response
Question
How are creativity and innovation used in your workspace? Do you often get space for it to be used? Time off, time to relax, etc.
Software Engineer
Creativity and Innovation
Leadership
Professionalism
Honors Foundation Interview
Tim Thornburgh
Learn many skills, they all can be used to great effect in the software development and leadership fields. Communication is KEY, but learning jargon is also highly important.
Application
Daily. Written communication skills from undergrad degree, Army taught clear and concise verbal instruction. Degree in software engineering gave jargon and experience. Helps interact with everyone in the company equally.
Response
Question
In what areas of your job do you use leadership? How do you specifically use it, and how has it changed the way that something gets done?
Be clear and concise in requirements, and clarify if they are unclear when given to you. Communication is vital.
Application
When product management provides ambiguous requirements and the development team accepts them without getting clarification, time and money are wasted in development. Communication is the most important element in effective teamwork.
Response
Question
What times has effective communication staved off disaster, and what times has ineffective communication created it? How important would you rate communication?
Taking time to make sure you ask the correct questions and set up a good foundation is critical to finding a solution.
Application
Define the idea you're trying to solve, research a definition, then deciding on the approach after comparing several directions.
Response
Question
Where do you use information fluency? (Elaborated with further question that you can see in 'Questions')
Software Engineer
Information Fluency
Interdisciplinary Learning
Communication
Honors Foundation Interview
Tim Thornburgh
Clear communication is crucial to all parts of a group, creating and following through on projects is effective and helpful. I could use more work on appreciating different perspectives and information fluency.
Personal
Professional
This profession is definitely what I want to do, and many of the honors foundations are applicable in this job to very different parts of it. Professionalism is a large part of good leadership.
"Communication is the most important element in effective teamwork."
"New features are the result of creativity and innovation"
"Questioning any process where the 'why' is 'we've always done it that way'"
"There is always a scarcity of resources (time or people) in software development"
Diverse Perspectives
Take into consideration features to allow all users to experience your software.
Application
It's helpful when designing UI and UX to have many different people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives take a look, make usre there are accessibility features.
Response
Question
How do you appreciate diverse perspectives in your workplace? Where is that helpful in the workflow process?
Software Engineer
Conclusions
Quotes
Honors Foundation Interview
Tim Thornburgh