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The interviewer was unable to conduct an interview with their intended subject, their stepfather who is a software engineer. They had given him only one week to respond but he was unavailable due to being away on a business trip. As a result, the interviewer was unable to get responses to the 10 questions they had prepared regarding the subject's career path and experiences as an engineer. The interviewer learned they need to give interview subjects more time to respond in the future.

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Engineer Interview

The interviewer was unable to conduct an interview with their intended subject, their stepfather who is a software engineer. They had given him only one week to respond but he was unavailable due to being away on a business trip. As a result, the interviewer was unable to get responses to the 10 questions they had prepared regarding the subject's career path and experiences as an engineer. The interviewer learned they need to give interview subjects more time to respond in the future.

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Logan Wilhoit
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This had been the interview I designed.

I asked my step dad, a software engineer working at


VMware. Unfortunately he has been very busy away on a business trip. I have not been able to
receive his responses. I was unable to find another engineer.

I will say I have learned to give someone longer than a one week deadline to conduct an
interview.

Interview questions:
1-10.
#1. What lead you to pursue your path as an engineer? What idea, person, or anything really,
did you draw inspiration from?

#2. What field of engineering did you wish to study? Were you able to find appropriate courses?
Where and how did you find them? Ex. Word of mouth, meetings, interviews. I’m trying to see
how popular of a career it has been over the years/ difficulty in becoming an engineer

#3. If not, how did other courses change your view on what you wish to study?
If you were able to, did you wish to continue to study, or follow a different field?

#4. Upon settling on your chosen field, what difficulties did you find? Was it everything you had
thought it might be? Have you ever thought about or put time into another career path?

#5. In our class we learn engineers cater to the people. Serving the common good of humanity,
making innovations, or making sure it’s safe. Would you agree or not?

#6. When leading a project has anyone ever disagreed with a design you have made or
challenged your engineering knowledge? Did they make an insightful suggestion? How was the
dispute settled, or how well did you incorporate the suggestion?

#7. While serving in a team project have you ever suggested a design change or idea? How
well did your Lead absorb the idea? Have you ever pointed out a flaw in your superiors design
(or similar cases)? How well did they take it?

#8. How have you ever dealt with insubordinate team member? Doing their own thing or
disregarding objectives? How did you handle the situation? Ex. Did you speak to them, to your
boss, to coworkers about the employees behaviour? How well did the employee take the
criticism? Was the situation taken care of?

#9. When beginning a project/design how do you go about deciding which tasks? Ex. Do you
accept input from employees on what they’d like to do? Do you decide who has better
experience for the task, or choose based on who's competent but could use practice?
#10. What has been your favorite project/ design you have worked on? What about it or the
team you had made it your favorite? What went wrong, what went right? What did you learn
from the experience?
What has been your least?

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