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The next cloud engineer that we hire here at Trimble needs to be able build a system that can handle a high amount of traffic. How would you test our system's ability to handle large amounts of traffic?

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Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

This question allows your interviewer to gain insight into your thought process and ability surrounding building a cloud network that has an architecture that can handle large amounts of traffic without failure. Some key points to focus on your answer are your ability to match capacity to system demand and use horizontal scaling in the design of the system.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"Cloud computing has certainly revolutionized the storage of high amounts of data and a key piece that cloud based systems bring to the table are their elasticity for handling large amounts of traffic. I see my job as building a cloud based system to scale horizontally to be able to handle the most data and traffic possible. To test systems, I've used a few different tools that were all very accurate prior to go-live."

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28Trimble Interview Questions & Answers

1.If you can, please provide your thoughts on the function of managed object context in developing iOS apps and software.

2.Do you have any unique skills or past work experiences that we can't see on your resume that would benefit the team here at Trimble?

3.If hired for this position at Trimble, what leadership skills would you bring to our team?

4.Trimble embraces an Agile environment. Explain your experience in Agile methodologies and why you think it is important.

5.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?

6.How do you ensure that you have a healthy work-life balance in your career?

7.In SQL, how do you explain the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes? Can you name a time that you used each?

8.The next cloud engineer that we hire here at Trimble needs to be able build a system that can handle a high amount of traffic. How would you test our system's ability to handle large amounts of traffic?

9.In your mind, when is monkey testing the most effective in testing new software?

10.Software technology continually changes. How do you stay current on new technologies and sharpen your skills?

11.What unique values can you bring to Trimble in your user experience design skills?

12.How would you handle a situation where a colleague was being very difficult to work with?

13.In your current work, what are the important steps you take in the data validation process?

14.What skills do you use to cope with the day to day stress and pressure on the job?

15.Do you have experience working with different CASE tools? If so, what do you have experience with?

16.What software analysis and design tools do you have familiarity working with?

17.If you were asked to review a colleague's code that they had written, what key things would you look for?

18.A huge part of our business here at Trimble is designing software for iOS. In this role, how would you steer away from retain cycles when using closures in Swift programming language?

19.Do you consider yourself stronger in C++, C#, Java, or Python?

20.What SDLC models are you familiar in working with?

21.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?

22.In designing Android software, what is your experience using parcelable versus serializable within an app?

23.What do you feel are the primary features and benefits of the Java programming language?

24.If hired for this position here at Trimble, would you be comfortable handling overall project manager responsibilities for new software development?