Does ethnicity come into play when hiring? Every hire for diversity reasons? How often do you hire people with no experience?
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Does ethnicity come into play when hiring? Every hire for diversity reasons? How often do you hire people with no experience?
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I'm sure people come with their own biases in regards to ethnicity.
I can't say that I have.
It really depends. I can't hire a guy with no experience to do a mid level job obviously. If it's a Jr role or a level 1 role where you're customer facing, if you pass the technical interview I can definitely bring you on if I like you.
There's really only two questions I try to figure out when interviewing a person: Can you do the job? and Do I want to work with you?
GollyImGully
Too many wavy women, gotta log outta IG
What are some technical questions you would ask someone and what are you trying to find from the person's answer?
For example if you ask me "Gully how would you troubleshoot a user getting a blue screen?" There are obviously multiple ways you can about that, but what is the psychology from asking that? What are you really trying to find out about that person?
Lets say they have no idea how to troubleshoot it, it is something they have never seen before, what would be an acceptable answer from them for you?
It depends on the level of guy. If it's a level 1 type of guy, basic crap. Troubleshoot a guy not being able to print, give me a helicopter-view explanation of DNS, what it's used for and why it's important(you don't have to go into MX/CNAME/A/AAAA records, just that you know what it is). A guy's getting locked out of AD repeatedly.... shyt like that.
I give open-ended questions for technical stuff for the level 1 guys, I'm looking for a logical thought process not trivia answers.
What I would look for is: I'm not familiar with (xyz), but I'm sure that I can figure it out by either Googling or searching our internal knowledge base for information.
Whatever issue that we encounter I can almost guarantee that it's been dealt with before. Knowing what a problem is and how to get a resolution in a reasonable amount of time is really important PLUS it shows that I don't have to babysit you. I simply don't have the time to do that.
GollyImGully
Too many wavy women, gotta log outta IG
pretty much exactly what I thought. It's more so to see the thought process/patterns rather than the answers. Some employers ask you some bullshyt that a have you like
the fukk you asking me this for? during the process 
BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
Boy here in London if you have those AWS certs you will be eating well, £500-£750 a day
VMWare
Office 365
AWS
Going for those this year.
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If your new to cloud stuff then VMWare have some good introduction certs and training for free - http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/certification/
VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)
VMware Certified Associate - Cloud (VCA-Cloud)
Are both good courses that are free and you get a cert for passing them. Then go on to do the advanced stuff.
Those VCA's seem like its aimed towards Sales people lol, if your new to DCV and Cloud then they are good places to start, if your money is tight then I dont see the value in doing the exam - I am cert freak so I done them anyway lol ha. But I would take the free courses on VMWares site and then move on to AWS or RedHat etc
Im doing the AWS now
Didnt know Amazon just came and crushed buildings like that, damn.
Pluralsight have 10 day or 200mins free trial and then its $30 a month, pretty good IMO, has all the same videos CBT have just cheaper. CBT is sometimes annoying that James Conrad waffles too much about his personal life for me.
Anyway guys, cloud is where its at and I would def suggest getting AWS cert while its quite new, still seeing tons of jobs paying £500 - £750 a day over here in London.
VMWARE course and exam prices lol a joke, why so expensive
BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
Im telling everyone about AWS, its the shyt right now, some crazy money is being paid
Bernie Madoff
Banned
What's the main method of monetizing?
BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
http://www.afterhoursprogramming.com/
Great site to learn Programming, Phyton seems one of the easier ones.
Great site to learn Programming, Phyton seems one of the easier ones.
BobbyBooshay
Arnold Jackson
Its a cloud infrastructure, many companies use it for IaaS or SaaS
FreshFromATL
Self Made
For the most part.
FreshFromATL
Self Made
If it's something you've never done, say it. Don't bullshyt me, because I'll pretty much know you don't know what the fukk you're talking about anyway, especially if it's something outside of the REQUIRED skillset for the job.
Just simply say...
"I haven't gotten the opportunity to do *insert whatever here*, but if needed in this role, it's something I would definitely look forward to learning and doing. I think that would be a good opportunity of growth for me"
Ice_MF_Mike
Pro
yup. employers want to know you can learn shyt, you are honest, work hard and easy to work with. If you can get that across you can get most jobs.
The God Poster
LWO representa
Ok brehs, im thinking bout changing my career path up. Im pretty good with technology/smart etc.
Read about the first 15 pages and need some fresh thoughts.
Where do I need to start to get into it. The first couple pages mentioned java & web design. Is that still on point. I would prefer something without being a math wiz.
Cert vs Degree. Mainly looking for online courses. Alot of recent set backs keeping me from #blackexcellence
Would prob say programming is what im interested in.
@FreshFromATL @Silkk @semtex @kevm3
I see its alot of good books posted so far. Where should I start
Read about the first 15 pages and need some fresh thoughts.
Where do I need to start to get into it. The first couple pages mentioned java & web design. Is that still on point. I would prefer something without being a math wiz.
Cert vs Degree. Mainly looking for online courses. Alot of recent set backs keeping me from #blackexcellence
Would prob say programming is what im interested in.
@FreshFromATL @Silkk @semtex @kevm3
I see its alot of good books posted so far. Where should I start
I dont fukk with the books no more, check out video training deals on groupon