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Phone interview tomorrow

dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
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Landed a phone interview tomorrow with a major vendor. I was planning on starting my own company after VCDX, but now that's on hold depending on how the interview goes. Timing sucks, but when an opportunity presents itself, gotta seize it.
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    networker050184networker050184 Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
    Good luck man!
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    coffeeluvrcoffeeluvr Member Posts: 734 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Good Luck!! I hope everything works out the way you want it too
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    QHaloQHalo Member Posts: 1,488
    GL to you sir!
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    hoktaurihoktauri Member Posts: 148
    dave330i wrote: »
    Landed a phone interview tomorrow with a major vendor. I was planning on starting my own company after VCDX, but now that's on hold depending on how the interview goes. Timing sucks, but when an opportunity presents itself, gotta seize it.

    Same thing happened to me. I quit my retail job to work for myself a bit, as soon as I did and posted it I was hit with some good offers. Where were those offers a few months ago?
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    dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Interview got rescheduled to later in the week.
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
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    dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Finally did the phone interview. Overall very positive. Need to go though 3-4 more rounds before they make an offer. The drawback of trying to work for a major vendor.
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
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    N2ITN2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Keep us posted. I told you the ITIL V3 Foundation was going to define your career! :)
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    dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    N2IT wrote: »
    Keep us posted. I told you the ITIL V3 Foundation was going to define your career! :)

    Wouldn't have advanced this far without it. :D
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
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    dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Tech interview scheduled for later today. Almost left my cell at home this morning. Would have made the interview more interesting.
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
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    dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Tech interview was interesting. Due to crappy cell reception, when the interviewer called, it went directly to voicemail. When I called my voicemail, the provider had just finished migrating voicemail box, so all users had to setup their mailbox again. After 5-10 min of configuration, was able to access my voicemail, call the interviewer back, apologize about the voicemail and start the interview.

    Interviewer asked me about my strengths & weaknesses in virtualization technologies then asked questions mainly focused on areas I identified as my weaknesses. Managed to answer enough of them correct that he's recommending my hire.

    Due to scheduling quirk had the face to face meeting with the PM before the tech interview. Looks like the only thing left is salary negotiation.
    2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
    "Simplify, then add lightness" -Colin Chapman
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    ChitownjediChitownjedi Member Posts: 578 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Progressing nicely... hope it turns out well!
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    cyberguyprcyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 Mod
    Best of luck!
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    coffeeluvrcoffeeluvr Member Posts: 734 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Good Luck!!
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    dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Completed the final round of interview yesterday. It was meeting the PMs and other bosses. I was scheduled to interview with 3 people over 2 hours. Ended up interviewing with 4 people over 3 hours. Managed to answer all their questions pretty well. Didn't have anything that was complete stump. They should be in touch early next week.
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    networker050184networker050184 Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
    Sounds like you're in there to me. Good luck.
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    TheProfTheProf Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 331 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Good stuff! Good luck!
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    ZartanasaurusZartanasaurus Member Posts: 2,008 ■■■■■■■■■□
    dave330i wrote: »
    Interviewer asked me about my strengths & weaknesses in virtualization technologies then asked questions mainly focused on areas I identified as my weaknesses.
    So the trick is to list strengths as weaknesses to get the easier questions! ;)
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