Interviews
...do you have each week?
How do you initiate these contacts?
What do you do personally for your professional development?
What do you think are the most important skills in succeeding as a sales engineer?
What is the largest group you've presented to (externally/ internally)?
How do you organize a presentation?
What do you like and dislike about presentations and why?
How would your present prospects and customers describe you as their sales engineer?
Describe a time your company did not deliver on its product or service and how you responded?
Describe one or two of the most difficult challenges and/ or rejections you've faced in the past and how you responded?
What are some of the challenges you see that are facing this industry?
How would those with whom you work now, across all areas of the company, describe you and the work you do?
Describe a time you led a group of people, the primary challenges you faced and how you handled them?
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Explain how traceroute, ping, and tcpdump work and what they are used for?
Describe a case where you have used these tools to troubleshoot.
What LAN analyzer tools are you familiar with and describe how you use them to troubleshoot and on what media and network types.
Explain the contents of a routing table (default route, next hop, etc.)
What do you see as current networking security issues (e.g. NFS mounting, spoofing, one time passwords, etc.)?
Describe how SNMP works.
Describe the working environment you are currently in, e.g. frequent interruptions, frequent priority shifting, team or individual.
How do you...
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