Interview Questions for Hiring a Slate Captain

Slate Basics:

• What is a configurable join?
• What is your favorite thing you’ve ever created in Slate?
• Which Knowledge Base articles are absolute musts to bookmark?

Strengths/Weakness:

• What is your level of experience with sql?
• What are some challenges/projects they you to face in the past and how did you implement a solution?
• What’s the most complex problem you solved in the past year? What was challenging about this particular problem? What did you enjoy most about the problem-solving process?
• Which tool do you struggle the most with/would like to learn more about?
• What would you identify as their Slate blind-spot?

Future Slate:

• Which new feature release from the past year have they been most excited about? 
• Which Slate Feedback request post are they watching the closest with fingers crossed in hopes that Technolutions will complete it sooner rather than later?
• What’s on your Slate Bucket List and how would you make it happen with current functionality?

Tell me about a time:

• Tell me about a particular process that you went through several iterations.
• Tell me about a time when you had a to troubleshoot a live portal and how you resolved the issue.
• Tell me about a time you said no to a project request, why you said no and how you worked with the stakeholder to meet their needs.
• Please give an example of a previous CRM project that didn’t go well. How could you ensure that would not happen again?

Tasks:

• We’ve given folks spreadsheets of fake data and asked them to present to us how to answer a set of questions as if we were a staff member who needed to understand the data and be enabled to pull it on their own next time.
  
• Take this <CSS, SQL, Liquid markup, etc> and tell me what it does. Are there any mistakes in it?
• We have provisioned Clean Slate, which includes fake data. Build a CJ query that returns XYZ.

Others:

• Do you like puzzles and adventuring in to solutions?
• What tools and processes do you like to use for documentation purposes? What is your previous experience generating documentation?
• How do you balance longer term projects and cyclical work with shorter term tickets and immediate tasks?
• Pretend I have never played Tic-Tac-Toe (or another common game). Explain the game to me, including possible strategies and outcomes.

Shout Outs 

The questions above were sourced entirely from community members including:

• Mara Collins Marzocchi
• Alyssa Saint
• Kandy Mohr
• Jon Rowand
• Diane Fishel-Hall
• Christine Leinbach
• Joel Velez
• Christopher Kwan
• Ryan Chapman
• Margarita Clarke
• Megan Story
• Sally LaRowe
  
• Trevor Kingsley
• Jasmine Solomon
• Eric Hoffpauir

Have more ideas for this list? Please email support@reworkflow.com and we will add them in!