Interview Experience with S&P Global

 

This interview was for a Principal Network engineer role. The JD completely matched my profile but it had a little more into Network side of things. I still thought i can be a good match. I managed to get this referred via my friend Sai Pradeep who completed graduation in same college with me. His reference worked and I got a call from the HR. Interview was scheduled. 

I had around 3 days to prepare and i dont remember when was the last time that i prepared for an interview so well. I even managed to start learning AWS Networking as that was part of the JD. Surprisingly i was able to relate AWS networking so well that i am now preparing for AWS Certification CNS01 Advanced Networking. 

Coming to the case of actual interview, the person who took the interview Deepen Patel started the conversation as this is more of casual discussion and he was asking more about my work that i do. He then tried to ask some simple questions and interview was always comfortable. I have some below take aways that I though could have been done better

• I sounded little overconfident about certification when I said "probably i will do that after getting into S&P. 
• When the question was asked about how I troubleshoot I kept it very simple by saying look through the path and understand where the problem is. I could have elaborated it much better adding my experience in all sorts of technologies. For example, if something is not working I should have started from DNS to path tracing to handling firewall in path to troubleshooting on firewall and advanced troubleshooting on firewall and then including proxy load balancers etc.  Just so that i can prove my expertise. 
• I could have been little slow and explained things more detail so that it would have given a better chance to evaluate. This is because at the end of the day what we say is what they can judge upon. 

On a last note, I got an email from HR that I am not selected. Little disappointed but I want to take this positive as I think I have a better opportunity to work on migrations that I have in hand and customer is looking for me. 

Last Day with Infosys

   Yesterday was my last day with Infosys. I have been working in General shift since one week and yes i almost stopped working for about 10 days from yesterday. I was going to office and spending time. I really did not have any emotional bonding with any of my fellow team mates they are just colleague for me and yes speaking frankly they were the best colleague i had. I never had any tiffs with any of them and i enjoyed working with this team. Only regret is that Ramana my manager has asked me to explain the network of the client CG. Some how i didn't want to do that and then i evaded but still i made myself available yesterday and today . He was too busy to catch me. We had a tea for one last time yesterday and then i bid the adieu. I did write an email straight from my heart. I got some nice words from Kaustubh initially and then Prem called me after seeing the email. It feels good and more emotional as the way he started talking showed it. He was talking about the team and was a long conversation. Then Ramana replied to this email. I am attaching along with this .