I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Geotab (Oakville, ON) in Nov 2018
Interview
Process started with an online application, followed by a very bizarre 30 question personality aptitude test.
This was followed up several weeks later with a call-interview by their hiring agent. Several weeks later, a very in-depth personal interview was held at their offices.
Unfortunately, this is where the interview process went awry. After the in-person interview, I was scheduled in to write (validated by their email) an 8 hour long programming test! The hiring agent failed to notify me that it was not an in person test, and had me come to their office. I validated this and confirmed the time and place prior to heading for the interview.
Upon arriving at their offices to write the test, I was informed it was an out-of-office test. They wanted me to set up my own testing environment and they refused to push back my test start time as a result of their error. Thus, my 8 hour test started with my commuting back to my residence (in another city) - unfortunately it took me far longer than expected since i had plans after the interview that i had to attend. I was able to start the test at 10pm and completed it at 2am. They did not provide a test environment and I had to expend my own cloud credits to configure a test environment where i could write the test (Google cloud Platform - producing scripts). I completed the script, however I had to cut corners as a result of being exhausted.
They told me they would get back to me the following monday, but failed to respond to me until the monday following that monday.
Overall, I have had a questionably legal experience interviewing with this company. This has been hands down the worst series of interviews i have ever had with any company. Excessively long test (that may have been free work?), awful feedback, scheduling errors on behalf of the recruiting agents and no slack given for their own errors. In the end, i was not given an offer as they were going with other candidates, which i believe to be unfair unless they were also tested under the same circumstances.
Let this be a warning for any future candidates applying.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Assignment
Part 1
Create a Powershell script svrInfo.ps1 which will collect the following information on the local machine and write out to the console:
Current Date/Time
Computer Name
IP Address
Total Current CPU Usage
Total number of Windows Services installed
Total number of Windows Services running
The script does not need to take any user input. All information should be collected into a PSObject, and displayed to the console using Format-List.
Part 2
Create a Powershell script, newGceInstance.ps1 which will do the following:
Create a new GCE instance from the Windows 2012 R2 base Image
Create a local admin account on the server
Create a remote powershell session to the instance
Copy svrInfo.ps1 from your local machine onto the instance
Run the svrInfo.ps1 script on the instance and write the output to the user's screen
Configure a scheduled task on the instance which will run svrInfo.ps1 on server startup and direct output to a local text file.
Close the Remote PS session and write a message to the user’s console indicating that the script completed successfully.
This script must take the following parameters from the user:
InstanceName - Name of the GCE instance to create
GceProject - Name of the GCP project where the instance is created
GceZone - Name of the GCP zone where the instance is created
Script - Location of svrInfo.ps1 on the user’s local machine
The script should gracefully fail and output a clear message to the user in the event that the instance already exists in the project.
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