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But the big negative with this company is that they will ask you how you feel about after hours work, weekend work, and point out that there are numerous on-call "windows" that you'll have to work every month. Not sure if they are looking for applicants to be overly enthusiastic at the prospect of working so many hours, but in my case when I answered in a neutral tone of "that's fine" or "that's OK", they sarcastically came back with "it's part of being in IT" and began digging more by asking more questions about how fast I anticipate I would be able to respond to a call in the middle of the night.
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Windows Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Credit One Bank

3.5
Jun 9, 2016

But the big negative with this company is that they will ask you how you feel about after hours work, weekend work, and point out that there are numerous on-call "windows" that you'll have to work every month. Not sure if they are looking for applicants to be overly enthusiastic at the prospect of working so many hours, but in my case when I answered in a neutral tone of "that's fine" or "that's OK", they sarcastically came back with "it's part of being in IT" and began digging more by asking more questions about how fast I anticipate I would be able to respond to a call in the middle of the night.

1. "If you type "abc.com" in Google and page gets redirected to "xyz.com", what will you do?" 2. What do you know about DNS? How it works? 3. A VM is not reachable. How will you troubleshoot in VMware 4. Have you face any outage in your team , how did you handle? 5. There is a space issue in Datastore, how would you troubleshoot? 6.Which command in Powershell to find running performances 7.Difference between major and minor incident? 8.How do you handle conflicts in team? 9. If an App is not working, what is the reason and how to handle it? 10.Do you have any questions?
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Windows Administrator

Interviewed at Deloitte

3.8
Jul 12, 2025

1. "If you type "abc.com" in Google and page gets redirected to "xyz.com", what will you do?" 2. What do you know about DNS? How it works? 3. A VM is not reachable. How will you troubleshoot in VMware 4. Have you face any outage in your team , how did you handle? 5. There is a space issue in Datastore, how would you troubleshoot? 6.Which command in Powershell to find running performances 7.Difference between major and minor incident? 8.How do you handle conflicts in team? 9. If an App is not working, what is the reason and how to handle it? 10.Do you have any questions?

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