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These questions were not unexpectes as all of them are here on this site. I used this site to study and prepare. Why do you want to work for Target? What interests you about this position? What is your greatest strength/weakness? Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years? Always say store manager (they don't want to train you only to lose you to another company) How far are you willing to travel? 45-60 minutes from my apt Tell me about a time you came up with a creative solution to a problem. Tell me about a time you made a mistake and how did you deal with it. Tell me about a time you had to make a difficult decision. Tell me about a time you made sure someone received praise/credit. Tell me about a time you made a difficult decision with little information. Tell me about a time you spoke for a team when addressing an issue to your boss. Tell me about a time you had to handle a difficult person's performance. Tell me about a time you developed a coworker. Walk me through a time you worked on a group project at work or school and a member was not contributing and what did you do. Interview process is very slow and long so please be patient. Mine took about 6 weeks but it's probably because I skipped the phone interview. 3 months from application to training. I think it's worth the wait.
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Executive Team Leader

Interviewed at Target

3.5
Nov 13, 2012

These questions were not unexpectes as all of them are here on this site. I used this site to study and prepare. Why do you want to work for Target? What interests you about this position? What is your greatest strength/weakness? Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years? Always say store manager (they don't want to train you only to lose you to another company) How far are you willing to travel? 45-60 minutes from my apt Tell me about a time you came up with a creative solution to a problem. Tell me about a time you made a mistake and how did you deal with it. Tell me about a time you had to make a difficult decision. Tell me about a time you made sure someone received praise/credit. Tell me about a time you made a difficult decision with little information. Tell me about a time you spoke for a team when addressing an issue to your boss. Tell me about a time you had to handle a difficult person's performance. Tell me about a time you developed a coworker. Walk me through a time you worked on a group project at work or school and a member was not contributing and what did you do. Interview process is very slow and long so please be patient. Mine took about 6 weeks but it's probably because I skipped the phone interview. 3 months from application to training. I think it's worth the wait.

three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a boat which can carry at most two people, under the constraint that, for both banks, if there are missionaries present on the bank, they cannot be outnumbered by cannibals (if they were, the cannibals would eat the missionaries.) The boat cannot cross the river by itself with no people on board. Move all missionaries and cannibals from one river bank to the other.
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Software Support Team

Interviewed at Tyler Technologies

3.7
Jan 12, 2012

three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a boat which can carry at most two people, under the constraint that, for both banks, if there are missionaries present on the bank, they cannot be outnumbered by cannibals (if they were, the cannibals would eat the missionaries.) The boat cannot cross the river by itself with no people on board. Move all missionaries and cannibals from one river bank to the other.

As above; it starts with a massive take home coding challenge. Basically you're given a very vague problem statement and a small amount of example data (carefully chosen to NOT cover any interesting edge cases), and must come up with an entire solution (design, implementation, API, test cases, code coverage, documentation, everything), all finished to the level you'd expect in production code (ie, full test coverage, edge cases thought about, errors handled, consistent method names, use a logging framework, everything). Don't be surprised if you fail due to something like "we told you we wanted logs, but we didn't tell you what would be consuming the logs, and you guessed wrong, so the formatting of the log messages isn't quite what we expected". Yes, it's THAT nit picky. And no, you can't ask questions during the process.
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Lead Engineer

Interviewed at Octopus Deploy

4.8
Jul 17, 2022

As above; it starts with a massive take home coding challenge. Basically you're given a very vague problem statement and a small amount of example data (carefully chosen to NOT cover any interesting edge cases), and must come up with an entire solution (design, implementation, API, test cases, code coverage, documentation, everything), all finished to the level you'd expect in production code (ie, full test coverage, edge cases thought about, errors handled, consistent method names, use a logging framework, everything). Don't be surprised if you fail due to something like "we told you we wanted logs, but we didn't tell you what would be consuming the logs, and you guessed wrong, so the formatting of the log messages isn't quite what we expected". Yes, it's THAT nit picky. And no, you can't ask questions during the process.

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