Please read the instructions and questions carefully. This is an open-book assignment, so feel free to use your highly honed Google-Fu skills, but please don't copy the work of others or have anyone else help you. The entire team will evaluate your homework, which means you are free to use acronyms and technical/industry-specific language where appropriate and expedient.
Create/open a plain .txt file and answer the following:
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Research a topic in IT where you are not an expert (20 minutes or so). When finished, write a summary paragraph that explains the topic so a non-technical person could understand.
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What was the last thing you automated/scripted? If you haven’t automated anything, what is something you would like to? Explain to us how you automated the task or a high-level overview of how you would. The automation does not need to be tied directly to your current job; this can include those pet projects you have in your home lab.
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How do you alter the ports that accept RDP?
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Please select the five characteristics of a job or work environment that are the most important to you and rank them in order of importance (1 being most important).
_____ Mentoring others
_____ Working with smart people ("A Players")
_____ Learning from others
_____ Working with nice people
_____ Doing things the "Right Way"
_____ Solving hard technical problems
_____ Making customers happy
_____ Working closely with a customer
_____ Opportunity for travel
_____ Creating innovative solutions
_____ Leading a team
_____ Developing / Providing high quality solutions
_____ Working on a team
_____ Opportunity for advancement
_____ Other: _____________________________
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What port does ping use?
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What is one thing you would like to change in your current work environment, but you can't? What is it, and how would you change it?
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Why do you want to work at PDQ.com generally and specifically?
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What five questions would you ask us about our company and software?
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What do you think is the most important aspect of this job?
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How will working at PDQ.com get you where you want to go in your career?
When finished, zip up your plain text file ensuring that the .zip file name contains your name, and upload the .zip file to https://fileinbox.com/application (no account required). Submissions are reviewed within 3 - 6 business days and considered for an interview.
Please do not include anything in your homework submission (other than your name as the zip file) that could identify you. Submissions are anonymized on receipt so our team does not know whose homework they are evaluating.