Interview training @ Scality

Giorgio Regni, CTOVianney Rancurel, Head of Research

© Scality 20162

Scality Key Facts• Founded: 2009

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• Ranked #1 by IDC

• 100+ cloud-scale customers worldwide

• 76 Software engineers

• 600 million end users

• 900 billion objects in production

© Scality 20163

US, EMEA, Japan, 600 Million End Users, 900+ Billion Objects

SERVICE PROVIDERS

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

R&D INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES

PUBLICSECTOR

FINANCIALSERVICES

ACTIVEARCHIVES

CONTENTDISTRIBUTION

WEB & CLOUDSERVICES

PRIVATE STORAGE CLOUDS

Copyright Scality 2014

Linear performance scaling

Scality RING: Compatible with today’s DC, delivering cloud economics, addressing 80% of Enterprise workloads

FILE-BASEDAPPLICATIONS

OBJECT-BASEDAPPLICATIONS

PARALLEL, HIGH PERFORMANCE ACCESS TO DATA

Limitless infrastructure scaling

Scality RINGSoftware Defined Storage

SCALITY RING SOFTWARE

Replication Erasure Coding Geo-Redundancy

Distributed DB Object Storage Self-Healing

RING Management Security

Apps

x86 servers

Scality RING is a software-defined storage platform ,…

… deployed on industry-standard hardware, …

…with a rich set of protocols and interfaces, …

… intelligent data protection mechanisms and geo-distributed architectures

The interview process

7 interviewsEach interviewer votes GO/NO GO

1st interview is gatekeeper

The ideal candidate

What we want to see

Smart & get things done!

Culture fit

1.Passion

2.Soft skills are very important!

3.Can this candidate work within my team?

4.Is the candidate interested in something else than himself?

Learning machine

1.Software engineering evolves very very quickly

2.It’s not about what you know but your ability to learn

3.Maturity, know your own strengths and weaknesses

Global feedback

Common mistakes we observed

Behavior

1.Look at me, not away, not at the floor, not at the ceiling

2.Slow down, it’s OK to think before answering

3.Be clear and concise, go back to #2

Behavior

1.Don’t be evasive about what you want

2.Be prepared to answer where you want to be in 3 years

3.If you selected a particular programming language, make sure you are fluent in it

Coding test time

What we want to see

Mastery of the tools: Python: the exercise is very simple, it should take 5 minutes and then

jumps on a conversation C: Start with a clean source code template, fluent with the tool chain

Maturity: Are you asking questions? Rephrasing the problem? Or just jumping without thinking?

Video Distribution

Enterprise Backup & Archive

Government & Surveillance

What we’re looking for:

What we got

Q&A

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