hello friends we are back with yet one
another video to help you to crack
Sitecore interview and we have Nilesh
Thakkar with us who is going to share
some useful tips hello everyone
let me quickly tell you Nilesh
he's a Sitecore solution architect having
more than a decade of industry
experience he is ex-Sitecorian and
ex Sitecore MVP so who would be the best
person other than Nilesh to share us
more about the Sitrecore Interview Tips
Nilesh
welcome to Our Sitecore Journey please share
us with what you are going to tell in
the Sitecore interview tips Thank You
Nikki for having me today, I'm gonna
share top 5 sitecore interview tips to
crack an interview. I conducted many
interviews so far with most of my
employers, in fact I was consulted by
many companies to help them to find the
best Sitecore Talent. So today, I'm gonna
share some tips that will help you to
prepare for interview. Well if I heard
correctly you were telling that you are
going to share 5 interview tips.
yes
correct
5 tips.
Ok. But before I begin, let me tell
you one thing, I am NOT gonna share any
Sitecore specific topics such as Helix, JSS, SXA., rather i would say i would share
some important tips which will help you
to crack any Sitecore interview.
 
cool
let's start.
sure
tip number 1 know more about your 
 interviewer.
Here before you appear for
interview, you should research and know more
about the person who is going to take
your interview. This will boost your
confidence when you appear for interview. 
Well, how can I know more about the
interviewer. Yeah! So for that the easiest
thing is go to LinkedIn profile of the
person who is going to take your
interview, you can read more about the
blogs also, which will give  you an idea
about the interviewers interest also
But, what if I don't have any clue about the
interviewer. Well, that's also correct. If
you don't have any information about the
person who is going to take your
interview, in that case read more about
the company. All right. Second tip. ok, so
tip number two - show your problem solving
skills many times interview would like
to know what's your approach and
attitude towards some problems. Yes,
similar thing happened with me, I was
asked to share the problems I have
faced and what I did to solve that
problem. Wow, what was that problem. Well
there was a scenario where there were
two databases running differently and
serving the different websites and we
had to sync the data from few tables
from one database to another so we came
up with NServiceBus publisher-
subscriber approach where we did a small
research and POC and it was working very
well. Wow, that's good, so but I have one
question why didn't you go for the
database mirroring and why did you
select that n NServiceBus solution
Well, you're right, in our case the
databases were having a no direct
connection between each other so we had
to go with that approach
Exactly Nikki! so that's what I would
like to share in this tip. Interviewer is
not interested in your problem, rather
he's interested how what's your approach
towards the problem and he wants to know
your problem solving skills. Great!
Tip number three "show your right attitude"
Many times interviewer throw a buzz word
during the interview and there are
chances that you don't know about that
particular topic or buzzword. say for
example, interviewer is asking about
machine learning, cortex or some you know
a cutting edge topic of the sitecore at
that time instead of saying simply no,
should show willingness and attitude to learn that topic, if given a chance. Tip number four, know how
Sitecore works behind the scenes. Many
times interviewer would like to know how
solid your Sitecore fundamentals are.
Say for example, interviewer would asked you
that how Sitecore serve the page when
user hits an URL. Over hear Interviewer
is keen to know about - are you aware about
the Sitecore behind the scenes
process and procedure, such as sitecore
pipelines or page lifecycle. Yes, some
similar question I was asked, I was given
a scenario for the publishing issue and
I was asked that how will I solve the
problem. That's what I'm saying here. You
should clear your Sitecore fundamentals and
basics before appearing for the
interview. The last tip, tip number five,
How do you handle conflicting situation?
Conflicting you mean conflicting between
the team members? Yes, that's correct
many times for team leader and team
manager position this kind of a question
comes. Over here you should show
interviewer how comfortable are you to
handle any conflicting situation in the
team
say for example, you came to know about
one of your team member has conflict
with other team member who just got
selected to attend one of the biggest
sitecore event. He is not happy.
He has question, he's thinking why I am
not selected and why the other team
member is selected. You got to know about
this conflict. How would you handle this
conflict. Let me help you on this, What
you can do, you should invite the team
member for coffee and had chat with him
Be transparent and tell him why the
other team member is selected. You can
tell that, that team member showed the
interest to speak at that event he
submitted the paper and jury selected
him as a speaker and that's why he's
going to attend that event. Cool, that's
great! By being transparent and having a
good communication between team members
you can solve any type of conflict.
Friends, we hope that this video will
give you some more insights about how
you should prepare for an interview but
we would suggest that don't keep your
learning curve for any specific
interview keep exploring keep learning
attend sitecore user group events, read
Sitecore official documentation be a
part of Sitecore slack channel and follow
@Sitecore on twitter. Thank you and stay
tuned to our Sitecore Journey channel for
upcoming fantastic videos.
See you next time!
