Interview Tips:

1. Show confidence and smile

2. Speak with logic, make sure your answer concise and get to points (NOT wordy) provide the information in the right context

3. Accumulate the knowledge and experiences in xxxxxxxxxxxxx Working with various lines of business, leaders and different technology teams across banks even multiple vendors such as VISA, TSys, FIS, Accenture, Interac…

4. Gained tremendous experience and knowledge in retail banking, enterprise payments across business and technology

5. Agile hands on experience in Agile environment, deliver the projects from years, now we are counting months for over millions dollars, we use waved or tranche funding methodology to maximize the funding usage across the line of business or portfolio.

What I learned from TD experience

• How to handle resistance from Sr. management or even executives and the team on Agile approach

• Executives or management resistance: don’t have dedicated resources to support agile such as product owner, less control and no signature required

• Product Owner (assigned) luck of knowledge and sometimes a authority sometimes to make a business decision, that will slow down the agile sprint delivery.

• Agile sell points: Adopt the changes quickly, less PCRs then before, frequent demos to business users and adjust quickly

• Team resistance: especially the team with over 20+ years mainframe developers and designers, they don’t feel the agile bring much value, but take them too much time on the daily standup meeting, groom meetings and they prefer let them along to get their job done.

• Benefits: less documentations, easy adopt changes, the business/technology comingle in one environment and show the result right away… easier to get the buy in by business.

Questions to ASK interviewers:

1. Why is this position open?

2. Have you tried to fill in it internally?

3. How long is this been open?

4. If it is been while, what are other candidates been missing?

5. Where are the actual keys to hire? What are the critical criteria for you to hire?

6. Where do you get new people? What other sources you use to find people?