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Hey, I have my interview scheduled for Technology Consulting job for SharePoint at Microsoft Services. HR said it is a coding round and the interview is named as HO interview. Can someone let me what kind of questions I can expect in the interview Microsoft . #Sharepoint #Microsoft #MicrosoftServices #Interview
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Be clear and ask to define the role early on in the interview process. I say from the get-go, my strength is conceptual thinking and making whatever content we produce visually stunning. I will work WITH a designer to design stuff. Just like I will work with a director and a DP to make a commercial. Also, any place that works to put together brand guidelines and identities is a design house, not an ad agency
Thank you for reassuring me I’m not wishing for something ridiculous here.
It seems to be more on a project basis. If budget allows the design studio will be engaged. If timing and budget are tight you’ll have to do a bit more
Are you willing to share the name of this agency? What you’re describing isn’t the case where I am currently - there is no design studio.
Funny enough I was just thinking about this. I think it depends on the agency and team? I work in a small agency and have been interviewing ADs and I hear this quite often that these candidates want to move away from having to design. I also wonder what that looks like for ADs who say that. I think if you’re consistently getting briefed to build brand identities and design a perfect 3D dinosaur then fair enough. But if it’s not wanting to get your hands involved in something as simple as mocking up a rough visual for a script you’re selling? Then I would imagine it’d be quite hard. Maybe bigger agencies with established design departments might be it. But for example, if you’re going to a small agency then you’d inevitably have to design to some above average degree as well purely due to a lack of resource that comes with the territory. You can’t expect to join a 5-10 person agency and expect to have designers. It just isn’t practical
Hey Art Director - this is a common challenge in small teams. I’m in a small team on PM side and I do all sort of minuscule things that I’m way not best suited for anymore but that’s the way it is- someone needs to do. I am a bit concerned that some of what you describe starts to fall into Creative Director territory depending on the type of Creative Director you work with and not all projects warrant the full deck/mood board/storyboard etc. and in fact sometimes the director takes this over. Depends on the setup. If it’s consistently getting you down, I would explore other companies where that is the missing piece of the puzzle and your work in those specific areas more valued. I worked in a place where it was all designers (including the art director) and we desperately needed someone with that vision, process and follow-through.
Although AD is my title, I’m basically just a designer. Kinda sucks because I lean more on the conceptual side.
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