About Michaela
Tell me about yourself?
Discuss college, volunteering, trying new areas in education and how that led you back to data working with branching minds. And how this relates to you trying to come up with problems to solve and your to learn new skills.
Why do you want to work at this company?
Your mission statement stood out to me. everything Ive seen so far about AuditBoard shows that your a company that supports creative thinkers and in turn that helps you client and supports your values. I love learning and working with teams especially in project based settings. That way I can take charge with some groups and I also know when to fall back and let others take the lead.
What’s a use case
A use case is a potential scenario where a system receives an external request and has to respond to it. The case itself is the list of actions or events steps, defining the interactions between the role and the system to achieve the goal.
Explain What ESG is?
Environmental, social, and governance. It’s an investing principle that prioritizes environmental issues, social issues, and corporate governance
Whats a time you overcame a challenge ?
Mention building Black Artists league back up and having to work on obtaining funding and using different skills to create a play. It taught you patience and leadership as well as the different operations needed to create a successful project with different moving parts.
talking about subbing with crazy students and having to take help from those above me.
Why is risk management important?
It’s important because it helps businesses and individuals protect themselves against potential losses, ensuring compliance, and supports long-term success by enabling proactive, identification, and mitigation of risks. At the end of the day, everyone will be happy and everyone will save some money in the long run.
Explain Depth vs Breadth in IT
Depth: explores as deeply as possible along one branch before backtracking and exploring other branches.
Implemented with stacks or recursion
Breadth: Explores all nodes at current level before moving to the next level.
Uses a queue to keep track of nodes to visit.
What’s SOX assurance
It was an act that was enacted in 2002 that aims to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures.
What Kind of Technical Projects Have you done that you were proud of?
Talk about tacos and creating tickets for the elderly people at the old folks home.
How Does Audit Board Stand Out
It is driven by innovative customer centric solutions and it is a leader in enterprise security compliance.
Whats the difference in the Qualitative vs Quantitative risk assessment approach? And explain the different example metrics.
Qualitative uses scoring scales to rate risk severity And Quantitative uses numerical data
Qualitative Is more flexible and context sensitive compared to quantitative with is objective and data driven and has a focus on accuracy and precision.
Example Metrics;
QUAL: Likelihood of occurrence, potential business disruption, expert assessments
QUANT: financial impact, loss expectancy, Return on investment (ROI) of security measures.
What do you align with from our company.
One thing I noticed on your website was about the different values you can bring and I appreciated that gritty resilience was on there. Ive always been told I’m a pretty intrinsically motivated person and I would love to work with like minded individuals. Also the importance of the client. customer service I know how to talk to a client.
Whats Audit boards Mission statement?
To be the category- defining global platform for connected risk, elevating our customers through innovation.
What’s the SDLC?
Software development life cycle.
structured process that guides software development generally with these phases:
planning, requirements, analysis, design, coding, development, testing, deployment, maintenance
Pick an SDLC model and explain the set up.
The waterfall model is a model where each phase is completed before moving onto the next. This offers a structured approach, but it does have less flexibility for changing things.