The candidates for the R&D department must pass the stages described below. At Veeam Software, we use informal communication and encourage you to do the same.

1. Pre-Selection

   Pre-selection is performed by CV evaluation. In CVs we are looking at:

   • Technical profile of the candidate: work experience with operating systems, network technologies, databases, server platforms, programming languages, automation tools and so on.
   • Projects you participated in and your role in those projects.
   • Your education.
   • Other information that allows us to evaluate your skills and potential.

   If you have no experience in testing/QA and are applying for the position of Junior QA Engineer, it would be a great plus if you do a test task. You can download the test task here. Forward the report on the problems you found along with your CV at CV@veeam.com.

2. Phone Job Interview with HR Representative

   Candidates successful at stage 1 will receive a phone call from a Veeam HR representative.

   During the phone call, the HR representative will tell you about the job, make sure you are interested in it, and share details about the upcoming technical interview.

3. Technical Interview

   The technical interview takes about 1.5 hours and can include several parts:

   • Introduction, discussion on candidate’s experience, career goals and fields of interest.
   • Discussion of candidate’s technical knowledge: questions on operating systems, network technologies, databases, etc. The questions may touch upon any area mentioned in your CV.
   • Questions on software testing—for candidates that have work experience in this field.
   • Tasks that can help reveal your capabilities as a QA engineer, including a request to “test” some object, action or feature.
   • Mathematical and logical tasks and cases that are not difficult but interesting—they will allow you to demonstrate your logical skills and common sense, your ability to think out of the box and find interesting ways out from unusual situations.

   If we feel it necessary, a second interview can follow.

   After the interview, each candidate is carefully evaluated from several points of view. If you didn’t solve a problem or answer а question about Windows, this doesn’t mean automatically that we are no longer interested in you. What we mostly look at is how you think, do you have the required potential for the job, do you feel an urge to grow, and are you willing to work hard in order to achieve all that.

   Here are a few tips that will help you to get prepared for the interview:

   • Make sure that you indeed know everything included in your CV.
   • Read some materials about testing and software quality assurance. Think why you want to work in this field.
   • Study carefully a book from the series “Administering Windows Server 2003/2008/2012.”
   • Refresh your knowledge of computer networks (books by the Olifer couple are a good source).
   • Learn about Veeam and our products.

4. Feedback

   Our HR specialists will contact you by email or phone within several days after the interview to tell you about the results.

5. Job Offer

   If your interview was successful, Veeam will make you an official job offer. If you choose to accept the offer, we will agree upon the date of your first working day at Veeam. And here starts the journey!