Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. How can an RF Field Engineer best troubleshoot cellular coverage in a city?
2. In your experience, how do you think the cell phone has affected the lives of other people?

3. How do you think T-Mobile, can improve cellular networks and data speeds?

4. Which carrier do you think has the best networks speeds as of right now? Why?

5. What is the next generation of cellular networks and how fast will it be?

6. When working with cell sites, what are some of issues you have to troubleshoot?

7. In your experience, what are some hardware issues you have had troubleshoot?

8. Similar question, what are some software issues you have to troubleshoot?

9. What types of problems can you remotely troubleshoot for an RBS?

10. What precautions do you take in a red zone area at night?

11. What do you do if you cannot find or enter an RBS due to lock doors or different locks?

12. Do you believe that an RF Field Engineer impacts the lives of others? Why or why not?

13. What do you do with the damaged equipment of an RBS once you replace it?

14. How do you report to T-Mobile that you fixed an issue in an RBS?

15. If an RBS is located inside a small room and you accidentally get locked in what should you do?

16. What do you do if their is a living animal, such as a poisonous snake, inside the RBS?

17. What happens around the area of an RBS that does not work?

18. If you cannot resolve a problem within the RBS what do you do in response?

19. What determines the location of an RBS?

20. In your experiences, why would you need to call a general contractor?

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions (Updated)

10 Open Interview Questions

1. How can an RF Field Engineer best troubleshoot cellular coverage in a city?

2. Can you explain the various issues within an RBS?

3. If you cannot resolve a problem within the RBS what do you do in response?

4. What are your responsibilities when working as an RF Field Engineer?

5. If there is a hardware issue within an RBS, how do you find the damaged equipment? And what do you do to that equipment?

6. If there is a software issue within an RBS, what do you do?

7. In a cellular system, can you explain the meaning of a cell?

8. What happens around the area of an RBS that does not work?

9. Can you remotely troubleshoot an issue within an RBS?

10. Can you give examples of the Switch issues?

Second Interview Questions

1. Who is your mentor and where do they work?

Oscar Holzmeister is my mentor for my senior project and he works as a Radio Frequency Field Engineer for T-Mobile.

2. What five questions will ask them about their background?

1. How long have you been doing this job and how has the job changed overtime? 
2. What is the biggest struggle you have faced in the field? 
3. Can you give me an example of where you had to fix a problem in an RBS and what you did to fix the problem? 
4. What did you do when you first started this career?
5. What do you do if you cannot solve an RBS ticket?