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+Questions
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+- Righpoint
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+    - Can you describe how Rightpoint likes to position itself for clients? Partner? Vendor? Most-valuable partner?
+    - What's the culture like at Rightpoint? How does this concept of "intrapeneur" play out?
+    - What's the pitch process like?
+- Solutions architect
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+    - Most important quality of a solutions architect to succeed at Rightpoint?
+    - What's the typical team structure for a project?
+    - How many projects is a solutions architect typically responsible for?
+    - How my freedom does a solutions architect have?
+- Developers
+    
+    - How much opportunity is given to developers to train and study for certification? - What's the covid-19 plan? Returning to offices soon? Permanently remote possible?
+    
+Preparation
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+- What Episerver commerce does well
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+    - Flexibility to be shaped as you see fit
+        
+        - Can totally work around it
+        - Extend it
+        - Pick pieces here and there
+        - Can stand alone for smaller solutions
+        - Can be integrated relatively easily with larger enterprises
+    - Clear that Episerver is paying attention to it, improving it tremendously
+- Weaknesses of Episerver commerce
+    
+    - Flexibility - not a Shopify solution a business stakeholder can setup
+    - Relatively few plugins
+    - Old UI
+- Most important for team
+    
+    - Communication
+        
+        - Used to say communication, but that's too generic and unclear
+        - Ability to actively listen to clients and team members
+            
+            - Understanding as others speak
+            - Asking clarifying questions
+            - Repeating to ensure understanding
+            - Accurately "go and do" based on what was said
+    - Wise risk-taking
+        
+        - Don't be afraid to fail
+        - Know how to recover if you do
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+    
+ 
+Notes:
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+- Drew
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+    - Premier platinum partner with epi
+    - Bigger opportunities coming in
+    - Will love DXP
+    - Thomas john commerce practice lead
+- Keith
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+    - Aniket on keith's team, digops
+    - Aniket is keith's direct report
+    - Post implementation support, like Electrolux
+    - Joseph Lee is head of digops, keith on his team
+    - All of qa reports up through
+    - Dev team is 40 devs, half in us half in india
+    - Hasn't worked on epi
+    - Mostly Sharepoint dev in early days
+    - Genpact in the backend transformation busniess, were part of GE, spin off
+    - Bought rightpoint as digital experience company
+    - Good SA
+        
+        - Raport with clients, have it, build it
+        - Comfortable with change
+        - Comfortable speaking to technology generally, not specifics, comfortable
+    - Fully remote definitely possible
+- Joseph
+    
+    - Leads digops unit
+    - Managed services--providing production support
+    - Lots of freedom to decide where to work, what to do