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Senior Software QA Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed May 17, 2013 New
Interview Details
There are a minimum of 3 rounds one of which will be a coding round in code of your preference.
Round 1 - involved basic aptitude and QA concepts
Round 2 - involved more details questions on the tasks that you would be involved in
Round 3 - a coding round that involved 2 or 3 simple programs in C++ (they did ask me what language I was comfortable with)
Additionally there will be HR rounds and meetings with your senior managers and so on.
Interview Question – Coding round was unexpected. They asked me to write a sorting algorithm, some previous question, writing and reading from a file Answer Question
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Global Operations Center Intern at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Plano, TX (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New
Interview Details Phone interview with a manager.
Interview Question – What do you like least about your current internship? View Answer
Negotiation Details – Didn't negotiate. Got a phone call from HR and accepted the offer and the salary on the spot.
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Senior Software Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA (US) – Reviewed May 01, 2013
Interview Details
No. of technical interviews: 4. One telephonic, 3 F2F
First the project and requirement was explained. Very good questions asked relevant to job and current project.
Interview Question – What is secure programming needed for mobile platforms. Explain various types of security threats which should be considered as use case. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Negotiate well, as you will not get 2nd chance after coming in.
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IT Global Security Services Compliance Intern at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Plano, TX (US) – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details
1st meeting at University career fair
Interview for phone interview, within 1 week
30 min interview, conducted by hiring manager
Pleasant interview, not a stress interview
14 days before announcing decision
only 1 round of interview.
Interview Question – about post 2009 financial market regulations Answer Question
Negotiation Details – i got the top band of the pay range, so I did not negotiate.
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IT Training Manager at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 28, 2013
Interview Details I was referred to McAfee by an employee of McAfee who I had worked with previously. I had a phone interview and a face to face interview with 3 Vice Presidents. I did not interview with the 2 other woman who would be on ym team and that was a draw back.
Interview Question – What is your social media strategy for training? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Very straight forward, I started as a contractor and then was converted to an employee
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Senior Software Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Oct 2010 – Reviewed Feb 14, 2013
Interview Details
There were several rounds of interview, and I was asked about my salary information by the person who interviewed me first. Later on, I realised that he wasn't ask about my salary.
However, every other round that I went through was highly professional, and the HR team was also very helpful and friendly.
The first day was smooth, and I felt very welcome.
Interview Question – They needed me to justify why I'd like to quit my current job, and I felt that this was somewhat tricky. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Not much negotiation. They were very rigid on what they wanted to offer.
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Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 09, 2013
Interview Details
The process had 1 written exam and 3 rounds of tech interviews.Questions in the written exam: program to implement a Stack in Java, improvise it for generics, implement a queue in Java( without using Collections API), what are private final methods, difference between equals and ==, difference between equals and hashCode.
Technical Interview Questions: What are the ways to create an Object, Executor Framework, Concurrent APIs, Singleton Pattern, Database questions-stored procedure vs functions, clustered vs non-clustered index, design questions (design a client-server software which will install McAfee agent into an enterprise having thousands of computers), how will you take care of singleton in clustered environment.
Then there were few telephonic round of interviews with people at US.
Interview Question – If there are 1000 products procuced per minute and 5 consumed per minute, design an optimum using Java Concurrent Packages so that neither producers nor consumers hog the system. Answer Question
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Lead Development Representative at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Dec 2012 – Reviewed Feb 01, 2013
Interview Details
Soon after you post your CV they call you for a phone interview. General questions with an HR Consultant. This consultant appears has to be your mentors for the rest of the interview process.
Then if you pass it, you have an online test to fill. And afterwards a very brief (About 15min) interview with the hiring manager.
If you pass all of these, you are invited for an on site interview. Mine should have been in January 2013 but it has been postponed to April. I will be able to say more afterwards.
On a personal level, all along the recruitment process, I have been in confidence. I have to say this is quite important for me. Every time I need an info, I use to get info soon after I ask them. They seems to be very professional. At this stage, I absolutely recommend anyone to apply at McAfee.
Interview Question – If you preprare your interview, none of them should be tricky or unexpectable. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Do not take this into consideration. My application is still on-going.
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Sales Operations Analyst at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Plano, TX (US) Jan 2012 – Reviewed Jan 31, 2013
Interview Details Takes quite a bit to get in the door. This tends to be a very slow process. Your best bet is to have it be an employee referral. Their HR department seems to have some turnover so you can get tripped up there. Interviewed for a position and it took 4 weeks to get called back for a second interview.
Interview Question – How will your employment make a difference for McAfee? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Since I was out of work there was a take it or leave it attitude from HR manager.
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Technical Lead at McAfee
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jun 2012 – Reviewed Jan 07, 2013
Interview Details
The hiring was pretty good and it was very methodical process. I was interviewed for a technical lead position and I got an interview call through a consultant.
First HR person called and informed me about interview process completely. Then I had one telephonic interview and 3 personal interviews. 2 Technical levels and 1 management round. Then followed by some US interview.
The HR seems to very co-operative and he was online when my entire US interview was going on.
Then final local HR interview happened and I got selected .
Interview Question –
1st round telephonic round was simple. Some basic C++ questions with practical things like how did i handle it ?.
For e..g, I was interviewed for windows internals , so How to debug a particualar problem and how it was fixed. and C++ questions on inheritance.
2nd round on direct Hands - on, they gave a PC to me and asked to write a code on implementing stack and queue from linked list with ~1 hours time. I finished that.
3rd round was more interesting like how do a data structure for particular situation( I don't remember exact situation) and why did I choose that data structure ?. This guy seems like some manager ( not hiring manager, but he did evaluate me in general as well with some puzzles)
4th round was from US, then it was related to behavior and attitude in team work and how do i resolved conflicts with a team.
5th round was hiring manager and HR round. Pretty standard stuff, like about team structure and McAfee advantage...etc.
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Reason for Declining –
I had a better offer with some other company, hence didn't join.
But later on I got excellent feedback about this company, but it was too late for me to go back.
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