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No Offer – Reviewed May 19, 2013 New
Interview Details
After applying two months ago, finally was contacted for a technical phone interview.
Interviewed with two members of the team. The interview was very technical.
Despite being a position that focused a little more needing networking skills, they asked many advance windows questions. The interviewers clearly seemed like they didn't come up with description of the job listing, as they constantly contradicted themselves when saying what the job entailed and focused.
The listed clearly stated they wanted someone with networking skills, and listed certain requirements, but stated I was wrong about the position when noticing the emphasis on networking in the listing.
The were also rude, and clearly haven't done interviewers for very long.
They also seemed like they wanted to rush the interview, and from the moment they said hello to the end they seemed disinterested.
They tried to trip me up with some the questions, but i knew I was right with the majority of them.
The listing also mentioned that the job was entry level, but the last time i checked, tier 3 support jobs are NOT entry level. Not a single tech company lists a tier 3 job as entry level.
Interview Question – For a job the listed to needing mainly networking skills, I did not expect an emphasis on windows troubleshooting, and didn't expect to have to name exact dictionary names of advanced windows functions. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 09, 2013 New
Interview Details The hiring process, I can say, was relatively fast. You can expect an invitation for the initial interview approximately three weeks after the examination. It was my first interview since I was a fresh graduate then so I kinda have said things which must not come out any interviewees mouth in a screening process.
Interview Question – Nothing. It was just an average interview. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed May 09, 2013 New
Interview Details Hiring - First telephone interview, then they will call onsite
Interview Question – All of them were expected questions Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed May 05, 2013
Interview Details
the process has written test with two sub parts
1.aptitude
2. technical programming (not mcqs)
Interview Question – os deadlock situtation View Answer
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details
3 test
Maths
Finance
Excel
Interview Question –
Maths test- Just general calculations nothing special
Finance test- Some random questions, but a broad idea and knowledge of the financial world is of help..
Excel test- basic Excel sorting and so on, VLOOKUPS AND PIVOT TABLES
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No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 18, 2013
Interview Details Met with a company recruiter at a school career fair, handed in my resume, and also applied online. Soon, was contacted via e-mail to setup a phone interview. Was asked to describe stack vs. heap allocated memory, the usefulness and time-complexities of various arraylist operations, and the applications of hashmaps. Finally, was asked to implement a program that determined if a given integer array was a palindrome.
Interview Question – For the final question, the interviewer asked me to hand-write the code and explain it to him over the phone. Moreover, he wanted verbatim code, not pseudocode. This felt pretty peculiar, but not impossible. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in San Mateo, CA (US) Sep 2012 – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details
I submitted a resume at a career fair, and received an email that they would like to interview me. I had an initial phone interview where I was asked some technical questions regarding designing a deck of cards, comparison of java and c++, and I think some behavioral questions.
Onsite, I was asked to a question about strings, a design question, a code review, and probably another coding question.
The interviewers were very nice.
Interview Question – A design question involving microsoft excel Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Apr 04, 2013
Interview Details Test: excel, finance, maths. 30 minute HR interview. 30 minute interview with two investment managers.
Interview Question – Which UK asset class would you invest in now. Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Norwalk, CT (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 03, 2013
Interview Details
Initially met at a career fair. Sat down the next day for a light technical interview involving some basic question on object oriented design and a very simple programming question.
I got an e-mail about 1-2 weeks afterwards with an invitation to do an in person interview. They flew me out to NYC and got me a driving service from NYC to Norwalk. The next day, I had several interviews.
A demo, a code review, an OO game design interview, an algorithmic design interview, and a couple non-technical interviews.
Interview Question – Others had been saying atoi() was a common question, as was a binary tree question. I did not see either. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 02, 2013
Interview Details Phone interview, only technical question and fixed income questions.
Interview Question – Price a binomial option and C++question about hash map Answer Question
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