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Updated Jun 13, 2013
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Financial Representative at Fidelity Investments

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Covington, KY (US) – Reviewed Mar 22, 2013

Interview Details Found the job on my career center website. Applied on Fidelity website. Was contacted about a month later to see if I was still interested in the job. They talked about what the job entails. They then set you up with a phone interview. I wouldn't stress about this that much. They give you feed back as you go on how to improve your answers. They will automatically send you to the next round. From here you go visit the Fidelity campus. You have an hour presentation, followed by a tour of where you would be working. Then you go off with two hiring managers, and have a 2:1 interview. Mainly behavioral questions. After the interview you go take a logic test. Do well on this since they use this to determine on how successful you will be with the series 7 exam. Its a long process. They get back to you within 4-5 days of a decision.

Interview Question – Tell us about a time where you gave exceptional customer service?

What is world class customer service?

How will you be successful with the series 7?

Tell us about your resume
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Negotiation Details – pay is awful, get your licenses and move out of the position

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Big Data Engineer, New Hampshire at Fidelity Investments

No Offer – Interviewed in Merrimack, NH (US) Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 18, 2013

Interview Details First there was a HR call which focused on my Resume. Then the HR itself set me a technical phone interview in two days. Then I got a call from Sr. Software Engineer who asked me basic core java questions like,
Singleton class and how can you see that it has only one instance
Difference between static block and static method
How to get duplicate values from database (clue using having clause)
difference between observer and observable class
what is synchronization and serialization
final, finally and finalize
how to print all the rows in database

Apart from these be prepared with hadoop and mapreduce questions.
Now waiting for the result. If selected will be called for onsite.

Interview Question – Design patterns questions   View Answers (10)

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Equity Research Associate Intern at Fidelity Investments

Declined Offer – Reviewed Mar 15, 2013

Interview Details stated with a phone interview. was mostly behavioral / personal questions, but asked some questions about different kinds of companies i'd be interested in investing in right now.

in-person superday with 6 30-minute interviews. some behavioral questions, some brain teasers, some psuedo-case studies -- a mix of everything. no stick pitches though.

Interview Question – We get thousands of applications for an incredibly small number of positions. Why should I care about you?   Answer Question

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Corporate Finance Intern at Fidelity Investments

Declined Offer – Reviewed Mar 17, 2013

Interview Details For the first round interview process I had two thirty minute interviews, and in the second round I also had two thirty minute interviews both were on location

Interview Question – Mainly behavioral based questions, no technical questions   Answer Question

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Senior Software Engineerer at Fidelity Investments

No Offer – Interviewed in Durham, NC (US) Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 15, 2013

Interview Details Applied online and received an interview via phone. The majority of the questions were focused on my previous experience, where I see myself in a few years to come and how I would deal with Customer service.

Interview Question – Give an example of when you had difficulty with a customer   Answer Question

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Software Engineer/Developer at Fidelity Investments

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Westlake, TX (US) – Reviewed Mar 09, 2013

Interview Details Sent my resume to one of the recruiters , got call the next day and she told she would submit the resume to the manager. the next day or so she called a scheduled phone interview. 4 one on one phone interviews. Next they invited me for in-person interview. Whoever interviewed me on phone were all there in the in-person interview.
In one or two days another recruiter called me and told the team was interested in my background and asked details abt my current visa status etc., He asked for few references and I gave two. The director contacted the references I gave.

Interview Question – there were no difficult questions. In one of the phone interviews the person asked questions about java concurrency api.   View Answer

Reason for Declining – the pay offered was less than what i was making

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Financial Services Representative at Fidelity Investments

Declined Offer – Reviewed Mar 08, 2013

Interview Details First interview was conducted by phone which lasted between 30-40 minutes. Basic questioning i.e. why would you be a good fit? A few days later was called back to come in for an in-person interview. Went through a formal Q+A session and then was interviewed by two managers at once. Much more of the same questioning as the first time around i.e how can you add value to the team?

Interview Question – Describe a situation in which you had to act as a leader   Answer Question

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Continuous Improvement Leader at Fidelity Investments

No Offer – Reviewed Mar 08, 2013

Interview Details The internal talent acquisition person called me on a Friday in a panic asking if I could fly from the west coast to the east coast on Monday for interviews on Tuesday. I had a conflict, but I made an adjustment and made it work. I flew out Monday and they flew me into Boston Logan airport which required an hour of driving on my part after flying for over 5 hours. My interview was scheduled to start late morning. I was picked up on time from the lobby by the hiring manager, and my schedule showed that I would be interviewed by him and three others. The first person, the hiring manager's boss, said she just got back from vacation, and was too busy to see me for a 30 minute interview. I suggested we might do a phone call later in the week. One of the others said he just landed off a flight from their Texas office, and couldn't find my resume that had his notes on it so asked me to remind him about me using up too much of my 30 minutes with him. Another person said, "I thought I was supposed to interview someone today, I guess that's you. It's not on my calendar, but that's ok, why don't you remind me of who you are." Again, waste of 30 minutes. The hiring manager spent a good amount of time with me. Three out of four people weren't even ready to interview me after I turned on a dime to get there and flew across the country to meet with them. How rude and what a waste of time. Then I get a call from the talent acquisition person they've decided not to go forward with me and that she had feedback for me if I'd like it. I told her I would like it, but she never called me back.

Interview Question – It was totally unexpected that they would ask me to remind them of who I was after I expected them to have at least been prepared on their end to interview me.   Answer Question

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QA Engineer at Fidelity Investments

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed Mar 07, 2013

Interview Details Was not interviewed thoroughly. Due to which job was not easy. In order to match the management expectation the leads did a normal round and recruited. Later the job was tough.

Interview Question – Unclear questions.   View Answer

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Director Software Engineering at Fidelity Investments

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Boston, MA (US) Nov 2009 – Reviewed Mar 08, 2013

Interview Details Mostly related to job description. Leadership qualities

Interview Question – Management vs leadership   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – i did not negotiate

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