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No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC Jan 2012 – Reviewed Apr 14, 2013
Interview Details There was 3 interviews with hiring team, two via telephone, one should have been on site but as I was away from Montreal they did videocall. First two interviews were quite easy, minimum technical questions and recruiters only. The third interview ("final onsite interview" as they called it) was with manager of the department who evaluated my technical background.
Interview Question – we discussed replication topologies. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details
Very short, technical interview with an engineer.
Only one question.
Interview Question – Was asked by a software engineer how to reverse a string using as little memory as possible. View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 25, 2013
Interview Details 5-7 interviews (30-45 min. each) is normal. They would try to put them back-to-back (either on site or over the phone).
Interview Question – Data structure that would best suite for a phone book. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 14, 2013
Interview Details
It was 30 mins interview with the HR.
Q) How do you rate yourself in C++?
Q) Write a C++ program to recursively find the factorial of a function
Q) Write a C++ program to removes spaces in a sentence
Q) Write are trees and its types?
Q) There was a tree diagram and questions about successor.
No Offer – Reviewed Mar 13, 2013
Interview Details Contacted by recruited and provided a scope. Most questions were very technical that involves data structure, stream(c++), multithreading and memory allocation, some of the questions were weird, was not expecting an actual coding through phone first but it was ok code.
Interview Question – size of object in a friend class that that was a friend of a base class, with virtual declaration Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC – Reviewed Mar 13, 2013
Interview Details
As with most large companies, the interview process is split into several stages. First there is the on campus interviews, which takes place fairly soon after the career fair. The questions are about data structures. The interview will ask you to write code on a white board and they are interested in your thinking process, so explain yourself while you write. Very important to know you Big-O for sorting algorithms.
The second round of interview is about a day-long process. First arrive for small discussions with employees who had taken the summer program before. Then there is a group activity which will look at how well you work in teams and how well your group design the solution to the given problem. We had the task of designing a highway system for an imaginary city. Then expect around three hours of interviews. About three technical interviews, each lasting around 30-45 minutes. The interviewers come from different teams who are interested in you. Same kind of questions as the on campus one. Just remember to study beforehand.
Interview Question –
Data Structures
Big-O
Answer Question
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 27, 2013
Interview Details Over the phone interview
Interview Question – If you were to be in charge of programming the Microsoft Paint 'paintbucket tool" - how would go about this? View Answer
Reason for Declining – The offer was to fly out for an in person interview. They said to send them my resume and my GPA - but after seeing my GPA they went back on their offer, despite making no indication it could be an issue.
No Offer – Reviewed Feb 03, 2013
Interview Details first round 2 phone interviews by analysts, fit questions, technical questions, pretty standard, prepare would do, have time to prepare after the notification, interests in IBD will get you pass... ...
Interview Question – nope Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC – Reviewed Jan 29, 2013
Interview Details One one-on-one interview, and an onsite interview made of several small interviews. Overall, the process was not very well organized. Several interviewers asked me the same question. Although from their description, it seems interesting to work there.
Interview Question – what is index in database Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC Jan 2013 – Reviewed Jan 29, 2013
Interview Details
Got scheduled for a phone interview 2 or 4 days after I applied. Questions:
- How to implement a lock-free algorithm
- What is virtual inheritance
- What is RTTI
- What are interrupts or have you used interrupt (not too sure about the exact question)
Interview Question –
I never heard about lock-free in multi-threading.
I haven't used virtual inheritance since a long while and forgot what it it about.
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