I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Honeywell (Bengaluru) in Apr 2017
Interview
Honeywell is doing alpha testing for its interview process in Bangalore. Luckily I also subscribed to their test version on one of the weekend. Here goes my comments on the entire process:
1 Online test:
There will be an online Multi choice + Programming(coding) test which I guess needs to be completed to appear for the next round. The test was having around 22 questions. Questions were included from both C and C++. Most of them were based on pointers, time complexity of various data structures and lastly few C++ programs and queries which were not part of my skill set. Recruiter told me that I have cleared the test after 3 days of completing it.
2. Hackathon:
This is the main part of the their entire recruitment testing. On a scheduled day aspirants were assembled first in a room inside honeywell campus. The crowd contained aspirants from all the different technologies for various openings. After showing a 2 minute video clip on Honeywell recruiter described the process:
i.. Their will be a problem statement given which according to them will be specific to either automation, embedded or mobile application and related technology fields. For me it was falling under embedded domain.
ii. 2 Teams were created among the aspirants consisting of 5-6 member each. As this was a recruitment process test, recruiters were not really worried about how and on what basis the teams should be created. As per their best judgment, people sitting on the left side will be one team and people on the other will be second.
iii. Around 2-3 hours time was given to attack the problem. Hardware and few laptops were also provided but laptop chargers were fewer than the number of laptops. As this was only a test process, hardware provided ( in our case it was raspberry board) was not really verified beforehand to be working properly and can be used for the project. They were not working readily and recruiters told to start on whatever is available.
iv. According to the recruiters there will be constant evaluation happening between the time given for the project but I didn't find any of them were really interested in the evaluation.
v. In the afternoon around 3:30pm recruiters told us to stop the work and be ready for the presentation.
vi As it was a test process, recruiters told us to join the presentation given by the test automation aspirants. We were also free to ask question after the presentation given by the automation aspirants. Since it was not really a hiring process, none of them were really interested in what the aspirants from our domain had really worked.
vii After 1-2 hours of the automation presentation, recruiters were kind of tired with the day's process so they were not really interested in our presentaion. One of them just asked what we have done. As they were running out of time it took around 5 minutes for him to evaluate the entire team of 6 people and provided the results to his superiors.
viii After that it was end of the process for us and we were asked to leave and told to be contacted later for further process.
Depends on the individual team and domain of the selection to team. Some domain have 3 to 4 rounds of interviews. Some have online tests. It is depends.
I applied through other source. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Honeywell (Bengaluru) in Sep 2018
Interview
Freelancing in the name of interview. I had informed hiring manager and HR about my CTC and the offer in hand before initiating hiring process. I went through 1 online programming challenge, 2 days of hardcore programming assignment and 2 days of face to face. In the end official statement of hiring manager was "Your feedback has been excellent in all the rounds and I would love to have you in my team at any cost, that said, I don't think we can pay even your current salary". What I hated the most was the interviewer was not even interested in knowing my thought process and just wanted the assignment to be completed. After two days of home work the interviewer just took the code and asked me to make it run on their system. He wanted me to write complete project (with samples, hardcore shape intersection algorithms, unit test cases and build scripts). At one time he did tell me that they are writing similar poc and was happy with my design because all my api's were running in O(1). Be careful about Aero division guys and do take things in writing before you start interviewing with them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design indoor location tracking system on a 2d plane where users could be anywhere and you are given fixed building coordinates (polygons). At any time tell user location (campus/building) or users inside a building etc.
I interviewed at Honeywell (Bengaluru) in Apr 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a consultant for Honeywell Aerospace. The first round was a bogus time pass online test that even a school student can qualify. Next was supposed to be some Hackathon round and I had read such horrible reviews on glassdoor regarding the Hackathon that I decided I will not waste my time going there. But the consultant persuaded me to change my mind and I did. On the day of the Hackathon, I guess the recruiters were struck by lightning and they suddenly decided to go with a normal PI round, which was again super easy. I got a very positive feedback from them and they assured me that they would call me the following week for another coding assessment. This was three weeks ago and they of course never called. And just now, I have received a called from a different consultant regarding the same position at the same division in the same company! So this compels me to write my review because this company is extremely whimsical. They ask sub standard questions, and have no regards for the candidate's time. Of course they do not appreciate the fact that the candidate has to take at least a half day off to cater to their stupid whims and fancies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sum of all numbers between 1 and 1000 which is divisible by 7. (Duh!)
Write a program to calculate the factorial of 15. (Duh again!)