I applied through university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at NetApp (Research Triangle Park, NC) in Apr 2013
Interview
They contact you over phone for a moderate screening. I was a former employee at NetApp and i was applying for a graduate intern position.
I have been interviewed both at RTP and Sunnyvale campus for two different teams. The culture is the hiring manager tries to get as many engineers from his team or occasionally other closely working teams to interview you.
There were 6 interviews for me:
1. Analytical and basic programming
2. Scripting like perl/python
3. Data storage knowledge is add-on. iSCSI, flash, storage stack, disk drivers
4. File System and OS knowledge is required.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They may ask you general stuffs too. Like puzzles. And being a former employee, i have seen that asking puzzles or brain storming programming questions can be fairly expected. But the interviewers are lenient on your performance, they don't grill u or judge your IQ.
kind and plain. usual regular expected questions , nothing out of ordinary for a behavioral. went a little overtime. was a little more self guided than i expected, waiting to hear back for a while.
I met with two data heads and they were kinda rude. They asked a couple of data questions but were pretty basic. If you did not answer how they wanted, they made you feel dumb.
The online test consisted of two parts and lasted for a total of 2 hours. The first part challenged your coding abilities with 3 coding questions. These questions likely tested your knowledge of programming languages like Java or Python.
The second part focused on assessing your broader technical understanding through 30 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). These questions covered a range of topics relevant to software development, including Java, Python, logical reasoning, JavaScript, and even concepts related to threading in computer science.
