I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Nuance (Pune) in Jul 2020
Interview
Don't waste your time in giving interview here - First round would be some kind of problem statement which you need to submit. I'm sure they don't even go see what has been written in it and will call for next round of interview. Three interviewer will be there to take your interview and they book slot of 1:30 hours.
Now comes the funny part - they will ask you some silly simple problems and will say that I can do this in 2 or 3 steps and they themselves not clear what they expected from candidate.
One of intelligent interviewer (he gave his intro that I do design, coding, tdd approach blah blah), had started with SOLID principle's I and D. When I gave answer about Interface Segregation and Dependency Inversion. He asked me then what is Inversion of Control - I'm sure that these kind of product based company has already built some product and these jokers write few line of code and does not touch it base part and hence get lot of time to read stuff and then they don't understand concept and then while taking interview spit all kind of their own fantasy to show that they are ex-Microsoft or ex-Amazon employee.
After some time, he started looking into the code which I had submitted in my first round (so called) and entered into the testing part of it. I wonder if he knows TDD approach - When I explained him, when and why we create Mock and Stub - he literally kept quiet for 1 min and then turning me why you have not done this way for some other classes. I was thinking like - If I have not done in the way you want then - why did you select me for then next round interview;-)
We usually write test cases to have 80 - 90 % of code coverage and he was expecting that I will write test cases for all the code which I have submitted, instead of concentrating on the business logic .
Don't waste your time to give interview - even if you are gono clear all round - They will not ask you to write an operating system and the funny part they will not give you salary way out from their standard, even after satisfying these many jokers, which will take your multiple round of interviews to just make fun of you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked string to print in reverse order - dont use any in built c# method. then I started using
length and he said dont use length also ;-)
Mocking
Solid principle's I and D - which he thinks I expect me to say about Inversion of Controls (one of most intelligent interviewer, I have seen and I think he is thinking that he is an ex-Amazon, ex-Microsoft guy or may this was he was taking interview first time)
There are some classes in my submitted problem statement which does not implement interface as they were supporting classes and I dont have time for these guys to write test cases for those classes. He was asking why ahy you have not written test case ..how we can test.. you annoying joker do you have any project in which you have written 100% code coverage?
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nuance in Oct 2022
Interview
Total 7 rounds of interview. Worst experience in my whole career. Seems like a bunch of cisco people dumped into exabeam. Interviewers don’t know what they need in a candidate. After initial round they asked if I am okay for lead. I said fine,and after on-site recruiter called me and said team was given positive feedback but also wants to take one more round with leadership even then I said okay and asked for my salary range and I quoted my preferable range, recruiter seems like to underplay me and told that he again need to contact team about my salary. He called the next day and told that team told I am not good for lead and want to down grade to senior which is absolute fake as he told yesterday that team had a positive feedback on me. They just want to offer low ball salaries for people. Complete waste of time. Worst behavior and totally unprofessional. Stay away from this company. Completely regrettable feeling
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I round of basic Leetcode and 1 round of system design
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nuance (Pune) in Sep 2021
Interview
Kept me clueless throughout the interview process.
Called me directly to set the first round of interview to which I agreed. I asked a few questions about the position and interview process to which the revert was, "we are from a different team within Nuance which only deals with organising the interviews. I would connect with the recruiter and get back to you"
The first round was scheduled for 1.5 hours in which I was asked technical questions on iOS. This went well for 30 mins and the interviewer was impressed with the answers. She decided to call it an end of the interview.
Post the first round, got a call from HR and for scheduling the second round, then she explained that there would be three rounds in total.
The next round was DS-Algo basics where mostly easy problem solving question were asked and you were supposed to code it. This too went well.
Post this round the HR called me and said that she would arrange the second round. When I explained that I had already given a second round, I was told that the round one itself was divided into round round by the interviewer.
The third round again was similar problem solving DS-Algo where two easy type of problems were being asked to solve.
After clearing this round, I got a call from the Recruiting team, now asking me about expected CTC and notice period, and suddenly they noticed that my notice period was a bit too long for them, but they wanted to continue with the interview process.
In the fourth round, which as per the HR was managerial round, turned out to be another technical round where I was again asked DS-Algo questions. One of this was Medium / Difficult. Along with this I was asked some OS level questions.
After the fourth round and one month down the recruitment process, I got a rejection, which was a bit frustrating as I had already cleared DS-Algo rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, return max length substring which is also a palindrome.
Just asked one question and ended the interview. The interview was mainly on current project structure and roles and responsibilities. Does the job require managerial skill, how much percentage of the work is actual coding and how much is management.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain current project structure and roles and responsibilities
