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Updated May 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering Manager at Active Network
Posted Sep 20, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 4 weeks)
Interview process involved a phone screen with a recruiter, a phone screen with the hiring manager followed by an on-site panel interview. The panel interview consisted of questions about why do you want to work for Active Network. Describe the architecture of your last project. Describe different software methodologies. The interview went well and I was told I would be getting a call in a few days with next steps. Never heard back.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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E-Marketing Coordinator at Active Network
Posted Aug 10, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 5 days)
I had two phone interviews. The first was with the HR Manager and was a screening interview. The second was with the manager that I would have been working under. Both interviews went very well and I was offered an in person interview, but during the second interview we had discussed salary. The absolute maximum salary that they could offer was $35,000 annually. I was looking for a salary in the $40,000 range so this just wasn't enough. Also, the role was advertised as an e-marketing role, but once I spoke to the manager I realized it was more like a sales role, and involved a lot of cold-calling clients. Both the managers who interviewed me were very nice, and were there a different role available in this organization I would consider applying for it.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Human Resources at Active Network
Posted Apr 13, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 2+ weeks)
My two phone interviews were rescheduled 5 times. I was not impressed. It would have felt better to have been rejected immediately rather than wasting my time on several occassions. This behavior in the interview process makes me wonder if they truly value and respect people. I was very interested in the culture you read about Active but the interview process did not reflect the culture I expected.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer at Active Network
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 1 week)
I felt that the interview was disorganized, and did not fully explain what the job would entail. They didnt ask me any relevant technical questions or talk much about the skills I possessed.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Quality Assurance at Active Network
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 in Burnaby, BC (Canada) (took 1 week)
1. An online skills test. It's really similar to assembly. Moving numbers around and understanding simple for, if loops in picture form.
2. I went through a 1:1 phone interview with my employer. He asked some technical and transferable skills question.
Technical: Have you worked with scripting languages before?
Transferable: How are you working with a group of people?
Then I was assigned to learn the basics of the language within 2 days.
3. Then I was given a group interview with the team that I would be working with. Before the interview, I was given a paper test to see how much of the language I have learned in the 2 days.
Interesting Question: I have this phone here. You don't know what's inside it, or what it is capable of. How do you test it? If a smoke were to start coming out, note: you don't know what this thing is for, what would you do? How would you document this behavior?
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Applications Analyst at Active Network
Posted Nov 5, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 2 weeks)
Before my actual interview I was given a 2 hour long IQ test where they asked me a series of tough questions that really made me think. These questions were mostly logical questions. If you pass this test you are then given a 30 minute phone interview. My interview consisted of 2 interviewers--an employee and a manager. They asked typical questions such as "Tell me about yourself", "What were your favourite courses in university", "What would a prof you worked with the most say about you", "Why do you want to work for the Active Network", etc. No behavioural or situational questions. All they wanted to do was to get to know the application better. If you pass that you are then given a 1 to 1 1/2 hour personality test and a presentation/face-to-face interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Phone Interview.
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Data Analyst at Active Network
Posted Oct 26, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in San Diego, CA (took 1 week)
I was interviewed by two people from the technical team.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales at Active Network
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 (took 1 week)
In interview process consisted of a series of phone interviews. One from the screener, then the hiring manager. Following an interview with the hiring manager, a group presentation is conducted. Overall, the whole process was fairly thorough, though it seemed like everyone was very disorganized. People were late, people were always coming and going.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Systems Analyst at Active Network
Posted Apr 10, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2008 in Burnaby, BC (Canada) (took 3 days)
This interview actually arose from an initial interview where I was being considered for a job as a Software Trainer. The interviewer asked me why I was applying for a job that seemed below my abilities (the reasons were myriad), and the conversation led to me applying and being interviewed for a System Analyst position.
Overall, I got the impression that while the various departments do communicate with each other, they don't necessarily coordinate with each other in terms of recruiting, hiring, and interviewing candidates. My second round interviewers did not seem to be briefed on my various past experiences and skillsets, and the interview was pretty much a rehash of my first interview.
Culture-wise, despite still being a private pre-IPO company aiming for IPO one day in the future, The Active Network seems to have evolved out of the startup culture it was purported to once have. My questions on support for innovation, grassroots initiatives, and bottom-up control were met with statements on the importance of procedures, hierarchy-based authority, and standardized processes. While these are very important things for an organization to have, one who may have been expecting more of a startup feel would probably be surprised at the amount of bureaucracy that seems to have developed. However, these statements are being made from the impression received from only two interviews, not from actually working in the organization. I could not discern from these interviews the level of politics the organization has, but my experience tells me that the more bureaucracy, the more the politics.
The difficulty of the interviews were nothing special. There was a phone interview to screen me for viability, then some online tests to analyze personality and intelligence, with the intelligence test providing a total score at the end. Finally, the face-to-face interviews involved the usual simple and standard questions on teamwork, past experiences, and personal philosophies. Overall, I'd say that the interviews were quite vanilla. Nothing fantastic, but also nothing horrible or demeaning.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Personality Test, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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IT Business Analyst at Active Network
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
Fair evaluation of how my skills fit their needs.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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