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Interview Experience [?] Based on 7 ratings

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4.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 2+ weeks)

The interview process was VERY interesting. I'm not sure how the recruiter found me, but I got a call one day and after 5 minutes of highly detailed questioning I was invited into the office. The recruiter painted a fairly vivid picture of the success and momentum of the company, and the whole team seemed very professional, upbeat and informative through the entire process.

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Give me your approach the Product Management life-cycle?

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Tell me about your experience building, launching & optimizing consumer websites?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 (took 3 weeks)

Announce Media has a professional in-house recruiter sourcing candidates through different channels, so even if you don't make progress with the initial position of interest, you may still be a great candidate to another. I was impressed by the internal talent at this company, and everybody showed reasonable competence in their areas of specialty. I was informed through each and every step of the process. I heard they are hiring SW Leads ...

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State the significance of public, private, protected, default modifiers both singly and in combination and state the effect of package relationships on declared items qualified by these modifiers.

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What are different types of inner classes?

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.

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5.0

Very Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 (took 4+ weeks)

The Announce Media recruiter was on his game. He said that he was surfing Linked-In and saw my profile, and then proceeded to sell the organization and opportunity. I wasn't sure what to think at first because, quit frankly, it sounded too good to be true. However, I soon found that the opportunity was indeed presented in an accurate light.

After rigorous and somewhat exhausting rounds of interviews, the recruiter said that he intended on making an offer of employment, and began to re-emphasize value points of the company, including highlights of the role. Essentially, it was an opportunity that I couldn't pass up.

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What is the common usage of serialization?

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How are Observer and Observable used?

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What are the steps in the JDBC connection?

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Negotiation Details

I'd like to believe that I negotiated, but in reality they covered my professional motivations and interests in the early stages of the interview process. The base salary is competitive, bonus plan is excellent, start off 2 weeks vacation, received stock incentives, fully stocked kitchen, fairly cool company events, etc, etc, etc. {you get the picture} .. I've only been at a few company's in my career, but I have to say {to date} It's the best career choice that I've made.

* I'll check back in 6 months and write an update.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)

I was schedule to meet the Director of PM but he was busy and I have to chat with the recruiter for almost 40 minutes. The HR/recruiter called another PM to interview me while waiting for the director. He was able to arrange for me an interview with the COO and we had good conversation. After 3 hrs the office, the Dir came and spoke to me for only 10minutes. After the interview, I did not get any call or email for the next step. This company is not professional.

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Explain what you did as PM in your current organization.

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2008 (took a day)

Sat at a table with the COO while he grilled me on my knowledge. The entire time he gave disapproving looks at every answer, even though I knew all the answers were correct. Later, I discovered this was so that they could make me feel less valuable than I was, and low-ball me a salary. It didn't work.

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Problem relating to optimizing a database that was 2TB in size.

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Negotiation Details

My salary negotiation was very negative on the employers part. After being a consultant with 6 months job training, they acted like they could get anyone off the street to do my job better than I could do it. They wanted to give me a salary significantly lower than my consulting salary, and I was able to negotiate them up to the same level of my salary, which was an amount I was OK with.

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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 in Dallas, TX (took 4+ weeks)

The interview process consisted of initial screen with recruitor, then interview with HR manager, then interview with technical manager, then interview with senior manager then skill test to implement example application and then an offer to in person interview.

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Implement example of ecommerce application based on some predefined rules.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Saint Louis, MO (took a day)

HR Interview over the phone asked for the general skill and background qualifications.

Then I was asked to come in to interview with a couple of technical leads.

I was given a thirty minute skills test immediately upon arriving.

I was then questioned by two technical leads about very specific software engineering topics and programming skills. The most detailed questions were about MVC, OODP, Java, and program complexity.