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Updated Feb 12, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Entry Level Staff Accountant at Arrow Electronics
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 in Englewood, CO (took a day)
Was interviewed by 5 different people all at different times. The interview started with the Director of the position I applied for and worked down to lower level employees. The Director interview was very difficult because he was asking specific accounting questions and wanting specific answers and I was apparently answering them in a way that did not suffice. After that, all the other interviewers asked very basic style questions and they all gave job specific information. Interview took about 2 hours and after the interview with the Director I had already assumed that I would not receive an offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Systems Engineer II at Arrow Electronics
Posted Sep 20, 2011
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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 Jan 2011 in Denver, CO (took 3 months)
Initial call was informal and casual generating honest questions and approaches. Follow interview process was very slow with extended periods of little contact though both HR and the manager were very friendly when I asked questions via phone or email
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Negotiation Details
I was very surprised by the proposed offer and did not have to negotiate
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Account Development Representative at Arrow Electronics
Posted Aug 30, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Dayton, OH (took 3 days)
Online Application
Phone Interview
1:1 Interview
Be money motivated.
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Architect at Arrow Electronics
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took a day)
Very poor experience. The recruiter called me to let me know that he had two interviews lined up and confirmed back to back (first one was with the HR and the second was with the actual hiring manager).
HR was almost 20 minutes late to the interview -- very unprofessional. The recruiter informed me of salary expectations which were not accurate -- after meeting with HR, they gave me a completely different story on the salary.
On to the 2nd interview with the hiring manager. Again, 20 minutes late to the interview! Unbelievable! The hiring manager was very unprepared -- didn't even have a copy of my resume (I came prepared and had a copy to provide). The questions were rather easy -- the hiring manager didn't seem to have a lot of interviewing experience. This made sense because in my original interview with HR, HR mentioned that there were a lot of challenges with the department/hiring manager I was interviewing with.
I understand that it's a fact of life that things come up that may affect you being late to a meeting. I'm a pretty understanding person -- if someone is just a few minutes late to a meeting, I'm not really going to say anything about it. But if you are going to be 20 minutes late leaving the candidate wondering if you even remembered that you had an interview, you may want to let the receptionist know to inform the candidate that's been waiting. That's just common courtesy.
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Reason for Declining
Based upon the poor communication between the recruiter and HR as it related to the salary expectations, combined with the lack of professionalism, and not being really impressed with the hiring manager, I didn't think this would have been a great fit for me professionally.
Also, I had interviewed for another position earlier in the year. Went through 6 interviews and even had lunch with the hiring manager which went well. Then, not a peep. No notification letting me know either way that I got the job or didn't get the job -- just nothing. During my interview for the other position, I inquired about the status of the original position that I applied for. HR's response "Oh, I'm sorry, that position got put on hold for budgetary reasons". It would have been nice to have been notified of that. Even better, they should have probably done a better job getting their ducks in a row ensuring that they have budget for the position before posting a position that they really weren't prepared to offer.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales Representative at Arrow Electronics
Posted Jul 30, 2011
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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 Jul 2011 in Atlanta, GA (took a day)
It was very typical. Situation based questions...How would you; deal with a dificult customer?
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technology Product Specialist at Arrow Electronics
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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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 in Lisbon (Portugal) (took 2 days)
I've been selected from an head-hunter office. Explain me about the project, ask me if I'm interested in a new opportunity on my market. I've fullfilled an skill test and then ocurrs one nice interview where I couls understand the project and ( I think ) they understand my carreer and pretensions. It seems that they don't have head-count for that project.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Training and Development at Arrow Electronics
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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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 Jun 2011 (took a day)
Submitted an online application after finding that a position was available through an online job search engine. The online application process was straight forward and the interface was intuitive. Several weeks later, I received an email from an HR recruiter. Through email, we arranged a phone interview. The phone interview was casual but directed by the recruiter. The recruiter did not offer any information about the open position, but began by asking if I had any questions. I did not. He then followed-up with a list of questions asking about my past experiences and he posed a couple of situational instance, "describe a project that I wanted to do that management did not support". For future reference, would recommend taking advantage of the "do you have any questions for me?" to allow you to get a better sense of the context of the job, interviewer, and what to expect rather than just waiting for questions to come your way and hope you field them right.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Intern at Arrow Electronics
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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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 Oct 2010 in Denver, CO (took 5 days)
The supervisors at Arrow really stress work experience versus education.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Systems Engineer at Arrow Electronics
Posted Dec 23, 2010 — 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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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Melville, NY (took 2 months)
I had submitted the resume online on Arrow's website in Jan 2010 and I got a reply from the HR representative in last week of March 2010 asking for a phone interview with the manager. I had a phone interview with one of the persons in technical team instead of the manager and was called in for an in person interview on April 15, 2010. I had a 1-1 with 3 people, first the Enterprise Architect who touched upon the basics of Java, JDBC (since the position I interviewed for needed these skills). But later I learnt that these were the standard questions that he asks whomever is interviewed. Next was a semi-HR and technical interview with the Director. This mostly was regarding my previous projects and work experience. Lastly my immediate manager, asked me a few other questions regarding my work experience and how I would like the environment to be. Overall the interview process was good.
They replied to me on May 4, 2010 that they were interested in giving me an offer and that I would receive the offer letter in a week's time. The worst part starts now, a week went by and 2 weeks too, I havent heard from them. I tried contacting the HR rep through email and phone in those 3 weeks but have not got a reply.
I decided not to wait and go ahead with other interviews and pursue other offers. Hence in the 4rd week of my waiting I decided to email the manager, director and the HR saying that if I do not hear from them I would be going for another offer. Initially when the HR answered, said she was waiting for the CIO's approval and then later she said they had a budget crunch and could not get it approved until now.
Instantly I got an email within a day that had my offer letter.
But the twist here is, I was interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer position and in the offer I found that the position has been demoted to Software Systems Engineer and the salary was way less for NY standards. I had called up the HR and also the manager about this. They had a weird explanation and said they found my experience not enough for this position hence they demoted the position. I tried to negotiate my salary but they said they would not know how much more time they would take to get me a revised offer letter. I had accepted the offer even though I felt uncomfortable with it, since it was full time job.
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Negotiation Details
I think negotiations can be done with this company, but you need to be really direct and shrewd with them. Otherwise they take you for granted. Even the work environment is like that, that is the reason why I quit.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Systems Engineer at Arrow Electronics
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 1+ week)
Had a initial telephonic round.
After a couple of days, had two technical rounds and a HR round.
Interview questions were mostly on the concepts.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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