CA Technologies Interview Questions & Reviews
Updated Feb 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Consultant at CA Technologies
Posted Feb 7, 2012
3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Kansas City, MO (took 5 weeks)
The interview process was long, detailed, and comprehensive. I was interviewing for a newly forming team and CA needed to be certain they were getting the correct piece for the group. There were multiple phases of the interview process with varying lengths of time between each interview. 1. Phone interview with the team leader - This was a general, overarching technical and personal interview. 2. Phone interview with expert in my field - A technical representative within CA. 3. Phone interview with senior member of the team - non technical but directed toward team dynamics and directions 4. Phone interview with Vice President of the group. Personality and determining fit within the larger picture. 5. Flown out for face to face interview with Vice President and Senior team member. - Final determination of fit for team and to discuss roles in more detail. 6. Interview with Senior Vice President - An open connection to CA at a different level.
The process was long and thorough. They did due diligence in putting together the team.
Negotiation Details
The offer was very fair and favorable. The offer was as stated and there was not room for negotiating.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Technical Writer at CA Technologies
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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 2012 in Hyderabad (India) (took 3+ months)
I was asked" What would you do if a bug occurs in your documentation and you have to give the presentation. What will you do?:
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Finance and Accounting at CA Technologies
Posted Jan 25, 2012
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took 2 days)
Intitial phone screen followed by an 1 on 1 interview. Afterwards another date was scheduled for a round of interviews. Questions, mostly related to software sales revenue recognition, deferred revenue and capitalized software development. Other business related questions related to what I new about CA and the latest industry trends. They did spend a fair amount of time talking about team work and wanted to know about projects that I had collaborated on in the past.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Director, Product Management at CA Technologies
Posted Jan 21, 2012
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Islandia, NY (took 5 days)
Effective, clear, and very business like.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Sales Director at CA Technologies
Posted Jan 20, 2012
2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 3 days)
Called VP of Sales
Spoke to Sales Director
Met wioth Sales Director for lunch
Applied
Was offered the job
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at CA Technologies
Posted Dec 20, 2011
3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 2 days)
The interview was ok. Not too technical. Questions regarding why i would fit the profile etc? Applied for a software engineer position. Was called onsite after phone interview and had 4 rounds of technical interviews. Mostly about software design and algorithms. Last round was HR and results were given after a week. Declined becuase had a better offer.
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Reason for Declining
Other offer
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate Services Consultant at CA Technologies
Posted Nov 30, 2011
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Lisle, IL (took 3 weeks)
I got the initial phone screening from a career fair at my university. Initial phone screening was 30-45 minutes long consisting resume related questions. Then I was contacted to have a 1:1 interview with the Services Director in their office. The interview was pretty much behavioral questions. The next week I was contacted that I will be having another 2 phone interviews with Sr Principal Services Architect and Principal and Principal Services Consultant. I think it was supposed to be technical interviews but it was more a walk-through resume questions.
The next week I was contacted saying that I got the offer. Since I love the nature of the work, I pretty much knew that I will accept it anyway.
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Negotiation Details
Didn't have much to negotiate, the offer is pretty much given
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Energy and Sustainability Analyst at CA Technologies
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
Interview process consisted of a phone screen, a phone interview, and an in-person interview with the hiring manager and a telepresence group panel interview. Phone screen was easy, the recruiter was friendly and the interview wasn't technical. This is a new type of position at CA so perhaps they aren't familiar with the energy field. The phone interview was with the hiring manager. It went really well and it was very long (1.5 hours). built a lot of rapport, talked broadly about their eco-products, and talked about skills. In-person interview was also long - totalled about 4 hours. Talked more with the hiring manager, also spoke with 3 others via telepresence, which was weird walking to a camera and looking at the screen. They asked a range of technical questions and personality questions. What type of collaboration had I done? Work style, where I want to be in 5, 10 years. Lots of energy questions, as they are building new eco software to estimate energy and carbon savings. I thought it went well. In the end, I was informed by the recruiter that they were looking for someone with more "policy" background and that was it. Disappointing since I know I had the right skills and I thought the hiring manager really liked me. I asked for more feedback but my email was never returned. Ultimately I don't know of CA was a good environment for me. Too corporate. Too many layers of VPs, product managers, etc. I worried I'd just work like crazy and no one would notice.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at CA Technologies
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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 2011 in Hyderabad (India) (took a day)
typical C++ interview. The first interview was technical. You can always predict C++ interview questions...so nothing new here. The interviewer was amazed that I knew what virtual inheritance is all about! The second interview was a "managerial" round. The manager shows up and asks if I liked doing maintenance and bug fixing. I said yes but it should only be one of my responsibilities. But they wanted someone who was 100% into maintenance, bug fixing and reverse engineering (don't be fooled by this word, it basically means "we have a lot of code but no documentation so you will have to figure out stuff all by your self.") One positive: the Hyderabad campus is a beauty, the facilities are top class and pay is good. If you are married and middle aged, this is the place to be!
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Principal Security Consultant at CA Technologies
Posted Aug 23, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 2 months)
The hiring process a CA takes one heck of a long time that is simply ridiculous. Always nobody within that behemoth company ever follows up, the hiring managers seldom communicate with the HR recruiters to line up individuals. The interview process itself is unstructured to say the least not knowing the exact number of folks to talk with. In fact the HR rep at CA told me he was clueless as to the next steps.
I would avoid CA like the plague as they shown a complete disregard and unprofessional in their interviewing procedures. I initially interviewed with a director the hiring manager, then a senior vice president each took well over a three week period between conversations. On the forth week I communicated with the director who wants me to interview with other people, who and how many they did not say. Following up with the recruiter he still was clueless as to the people I needed to interview. I applied on June 5, 2011 and now it is August 23rd. I excuse I hear is they are busy, on the road and other excuses. Sent them a letter of no interest since the interview process is ridiculous perhaps the director does not know what he is doing and that raises a big red flag in my mind.
The interviews themselves were fine the follow up to conclusion is a indication of poor organization.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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