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Updated Apr 13, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Montreal, QC (Canada) (took 2 days)

It all starts with a 1-1 with an HR person who selected your CV based on keywords and essentially has no knowledge whatsoever of what your job looks like. Basically they will check your languages (English is always a requirement, also in QC-based positions) and if you may put the company to shame,

Next step is a real interview with a few directors, mostly unqualified for their role. If one of them likes how you answer the general questions you will be hired.

Interview Questions

What are your strenghts and weaknesses

Answer Question

Negotiation Details

Yes, I negotiated a salary increase from 92K to 98K. Vacations are non-negotiable.

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 1+ week)

The company first gave me a phone call to assess my experience. The HR guys explained the job and he told me that there was going to be a lot of challenges.

So we booked an interview. The HR guys and the IT manager interview me. They explained the position and ask about my experience. While talking with them I realized that the work was going to be very clerical so I had to decline the job at they end of they interview. I told them that if they ever needed a more experience person, I would love to redo another interview. The interview was not too formal. Friendly and relax atmosphere.

Interview Questions

Problems are bound to arise with team members? Explain a situation you encountered. How did you handle it?

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Reason for Declining

There was not enough responsibilities with the job.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Mar 2010 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 3 weeks)

Interview process was fast.

March 7th interviewed. March 15th Joined office.

Interview was taken by a Director and consisted of situational questions.
Checked PM level experience, checked consulting experience, customer focus and strong delivery capability.

Since the role I was hired for was very demanding, the interview complemented the job requirments.

Interview Questions

PM experience - examples of high risk or difficult situations. Quality focus examples

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Team management situation - Key team member is leaving on vacation Friday afternoon. Client asks for a critical report to be presented to CEO on Monday morning. What will you do. The TM leaving only knows about the report. Will you cancel vacation. Will you say no to the client?

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Negotiation Details

No negotiation. They accepted the salary I asked for which was pretty much market rate.

Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)

2 rounds of telephonic interview.
1st round consisted of domain related questions. As am from telco domain the questions were related to BSS/OSS and my contirbutions. Questions related to the COTS packages I worked as well were also asked.
2nd round consisted of Project Management related queries. Questions like how did I manage AD & AM work, how I managed the team, how I managed risks and issues and finally questions on people management.

Interview Questions

How will you manage one of your over-confident team member who always wants to move out for higher responsibilites but not so good in taking up those? Important thing being he is bit critical in the current position.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2009 (took 3 weeks)

Quite effective. Both the phone and in-person interviewers were well prepared and leveraged standard interview response forms to manage the discussion and to capture the salient responses. The interviews themselves were relatively casual, low stress interviews without any of the artificial "games" that interviewers sometimes play.