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Technical Support Engineer at Citrix Systems
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Alpharetta, GA Dec 2011 – Reviewed May 17, 2013 New
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Recruiter contacted me first via email.
Recruiter contacted me 2nd via phone which was my 1st phone interview.
Next Moved to the onsite interview with the hiring manager and 2 other team leads asking questions.
Then the offer came and the rest is history.
Negotiation Details – No I was NOT able negotiate for a hirer salary PERIOD.
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Software Intern at Citrix Systems
No Offer – Reviewed May 9, 2013 New
Interview Details – Applied through their website and received a call from a manager maybe three weeks later who wanted to set up an interview the week of the call. I was busy with finals so we ended up setting up a phone interview with a senior developer on his team two days later. We actually ended up using their own software GoToMeeting to do the interview. We shared a desktop and communicated by VOIP. He first asked me a couple of questions regarding my resume, then we started coding. Had three questions. One was to remove duplicates from a linked list and what was the time complexity of the algorithm I developed, next was to check the integrity of a list to see if had any infinite loops in it, and last was reverse the order of integer array. We ended the interview by him talking about the company and what he did and he asked me if I had any questions. I had a different approach than his on the first question and asked him how he would've done it. He responded by saying that the method wasn't that important, he just wanted to see how I would reach the answer. Overall it was a positive experience I think it was lack of preparation on my part that made it a little uncomfortable for me.
Interview Question – The duplicates question was kind of hard for me, though I felt like it shouldn't have been. Answer Question
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User Experience Intern at Citrix Systems
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 9, 2013
Interview Details – scheduled the interview via email and had online interview with an employee who is recruiting and the second online interview with two additional employees.
Interview Question – four behavioral questions and obviously they asked me why do you want to work for Citrix? Answer Question
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Mobility Program Manager at Citrix Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Nov 2012 – Reviewed Apr 4, 2013
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The process with the hiring manager was straight forward. We discussed approaches to specific challenges, when asked for examples of providing solutions to a business group, I targeted both my tactical and strategic examples to demonstrate my range.
There was no response/follow up from Citrix
Interview Question – Provide a time where things went wrong, what happened and what did you do? Answer Question
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Human Resources at Citrix Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in Fort Lauderdale, FL – Reviewed Mar 27, 2013
Interview Details – I interviewed for a position of Sr Human Resources at Citrix. The process was very smooth, I was treated with outmost respect and kept informed every step of the way. The people I met with were professional and pleasant, and made me feel welcome. Overall a very good experience.
Interview Question – Lots of behavioral questions. A theme question was "why do you want to work for Citrix?" Answer Question
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HDX Test at Citrix Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in Gainesville, FL Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 19, 2013
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Interviewer asked basic questions on different types of testing, stress testing, scalability testing, Garbage collection, problem with garbage collection in relation to circular linked list,
why testing? then shared desktop and asked to code in eclipse how to mirror a binary search tree
Interview Question – how to mirror a binary search tree.. was stuck for sometime but then completed successfully. Still awaiting the result. Answer Question
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Territory Manager at Citrix Systems
Declined Offer – Reviewed Mar 21, 2013
Interview Details – College recruiting program. They came to my university and I was recruited on site, interviewed at the university as well as in Fort Lauderdale.
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User Experience Designer at Citrix Systems
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Feb 12, 2013
Interview Details – Telephone screening, portfolio presentation - remote. In person in Santa Bsrbara - Portfolio presentation, 3-5 interviews with the entire team in one day
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Inside Sales Specialist at Citrix Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in Fort Lauderdale, FL May 2012 – Reviewed Feb 5, 2013
Interview Details – I was contacted by a recruiter and had a 30 minutes phone interview. The same recruiter contacted me 2 days later and interview me once more (some of the questions were very similar). Later that day the recruiter sent me an invitation for a one-on-one interview with the inside sales manager. Questions were not out of the ordinary and I felt the interview went well. They took about 3 weeks to tell me that they were not moving forward with me.
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Software Development Engineer II at Citrix Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in Fort Lauderdale, FL Jan 2013 – Reviewed Jan 11, 2013
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The position was for a WPF .NET and C# programmer. It was a super secret project and a new group at Citrx and they did not talk about the work itself at all. It was an extremely advanced technical interview with two people interviewing me. The 1st part was me summarizing my career, the 2nd and longest part of the interview was me answering extremely advanced .NET and WPF questions, the 3rd part was use a whiteboard to answer a programming question.
During my summary of my career I got to my current experience. In my mind my plan was to talk about my entire experience there and I started by using the phrase 'most of my experience was with back-end programming' and that was a huge mistake as one interviewer took me to task on it. I also tried to be a bit light hearted and mentioned my first experience at my current company was a 'fun project' in a sarcastic sense and the one interviewer took me to task on that as well. I tried to do some damage control and explain to him that the reason it was difficult for me is I was just starting to learn .NET and the task was rather advanced without too much available information and documentation on the subject matter.
They asked me a bunch of really hard WPF and C# questions and they literally came one after the other with no time to think. I got the famous boiler plate question 'what is the difference between and interface and an abstract class?' A lot of WPF questions and a lot of obscure questions regarding .NET. They also asked about how I would handle debugging situations. Unfortunately I drew a blank on that one, I was pretty nervous at this point. One very advanced and a bit of a strange question on WPF he asked and I answered it as best I could and I got it mostly right. I asked Ive never done that and never even consider ever doing that, have you tried that here? and he said 'Actually no we haven't'. I was not sure if he was being sarcastic or serious, but if he was serious I am not sure why one would ask a question that didn't pertain to the position. I actually felt I did OK on this part of the interview.
The last thing they asked me to do was write out a program problem on the whiteboard. I simply couldn't think at this point and I just wanted the interview to end because I really felt embarrassed by my lack of ability to answer it. I feel I am a pretty good programmer but they apparently wanted a rock star for this position and I wasn't it.
Interview Question – The whiteboard problem at the end. I could say what the problem was but I dont think its fair to the interviewers to do this. Answer Question
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