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Updated Apr 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Dolby
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
Received a phone call from HR setting up a phone interview with the hiring manager. Phone interview was typical and informative. Wasn't a good match for either of us. Overall good interview experience
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Data Analyst at Dolby
Posted Mar 23, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 days)
I interviewed with Dolby Labs in March, 2012.
The job was originally posted as a "Jr. Data Analyst," but what Dolby was looking for was a Project Manager.
The Data Analyst position, I had "down cold." Briefly, they needed someone who would review data for duplicates, enter new data, create error reports and follow up on the errors. I believe from the interview, they were getting ready to enlist with Salesforce, which, I think, would be great for Dolby and I told them so.
I was wondering why the guy I was interviewing with was asking some Project Management questions. Well, I found out! Two days after the interview, I get this "canned" e-mail from the recruiter (didn't even have the respect to write me personally!) saying, " . . . they are going with another candidate."
The guy at Dolby was a nice guy and I missed out, I think, on a good opportunity because of a recruiter's faux pas'.
Needless to say, if Talent Merchants calls, watch them carefully and make sure they and YOU are on the same page about what you are interviewing for.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Dolby
Posted Aug 3, 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 Los Angeles, CA (took 2 months)
Friendly, clear, and concise.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Unix Administrator at Dolby
Posted Jun 21, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 1+ week)
The recruiter contact me and set up an 30 minutes phone interview with hiring manager.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Embedded Software Engineer at Dolby
Posted Apr 17, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiter via linked in. After speaking with the recruiter, I had a 1 hour phone interview that had a C programming test component. The interview was conducted by two people on the team that I was applying to work for. They asked about my work background but put more emphasis on the programming test. I was given c-code that had errors, and asked to correct the mistakes. They were very subtle mistakes that would not be apparent someone without a strong understanding of memory usage. I was definitely challenged and stumbled on a few of the errors.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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FAE at Dolby
Posted Feb 13, 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 2011 in Taipei (Taiwan) (took 2+ weeks)
Face-to-face, one-to-one interviewes with two different managers.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Dolby
Posted Feb 4, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Phone interview, 5 hour group panel interview
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Had an offer closer to my interests
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Test Engineer at Dolby
Posted Dec 15, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 1+ week)
One day I received a mail asking for my time from recruiter. They set up my phone interview. This phonic interview went well and team manager liked my experience and he invited me for group interview. They are really flexible in timings and are good at communicating candidates. Group interview started on time with software and hardware skills questions. All people who interviewed me were very good to talk. Everyone introduced themselves and started with normal conversation. Questions were easy since I am working in the field. However one person who is honcho of development started with questions where other people thought it would be tough to answer those.
Overall good experience of interviewing with Dolby. I learned few new things and I wished to make it there. Unfortunately I could not. They were supposed to reply me immediately within 1-2 business days but reached a day after with rejection. Reason for rejection was they found a better candidate than me. Anyways I am looking forward to work with them since it would be an ideal career path for a person like me who loves video and audio engineering.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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FAE Manager at Dolby
Posted Dec 14, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Seoul (South Korea) (took 2 months)
I spent total 6days to have interview with 10 people. It includes phone interview, f2f interview. Whole process took 2months.
The position was more likely sales/marketing position, but I heard from my agent that panel from engineering department were not satisfied with my knowledge.
They should informed me earlier than 2 months.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Audio DSP Engineer at Dolby
Posted Nov 13, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 5 months)
Very indecisive hiring process.
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Reason for Declining
I don't know if I would like to work for a company who is highly indecisive. There is no second first impression.
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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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