EMC Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Applied through the company website and got a call from a recruiter within a week. He asked some questions based on experience and Resume and scheduled an interview with the Hiring Manager. The recruiter had asked me the role was in Java, Distributed Computing and Multithreading.

Interview Details – Panel review and presentation. Also mock client call

Interview Details – EMC had been posting a position on their portal for a storage operations specialist in the New England area for nine months, and I kept applying through their portal. They reposted the same exact same position approximately six times over the nine month period, and I applied approximately four times. I felt I was very well qualified for this position and was frustrated that they would not contact me for even a phone interview when it was rather obvious the position had not been filled.

A few weeks ago I was contacted by an EMC recruiter who found my resume in their system. He said he was NOT notified via the web portal. This tells me their web portal either does not work, or someone at EMC really doesn’t like me.

I had two phone interviews with the EMC recruiter discussing the basics of the position and salary. The position was a residency position at an EMC customer site in the New England area for anywhere from 3mo to 12mo (then I’d get moved to a different EMC customer). Depending on the customer location, this would likely entail spending four nights a week in a hotel. The recruiter said there would be at least five interviews in total – two with him, one technical interview, then an interview with a senior storage residence person, and finally an interview with the manager I would be reporting to.

On my second interview the recruiter said the position would pay between 110k and 120k ($US). This interview was on a Friday afternoon. We scheduled the tech interview for Monday at 6pm. I spent all weekend reviewing my many EMC training documents, some as old as 2002. The technical interview was to cover the following areas –

Symm/Powerpath/DMX
Clariion
Navisphere
Timefinder
ECC
SanCopy/Snapview
Switches
General SAN/NAS
General Unix/Windows

However, what the recruiter neglected to tell me was that the technical interview was, essentially, a certification test. Only harder, ***because it wasn’t multiple choice***. I kid you not. It was incredibly difficult. I did not expect this. I got flustered and had difficulty breathing. Nevertheless, I went through the test. Many questions I had no idea about. Many (many) others I could have figured out in seconds while sitting at a console. And virtually everything else I could have figured out with 5-10minutes of research.

I am a highly skilled storage engineer. I have the ability to learn anything, and quickly. But no, right there on the phone, I didn’t have all the answers. To add insult to injury, the technical interview isn’t even conducted by EMC (let alone someone involved with the position you’re applying for).

After the interview, I got an email from the recruiter saying that I did well in my areas of expertise, but, strangely got every single one of the core competency areas wrong. Well, that **IS** strange! Because while I’ve never taken a general san training course (no need), and I certainly got several of those questions wrong, I **KNOW** I got some right. But there, again, is the huge disadvantage of taking a verbal certification test – who the hell knows what the interviewer was putting down for my answer? As I thought about a question, and talked about my experiences with the interviewer in the process of working through the answer, maybe he just got sick of listening to me and marked down the wrong answer. Again – who knows?

In total there were about 50 questions, 3-6 in each area. The entire technical interview lasted about one hour. It was hugely draining, a horrible experience, and I spent the next several days going over it in my head.

The recruiter emailed me late Tuesday to say I had missed all the core competency questions, and said it didn’t make any sense to him because I did well in other areas. He said he would get with the interviewer to get more information. This was a week and a half ago, and I haven’t heard from him since.

All in all, it was a horrible, horrible experience. Good luck to anyone applying for this position!

Interview Details – Good and was techincal.

Negotiation Details – Very easy

Interview Details – Takes months to get on board

Negotiation Details – Extremely difficult. No negotiation.

Interview Details – Very technical oriented. Analytics. Hands-on questions. Programming skill questions, communication and personality questions.
Bsic and fundemantals of the work, back ground check questions. HR process

Interview Details – Hiring process was quite transparent.. The interviewer were good at testing the skills and problem solving capabilities of candidates.. The positions were properly described to the candidates and asked about choices of working.. Candidates background was well analyzed and matched with profile before interview.. The problems asked during interview were innovative and designed to test the skills of candidate.. I liked the interview process.. HR approached the selected candidates with mails and phone calls..

Interview Details – Really had a great experience with EMC during the interview. Actually I thought it would be a single round of interview but later came to know that there are 3 such rounds!!.... something interesting right?
when i first entered the cabin of the interviewer they received the candidates with warm gestures and welcomed heartily.. it was such a friendly environment even during the time of interview.. It was more like a conversation between friends rather than questions and answers. Several questions were asked in which the PROJECT which we have done in our academics plays a major role. after the completion of the 1st interview immediately within 10min another round started.. and then the third round. The process went on so quickly and each round has certain duration.. first round went on for nearly 1hr and further rounds around 15min. I swear, we can enjoy and live the moments with EMC.. This is for sure. I dint find any difficulty within the company even that is my frst interview in the corporate world.

I feel that starting my career with EMC will be my quick start to my career for sure. Fantastic work culture I have ever heard.

Interview Details – On May 18 2012 I attended a pool campus employee referral placement drive conducted by EMC which was for the following positions
1.Associate Project Manager- 1
2.Implementation Delivery Engineer
3.Technical Support Engineer

Round 1: Aptitude Test - consisting of quantitative aptitude,math,logical reasoning,english etc
Round 2:(For shortlisted candidates from Round 1) Telephonic Round - IVR - 3 sets
Round 3:(For shortlisted candidates from Round 2 after a week @ office) Technical Round - DB,Networks,SAN,Projects which you have handled.
Round 4:HR Round - Background , Personality etc
Round 5: Stability Round - Critical incidence , Analytic Problem solving, Commitment towards company and work
Round 6: Confirmation Round - They asked weather the candidate has any problem working in shifts and with a Bond etc.