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Updated Apr 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Jose, CA (took a day)

The onsite interview started with a project description by the hiring manager. Then 4 engineers from the group and other groups will have a one-on-one talk with you. Most of questions are about programming skills, and they will ask you to write source code on a whiteboard. One interviewer asked a technical question about how to address a challenging problem in practical environments. My suggestion is, to be prepared, especially on programming skills. Better to have some practice of writing code on a whiteboard before the onsite interview.

Interview Questions

what do you think of the project we are starting?

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

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in Cambridge, MA (took a day)

Was contacted by the recruiter, had an initial phone screen with the hiring manager and was invited for a 1:1 interview. Met with the team members 1:1, had a quick tour of the office.

Interview Questions

Describe the most challenging project that you have worked on.

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Pros and Cons of Java Server Faces, Spring framework, design patterns

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 (took 3 days)

A recruiter I worked with passed my resume to hiring manger and set up a phone interview. I got the call a few days later from the hiring manager on the scheduled time. The interview was mostly about on my working history and technical contributions, a few easy technical questions. In the end I was told that he will email me a programming assignment. I should complete within a hour after receiving it.

Interview Questions

reverse a linked list

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reverse the n elements in the linked list

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2011 (took 2+ weeks)

The recrutier contacted me and they din't schdule a phone interview. Some of the interviers seemed not serios about the interveiw at all. one lady was full of attitude. Wish they would have phone screened to check the profie match rather then wasting my time and their time.

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

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

I got the call from consultant regarding the job opportunity. Interview was on C , C++, Operating system concepts and device driver. Mostly related to the concepts and the projects that i have worked on. Overall it was good experience.

Interview Questions

Implementation of Memory management unit in hardware and software

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Reason for Declining

Although the HR was good (far better than the other company HR where i have given interview) but the compensation that they offered was not upto the mark.

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

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

I was interviewed for senior software engineer post. windows & C++ background. Questions on object slicing, deadly diamond, mutex working etc..

Interview Questions

question on virtual functions

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followed by impact of object slicing and deadly diamond

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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Nashua, NH (took 2 weeks)

Had 3 telephonic interviews with the team members. Then had one on one interview with 2 team members and hiring manager.

Basic data structures, coding, debugging in C/C++ were the questions.

Interview Questions

Find the logical error in the Linkedlist reversal program (the program was given). Need to use the gdb tool to debug and correct the program.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 (took 2 weeks)

1. attended the program exam
2. 3 rounds of on-site interview

Interview Questions

write a program for log2N

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write a program for memmove

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Negotiation Details

be confident

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 (took 4+ weeks)

A contact I had from previous employment at EMC contacted me to inform me that there was an open position in the group I had worked with before. There was a phone interview to discuss the role and ensure that it was different enough from my previous role in the group to satisfy my interest. After that, I came in for a group interview which was fairly relaxed since I had worked with most of the people before.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2009 (took a day)

The recruiter was very personable. We used to work at the same company. However, to find out what was going on with the position required me to pursue him.

I was brought in for a full-day interview. I interviewed with three managers and three developers. I knew one of the developers from a previous position. She was the hardest interview. There were all manners of technical questions, mostly technical gotcha type questions. I was able to answer all the questions.

The in-person interview with the hiring manager was not as comfortable was the one on the phone. Upon reflection, perhaps he formed an opinion when I walked in his office. Who knows? At the time, it appears that he was distracted. The other interviews with the hiring managers went very well.

I left thinking that the interviews went well. Five days went by with little communication from the recruiter. In the meantime, I got an offer from another company. On the fifth day, I finally got the recruiter on the phone and asked him if EMC was interested. He said that they went with someone else. I was wondering if he just said that because of the fact I told him I had another offer.

The handling of the post interview process turned me off to EMC.