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No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details – Saw a job posting in department email list and applied. Two days later get a phone call from a manager. I didn't notice the email he sent me so the interview was a surprise. Luckily I used the material I prepared for another company to handle the interview. I described my project in great detail to show my on-hand experience. That impressed the manager.
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- What does "volatile" mean in Java? View Answer
- How to stop a infinitely looping thread? Answer Question
- What is indexing in database View Answer
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Declined Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 28, 2013
Interview Details – One telephonic and then onsite...
Reason for Declining – too low offer
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No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 14, 2013
Interview Details – talk to the recuiter in campus career fair. then after 3 weeks got a call from one of their HR and scheduled a phone interview. The person is very nice, and give me a lot of adivse. He first asked me my background. then he wanted to know my interest about cloud computering. After the couple minutes free chat, he started tech. question.
Interview Question –
What is the difference between C++ and Java?
coding problem: give you a book(file) how can you find out the most frequency word inside this book.
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No Offer – Reviewed Jan 26, 2013
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 Question – The Hiring Manager asked a design implementation question which was in C. Totally unexpected and he wasn't even able to explain the question properly or I couldn't understand what he wanted to hear from me. Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 19, 2013
Interview Details – 4-5 interviews. Most conversational.
Interview Question – where do you see yourself in 5 years. Answer Question
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No Offer – Interviewed in Boston, MA – Reviewed Oct 16, 2012
Interview Details – All the people were really sweet and great to chat with. They went the extra mile to make sure I was comfortable. I was contacted by the recruiter initially and he set up 2 phone interviews, after which there were 4 1:1 onsite interviews. I screwed up one section very badly..
Interview Question – Distributed theory. Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Hopkinton, MA May 2010 – Reviewed Jun 9, 2010
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First a phone interview with the group manager. Basic behavioral questions and reviewed my resume. I was then contacted by a recruiter to setup a time to come in and have a face-to-face.
Face-to-face consisted of 3 panels of 2 interviewers and a 1-on-1 interview. First panel was mostly behavioral with a few technical questions. Second and third panels were much more technical and in-depth. The 1:1 was mostly behavioral as it was with the director.
Interview Questions
- Class B is derived from class A. When I create a pointer of type class B, which function does it point to? (they gave me a code example to look at) View Answer
- What are Private, Public, and Protected? View Answer
- Write a function to take in an input and clear bit 3. View Answer
Negotiation Details – They gave me a good offer so I didn't really have to negotiate, but it seems like it wouldn't be too hard. They were flexible with my start date.
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in May 2009 – Reviewed Jul 22, 2009
Interview Details – They were pretty professional, the phone interview was a general one, where the HR asked both behavioral and technical questions. Usual questions regarding stacks, probability and data structures. The one site technical interview were more drilling and lasted more than 5 hours. They were pretty professional, the phone interview was a general one, where the HR asked both behavioral and technical questions. Usual questions regarding stacks, probability and data structures. The one site technical interview were more drilling and lasted more than 5 hours.
Interview Question – Data structures Answer Question
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) May 2012 – Reviewed Mar 1, 2013
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It was relly tough... i went thru 5 rounds of Tech Discussion of around 1.5 hours each...
alot of questions were being asked....
Then there was HR Discussion... they did not negotiate anything
Interview Question – what is a cube in Databases. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – no Negotiation
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No Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Feb 2013 – Reviewed Feb 13, 2013
Interview Details – I received a call for wirtten test. It was easy. After two days I got the result of it and call for Technical Interview. Technical round questions were somewhat tricky and after three days I got the call for Managerial round. It was about a week back. Still they are telling me to wait for the results...
Interview Question – Core Java, Algorithms, C, C++, Database Answer Question
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