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Updated May 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Received and Accepted Offer

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

Hiring process was quite smooth and clear.
Interviewers were very cooperative and softspoken.

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virtual keyword

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 1+ week)

I got the interview from a college hiring. And got 1:1 interview after a short phone interview about C++ and OO design question. The 1:1 interview is about C language. A lot of Linkedlist, Binary search tree and algorithms. There were 7 round interview. Most of them are kind and the questions are not hard. The first one is the leading engineer and gave me several pages of questions all about c language coding, linkedlist. The second is another engineer, ask about basic storage knowledge. Then the hiring manager and some other manager asked about multithread programming knowledge and basic concept about mutex, sphomore and monitor.

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How to reverse a linkedlist

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

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jun 2009 (took 2 weeks)

Was a straight forward process with a phone interview following by 1:1 by the team members including the senior management.

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Explain your Master's thesis.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 5 weeks)

I had applied to a position at EMC through a local job portal, after 15 days I got a call from one of the HR representative at EMC asking if I was looking out for a change. I replied in the positive. She took my details and called me again in a couple of days to fill me in on the interview date.

On the scheduled date, I reached the EMC campus, I was initially interviewed on Core java, multithreading by one of the SSE, after that I had a second round with another SSE where I was asked more about the product I was working on and several questions on JSP, servlets, Struts, regular expressions and detailed questions in core java and several situation based questions.

After this I had a discussion with my manager to be .. this was a 2 hour long discussion, where I was asked what my roles and responsibilities were in my current firm and the technologies I was working on and what was my contribution in the product.

After this I met a HR representative, he asked me the usual questions why I am looking for a change, what would I bring to the organization etc. Then he asked me about my salary expectations, which I presented in front of him to which he replied HR round is also an elimination round and not just a salary negotiation round; So I left the ball in their court

Interview Questions

How would you bring value to this organization?

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Negotiation Details

Finally when they did roll out an offer to me .. it was below my expectation, I tried to negotiate but it did not work out; But since I wanted to join EMC I went ahead with that offer.

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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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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

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

I recieved an email from the Company HR regarding a opening. I forwarded my updated resume and recieved a call from the HR. She scheduled an interview with the technical pannel and with the Managers.
I had two Technical interview on C/C++ and Windows. That involves coding as well as theoretical questions. Windows OS concepts regarding multithreading and device drivers. The work culture of EMC is really one of teh best in industries.

Interview Questions

How will you implement the virtual pointer concept in C?

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How can we programeticaly change the virtual memory?

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Negotiation Details

The salary is negotiable depending on the present salary stack, years of experience, criticality of the project and knowledge in the domain + many other.

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

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2008 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Written test, basic technical questions, was pretty OK interview.

Interview Questions

C++ Standard Library Questions?

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in Hopkinton, MA (took 1 week)

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.

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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)

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What are Private, Public, and Protected?

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Write a function to take in an input and clear bit 3.

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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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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed May 2009 (took 2 days)

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.