There were 3 interviews. First one was a technical group interview, second one was HR, third one was the director of the engineering department. Some technical questions were quite deep.

The office was very nice and modern. There was a big pond in the garden. It is a great working environment. People are always busy.

Interview Questions

Explain the synchronization during soft handover in UMTS.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.

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Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 4 days)

Was a cake walk. It felt like people at Ericsson were in a hurry in order to start their operations

Interview Questions

Reducing Pilot pollution

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Negotiation Details

Smooth

Other Details

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

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2011 in Richardson, TX (took a day)

I received a call regarding my availability and whether I qualify for the position. An on-site interview was scheduled with the team Manager. The Manager asked the level of expertise in some technical skills (had also mentioned them in resume). The interview was more behavioral than technical. Interview depends on Manager and team requirements entirely. Interns generally go through behavioral questions. Although, there have been exceptions (entirely technical).

Negotiation Details

No negotiation for interns. Make sure to review the position description. A lot of time interns have to work in the area of lesser interest. The company provides opportunity to intern for more than one semesters, probably convert into full-time later. Be very active technically and overall.

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

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

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

Couple of rounds of technical interviews followed with HR discussion.

Interview Questions

On domain worked on, technologies used, IN etc

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.

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Inappropriate?

2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in Athlone (Ireland) (took 4+ weeks)

I got an interview offer throug Addeco agency.

Both phone interview and on site interview were late, which made me nervous.
On the phone they collected data about my experience and technical expertise.

On site interview with hiring manager, developer an HR personel went ok. There was no "smart" riddles and no "personality profiling" questions. I was talked about my last project. They seemed quite satisfied with me.

Few weeks after interview they notifiied agency that I left them with a good imression, but that I'm not enough senior for that position and don't have enough experience.

They could have told me that before traveling to Ireland, since they knew everything about my past experience from my CV and phone interview. It would save us both from wasting time. Also, they were a bit slow regarding reimbursement of travel expenses, so I had to remind them couple of times before they paid in full.

Interview Questions

Explain the architecture of your last project.

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 days)

The interview wasmoslt based on my CV and what i have already done in the past in the field of wireless telecoms . Was pretty short and straight forward .

Interview Questions

Tell us about yourself

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What makes you think you are the best candidate for this position

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Negotiation Details

There was a fixed budget for this project so i had no room to negotiate . Despite it wa a very good package

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 1+ week)

Please be as detailed as possible - everything from your initial communications with the company, organization and planning of the interview, number and type of interviews, and any advice you might offer to other interview candidates. Bonus points for your perceptions of the people, office, and work culture.

Interview Questions

Please be as detailed as possible

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Other Details

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.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in Plano, TX (took 2 days)

First day I received call from recruiter to make sure I understood job description and agreed with it - questions involving travel, salary, whether I met all qualifications. Recruiter then contacted me with time for phone interview with Manager. Manager interview consisted of questions that challenged what was listed on my resume - design, operating system, applications. Recruiter then contacted me with date/time for onsite interview. Second day I went on site and had interview with a senior engineer, director, and HR representative. Questions ranged from technical (same as manager above), managerial, and personality questions (what would I do if this happened, why did I choose to apply for a job there, etc.). Then I was told more about the position, the vision of the project and company, and what I would expect if I were hired. Then a reconfirmation of my salary requirements, any restrictions, and start date if I were to be made an offer.

Interview Questions

What is the largest amount of people you have manage and how did you deal with different personalities?

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How would you change out a hard drive on a Solaris server? Please state every step, command, process.

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Negotiation Details

They tell you during the interview that there is no negotiation. Once they get the confirmation during the interview that is what they will use for the offer.

Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 3 weeks)

I was contacted by a recruiter and he scheduled 5 back to back face to face interviews at Ericsson, San Jose, CA (ESV as they call it). Each interview was of 30 minutes. It started up with technical interview discussing about my web-development skills and some scripting related questions. second interview consisted more of problem solving questions. Third interview was a lunch interview and consisted of some database related questions. Fourth interview consisted of questions related to the projects I have worked on. Fifth/last interview was with manager and consisted of some technical and some questions like my strength/weakness, etc.

After two weeks of interview, I was given the offer to join there as an intern/co-op for fall 2011 term. I accepted the offer and they begun background check and drug test after that.

Interview Questions

Find error in the script:
Script contained regular expression parsing of html tags and based on that it provided some output. I was supposed to check the error with regular expression to check for particular html tags. By looking carefully at them, it wasn't very difficult to figure out the answer.

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)

Did internship at Ericsson Richardson office in my graduating sem. HR were calling for available positions in Richardson and Plano offices, but none of them were software positions. Told HR my interest in software positions and she forwarded my resume to CA HR team. Got call from CA after a few weeks and gave phone interview.
In phone interview, was basically asked about C pointers, use of qualifiers, more basic questions but still some tricky ones and data structures. Interviewer was very nice and kept giving feedback.