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Getting the Interview 35 Interviews
Interview Experience 29 Ratings
Analytic Science Scientist II at FICO
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 4, 2013
Interview Details – A head hunter initialize the contact. Then a HR person called for a phone screen. Onsite interview is followed. The team must want to fill the position desparately so the interview is quite simple.
Interview Question – Bayes theorem. Make sure whatever you listed in your resume, you can explain it fully. The interviewers are nice but they can grill you bad if they want to. Answer Question
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Senior Consultant at FICO
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 1, 2013
Interview Details – One round interview with hiring manager, 1 hour, mainly talking about previous project experience. One round with another manager, same content. One round with senior manager, more free talking about the position and career aspiration.
Interview Question – How to build a scorecard when bank only has limited bureau information however intend to use bureau as scorecard characteristics? Answer Question
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Analytic Consultant I at FICO
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 27, 2013
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Talked with HR lady on the phone who asked basic questions about my experiences etc.
Had another interview with a much senior person who asked me the following
- What is the largest dataset have you worked with?
- Tell me about the credit risk experience mentioned in your resume
- Do you know Perl, Python etc. If so what can you tell me.
Interview Question – How did you to use the data that you worked on in the project during the internship Answer Question
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Manager at FICO
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 9, 2013
Interview Details – Panel style interviews.
Interview Question – How did you handle situations in which deadlines or deliverables were not met? Answer Question
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Software Engineer at FICO
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Dec 2011 – Reviewed Dec 17, 2012
Interview Details – First I applied online on Linkedin for this position and after 2-3 days one of their recruiters called me. We scheduled the first phone interview. It went well and about one week after the phone interview I got an email from them asking me to appear for f2f interview at San Jose office.
Interview Question – What did you like in the job description that made you apply? Answer Question
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Lead Consultant at FICO
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL Jan 2008 – Reviewed Dec 6, 2012
Interview Details – Initially with hiring manager and once through that, several onsite interviews with potential team members and managers. When I went through the process, it followed more of a consuting and business case approach, but now I think they are just looking for good coders.
Interview Question – Your client is a big box hardware client that is looking to increase revenue. How would you approch this problem? View Answer
Negotiation Details – Was able to negotiate salary up 5k
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Sales Consultant at FICO
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL Sep 2011 – Reviewed Nov 3, 2012
Interview Details – Phone interview, onsite.
Interview Question – Mostly behavioral. Sales experience. How would you sell X product to me? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Simple. Deal with hiring manager, who then negotiates with HR.
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Account Executive at FICO
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Minneapolis, MN Jan 2008 – Reviewed Sep 15, 2012
Interview Details – Long interview process involving HR recruiter and application, then hiring manager, their boss, and interviews with various team members. It was very professionally conducted throughout, although the follow up between interviews was intermittent due to ongoing job demands on their side.
Interview Question – Are you sure you want to do this?...it's tough to work here. View Answer
Negotiation Details – Simple...I had factual salary information for my experience and the market and laid it out. They accepted my offer which was 14% higher than initially offered.
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Lead Engineer at FICO
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Jan 2010 – Reviewed May 10, 2012
Interview Details – Phone interview followed by presentation and evaluation on site. Paid expenses, very positive experience in general
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- application of technologies to current problems Answer Question
- programming skills Answer Question
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Senior Software Engineer at FICO
Declined Offer – Interviewed in San Diego, CA May 2009 – Reviewed Jan 5, 2011
Interview Details – Good....
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- why are you changing View Answer
- what do you like about fico View Answer
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