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Updated Mar 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering Manager at FICO
Posted Apr 29, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2+ weeks)
Head of the group briefed about the position, roles and responsibilities which was almost 100% close to my current roles, and org structure. Then passed on to a technical guy for another round and he was introduced as a consultant to the projects of clients.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Product Manager at FICO
Posted Apr 11, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 5 weeks)
Process moved along quickly; I was able to speak with a variety of people and was impressed with nearly all of them. However, HR/recruiting was disorganized. They quibbled back and forth via email (copying me, the candidate!) about which expense form to fill out after I flew up there; they made an offer and then rescinded it because some VIP wanted to interview me as well, and they were 100% unwilling to negotiate, even on the easy (non-monetary) stuff.
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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 Presentation and a Background Check.
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Scientist I at FICO
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in San Diego, CA (took 2+ weeks)
I spoke with the hiring manager on the phone and then with another manager. The phone interviews were very technical.
Then they brought me on site where I had a panel interview with 3 persons. The panel interview was stressful -- they asked many questions (behavioral, IQ-test type, balancing workload etc.) and seemed to be taking notes. I liked the people who interviewed me -- they were experienced and professional. The interview seemed rather short though.
They were not very clear on advancement opportunities but with the job market being as bad as it has been, they probably don't need to.
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Reason for Declining
Got a better package somewhere else
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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, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Engineering at FICO
Posted Jan 18, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
The phone screen took approximately 30 minutes. The onsite interview about 4 hours. FICO has a mix of both young/old engineers. Some of the old engineers seem to be more interested in grilling candidates just for the sake of it. The people seem to be very nice but not happy overall with the type of work they're doing. It appears that FICO is restricting how people get their work done. Overall morale seemed fairly low.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at FICO
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
there was a written test for one hour -- consisting of java 1.5 questions , EJB and hibernate questions
core java - thread , hashcode, equals..etc
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Scientist I at FICO
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2007 (took a day)
There are two rounds. First one was campus interview with a HR person. Basically it was just questions about the resume, and an open-end statistical problem. The second round was on-site. There are four 1-1 interviews, with technic leads, and managers. There was not any difficult technical questions, just some behavial problems, and a very straight-forward analytic test. People were nice.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering at FICO
Posted May 11, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2007 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
Interview process usually will entail lunch on their campus. The people there are nice and the work interesting. The presentations will take place in front of oh 25 people. Questions range from technical to broad.
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Other Details
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 Presentation and a Personality Test.
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Senior Manager at FICO
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2007 in Chicago, IL (took 2+ weeks)
Contacted directly by HR first. Went through one round with HR over the phone which was followed by another phone interview with one Senior Manager in the consulting practice. They went into great detail about my previous projects and would I like to do in the future. I then met with one Director in the Chicago office who again went through my resume and background in great detail. This was followed by another phone interview with another Director which was a very casual conversation.
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Negotiation Details
Two rounds of negotiations.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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