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Updated May 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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QA Team Lead at Fidessa
Posted May 7, 2012
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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 Mar 2012 in Tokyo (Japan) (took a day)
The interview was nice and the interviewers were friendly, however the simple fact that I used to work for their client excluded me from candidacy. I think this policy is unfair and not rational.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Developer at Fidessa
Posted Nov 29, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Spoke to them at my career fair in september, didn't hear from them til November. Received a call on monday to set up interviews for Friday. Went into interviews, had one HR interview, 3 technical interviews and one exam. Asked C/C++ questions. Logic questions, algorithms, and a propietary language question (just to see if you can figure stuff out on the spot and go from there). They called me the monday after and extended an offer and I accepted
Interview Questions
1) C/C++ differences in memory allocation
2) Unix commands for performance (something along those lines)
3) Proprietary language question (basic branching if/else statements)
Negotiation Details
Not much negotiating. They give you an offer and that's it, there's no real bargaining when you're a recent grad. They have a fixed number and they're set on that.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Helpdesk at Fidessa
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Woking, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
I had a 1:1 interview with the team leader and manager of the department
I was asked about what my group projects and relationships with other group members
Given a technical test (30mins) to complete with basic technical questions
The environment is very professional and formal dress code. It is what you expect of a company in the financial software sector
The whole experience was pleasant
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Support Analyst at Fidessa
Posted Sep 7, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Woking, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
From the beginning company made me very welcome. I had two 1:1 interviews, each lasting approx. 45 min. typical types of question not to easy, neither very hard. I have supposed to receive feedback through the recruiter within 5 days and event though I had to call them up every Friday to ask about the result it took almost 3 weeks for Fidessa to give them an answer. During my conversation they have said that I was unsuccessful and will soon receive feedback. That was in April 2011 and still haven't heard from them. It looks like company HR is very poorly organised which you wouldn't expect that from this type of organisation. I would strongly recommend to think twice before applying. Fidessa doesn't seems like a place with a vast opportunities for progression.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Graduate Connectivity Engineer at Fidessa
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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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 Jun 2011 in Woking, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
Step1: Recruitment agent asked me a couple of basic level networking questions (duration 2-3 minutes)
Step2: Took an online reasoning test and got a reply from them 3-4 days afterwards
Step3: Face to face interview with 2 line managers (related to the job position)
Was given a scripting technical test (30 minutes) for which I was told that they didn't care about right or wrong answers. They wanted to see the level of my understanding of problems and issues new to me. Some of the questions were about unix commands, basic sql and some scripting language which I had no knowledge of (I think it was made up by them). After 3-4 working days they called me for a second face to face interview.
Step4: Had 30 minutes face to face interview with the HR manager and was asked basic personality questions (eg. weaknesses, strengths,etc). Then following that, I was interviewed by 2 line managers and was asked competency questions. Nothing you can't find in a good competency inteview book.
Step4: Got a call from the reqruiter 4-5 days later with the offer.
General comments on the interview process:
The environment was the way I expected a financial/software engineering company. Formal dress code and professionalism through out the whole process.
Hope I helped
PS:
Will start work in the next few weeks. Can't wait!! :))
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Implementation Specialist at Fidessa
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
1) HR interview - describe yourself, common behavioral questions, able to talk about things listed on your resume.
2) Technical interview - describe your past projects, a written technical skills test. The test had basic programming questions, SQL questions, a question or two on networking.
Overall, average interview. Be ready to answers questions based on your resume.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Fidessa
Posted May 30, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
1) Very easy online aptitude test
2) HR Round (HR gave brief description about the company)
3) Technical test (Constitute of 2 programming questions, questions on constructor destructor, virtual functions)
4) 2:1 interview (Discussion about the previous work done)
5) Offer on the same day
Interview Questions
Other Details
I Applied Online.
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Software Engineer at Fidessa
Posted May 9, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 2 weeks)
Process
1. applied online.
2. received an email saying will review your CV.
3. after week or so got an email for doing online test.
4. cleared online test and 1 week later asked to come for face to face interview.
5. first HR round where they asked normal HR type question such as salary expectation, why want to join fidessa.
6. Then asked to so c/c++ technical test.(if clear technical test then only you go for technical interview)
7. after test interview with team lead and project manager.
if you clear all these round either they will offer position there it self or will let you know in 3-5 days or so.
I my case they informed me after 3 days and offered me position.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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C++ Developer at Fidessa
Posted May 2, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
First stage of interview process was Logical reasoning test. After clearing that test, i was called for F2F interview in London office. First there was 20 mins HR interview which was quite easy (usual stuff like why did you leave last company? what are your strengths/weaknesses?..etc). After that there was 1 hr C++ test, questions where mostly based on key concepts like inheritance, templates, polymorphism and data structure. After clearing that test, I went for 1:1 interview. Interviewers were very friendly. Questions included core c++ concepts and few behavioral questions. Interview went well, but after a week i was told that they want a more senior person.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Fidessa
Posted Apr 2, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
1 hour written skills test consisted mainly of basic C++ questions and a small programming exercise. 1:1 Interview was also mainly focused on technical C++ questions with a few more general questions thrown in. Technical questions only scratched the surface and didn't go into much detail (e.g. for multithreading only race conditions, synchronisation and deadlocks were covered, but more advanced topics like lock contention weren't).
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Reason for Declining
My current employer made a better counter offer (as the package offered was only marginally better)
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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