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Managing Consultant at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details – No more than 10 questions on the subject matter - because the interviewer also does not know what specific to ask.
Interview Question – Length of work in the other areas Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation, whatever they offered, unless they had an IMMEDIATE need
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Principal at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Jun 2010 – Reviewed Apr 5, 2012
Interview Details – Basic interview with standard questions but not too challenging by any means. More focused on bodies and contacts versus quality of delivery and experiences from the past that could be brought forward.
Interview Question – What are your career goals. Answer Question
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Project Manager at Headstrong
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Chicago, IL Jun 2011 – Reviewed Jul 15, 2011
Interview Details –
I had multiple rounds of phone interview (atleast 6) and you don't hear from them until when they want to schedule another round. The HR person will just be bombarding you with calls every 5 minutes the day before they want to schedule an interview, hoping that you are available 24*7 for them. She will leave a message to ask you to call her back, leaving no additional message of why they want you to call back. No email correspondence either. They will sincerely ask your availability and say that they will schedule the interview at that time, but they wont get back to you or apologize for not calling. Your time will be lost in blocking that day for this recruiter / waiting for their call, while the time could be better spent on something else.
The HR person does not even know what job responsibilities the candidate needs to have. They only know what position they are hiring for. It is better that you ask the interviewer from the project / client all these details and see whether you fit in the role.
Interview Questions
- Have you done capacity planning? What is it ? Answer Question
- How do you track project progress? Answer Question
Reason for Declining –
Salary was too low compared to market rates.
No proper communication. Seems the project people and HR people are not in sync. If it is the case even before I join, I wonder how it will be after I join.
They never put anything in writing / email. Only phone conversations.
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Lead Consultant at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY May 2010 – Reviewed Feb 23, 2011
Interview Details – Posted through employee referral. HR was initially not interested. You get a call only if there is a requirement on client side. They dont have a talent building process. HR took a phone interview with basic HR questions. Followed by technical interview by manager @ headstrong. Followed by 3 technical interviews by the client.
Interview Questions
- Basics of data warehousing Answer Question
- Basics of Informatica ETL Answer Question
- Basics of Business Objects reporting Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Very much negotiable. If client has made up the mind, the negotiation is easy.
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Senior Consultant at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Fairfax, VA May 2007 – Reviewed Jul 6, 2009
Interview Details –
- People that interviewed me had decent knowledge on subjects, but they always pretended as if they knew way more.
- Interview was mostly on outdated technologies
- They did not look prepared for the interview
Interview Question – When would you chose .Net over Java Answer Question
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Java Developer at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Aug 2009 – Reviewed Apr 28, 2013
Interview Details – 6 round of personal interviews. 5 of them were core technical. Excellent interview proicess.
Interview Question – Writing code for parsing a large file on web - say 50 MB file across the network. Answer Question
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Associate Software Engineer at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details –
Apti
GD
Technical
HR
Interview Question – Most difficult for me was the GD. Answer Question
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Associate at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2011 – Reviewed Apr 17, 2013
Interview Details – Hired through Campus. We just had a CV shortlist. and then 2 rounds of interview. One being a technical round. In technical round it was more of puzzle solving. Then a HR round, with basic questions on why HS and why IT and all...
Interview Question – None Answer Question
Negotiation Details – No negotiation on salary
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Project Manager at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Noida (India) – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details – most of the hiring is based on client interviews so even if you are being interviewed for a proj mgr role, Client will ask you questions which are more relevant for a developer
Negotiation Details – it depends how badly they wany to fill the positiom, HR are gullible and can reveal this once you share a good rapport with them and then you ask for an uptick of atleat 10 more percent
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Product Manager at Headstrong
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Dec 2011 – Reviewed Apr 4, 2013
Interview Details – For Campus hiring, there would be one round of GD and then 1 personal interview and one telephonic round of interview
Interview Question –
All questions were quite normal - mostly from the CV -
1. past experience,
2. how would you convince me to hire you
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Negotiation Details – The negotiaon phase would be tough. So one must start negotiating from a high salary
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