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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Vice President at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 24, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 months)
Too slow and drawn out. There was clearly no agreement internally to the remit of the role or its start date, which has repercussions on my ability to execute. The warning signs were there but overlooked by the prospect of joining another "blue chip" company.
Be warned, many roles are recruited to meet "internal goals" whilst the the ability to execute is not really there. In retrospect, I would ask for any promises / discussions on remit to be given in writing (as they seem to have disappeared over time). Restated, the role I was hired into doesn't really exist, except in name only. In reality, the role was filled to meet an internal commitment (likely a manager's personal MBO, etc.) and no improvement to the business was expected.
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Negotiation Details
Too slow. Each phase of negotiation was sent internally to a "Total Rewards" team which meets weekly (at best). Even though they have no involvement in the recruiting process, they are given the sign-off approval of all details of each role. This team sits in the States but makes decisions globally.
The package is weak regarding stock, incentives.
There is also a culture of removing elements of any package "on the sly."
Watch out for comments such as "we have a standard contract format" (built within the States), or "that is outside of our guidelines" (it is a mis-representation - many requests are within guidelines, but require "due diligence" internally, so are not acted upon).
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Firmware Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 24, 2012
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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 2010 in Houston, TX (took 2 days)
A bunch of hiring managers stopped by to talk with me, we had lunch together, and at the end of the day a few of the managers had offers. It feels like it's been a while since HP has hired people on, but this new way of doing things was pretty painless.
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Negotiation Details
I didn't negotiate, due to the crummy market at the time (2010). I lowballed my asking price too, but they greatly exceeded it, so I'm happy.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Leasing Specialist at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 23, 2012
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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 2012 in Bucharest (Romania) (took 4+ weeks)
The interview was a 1-0-1 meeting with my SV and the department manager. It consisted of convincing them why I was the perfect candidate for this job, testing my abilities to cope with diverse situations that may arise and answering some key questions regarding the link between my job and other people's jobs in the department.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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IT Manager at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 23, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 (took 3 weeks)
30 min telephone screen
1 hour F2F with two managers
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Didn't offer a big enough change to what I do now
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Analyst at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 22, 2012
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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 Dec 2010 (took a day)
The process started with the Group Discussion (Our GD Topic was "Knowledge Vs Experience" & the shortlisted candidates participated in the Personal Interview.
The GD topics and interview questions totally depend on interviewer. According to my knowledge the technical questions should be around statistics, economics and MR.
In personal interview I was asked most of the questions based on statistics & economics
In statistic the questions where covering almost all topics we studied in QT except time series forecasting. The questions where related to application of the statistical techniques and interpretation of the results.
In Economics the questions where around ISLM curve, Multipliers effect etc.
Another typical question was "Suppose you was what to ship printers to Kolkata, How many printers will you ship? Assume that all kind of data is available with you". Here what they look for is 'what steps or logic you follow to arrive at number' not the final number.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Architect at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 22, 2012
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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 Jul 2011 (took 3 days)
whole process took three days overall, 4 phone interviews.
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Negotiation Details
Yes, I negotiated vacation and bonus
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales Specialist - Mid Level at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 19, 2012
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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 Mar 2012 in Bracknell, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 months)
HP use external as well as internal recruiters which can be confusing. I first engaged with the external headhunter and then the internal recruiter was respinsible to sort out paperwork.
Two phone interviews with hiring manager as well as country manager. for senior inside sales position.
I know they wanted to hire me when I had the face to face and the questions were quite easy all along.
The face to face interview consisted of one session with the hiring manager and one with a peer.
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Reason for Declining
The timing between the last interview and receiving the actual offer in writing was over 30 days, lots of delays, caught up in a hire freeze and no clear communication about this from HP or headhunter. I first declined other opportunities while I was waiting but being messed around for over a month I secured a much better offer from a superior employer and declined HP. I secured a basic salalry that was 20% more.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Firewall Build Administrator at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 18, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Pontiac, MI (took a day)
10 minute interview. Then hired on.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 18, 2012
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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 May 2012 (took a day)
There were three people conducted the interview included Hiring Manager, Technical Lead. The questions were Technical around data warehousing concept. What is star schema?
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
Posted May 17, 2012
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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 Jan 2010 in Boblingen (Germany) (took a day)
Met a manager from HP at a job fair at my university, and gave her my resume. After a few week I have been contacted by the same person, who asked me for a new version of my resume. I got called the day after and we scheduled an on-site interview for the next week.
There were two interviews:
1. The first interview was with two managers, actually recruiting for their own teams. Questions were about my educational background, projects I worked on, etc. There were some more behavioral questions (see question part).
I was then asked to talk about my hobbies in English (the rest of the interview was in German).
2. The second interview was with 3 technical leads. I had to describe in more details how I solved challenges in projects listed on my resume. Then I was asked to write a trivial peace of code, and how I would make the design of a text editor (analyses, design of classes, etc.).
Overall I found the atmosphere was very good and the process was fair. The technical questions were very easy in comparison with what I expected.
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Negotiation Details
As it was for a graduate-hire position in a big company I saw no place for negotiation, but I must admit I did not try.
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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