Informatica Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Applied on career section of the company. Got a mail for phone interview after nearly a month. Had a phone interview with a senior software architect. He asked questions basically on Java multi-threading concepts, object-oriented concepts and core java architecture like how a JVM works, how is platform independence achieved. Also asked an algorithm question(Find nth largest element in an unsorted array). Got the results in a couple of days.

Interview Details – Most of the interview questions are related to algorithm, problem solving and critical thinking. Interviewers are very friendly and do make one feel comfortable. They focus less on coding and more on general design skills.

Interview Details – Submitted resume, then was asked to email more information about why I was interested in then position. I had a phone interview lasting ~45 minutes, and then a grammar/writing test. The interviewer was my would.be supervisor, and he seemed very knowledgeable and excited about the position. Emails from HR and recruiting were very warm and professional.

Interview Details – On campus interview with their technical director (I think). He went through several data structure questions and asked me to write a piece of code. In the code questions I've given the right answer but he asked for an optimization, unfortunately there is actually no where to optimize (since the tables are sorted). He suggested to use hash table, but I was confused and not pointing out that it won't be an optimization. So they never contacted me afterwards.

Interview Details – Campus interview, paper based coding and questions about concurrenthashmap, how it is implemented.

Interview Details – Technical based interviews focused on both product knowledge as well as implementation. It is important to know process. Product knowledge can always be gained. As long as presenting knowledge on how to scope/address issues/handle problems the interviewee will do fine. Interviewers are looking for real word experience.

Interview Details – I was interviewed 3 times. The first interview was a technical interview which was conducted by a senior informatica consultant. My second interview was with their consulting manager. My third and final interview was with the regional director. The people who interviewed me were knowledgeable and welcoming.

Negotiation Details – There was not much of any negotiations because the offer made to me was more than I was expecting.

Interview Details – There were two on campus interviews (both 30 minutes each). I interviewed with a manager and an engineer. There was a mix of behavioral questions, basic java questions and some brain teasers. The behavioral questions were just your ordinary, "why did you choose computer science?" type. For the java ones, I was asked basic OOP questions and had a do a bit of coding on a piece of paper. The brain teasers were a bit tricky but I think the purpose of those was just to see your thinking process and not necessarily if you got them right or not.

Interview Details – Met Informatica at the Eecs Career Fair and was contacted shortly after by the recruiter for campus interview. Interviewer was not interested much in my resume. Immediately they started firing technical questions at me. Some on data structures, some on concurrency, and locks. Made it through the campus interview and was contacted after about a week and a half for an on-site interview in Redwood City. Recruiter replied very slowly about the details of the on-site interview. Eventually was contacted by someone else to schedule it. The on-site interview was even more technical. The questions are not too bad, but there are just a lot. By the end of the four 1-hr interviews, I got a headache. Treated me to lunch. It seemed like a very nice company, nice people. But definitely one of the most difficult interviews I have had.