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Senior Product Manager at Intuit
Posted May 9, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in San Diego, CA (took 3 months)
Applied on Intuit website (not a Taleo system - yea!), contacted by company recruiter via email to set up phone interview with her. Phone screen was short: 15 mins. Very brief about background, she had three specific questions and gave me her target salary range. She set up phone interview with hiring manager who had about 15 - 20 candidates to screen. It was a 30 min call - more questions about experience and background. Led to on site 1-hr interviews with 6 people, including lunch interview with hiring manager. They provided names and titles of interviewees in advance so there was time to check them out on LinkedIn, google, etc. Interviewers had sheets with questions to cover different areas - including behavioral questions. My background was very different from this company and its industry - they were very good about asking questions I could successfully answer despite that. Dress was business casual - no one there wears a suit - I wore dressy pants, silk blouse, cardigan and felt sufficiently dressed for an interview.
Negotiation Details
HR recruiter called to offer me the position about a week later and tried to nail down specifics of the offer by phone. Very open to negotiation and interested in past $$. Written offer came via email. I again negotiated salary -- but really did have another offer so i had additional leverage.
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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 Intern at Intuit
Posted Apr 13, 2011 — 2 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
I went to a job fair at my college and spoke to a rep for Intuit. The rep actually told me head on that based on my resume, I would make a good candidate for an intern and that I should expect to schedule an interview soon. A few days/weeks later, I get an email to schedule an interview.
At first, the position was for a User Interaction Design internship. However, I asked the recruiter a few times (twice to be exact) if I could interview for the software engineering position instead. The first request went without a reply because she either didn't read it or just ignored it. On the second time I made the request, it was granted, happily even. So I got to interview for the software engineering position.
The day before interview day, I studied up my Java concepts and was more ready than I had ever been for an interview. The first phone call came, and I followed the instructions on the email to log in to an online conference room. The interviewer was very nice and asked pretty much every kind of question related to Java, my language of choice. I answered all of the questions 105% correct - I'm exaggerating, but not really exaggerating.
Then came the online part... In the online conference room, there was an interactive display that allowed writing on certain pages. The purpose of this was to allow me to write some code on the board to respond to some prompts they gave. The problem was that when and where I could write was determined by my interviewer. Well, my interviewer claimed to have had no experience using the interactive display, and because of this, we lost a huge amount of time. Presumably, to write new code related to the prompt's code, the programmer would rely on the prompt's code itself. The code was fairly long, consisting of one or two classes and a function or two, as well as a good number of other things to keep in mind (property names, parameters, etc.). However, writing the code was to be done on a white board page, that could be made available by switching away from the prompt's code. I had to ask my interviewer to change back to the code once or twice, which led to a lot of lost time (also because he had to figure out how to switch back and forth). We ended up skipping the coding questions because it was taking up too much time.
After the first online/phone technical interview, I was to receive a second behavioral phone interview. I thought that this went ok. Nothing special, really. Something memorable was that I made the interviewer laugh (in a good way). My interviewer here was also very nice, I would even go so far as to say he was chill. Before the end of the call, I mentioned that my prior technical interview got messed up because of technical difficulties. He and his colleague (my first interviewer) agreed, but said that it would be up to the staffers/recruiters/whoever handles judging interviews to determine if I would get to redo it or whatever else they could do.
A week or two later, I received an email saying I didn't qualify. Painful...
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Intuit
Posted Aug 24, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in San Diego, CA (took 3 weeks)
Contacted by first recruiter to ask general experience questions. Asked for my previous salary, which was optional. Asked if I was willing to relocate.
Second recruiter was more senior and gave me very specific feedback about the way I introduced my story, which was incredibly helpful and helped me stand out. She told me she would set up an interview with the hiring manager and what to expect. She recommended I use STAR model to frame my answers.
To prepare, I searched sample behavioral questions and prepared stories for each one.
First phone interview were general industry questions and background. It went well so he said over the phone he'd like to arrange for on site interviews.
Interviewed 6 people individually using a formal template of behavioral questions. Many questions overlapped so I repeated the same stories to several people. Overall very friendly, not overly pushy, and very easy going if you've prepared enough stories to cover many types of behavioral questions.
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Very difficult to negotiate. They pressed for information on competing offers or interviews. Trying to negotiate over the phone is useless. They will not give you a formal offer letter until you've nearly committed over the phone to take it, and they even threatened to take back their verbal offer. Once you get the letter, there's no room for negotiation unless you are willing to walk away. Best advice would be to watch a few salary negotiation videos on Youtube to prepare.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer Intern at Intuit
Posted Apr 29, 2010
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3.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 in San Diego, CA (took 3 weeks)
Phone interview with webex, which showed slides online. There were a bunch of programming questions on the slide. Questions range from simple algorithm question like finding anagrams to more complicated design questions and debugging questions.
1:1 interview was more of personality test. The interviewer asked mostly about how I resolved a bunch of different issues, which can be technical or non-technical. Talked about my experience in previous internships and jobs. The interviewer and I got into very interesting talk about compilers and agile development process..then we ran out of time. The interviewer liked me and hired me into his team.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software QA Engineer at Intuit
Posted Aug 10, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in San Diego, CA (took a day)
Group of 10-12 people has been formed at 8:00 am, and an HR person assured us that we all going to be interviewd for different positions and we are not competing. After this announcement HR guys mangaed us to go from the office to office interchangebly, meaning the same interviewers talk to each of us in turn. The questions was divided by general category, such as to describe your biggest achievement / failure and why you want to join company, and technical questions. Some interviewers asked strictly technical questions, some only general and some asked questions from both categories. I was very impressed when I learned that all of interviewers passed training how to interview candidates and followed instructions what questions to ask.
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Interaction Designer at Intuit
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 in San Diego, CA (took 2+ weeks)
I had very little interaction with real people until the phone interview. I applied through their website and then they eventually contacted me and set up an interview time. The person seemed distracted as if he had been interviewing a million people. Though it seemed like he eventually got interested in me, ultimately i got a company email saying i didn't get to the next step.
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