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Interviewed Mar 2009 in Marlborough, MA (took 2 days)

I interviewed for another position within the company as I was considering another offer from another company

Reason for Declining

A different offer with a smaller company allowed me to learn more about how to operate a company by working closely with the CEO

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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Maynard, MA (took a day)

Interviewed for a project management position. Initial phone call, then asked to meet in Maynard. Met with 5 people, including manager and manager's manager and some of the team. Was told they would be making a decision very quickly and would be back in touch. That was almost 3 weeks ago, and nothing. Nada. Zilch. Follow-up notes have been ignored. And these folks are in the recruitment business?

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None really. Pretty standard questions.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jun 2010 in Maynard, MA (took a day)

I had a 1/2 hour phone interview with the hiring manager. He asked me about some of my background as well as some basic technical questions. I was not well prepared and did not do well with the technical questions; as a result the interview did not go well but I learned a very valuable lesson. There are numerous sites with typical interview questions, use them to prepare for your interviews! I did and subsequent interviews have gone much better.

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In SQL, what is the difference between an inner and outer join?

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What is the difference between inheritance and delegation?

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Nov 2009 in Maynard, MA (took 4 days)

Day 1: Phone screen
Day 2: 1:1 interviews with 3 members of the team and the hiring manager
Day 3: 1:1 interviews with developers and hiring manager's boss
Day 4: Panel interview with executive team

It seemed to me that the team was under skilled for the work required of them. There were recent global DNS issues that were highly visible. The most talented Systems Administrator and department manager left for the same company within weeks of each other and the impression I got was that they took most of the knowledge and skill with them.

The culture seemed to be great a year or so before I interviewed but hey had since stopped matching 401k, eliminated company lunches and a number of other benefits.

Interview Questions

I wasn't asked any difficult technical questions throughout the interview process

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Reason for Declining

They low balled me after an exhaustive interview process. When I counter offered they barely budged. Their bonus plan was paid out in restricted stock units instead of cash and there was a 4 year vesting period. I missed the cut-off for 2010 by a week and they refused to grand father me in so I was looking at a 2 year wait to get 25% of my 2010 bonus. They only offered same-sex domestic partner benefits.

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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 and a Background Check.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 in Maynard, MA (took 5 days)

I did a phone interview at first. The manager asked me about the work I had done before and some technical quetions. There was a face to face interview after that . I had a group/panel interview where I had to answer several technical questions. I had to meet the director after that. He asked me couple of questions that would help him better judge my personality.

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questions on SQL server indexes

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Boston, MA (took 2 weeks)

Tried and tested interview with standard Q&A. Interesting to note the age of the sales director. He was very young for the role. Was offered the job, decided against it as the salary wasnt good enough.

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Reason for Declining

Not offered enough money.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 in Maynard, MA (took 3 days)

Phone screen; 3 hour interview onsite with project managers, HR, and marketing business owners. Questions mainly focused on my experience with project methodology.