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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2009 in Beverly Hills, CA (took 1+ week)

Very formal written exam followed by a panel interview. I was a little surprised that no one seemed interested in my experience but just the answers to the test questions. I also was surprised being asked the same question over and over again as if it was a new question by one of the Director level interviewers. Make me think she had absolutely no idea was she was talking about or hearing.

Also got the what's "Select 5/2" in MySQL question. The answer is 2 because its the result of two integers.

Interview Questions

Write the sql for finding the two most populous cities per state in the two tables city and state.

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

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Apr 2009 in Beverly Hills, CA (took 2 weeks)

The process started with a phone screen, where in one of the manager asked the same question many times. It was just weird. And some of the questions were absolutely irrelevant to the job or even this domain.

Then I was called in for the face2face. The same person ( who spoke on the phone asking the same question ) asked the same question again ? Even more weird was the question ( often repeated ) as what I'd do the first day, in detail ?

Then these guys live in stone age - they gave a question paper for a written test ( they called "tech evaluation" ). Some of the questions had typo's ( they acknowledged that after in the group discussion as "oh yeah you're right, its there... " )

Then one senior architect interviewed and he was great in his 1:1. Then it followed with a "panel interview". The written test I had given, literally as torn apart into pages/sheets and the panel, in front of me started to go thro' those answer - marking x ( for wrong ), ? ( questions ) and ok ( for correct ) answers :-) Remember those good old school days ??

Then, they started to 'play god' by asking random questions and showing attitude. The sr. architect had sarcastic smile, comments and was downright rude. The clueless manager ( who would repeat the questions ) didn't get any of what I was saying and went on and on and on...

Here are some hilights...
1. They marked and commented that one of my answers were wrong on MySQL - Turned out my answer was correct.
2. To a solution I proposed using Oracle, the sr. architect said - oh Oracle, ok why don't we shut down our systems and db flavor and use this as I ( candidate ) proposed it
3. To a question I passed I don't know, one person remarked - you said you don't know, did you get any ideas now ( after a while ) and can you think at all ?
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This is fox/MySpace for you gentleman.

Interview Questions

What would you the 1st day ( literally the very 1st day ) asked this atleast 5 times ? :)

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What's 5/2 in MySQL ?

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Reason for Declining

I can't stand such idiots, who doesn't know to conduct interview and play god.

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed May 2008 in Beverly Hills, CA (took 2 weeks)

This company is totally wrecked - I had 4 great interviews and was actually excited about the position. Weeks of excuses ("I'm trying to get ahold of the hiring manager", "So and so is on vacation", "We are waiting to hear from your references") filled a void of real information. I was jerked around on job title, who the position reports to, salary that went from (slightly) above average to well below. Only after hearing that I had received an offer from another company did someone take their head out of the sand and finally commit to making me an offer.

Interview Questions

How would you help MySpace overcome the Facebook challenge?

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Reason for Declining

Simply, they jerked me around and did not make an offer in time. I did not feel valued by the organization or the people I interviewed with. It left a very sour, although poignant, taste in my mouth.