NSA Interview Questions & Reviews in Fort Meade, MD
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Updated Dec 23, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Signals Analyst at NSA
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Fort Meade, MD (took a day)
The job title of this position is SIGINT Informaticist, which apparently is a type of Signals Analyst. The hiring process is quite slow and takes one or more months to cross every step. Other past interview postings will provide you the basics and I won't repeat them here. The 1:1 interview lasted about 45 minutes. I was not asked for transcripts, recommendations, or letters of recommendation. I'll list below the questions that you can expect to be asked for this position. During the interview, you can be misled into thinking that they are interested in you, but unless they give you explicit and immediate feedback to this effect, I would assume otherwise. My impression is that it is quite competitive.
Flex hours and a casual dress code were mentioned. After two years of work, you have some freedom of alternating time with education, though I wouldn't risk asking about this particular possibility. This is because they might like for you to stay on the job rather than take paid time off for further education.
For your own safety, you want to assume that all your telephone calls are carefully monitored while you are undergoing job processing. There is no hard evidence that I have to indicate that this actually happens, but it would be foolish to assume the opposite.
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Software Developer at NSA
Posted Oct 12, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Fort Meade, MD (took 3 months)
You will be contacted by email to arrange a screening interview, Just to see if you have the minimum qualifications to get a TS. Completely nontechnical, use common sense when answer and tell the truth. Then you generally will get flow out to there friendship annex for your operational interview, which is a hour long and completely depends on the person interview you. But generally if you are a decent CS or CE you should do fine. The hard part really is the getting your clearance.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Semester Intern at NSA
Posted Aug 10, 2010
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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 Oct 2009 in Fort Meade, MD (took 2 days)
The interview was really laid back, at least for me. I interviewed with two professionals, both asked me more behavioral questions than technical. Then again, I have alot of technical experience that I provided for them to reference on my resume. They asked me questions, wrote down my responses. I took opportunities to ask them questions about the work environment, etc., to which they were more than happy and excited to answer. Really, because of the nature of their work, they can't go into detail about what you will be doing, nor will you be able to get a good response when you ask about it. Your best bet is to do a lot of online research about the NSA before you consider this job.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Intern at NSA
Posted Oct 22, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jun 2007 in Fort Meade, MD (took a day)
The biggest factor was ensuring my security clearance and looking into my background. The personality test was done completely on a computer. There was a short one on one interview but it wasn't anything substantial at all and seemed more like a chance for me to ask questions. For full time jobs I'm sure that there would be a more in depth personal interview.
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