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Senior Software Engineer at NetApp
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 1 week)
The interviewer who first screened over phone was good and his questions were basically to find whether it is worth personal screening or not. I am happy with the way it went. I had applied for a SW position after working in SW development in data/storage networking HW business for over 15 years and expected a decent interview where my experience is respected and I am disappointed there. The questions asked by almost every member in the panel (one after another by around 4 engineers) are more relevant for fresh grads. I am listing all the questions here for the benefit of fresh grads (who knows, may be they will be hired directly as senior engineers due to their exceptional ability in answering them all :-)). If more than 1/2 of interview is consisting of these grad questions, why do they have to call for interview in the first place is something I am not able to figure out. Perhaps I would have gone thru some grad books had I known this.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NetApp
Posted Jan 23, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
Was invited onsite after initial phone screen by the Hiring manager. I did not have much experience in the file system development and my resume showed it. I had infact developed a stacked file system and that was the only experience. The interview consisted of 4 engineers taking turns in asking me coding/technical questions. First interviewer asked me some questions about file system implementation and I answered from my experience. The second interviewer was the least knowledgeable among all in my opinion. He asked me how malloc works and when I said it calls kernel for allocating more heap memory when it is short, he was so shocked and started arguing with me about how wrong I was. 3rd interviewer bombarded me with 15 coding questions (reverse linked list, reverse string etc etc) and it was a cake walk for me. 4th interviewer asked me a question about sorting integers. When i started the answer with a insert sort linkedlist, the problem statement changed from a insert problem to a const array sort problem and wanted a me to say heap sort was the best answer. But he didnt hesitate to tell me that he wanted a discussion and not a memorized answer. Funny!
The hiring manager was decent enough to call me and tell me that the team thought I didnt have enough file system experience and said he would recommend me for other positions. Didnt my resume already say that? So why waste my time?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NetApp
Posted Jun 27, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took 2 days)
Their phone interviews seem pretty easy. They focus more on the on-site interview, where you can be rigorously tested the coding skills, design skills, leadership skills.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at NetApp
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
Had 1 phone screen which mainly consisted of questions on c and c++ FAQs, OS concepts and some algorithms questions.
1:1: I was supposed to talk to 5 people, 3 of them were technical mainly focusing on programming in c,c++, debugging in univ environment and understanding of data structures. All were basic questions can be easily found on the web. All ints went well. The interview with manager and Tech lead were more situational questions, I am not sure what did not fit right, I was expecting a offer from them. All the interviewers were friendly.
I was disappointed by the HR coordinator at NetApp who did not respond with a outcome of the Interview ever. Very unprofessional.
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