NextGen Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Interviewed by phone 3 times and 1 in person interview. The interview process occurred over a 2 month period and the onboard process took about 3 weeks. The interviews were focused on my personality and how it correlated with working in healthcare. Since it is a propriety software, there was limited discussion on the application, however emphasis was placed on the skill set that lead into learning new material

Negotiation Details – There was little negotiation

Interview Details – Two phone interviews after initial interview with recruiter.

Negotiation Details – No negotiation, flat offer - accept or not.

Interview Details – Terrible, the recruiter did a great job, but the business unit hr and management did not know what they were looking for and did not want to pay market rate. Did not follow up did not answer emails , just sent an offer without negotiation. Never seen this in my life

Reason for Declining – Seemed like a terrible culture and company

Interview Details – In a word, Tough. I went through a phone interview with a panel of developers asking me a barrage of questions. The face-to-face wasn't any easier with a new panel, and a programming test.
Overall, the questions themselves weren't too tough, and the test was a breeze. But the manor in which they're asked, and the amount of 'Book' questions made it tougher than I expected.

Negotiation Details – Simple. I asked for more, and got it.

Interview Details – My first interview was conducted over the phone with the Supervisor of the Technical Support Department. The Supervisor is now the Manager of the department. After the phone interview I was interviewed in the office with the then Manager of Technical Support. The next day I was interviewed by two of the three owners of the company, that was called Opus Health Care before the company was solded to NextGen(QSI). I was asked to join the team and started the next Monday morning.

Negotiation Details – No negotiations, but it was interesting that I was offered a higher salary by the Supervisor, but on the day they made the decision to hire me they dropped is by 1000.00. Oh well.

Interview Details – Had a call from the HR to schedule a phone interview after submitting the resume online through a friend's referral, cleared the phone interview, after 2 days,I was called onsite. Interview was scheduled for 2 hrs, 1 hour with the manager(general questions regarding experience and skill set, overview of the company and team) and another 1 hour with the Technical Lead (technical questions)

Negotiation Details – No relocation and no travel expenses reimbursed

Interview Details – First I had a technical phone screen for about 45 minutes. This was followed by a face to face interview that lasted about 4 hours. Technical questions was standard programming questions asked at most other places.

At the end of the interview there is a programming task. You will have to write some code to interface with the database using ADO.NET.

Negotiation Details – Company will ask for a paystub from your previous employer. They do that so that they will only give you a slight bump on your previous salary. Generally they are not willing to negotiate much.

Interview Details – I applied for a temporary position as a software tester since I just took a graduate course in software testing. The professor that taught the course has multiple articles published in IEEE and ACM publications. I was contacted by an HR representative who asked if he could send my resume to other departments since I did a literature review on privacy of electronic medical records in graduate school.

I was contacted by two people for two different positions, an EHR Connect Analysis and EHR developer. During the interview for the EHR Connect Analysis, I was asked to dictate lines of SQL codes on the fly. I honestly had to review some keywords. I didn't apply for this position. I was told "this is the most basic thing" when I forget a a keyword or had difficulty dictating code over the phone. Other questions were support related questions that were not covered in any courses I took in college. I did notice that the position required tech support questions and do not know why I was interviewing for this position. The other phone interview was relatively easy. After these phone interviews, I was told by human resources I can still have the position I applied for put through. I was called 50 minutes after the designated time. HR told me they made a mistake, that the interview was originally for 30 later than scheduled but the interviewer called 20 minutes later stating they were held up. The interview was in disbelief that the professor I had for software testing was an authority in that field. I had to leave 10 minutes after the start of the interview, I shouldn't have answered the phone.

I was told that the first two phone interviewers wanted me to come in for an in person interview. I was told to "dress appropriately". I thought this meant a suit. I was greeted by the HR person who was dressed in jeans. I thought he had a background in human resources apparently not besides working briefly as a headhunter. I was told that I would be interviewing with members of the team rather than the hiring manager as planned, one a senior developer and others who were two younger guys. The interview with the younger guys ended very abruptly after a couple questions regarding whether this would be my first IT job and a simple algorithm involving a binary tree.

I received an email from someone who wanted to conduct a fourth phone interview. I told him after receiving the job requirements I wasn't qualified for the position. He told me that they were just looking for "smart people" (well intellectually vain at least). During the interview he told me I wasn't qualified of course.

I came in for the second interview. I was told that I would be interviewing with one person but they had me interview with the that person, another higher manager, and a programmer. I told him that I could not interview for anymore positions and I would see how these interviews went since I had already spend several hours applying for positions and had another interview. I have a good foundation from college but I will admit I don't know everything about everything. During the interview, I was asked about various topics, some I knew, some I didn't. When I didn't know the answer I was told "this is the most basic thing in this". At one time I had two people asking questions simultaneously. Turns out that wasn't the most basic thing in this since it wasn't even covered in my short textbook on this topic but did notice that the interviewer was reading a large book on the topic. When I told him it had been a while since I studied the subject I was told "I don't care if you learned something yesterday or 10 years ago, I want people that remember something". I found this completely ridiculous. If I asked him about several topics he hasn't used since college and off course he won't retain it all. Since I have tutoring certifications I think I know a little about the learning process and having to review subjects not used in a few years.
I was asked about my research work and I gave them a brief overview since I was not prepared to give a presentation during the interviewer. Since many of the questions I was asked had nothing to do with the position I was applying for and I was told they need programmers and they sometimes have to settle for the best they have available, I told them whatever position they were interviewing me for I wasn't interested since I knew I couldn't work with these people. I also told the HR person to withdraw my application for the EHR Connect Analysis position. They were too rude to work with.

Interview Details – I received a phone call from one of the hiring managers but was not able to answer. It was next to impossible to get someone on the phone when calling. Every call at the office goes through the operator, and after calling about 14 different times, someone finally answered.

I was asked a few questions about my skills and experience and then asked to come for a face to face interview. After a few emails with HR setting it up I found myself at the office the following Monday.

Our interview was held in one of the managers offices, with about 3 different managers sitting round-robin around the desk. The most senior person (whose office we were in) could barely pull himself away from his phone and chat sessions to seem at-all interested in my answers.

Instead of learning more about me, they were more interested in scare tactics. I was told -"Your head will hurt with everything there is to remember"
-"Its a 40 hour a week job but really 45-50. You'll work through lunch or stay late to get all tasks completed."
-"You'll be working on 3-4 things simultaneously all day from start to end"

After that I was placed with a few of the analysts who were working. They each had too many open issues for any quality resolution to be performed and both alluded to the fact. It was a game of "call center metrics" as they sent emails to make initial contact within the 4 hour window allotted by the SLA. They said they are judged as a group and one miss will cause them to not receive the quarterly call center bonus.

I left with an uneasy feeling and would not have entertained working there if I was offered.

The one bright side was that the place was a ghost town. Many employees work remotely. So if that is your thing, you should go for it.