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Updated Nov 8, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Difficulty Rating [?] Based on 21 ratings

2.6

“Easy” Interview

Interview Experience [?] Based on 21 ratings

Positive	57%
Neutral	38%
Negative	5%

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2.0

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 in Brampton, ON (Canada) (took a day)

In person interview, did not call back.

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dont recall

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2008 in Ottawa, ON (Canada) (took a day)

Applied online, got an interview call from my future manager. I was jointly interviewed by another manager from the software group. Questions were mostly about work done in co-op terms, and other standard interview questions. Very friendly and low pressure interview experience. Got a job offer approximately 2 weeks later.

Interview Questions

If you were given a non-functional circuit board assembly, how would you determine the root cause for the failure ?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jun 2007 in Ottawa, ON (Canada) (took a day)

I interviewed with 2 people that were the lead managers for the project. It was fairly informal and lasted about one hour. The skills they were looking for were quite specific and I had them due to my previous experience, so that contributed to make the interview less formal and less technical.

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How do you measure you success?

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

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2007 (took 2 weeks)

First, there was a fairly standard phone interview directly with the manager - no HR involvement. Standard questions were asked: Describe your experience with software development, projects worked on and a chance to ask some questions at the end. After that, an on-site interview was scheduled within a week.

The on-site interview was a panel interview with several people, including the manager, team lead and possible co-workers. Was asked to write code on a whiteboard, implementing fairly straightforward methods to demonstrate that I understood the language and problem domains. Talked a bit about the code and discussed alternate ways to arrive at the solution. Was then asked again to describe projects and past experience.

Overall, a fair process and they were quick to get back to me, within a week.

Interview Questions

Implement a method to accomplish X (where X is a fairly trivial problem) and describe what exceptions it should throw, as well as what parameters it should take and the return type.

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