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Updated May 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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QA Manager at Opower
Posted May 14, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
Pretty good. Very efficient. Lots of technical questions around application of processes and methodologies to problems. Questions around change management, and working well with others. They also asked a ton of questions around managing across the organization, some of the typical problems you would encounter, and a good assessment of my applicable skill set was accomplished. The questions came from all levels from senior management, all the way to the individual contributor. Tons of questions on problems encountered with communications. Communication style and methods were probed. Understanding of management of tech stacks not so important, but understanding how to test them was as well as the people who perform the testing. They do not like wallflowers!
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Very, very easy. They make great offers!
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Recruiting Coordinator at Opower
Posted May 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 3 days)
I was referred by an Opower employee for my current position. After submitting my resume I had a phone interview, followed by a 1:1 a few days later. After my background check went through I was presented with an offer.
I am very happy here. I love the people, the culture, and the companies mission.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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User Experience Designer at Opower
Posted Apr 4, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Feb 2012 in Arlington, VA (took 5 weeks)
Applied online; heard back 2 weeks later asking to submit a homework assignment; submitted homework assignment and waited over another week before hearing back about scheduling a phone interview with hiring manager (during that waiting period sent 1 email to recruiter to check in). After phone interview heard NOTHING from recruiter, despite sending 2 emails through the jobvite system. My application remained "in process." Finally got ahold of the hiring manager's email address (through surreptitiously means) and contacted her directly. She told me they had moved the search to San Fran and planned to only hire there.
Bottom line- hiring manager was great. I thought the recruiter could have at least sent me a short follow-up giving me the skinny. Unprofessional behavior IMO.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Director at Opower
Posted Feb 28, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Arlington, VA (took 1 week)
The interview process was flawless and helped me decide to come to Opower. Everyone here was extremely intelligent, professional and passionate about the company. They grilled me a bit, as they should, but it was still a very enjoyable experience. It is very difficult to get hired at Opower, as it is a very small company that is growing rapidly, but every hire here makes a huge impact on the success of the company. I read lots of other reviews about the interview process and it seems to be a lot of negative reviews that are by people who are disappointed that they didn't get hired and are taking it out on the company. I got hired and had an amazing interview experience. Thanks Opower for a great candidate experience. Loving the company so far - it was definitely worth all the effort!
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Recruiting Coordinator at Opower
Posted Feb 28, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Arlington, VA (took 1 week)
I originally found out about the internship via LinkedIn. I had applied for the position in early January and within a couple of weeks I heard back from the recruiting coordinator. We spoke over the phone and I was scheduled for the interview. The recruiting coordinator and I exchanged several phone and email conversations and I was given very transparent, explicit details in regards to the schedule that I would need to follow on the day of the interview. I met and interviewed with three individuals from the department. In addition, I was given a tour of the office, which was a warm touch to the entire process. The interview lasted couple of hours. Within a week, the director of talent acquisition contacted and I was offered the position. Overall, I had a very pleasant interviewing experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Recruiter at Opower
Posted Feb 15, 2012 — 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 Jan 2012 in Washington, DC (took 3 days)
The interview took 4 hours and it was a contract position for 3 months. Additionally, I was much more senior than the people interviewing me, with upwards of 10 more years of experience. It felt uncomfortable, and wish I was not brought in to interview if their business model is to hire newer, inexperienced recruiters. They monitor call time and in general their recruiting model is built like an internal agency. This simply doesn't make sense for a very senior person like I am. In general, I feel this wasted valuable time from their side (they had me meet with 5-6 people one at a time) and my time.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Opower
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
The recruiter contacted me to schedule a general phone interview, and there were all general questions,
1. where you want to work? VA or CA?
2. what position you're interested in?
After the first call, I got an second round of online coding interview, it took around 50 mins.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Technical Project Manager at Opower
Posted Jan 16, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Phone Screen Interview
Homework assignment including 3 parts - powerpoint, written memo, email communication
Onsite Interview - 5 different people
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I Applied Online.
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Software Engineer at Opower
Posted Jan 8, 2012 — 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 Nov 2011 (took 7+ weeks)
OPower seems like a very good place to work at and they seem to be working on some great stuff. However, the interview process was a bit of a let down. HR contacted me about my application during the first week of November, but it took a few weeks to finally speak with HR.
After my interview with HR, I was given a homework assignment consisting of some technical questions and a coding test which I returned within a few days. The assignment was fair and I feel I did a very good job on it (not sure anymore since I never got any feedback on it, more about that later). I got contacted by HR after about 2 weeks to move ahead for a technical phone interview.
I was disappointed that this interview included no discussion about the homework assignment I submitted; I am not sure my interviewer had even seen my submission. We spent a lot of time discussing my previous work experience and towards the end, we moved onto demonstrating my coding skills by implementing a method. I unfortunately stumbled a bit on this question (but it wasn't very complicated). I did solve the question though and the interviewer said he was satisfied. Finally, the interviewer answered some of my questions about OPower, which were very insightful and gave me a good impression about the company. After this interview, I never heard back from HR and I soon noticed that the application on jobvite was closed.
After spending time on a two-part homework assignment and a technical interview, and waiting through the very slow process, I felt very disappointed that I did not get any feedback whatsoever about my assignment or my interview.
Even though my overall impression of OPower is positive, I ended up feeling like I wasted my time interviewing. I would advise HR to do a better job following up, providing feedback and speeding up the process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engagement Manager at Opower
Posted Nov 9, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 in Arlington, VA (took 2 weeks)
I applied online, received an automated notice the same day and an email asking for interview with internal recruiter within a week. A few days later (Monday), I had what seemed to be a very good interview and was told I was a very strong candidate and that the recruiter would send me a homework assignment for return by the end of the week. She then assured me I'd hear back within 3-4 days of the homework assignment being received... the problem is she never sent the homework assignment. I emailed on Tuesday to let her know it had not arrived. No response. Wednesday I called and left a voicemail giving an alternate email address in case it was a case of a misspelled email address. no response. Friday I called again, left another message, and still got no reply. It's now a week later, and I'm frustrated to find what sounded like a great job and what was a very positive interview led to a big fat unanswered question mark. Very disappointing if their processes are meaning that good candidates are falling between the cracks.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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