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Updated May 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 2 weeks)

Contacted through email by HR about setting up a phone interview. Phone interview was relaxed and went well, moved on to in person interview with two upper management figures. Interview was very positive, but they did ask a lot of questions over an hour about my experience with working on a team. It was hard to figure out what exactly I may be doing in the position, but they were extremely friendly and basically offered me a job at the end of the interview, but unofficially. Still waiting to receive an official job offer.

Interview Questions

Describe a time when you had to work on something and you had little time to do research upon which to base your judgement?

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2008 (took 2 weeks)

Process began with phone interview with one of their engineer and various technical questions (Java, Windows, UNIX, Network, etc,) are asked for about 30 minutes. Next step was on-site interview with two managers for 20 minutes each. Had discussion based on resume. Also had phone-based support simulation for 10 minutes. Next step was on-site interview with two engineers. Engineers demonstrated the products and had discussion about functionalities and technologies of the product. Final step was interview with department manager. Had discussion about career path and salary.

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Describe your weakness.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2008 (took 1 week)

I had two interviews for a position as a technical writer. The first interview was with the technical writing manager and another writer, and the second was with two HR people.

The first interview went very well. Both interviewers asked good questions, answered my questions well, and generally seemed like good people to work with. They then gave me a fairly standard technical writing test in which I had to improve content written by an engineer. The test was a good approximation of real technical writing work, and I performed well on it.

In the second interview, HR people basically asked questions about myself. I have never understood the point of this type of HR interview. A behavioral interview would be fine. But why should HR ask me questions that the hiring manager has already asked? To me, this sort of HR interview presents an immediate red flag that the company has too much bureaucracy, as the company does not trust business units to do their own hiring.

The actual HR interview was pretty standard: "tell me about yourself", "why are you interested in this job", "can you work on multiple things at once", etc. Most of the interview went well. However, at the end, two things disillusioned me. First, I asked what sort of career development opportunities they have, and one of the HR guys said "well, you know we are not a huge company with tons of management layers." To me, that answer reflected a very narrow view of career development. Career development can include working on new projects, covering for temporary leave, training, etc. But he did not say any of that.

Then the other HR person asked me about salary requirements. I told her my current salary, and she told me there was no way PTC would pay close to that. I asked her what that meant--10%? 20%? At least a range? She refused to give any sort of number, and said I had to come back with a lower number, and they would see if my number fell within their range. To me, that requirement was unprofessional and unfair. I had already given them a number; they should give me a number and see if there is any way for us to meet in the middle.

Overall, my interview experience gave me the distinct impression that the actual work would be good, but that the other issues, including salary, work flexibility, bureaucracy, and room for development would not be so good.

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It seems like you do lots of research and get into details. Does that mean you work slowly?

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Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2009 (took a day)

Submitted the resume online. Contacted by the company about 3 weeks later for a phone interview. They liked my resume but said I was above their pay scale for the position.