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Updated Feb 3, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Bothell, WA (took 1 week)

Phone interview
Then invited to company campus for a 6 hour interview (9AM - 3PM no lunch break).

Interview Questions

Tell about your old projects in C++
Behavior questions from the project managers:
- What would you do if a member in your group is not active?
- How do you motivate yourself?
- What do you see yourself in 10 years?
- Have you ever had a problem that you could not solve? What did you do in that situation?
- Have you ever brought up an innovative idea to your team?
...

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What is polymorphism?
How to know if a linked list is circular?
When to use static_cast and dynamic_cast?
What's the use of declaring a constructor as private?
Using object-oriented design, implement a text editor.
Given a piece of C++ code (of their project), explain what it is doing.

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Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Costa Mesa, CA (took 4 weeks)

Initial phone interview. Then met with the regional manager. Had a second interview with regional manager and his boss. I was able to learn a lot about the company because I knew someone who was a "rising star" in the company, so this helped tremendously. There is much upward mobility in this company, and in retrospect, I might have taken the position because of the technical training provided. They look for flexible people who do not have family commitments and are able to travel 50-75% of the time. The company people I met are very dedicated and it appears co-workers become your social circle.

Interview Questions

What can you see yourself contributing to the company outside of your job requirements?

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What personal shortcomings do see affecting your ability to perform job tasks and how would overcome them?

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Reason for Declining

I needed more flexibility due to outide interests

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 in Foster City, CA (took a day)

A few question on behaviors. The chemistry was pretty bad from get go so didn't last long before they turned me down.

Interview Questions

How would you handle employees with a bad temper?

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)

It was an on-campus interview for which I was told was to last only 15 minutes. Because of the length of interview time and because I was only given a 1 day notice of being selected for an interview, I figured it was a screening interview and did not expect many technical question so needless to say, I was unprepared.

The interview ended up lasting about 25-30 minutes and I was interviewed by 2 people. One was behavioral and the other was technical.

Here are the technical questions I remember being asked:
1) Describe to me the pathway of the heart starting from the inferior vena cava
2) Causes of arrhythmia
3) Image metric you used to quantify image
4) Disadvantages of using image subtraction to quantify images

I was asked a couple more question and did really badly on the interview so I will not be expecting a call from.

Interview Questions

Describe the pathway of blood in the heart, beginning with the inferior vena cava.

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 3 days)

I have a 6+ years of experience in C# .net and have attended a lot of interviews but hadn't seen any crappier than this.
I was asked to attend the interview on a saturday, had to travel around 50 Kms from city and wait for 2 hours hence walked away. They called me again on monday, travelled the distance.

The interviewer whose name i dont want mention here, thinks that by instantiating a value type Garbage collector is kicked. Asked around 4 basic questions about .Net and then asked me to leave.

I am yet to know why he didn't like my answers

Interview Questions

Explain Garbage Collection

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2009 (took 2 days)

The interview process was tedious and mind numbing. The hiring manager was inept, overly aggressive and sounded incompetent about the Philips products.

Interview Questions

Discuss an incident where something backfired.

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in Bothell, WA (took 2+ weeks)

The recruiter managing my interviews and scheduling was very difficult to work with. At one point, I was traveling internationally for work and she left me a message to schedule the next set of interviews. Before I had the opportunity to return her phone call, she has responded with several rude messages pushing me to call back. After listening to her rude, unprofessional messages, I decided not to continue the interviewing process. In my mind, the recruiter represents the company's culture--if the culture is anything like the recruiter, not the best place to work.

Interview Questions

Why do you want to work for Philips?

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 in Reedsville, PA (took a day)

Initial phone screening by HR in Washington State. Second phone interview by hiring manager. Final in person interviews on site. On site interview 4+ hours. All questions on site where behaviorial interview questions. Very tiring and questionable on true idea of capabilities. Focused more on psyche of person and reaction to various situations, both at work and in out of work situations.

Interview Questions

Tell me about a time that you managed a project that failed and you felt the failure was due to a member of your team not performing. How did you handle your interaction to that member?

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Other Details

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

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 3 days)

First you speak with Philips HR recruiter who asks you basic questions to see if your interested in the position. Then a day after you speak with the Sr. Network Engineer who asks you some technical questions to see if your a good fit.

After you pass the phone interview you go in person and speak with the manager who also asks you technical questions along with some personal questions.
Tech Questions:
What port numbers do the following protocols use: FTP, TFTP,DNS,ETC (whole list of technologies)
How do you setup OSFP
How do you telnet into a device in Cisco IOS

Then you speak with the Sr. Engineer again, he puts you through a lot of simulation technical questions such as setting up EIGRP or OSPF. Also stuff about ACLs

Interview Questions

What port numbers are designated to the following protocols: FTP, TFTP,SSL,HTTPS,DNS,WINS..........ETC

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Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2009 in Houston, TX (took 2 months)

The interview and hiring process was really long. It lasted over two month from the first email I received from Philips about setting up the interview. There were two phone interview. Then a face to face one on one.