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Project Coordinator at Research in Motion
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Initially registered with RIM through their website and applied for the position there. Heard back from them after about a week. They gave me a time and asked if it was okay and I replied it was fine. There were 2 interviewers but only 1 person asked the questions. The questions were behavioral since this wasn't a technical job. The questions were standard ones and not tricky at all. The interviewer also rephrased things I had difficulty understanding.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Embedded Software Developer at Research in Motion
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Kanata, ON (Canada) (took 6+ weeks)
Started looking for full-time job around the end of internship term. I wished to stay at the same team since I'm interested in the task given to me. Discussed with my manager a few times. There wasn't any opening until the last week of the internship term. I was swiftly interviewed my manager and two colleagues, mainly discussed the technical area I will work on. There were a few real interview questions. The following background check and paper works took the most of time in the whole process.
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Negotiation Details
Not really. They already know I'm interested to continue working in the same team.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Test Engineer at Research in Motion
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 4 weeks)
I found the posting online and applied through their website. I was contact by an HR rep first who had me go through your typical HR questions. then she send me up for the real interviews. Round one was a phone interview with field engineers (3-4 were firing technical questions left and right and about 3 silent listeners). Mostly technical questions and some HR type of questions. Second round they flew me to their HQ for a panel and a 1 on 1 interview with the executive director. The HR team coordinated a morning flight in and afternoon flight out with car service to and from the airport. Both sets of interviews were technical so know your stuff. All the people were very nice and very technical. I met a lot of people in the very short time I was there. Seemed like a great place to work.
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Reason for Declining
I declined their offer for another one at another company
Other Details
I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Test Engineering at Research in Motion
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took a day)
There were 4 interviews each of 45 minutes. Most of interviee were friendly and helpful.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Embedded Systems Software Developer at Research in Motion
Posted Jan 16, 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 Aug 2010 in Ottawa, ON (Canada) (took 6 weeks)
I had phone interview with the HR and she setup 1:1 interview (Brookstreet Hotel).
1. Came in at 9am and fill paper work (availabilaties)
2. two managers (multimedia & OS Performance) invite me to a small room.
3. I told them I am only interested in Multimedia.
a. He ask me, my previous projects
b. step me through how would you handle if you want to decode MP3 file (streaming)
c. ask me to write a small function that will return the X*7
d. Another function that will do bit reversal basically most significant bit will end up in least significant bit.
4. Are you ready to work week-end.
5. Lasted about 40 minutes
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Applications Developer at Research in Motion
Posted Jan 5, 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 Apr 2011 in Waterloo, ON (Canada) (took a day)
Setup a meeting date with the manager of the team for the position of Application Developer, he asked me a bunch of profiling questions such as what I look for in a company or where I would like to be in a few years. After this the technical interview started, this was heavily database oriented, do you know the difference between different types of joins, can you create schema with so and so relationships, etc. After this was the written part (on a whiteboard) where I was given a problem solving question...something along the lines of "how would you go about finding out how many mechanic shops are in this city, doesn't have to be correct but mathematically take me through your process". After all this (roughly an hour interview) I received a call back two days late and accepted the job offer.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate anything as everything was satisfying for me.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Baseband Engineer at Research in Motion
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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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 Oct 2010 in Rolling Meadows, IL (took a day)
I talked 1:1 interview in conference room for 5 hours. It was very practical questions relating baseband and smartphones and many questions came from my resume.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Interaction Designer at Research in Motion
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 2 weeks)
I made personal contacts with RIM to see if they had any openings and they had a posting they were about to open to public so i had advance notice. Had a call with HR, then a one to ones with all their senior staff. Interviews went very well.
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Reason for Declining
Couple of reasons:
i was made a competitive offer with a little known company at time that was superior and offered more opportunities to travel.
The commute between downtown toronto, mississuaga and waterloo was extremly offputting. The design office needs to be an urban center if they want to attract fresh talent.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Industrial Design at Research in Motion
Posted Nov 28, 2011
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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 Dec 2009 (took 5 weeks)
communication occured thru human resources department, not hiring manager directly. people were very nice and approachable. there were a total of 3 interviews in person, different groups from mechanical and industrial teams
based on the position i was interviewing for, there were times I had to go into great detail, but usually i just described the way i used to work and the experience gathered at my previous companies. there were no "hidden" questions, all the questions were straight related to the job requirements
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Negotiation Details
i did not negociate anything, accepted first offer. the company is very reasonable with new candidates
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer - Intern at Research in Motion
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Interview consisted of questions on all the topics including OS, algorithms, Networks etc.
Some of the questions:
1. Define deadlock
2. What are sockets
3. Find intersection of two sets
4. Design HashMap
Negotiation Details
I didnt negotiate
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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