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Updated May 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Hardware Wireless Designer Student at Research in Motion
Posted Oct 16, 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 Aug 2010 in Sunrise, FL (took 2 weeks)
I applied for a co-op positing during my senior year. I got a call about scheduling a phone interview and then I was interviewed by 4 people on the specific day of the interview. They called me and the interview lasted for almost 45 minutes. The interview was not hard. If you know your resume well then you should be fine. I was only asked questions from the resume about school projects, no other technical questions. The people who interviewed me were really nice, so I got lucky there. I was offered the co-op position after one week of the phone interview. They do not require on site interview for students.
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Embedded Systems Software Developer at Research in Motion
Posted Sep 30, 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 Aug 2011 in Sunrise, FL (took 3 days)
I applied online and the hiring manager mailed me asking for a date. I replied with the date and the manager was actually busy on that date, so he wanted to have the interview before that date and he mailed me. I was okay with it. It was a good interview with some technical and project based questions.
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Negotiation Details
For interns, they have a specific offer and you wouldn't complain because RIM pays you WELL !! :)
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Account Manager at Research in Motion
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Dallas, TX (took 1+ week)
I applied on the RIM website and was contacted a few days later by one of their recruiters and set up a phone interview. Phone interview consisted of a brief overview of my resume and previous expirience with a few situational questions. At the end of the interview I asked about more details of the position since the posting was vauge.. recruiter didn't know any specifics. I was contacted a few days later to setup a panel/presentation interview. I was told the presentation should be related to the job but the recruiter again couldn't answer specific questions about the position (ie, who the end user/customer was). The interview started with the presentation part of the interview. I was cutoff mid presentation and told that my presentation didn't exactly pertain to the position. I was then asked a series of situational/role playing questions. My answers were very similar to the "correct" answer given by the interviewers but I was criticized for not stating company policy. How am I suposed to know the company policies if I am not employed by the company?? This interview was frustrating and I felt like it was a complete waste of time. I don't even think a current employee would be able to "pass" the interview based on the answers they were looking for. I received a call from another recruiter a few weeks ago wanting to set up a phone interview for the same position. What a joke. Don't waste your time.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Software Developer - Slipstream at Research in Motion
Posted Aug 30, 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 Mar 2011 (took a day)
- a Slipstream employee called on a scheduled appointment time
- asked technical questions on the C and C++ languages
- asked about my personal programming experiences and projects
- took about an hour for the interview
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer at Research in Motion
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Ottawa, ON (Canada) (took 2 days)
First interview was with HR talked for about 30 minutes, projects that I had worked on and my contributions to them. Questions about solving conflicts between co-workers, types of managers I preferred.
2nd Interview was Technical interview
Couple basic questions about openGL, and a couple creative problems solving questions
Office seemed overworked, dull, not nearly the same environment as Waterloo campus.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Manager at Research in Motion
Posted Aug 15, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Waterloo, ON (Canada) (took 2 days)
RIM has a well organized recruiting fair that it uses to sift through all applicants to find it's key prospects and candidates. I was surprised at the average age of the employees and staff involved. RIM seems to have a very young workforce. The interview process and people were very professional and positive. Upon talking closely with the various staff, I was also surprised at the level of work experience, both in total and with RIM itself. It was common that the current employees had only been in their positions for several months to 1 or 2 years. People with 5+ years in RIM were extremely rare. As mentioned before, most employees seem to be fresh graduates or with a couple to few years experience. The company campus was extensive and impressive. The company is well organized and has a small business environment with a large, youthful staff, which is why I suspect turnover is high and also due to high degree of university hiring.
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Reason for Declining
Due to the highly unstable future of RIM and the numerous negative business and financial outlooks it seems to be plagued with, further pursuit was postponed.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter 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 Specialist at Research in Motion
Posted Jul 23, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Waterloo, ON (Canada) (took 1+ week)
First phone interview from HR, then phone interview from the manager, final face to face interview with two managers and one director
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Negotiation Details
You can get 10% more if you insist. centainly you need to be good
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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 Background Check.
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Product Software Developer Intern at Research in Motion
Posted Jul 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took a day)
You get a call from one of the recruiters if you want to interview for the position and then a time is setup for the phone interview of about 45 minutes.
The interview consists of general questions about programming languages, your projects and one or more coding questions.
Advice: Be thorough with your projects.
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Engineering at Research in Motion
Posted Jul 8, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Waterloo, ON (Canada) (took 4 weeks)
Applied online. Get phone interview for twice. A short HR phone interview and a longer technical phone interview. After a few weeks, on site interview with 3 pairs of interviewers. A week later for a last 1:1 onsite interview. Many detailed questions. Make sure you prepare as much details as possible, no matter phone interview or on site interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Human Resources at Research in Motion
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Irving, TX (took 4+ weeks)
Received a call from an internal recruiter who offices in a different city and she phone screened me. I was then asked to go in for an onsite interview. The hiring manager and her direct report (the team) both met with me, and spent a long time to go over behavioral interview questions. Organized but relaxed atmosphere and the team meeting was nice. The next step was to meet with the director - but was informed that the position was frozen.
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