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Updated May 15, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer (Member of Technical Staff) at Riverbed Technology
Posted Jul 9, 2010 — 0 of 6 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiter initially. I think they got my resume from the career fair in the college...
Had a phone screen interview, went well.. I think the interviewer was dumb since he dint understand any of my research projects.. Then I got an email from him asking to solve a C test, and I think i did really well, so I got a onsite call within minutes I sent the solution via email..
The onsite started with a simple C test... had some dumb and ambiguos questions..
None of the interviewers asked my about my experience or research project. They asked a couple of questions about my course projects. They asked me some intelligent questions, about how vectors are implemented in C++ etc.. Programming questions were more focused towards the product..
Overall, the ppl there dont know how to judge a person.. and I can say that since I interviewed with 8 companies, and got an offer from 7 of them..
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Reason for Declining
They selected some "really" dumb people.. so i believe it is not the right place to work...
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Marketing at Riverbed Technology
Posted Jun 22, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took 2 months)
Interviewed with hiring manager, HR and then related field sales manager.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Member of Technical Staff at Riverbed Technology
Posted Jun 5, 2010 — 1 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 Jun 2009 (took a day)
Submitted my resume and got a call within a week. An engineering manager called me and asked some OS, data structures & networking questions.
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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 Engineer at Riverbed Technology
Posted May 30, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
I applied online and got a call from a recruiter the next day saying that a manager wants to interview me. I had the interview the very next day. The manager seems to be very strict on definitions and I found to be little disgusting. There were a couple of questions and he asked me Data structures question. He was uncompromising until I came up with THE solution he has thought of. Got reject an hour after the interview.
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another DS question
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales at Riverbed Technology
Posted May 13, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 4 months)
Recruiter contacted me if i was interested. After initial correspondence did not hear from them for weeks. Randomly, receive a call weeks later to see if i was interested and moved to phone interview. Hiring manager was pleasant to speak with. Moved to next phase, but had trouble coordinating with HR contact. Had to come in two seperate times to speak with 3 people.
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QA Software Intern at Riverbed Technology
Posted Apr 27, 2010
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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 Apr 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 weeks)
I was first called on the phone by the QA manager. Then I was emailed in a few weeks later for an in person interview (took about 4.5 hours). It started with a 20 minute written test, I've been told it's for everyone they hire. They scheduled me with about 30 minutes each with 5 people who work in QA. Each person had 3-5 questions, logic and programming ones.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Quality Assurance, Software Development at Riverbed Technology
Posted Apr 13, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
1 phone interview.
5 technical interviews onsite
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Negotiation Details
Flexible in offer.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Networking at Riverbed Technology
Posted Apr 8, 2010 — 1 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 Mar 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
Had an initial phone interview with the manager. He asked a lot of networking, synchronization, C questions
Had a call for on site interview within a couple of days.
There was a technical test to start with.
After that had an 1-1 interview with 4 interviewers.
All the interviews involved coding on data structures. The other parts of the interviews consisted of questions on synchronization, networking, past projects etc.
Overall a very good experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Riverbed Technology
Posted Mar 29, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 5 days)
- Contacted by the recruiter through an under-handed poaching exercise from my current employer. Following day was given a phone screen by a "senior engineer" and had travel arrangements made within a half hour of having completed that call.
- Traveled on-site to their San Francisco HQ to interview in-person on what was well-known to be a "bad day" within the company for doing any recruitment.
- The people doing the interview, while advertised as being "a great team" they had no interest in business knowledge or relevant industry experience. It is clear that they are trying to staff a crack team capable of executing the bare minimum of requirements dictated by somebody with a higher title than bringing real contributions to the table.
- They won't publicly admit to trying to penetrate the data de-duplication marketplace in public, but they're putting together a "team" to compete now that they've seen EMC+Data Domain, ExaGrid, Sepaton and the likes capitalizing on the storage market. It's a shame that this "team" is meant to be comprised of a bunch of coding grunts, not people with a real sense of the business space or with ideas that could improve their position in a well-evolved market.
- The shortsightedness of the company, along with a very ethnically non-diverse "team" is a recipe for disaster, especially for a relocation candidate. After meeting with them in person, I cannot possibly imagine taking the job even if it were offered, regardless of the price tag affixed.
- Despite interviewing for a "senior/principal engineer" role, the interview process was heavily geared toward recent college grads or even career-fair material. Not challenging, and they'd have been better off just putting a bunch of Berkeley grads in the room to take a written test - it would have at least felt somewhat more normal.
- The interview process was cold, barren and mostly devoid of discussion - it was one of those interviews where one could legitimately walk out wondering if they even had a position to fill, or were trying to burn some recruiting dollars before the end of the quarter to justify the next quarter's budget. Expense every penny you can because you won't get back the time wasted on this frivolity.
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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 Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Riverbed Technology
Posted Feb 15, 2010
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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 Nov 2009 in San Francisco, CA (took 1+ week)
Interview process was very good. Recruiter was excellent. She contacted me the next day after I was referred, scheduled the phone interview 2 days later and then face to face interview 3 days after that.
Unfortunately, I made some silly mistakes during my face-to-face interview and did not get the offer.
Interview. The company has a great office in the middle of SFO downtown with the flexibility to work from their Sunnyvale office.
Brush up your C coding skills, data structures, algorithms and problem solving skills. practice a lot of coding before the face-to-face interview.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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