SanDisk Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – There was an initial telephone pre-qualification verification from HR. Then the hiring manager conducted a phone interview. An invitation was received for a direct, follow-on interview with the hiring manager. Finally an interview was scheduled with four additional associates.

Interview Details – I applied through a job board and was contacted about two weeks later by an HR recruiter. I was told my resume matched one of the open intern positions and they would like to meet for a face to face interview. After a quick round of phone tag, we arranged an interview the following week. I was scheduled to interview with four people ( the recruiter and three people I would be working with). Each interview was scheduled to be thirty minutes.

When I showed up for the interview, the HR recruiter was busy and unable to make the slotted interview time. A replacement HR recruiter was sent in to interview me. She was new to the company and did not know enough to answer the questions I had about the general hiring trends of the company or the staff in the particular department I was interviewing for.

All the people I interviewed with were very nice; however I was a little surprised as they they asked very few questions and asked no personal or meaningful questions. Most asked:
1.) How did you choose the school you currently attend?
2.) How much do you know about SanDisk?
3.) How does this position fit with your professional goals?
And that was about it. Not one question about my resume, experiences, skills, or qualifications. After the first several minutes the interviews turned into me asking questions and making small talk about the company and the position. Also, when I asked questions, many of the answers I received were long winded and only loosely on point to the question I posed.

Two days later, I received an email from the initial HR recruiter that contained a generic rejection informing me that my background did not fit the requirements for the position, but they would keep my resume on file; though if they were clever they could have made a reference to keeping it on an SD card--alas SanDisk was SansHumor.

Overall the office and the people are nice, but for as impressive as the company itself is, I was not very impressed. Were I offered the position, other than being a shiny gold star on my resume, I'm not sure I would have accepted it.

Interview Details – HR contacted me directly regarding the intern position and after that for an onsite interview 6 people from ASIC team took my interview.

Interview Details – Under ASC 718, companies that award their employees stock-based compensation
will recognize the fair value of those awards in their financial statements, generally
beginning on the date the awards are granted. Throughout this guide, the term
“stock-based compensation” refers to all forms of employee compensation that fall
within the scope of ASC 718.

Interview Details – A HR called me and asked "what do you expect to gain from the intern." and "what do know about our company." Then she said she would announce the schedule for face-to-face interview.

Interview Details – Hiring manager called me and asked very basic C questions and SATA questions. She seemed very friendly. (More to come later). They flew me out to Milpitas for onsite interview.

Onsite interview was a mess. When I got there, they didnt have a meeting room available for interview. They were looking for a room for first 15 mins. The first guy who interviewed me was very rude. He brought a laptop in the room, he kept working on his laptop entire time he interviewed me. Then he asked me to write a program on white board, which I did. But he kept working on his laptop and didnt see my work on white board. Hiring manager interviewed me after that, she didnt have time that day and she only interviewed me for 20 mins instead of scheduled 45 mins. She kept insisting that I didnt do any useful work at my current job - which was very rude. There were 3 other technical interviews with 3 different people which were normal.

I answered most of the interview questions and was very hopeful that I would get an offer. They never communicated about the offer after the interview. I called HR 3 times and talked to her, she keeps telling me that she would update me about the interview outcome but she never informed me. No replies to emails either. I never heard back from them.

Interview Details – An hour long phone interview followed by day long on-site interview.

Interview Details – The interviewer handed me a test as soon as i walked in. all the questions were very technical. after 20 minutes he took back the test, went over the answers. Asked me questions about how solid state memory works.

Interview Details – Went through several rounds of interviews, meeting increasingly senior people. Seemed like when they were interested or had time things could move quickly, but there were times the process just stagnated a bit.