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Updated May 26, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Customer Support Advocate at SuccessFactors
Posted May 26, 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 Jan 2012 (took a day)
Got a phone screen and it took 1 hour. I really clicked with the hiring manager and she brought me in for onsite interview to meet her staff. Overall, the people were nice and chatty.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at SuccessFactors
Posted May 11, 2012
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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 Mar 2012 in San Mateo, CA (took 5 days)
The interview process and job offer process went very quickly. This part was refreshing considering some other compnaies take weeks and weeks..you almost forget what you were interviewing for.
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Reason for Declining
After careful consideration and interviewing with some current employees, I decided that the work/life balance was nonexistent for my needs. I have 2 small children.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Junior Software Developer at SuccessFactors
Posted Mar 5, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 in San Mateo, CA (took 3 weeks)
First HR contacted me over the phone. then had a telephonic round with one of the senior developers in the team. it went well. I was asked about inner classes, oops concepts, algorithm questions. I got a call immediately from the HR asking me to come onsite for a technical interview. I had 5 rounds. first round had full of database questions. The guy was experienced, but very easy going. asked me to write few queries, ddl,dml statements. The next round had a design question. I think I did pretty well on this round. the next round had data structure questions, linked list, trees. fourth round was with a hiring manager. had fairly easy questions. but i didnt do well. last round was with other hiring manager. he generally asked me about the work experience, projects, difficulties etc. got the rejection mail after a week.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at SuccessFactors
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in San Mateo, CA (took 1 week)
The interview process is very traditional, mostly standard technical questions, very little code exercise.
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Negotiation Details
It's all right. There seism to be a HR protocol in place. You should email them if you are interested in job after the interview, even if you feel very positive.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Background Check, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Regional Sales Manager at SuccessFactors
Posted Oct 19, 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 Jul 2011 (took 3 weeks)
The people I interviewed with were very accommodating and professional. There was adequate communication. I do not have anything negative to say about the process.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering Manager at SuccessFactors
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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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 Jan 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 4 days)
It was my bad luck that i could not secure an offer with SuccessFactors earlier this year but wanted to share my bit on a great team i got a chance to interact with.
I applied on Linkedin and also through an employee who is currently working in Bangalore with SuccessFactors and had a great treat of professionalism from all including the HR and interviewers.
The interviews were coordinated as per my convenience and was kept posted at various stages. I was reminded of the interview schedules on time and sought my availability which is hard to expect in today's world.
Had 3 technical interviews and 1 managerial interview. Questions varied from basic Java concepts to design and architecture level. what surprised me was an aptitude question! The interviewers were very confident and had good technical background. Shows the kind of work they do. i was also asked questions on Databases.
One of them spent a lot of time to understand my team and project management skills which also made me realize my work and think about it again while getting back home.
The questions were more of interactive and not a "i throw-you answer" or "i know more than you". i really liked it!
I was communicated very nicely by HR about me not being selected and provided a genuine reason of me not being strong in J2ee which is true. Not all companies come back to candidates for not selected.
A good culture, nice people, good environment and friendly atmosphere is what i noticed and have memories of.
One must try SuccessFactors!
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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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Software Engineer at SuccessFactors
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took 2+ weeks)
I applied online and within a week got a call from a recruiter. She gave me some background about the company and what they are looking for and scheduled a 1 hour phone interview. On the scheduled day the interviewer called me on time, was friendly and asked me a lot of questions on access modifiers, collections, JSP, SQL, etc. We spoke about their competition and how their business is doing. It was a good interview. I got a call from the recruiter the next day and we scheduled an onsite interview.
When I went there, I was a little turned off by the work setting, it looked like a call center where a bunch of people are sitting next to each other, face to face and end-to-end on large tables. It did not seem like a very productive and quiet enviornment. I thought this company was profitable, why dont they get some more space and give each employee "some" privacy.
I was scheduled to meet 5 people. First to interview was a manager, she gave me a technical problem to solve. I did ok on that question, could have done better but I took more time than I generally would have. Then another manager from a different team interviewed me. She mostly asked me questions on my resume and I asked her questions on the company and the work style etc.
The 3rd person who met me was a very senior level person(15+ years experience). From the very start this person was rude and cold. He seemed disgruntled and was not interested in the interview. He asked me some vague design questions and when I asked for further information he made faces and showed me that he did not think highly of me. That made me angry and I decided that I did not want to work with this person, after that even I treated him like I didnt care. Yes the questions he asked me were tough and I probably was not qualified enough for that role, but there is something called professionalism and decency. If he was a representative of Successfactors I did not like what I saw and couldnt imagine working everyday with someone like this.
After him, there was another person who interviewed me.(about 6-7 years experience). He was polite and professional, which bought me back to a normal state of mind. He asked me some tough questions about garbage collection, classloader, synchronization etc. I did ok and he helped me when I was stuck. They clearly needed someone who was more qualified than me in core java.
The last person, some senior engineering manager who was supposed to meet me did not show up which is a sign that they did not find me qualified enough to waste that person's time.
I knew when I left that I would not get an offer, but I also felt like this is not a place where I would like to go everyday because of that one rude guy(maybe this was just one bad apple) and also looking at the call-center like work scene.
The recruiter emailed me in a couple of days saying that they would be looking at other candidates. I definitely thought that the recruiting team were very quick, friendly and professional and most of the employees were professional.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at SuccessFactors
Posted Oct 1, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
There was no Telephonic interview.
The office had a fairly dull look. There were people eating at their desks, and employees were sitting cheek-by-jowl, perhaps there were space constraints.
Two Rounds of Face2Face interview, one after another. 30 minutes each.
DETAILS
1. Both the interviews were conducted by one person(different) each.
2. The interviewers had come prepared with questions in mind.
3. There was almost no question based on my resume - they did not read the resume.
4. Almost all questions required writing code on paper.
5. The questions revolved around solving some programming problems.
6. The first interviewer spent a lot of time thinking what question to ask, and seemed to be in a hurry. He was unable to explain the questions properly. This was really disappointing as i could not really gather what he was looking for.
7. Overall if you answer ALL their questions correctly, only then expect to be selected.
8. Overall interview experience was not good mainly because it appeared like a pre-written script, there was no discussion, no attempt to understand anything more than - DO YOU KNOW ANSWERS TO FOLLOWING 5 QUESTIONS OF OURS.
9. The reason for this PRE-WRITTEN SCRIPTED interview in my opinion was that - the interviewers were not very knowledgeable, or they were disinterested or had poor interviewing skills.
9. At the end of first round - i was asked if i had any questions. I asked the interviewer to explain the answer to one of the questions. He provided an answer - but it was not correct(in my opinion).
10. I left with a poor opinion of the work culture of the company based on - the office i saw and people i met.
ADVICE TO FUTURE CANDIDATES
1. Go prepared to write java code on paper.
2. Prepare usual basic java programming problems using interfaces, generics, iterators, jsp sessions, object class etc.
3. The questions revolve around basics, (for me at least there were no discussions about deployment, performance, scaling, clustering, app servers, even databases - even though these were my skills).
4. Think before you consider this workplace.
Interview Questions
There is a Array B of size 2N, it has Sorted int values in first N locations, and the last N positions are empty.
Write a program to copy all elements from first Array A into second Array B, such that the resulting Array B is Sorted.
What is the complexity of solution you offered (Big O Notation)
A List<Person> contains a list of Person Objects.
Write a program to arrive at a List that contains Person objects that meet a combination of criteria like - Persons of age greater than 25 and salary less than 10000 and whose names end with E. This criteria can be pretty much anything - the idea is to find a generic way of dealing with this problem - instead of coding specifically for any attribute.
Not sure if this question is clear enough - but this is what it was.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineer at SuccessFactors
Posted Aug 23, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2008 in San Mateo, CA (took 3 weeks)
It started with a phone interview . After that there was an onsite interview where I had 4 rounds of interview. It mainly focused on the technical and the analytical skills. Questions ranged from hard to easy.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at SuccessFactors
Posted Jul 26, 2010
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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 Jul 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
I really liked the interview. It was for the technical position of UI developer. Questions asked were really very good. No show off of technical skill nothing plain good deep questions really liked it. Covered almost all aspects of javascript, oops, closure, Infact interview started with a discussion on closure
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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