Symantec Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I had two rounds of interview for a position in security domain product. Interview dealt mainly with cryptography, key management, basic testing, automation and cryptographic keys. For automation, Perl was my preferred language and they are open to take interviews in any language of interviewee preference.
They also ask puzzles and analytical questions.

Negotiation Details – HR was adamant on their offer though they increased it by a miniscule value. They offered Stocks instead to compensate better.

Interview Details – One of their VP teaches a class at our school. Each year around the time looking for summer intern, he will send out a programming question to interested students. It is about searching in some slightly big data, programmed in C++.
If you pass the test, you get an onsite interview. I was interviewed by 3 different people including the VP himself. All of them are programmers so the questions are all about programming in C++, working with strings and searching. They also ask about some programming tricks such as integer swapping without additional memory.
If you do good on the interview, they send out the offer in two weeks.

Interview Details – Responded to job ad at "jobcentral.com". Called by IT Manager. Interviewed by four teams of two people each over the phone. Each interview lasted about 30 min. Final interview by hiring manager. Deep knowledge of Oracle Apps tested - Quote to Cash, database tuning, Oracle tech stack, sql and pl/sql.
Work culture is informal. Salary negotiations were smooth.

Negotiation Details – I got an 8% hike over my previous job's salary at another company. Got 5% lower than what I had asked for. The more skilled you are, and the better you do in the interviews the stronger your negotiating position. Get salary comparison data from sites like salary.com, linkedin, and glassdoor.com.

Interview Details – Typically a HR interview followed by up to 3 Face to Face Interviews with Hiring Manager and other key stakeholders. Behavioral based interview asking for relevant experience and how you exhibit the traits of the key qualities and requirements for the role. Previous performance also held in high regard.

Interview Details – Recruiter call & screen. on site interviews with manager, colleagues and clients. Lots of questions around change management, company seems to be in chaotic state with a good deal of turnover at leadership and manager levels

Interview Details – It all started with a technical aptitude. 20 mcqs 1 hr with negative markin. all questions were core technical with last two questions based on aptitude. to clear this round you should b good at you c basics and over all computing knowledge.
after you clear apti round you have to go through 3 interview rounds.
!st round: it lasted for 30min. the interviewer asked everything from data structures to assembly language.. everything was covered. but its ok if you are not through with all the concepts... shallow knowledge of all is wat is required
2nd round: it was core technical. 3 C questions and 1 sql query.
and 3rd round: core hr. which i think should not be very difficult to clear.

Negotiation Details – no negotiation phase. salary offered to me was good for any fresher.

Interview Details – It began with a phone interview with the hiring manager which lasted about 15 minutes and was mostly about my C++ experience. Afterward, I was invited for the in person interview a week later. I met with the hiring manager and a software engineer and discussed my project experience and was asked some basic questions about C++. I was scheduled to meet with two additional people but was told that they were in a meeting and the interview concluded. I received an e-mail that I didn't get the position 45 minutes later.

Interview Details – 11 rounds of discussion, panel, presentation etc etc...

Negotiation Details – Offer letter

Interview Details – After short phone interview Symantec invited me for on-site interview.
Booked a hotel in 5 minutes walk distance from the HQ. Had 6 interviews during 2 days with different team leads and technical directors.
During the interview it was wide range of questions including technical and abstract questions, code examples, puzzles, whiteboard coding, etc.

Reason for Declining – Smaller salary comparing to what I had.