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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Sales Manager at Symantec
Posted Apr 26, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 3 weeks)
was referred to a Symantec recruiter by a friend. Sent my resume and and had 20 minute conversation about the job. Was contacted by a separate recruiter a week later to schedule a phone interview with the hiring manager. One week later, had a 1 hour 15 minute phone interview with the hiring manager. Basic interview with him describing the job and me talking about my plan for the position. Hiring mgr told me I was one of the top candidates and I would hear from a recruiter in the next few days to schedule an onsite interview with a panel of Symantec people. Went two weeks without any contact. Called the original recruiter and he thanked for me for my interest but told me it appeared they would be offering the position to an internal candidate
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Senior QA Engineer at Symantec
Posted Apr 13, 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 Aug 2010 in Pune (India) (took a day)
Interview process was pretty fast. But Person who interviewed me was not having domain knowledge. He was having his own preconceived wrong fundamentals. He asked me few stupid questions and then another manager asked few questions. Asked me to write one tricky DB query. But he was not happy with answer I have provided. Overall experience was too bad.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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IT-software at Symantec
Posted Mar 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Pune (India) (took a day)
Oncampus interview.
Written test - Computer networks,OS,DSA,DECO with negative marking and Subjective paper tooo
2 rounds of technical interview and 1 HR
if clash 3 rounds of tech interview also possible.
Inteviewers r very gud nd technically sound, Can ask to write code on board,explain OS concepts on board,
Need sound knowledge of DS nd OS.
They give prefernce only to ur Intelligence and knowledge and not a dime to your Previous achievements and projects for selection process.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Mar 11, 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 Sep 2010 (took 4 weeks)
very specific real-life questions were asked on all interviews.
interviewers were quite prepared. for example, code was printed out on paper with specific question on where exactly bugs are and what to do to fix them.
questions about design patterns.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Development at Symantec
Posted Mar 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Feb 2011 in Pune (India) (took 2 days)
Symantec came to our college for placement through pool campus in which we had to compete with another 3 colleges from our University. The recruitment process consisted of a presentation, followed by a written test. The candidates shortlisted for interview were called the next day at the Symantec Campus at Banner. The written was highly technical consisting of questions from Operating Systems, Databases, Computer Networks, Graph Theory, Permutations & Combination, Logical Puzzles, etc. So review the basics of all these subject before appearing for the test. The company personnel conducting the interview were very open and cool. The next day there were 2 technical interviews followed by an HR/Personality interview.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Principal Technical Writer at Symantec
Posted Feb 1, 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 Aug 2009 in Culver City, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Long, drawn out conversations with the hiring manager who did not seem very enthused by the direction of change that was obviously being demanded by the company.
It was a strange situation: being called for an interview based on certain skills, and then being asked to justify why those skills were important.
Had to walk a fine line between presenting my credentials and not intimidating the hiring manager.
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Reason for Declining
Company (or at least the hiring manager) not really committed to change and innovation in the direction they stated.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Internal Auditor at Symantec
Posted Jan 31, 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 Dec 2009 (took a day)
1. From phone interview- Hiring manager called me to discuss my professional background which is basiclly listed on the resume. Some questions were passed over.
2. From Phone interview- Recruiter called me to know my working VISA status
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales Specialist at Symantec
Posted Jan 27, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Milwaukee, WI (took 4 days)
Recruiter called, refered me to the hiring manager, I spoke with him at length on the phone. He then interviewed me in person. He stated later that day that he wanted to offer me the job after I followed up with a thank you letter and a phone call. He was disappointed when I declined.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Authenication Specialist at Symantec
Posted Jan 18, 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 Jan 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
First Interview was by phone and it was reall simple just basic questions. The second in person interview was with people asking anthing from "how did you deal with your most difficult problem" to If I had 2 coins in my hand that total 55 cent and one of them was not a nickel what 2 coins would they be? The people seem very nice and I hope to get an offer.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Product Manager at Symantec
Posted Nov 29, 2010
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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 Feb 2009 (took a day)
HR connected me to VP product mgmt for Security BU. Interview consisted of phone screen and an onsite day meeting with peer Product mgrs, hiring manager, and multiple engineering leaders.
Questions included product mgmt scenarios (e.g if you were a product mgr for an IT mgmt startup which is around for 1 year, how would you structure your investments across different priorities.
Engineering questions were mainly around how do youu write PRDs and MRDs with specific examples. PM is very powerful/accountable at Symantec, so they expect alot of domain knowledge than core PM skills.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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