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Updated Dec 19, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Dec 19, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Pune (India) (took 3 days)
HR got my reference through a job site and scheduled a telephonic interview. I was interviewed by an existing employee of the same grade for which I was being interviewed. This was purely a technical round that involved computer engineering concepts, programming language and design principles.
The second round was with technical manager. I was given a case study and then asked to design a software system to solve the problem. First I was asked to create a high-level architecture diagram and then low level component diagram. Then I was asked to write a few small programs (in C#) alongwith explaining the algorithms I use to solve the problems.
The third round was with senior technical manager and this time it was mix of technical as well as inter-personal skill types of questions. I was asked to solve 5 puzzles (of level medium to difficult) and then solve a problem by writing an algorithm and using binary tree approach.
The fourth and last round was with my to-be manager for behavioral skills, and salary negotiations.
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Negotiation Details
Symantec will (almost) always offer you the best salary as per their standards. So the scope of negotiation is very less since they will give you their best offer without any negotiation.
Still, having said that, you can always try to get 3-5% over their initial offer. I was able to get extra 3% on negotiation, that went for about 30mins.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
I was called by recruiter as they liked my resumer. She thought I am better fit for one of server backend development teams. So, inerview was scheduled with backend team which creates force framework.
Phone interview lasted an hour with questions mainly on databases, internet working and programming questions. I am good at java so I could answer most of the java questions. I answered even most of the database questions, I solved database problem with only one solution. Interviewer wanted me to tell other solutions as well. I couldn't answer some UI questions about AJAX that's where I think I lost opportunity.
Overall experience was great, process was fast and replies were prompt and courteous.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Mar 11, 2011
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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 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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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Sep 5, 2010 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Chennai (India) (took 1+ week)
I had a initial discussion with the director and after that i had a video conference with US folks and their i was questioned more abt the sql server and problem solving skills. After that the HR interview doesn't contain much... as they r setting up the enterprise division in chennai
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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 Symantec
Posted Dec 22, 2009
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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 Nov 2007 in Santa Monica, CA (took 1 week)
After passed one hour long of the phone interview from hiring manager, I was given two hours to write the program of the generic Hashtable implementation. I got the chance of two days long of on-site interview
with 8 persons afterword. Many technical questions were asked in some area like bit manipulation, but tons of the behavior questions by a director were really annoying. I failed on those behavior questions.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Symantec
Posted Jul 17, 2009
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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 Jul 2007 in Chennai (India) (took 1 week)
There is a written test that covers C++,COM and some programming puzzle type of questions, followed by interview with the immediate manager, then a Sr. Principal Engineer at onsite and followed by the Director of Engineer at the site. Over-all the tests were fairly standard and so was the interview.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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