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www.symmetricom.com San Jose, CA 500 to 999 Employees

Symmetricom Interview Questions & Reviews

Updated Mar 4, 2013
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Embedded Software Engineer at Symmetricom

No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 4, 2013

Interview Details – Started with an human resource phone interview. The human resource lady collected all the necessary data. Then she arranged a technical interview with hiring manager. He asked some simple questions related to C basics(volatile, priority inverse etc). Then he asked my availability for onsite interview. Then they changed their mind and put a couple of more phone interviews. (suspicious). One was again with technical guy and the other was with director. Then finally decided to invite for an onsite interview.

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Technician at Symmetricom

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Boulder, CO Feb 2011 – Reviewed Nov 4, 2012

Interview Details – Interview process in fast. For a Technician job, they asked you about schematics diagrams, board components, test equipment.

Interview Question – None. There was no games. It was just questions about doing the actual job.   Answer Question

Reason for Declining – Other candidates would really appreciate relevant details that affected your decision.

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Hardware Engineering Intern at Symmetricom

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Mar 2012 – Reviewed May 13, 2012

Interview Details – it was easy and had to give 2 phone interview for summer intern position.

Interview Question – question about your resume and related projects?   View Answer

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Technical Writing Intern at Symmetricom

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA May 2011 – Reviewed Dec 2, 2011

Interview Details – I was originally contacted by the Intern Coordinator and then connected with my Hiring Manager, who eventually was my manager, and the two writers on staff. The questions mainly concerned my impending degree, my plans for after the summer (grad school) and my experience at former internships. We also discussed the period in which I was available to work and the benefits offered to interns (relocation package and housing stipend).

Interview Question – Question related to my certificate in technical communications and the skills on my resumé   Answer Question

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Product Manager at Symmetricom

No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Aug 2010 – Reviewed Sep 27, 2010

Interview Details – each interview experience was neutral to positive, however the number of starts and stops and the length of time it took the company to make a final decision was not at all positive - 8 months is extraordinary.

Interview Question – what is max size of ethernet packet   View Answer

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Software Engineer at Symmetricom

Declined Offer – Reviewed Nov 26, 2012

Interview Details – Phone interview followed by on-site interview. Questions on C programming - finer details like bit manipulation, dynamic memory allocation, pointers etc. Was asked to write code for a very simple problem. Although solution was not difficult, interviewee is expected to think about worst case run times, cases where an exception will be thrown or result might not be computed correctly, and address them in the code.

Interview Question – Questions about specific network protocols.   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at Symmetricom

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Jun 2010 – Reviewed Jun 25, 2010

Interview Details – stupid questions:
why a C structure is smaller than a Type?
what is the size of a structure? (in general? - stupid question)
why you think you are a senior programmer?

then some more rude questions that made me finish discussion early
the general feeling was that the hiring manager did the best he could to keep candidates away from his chair
how come people like these ever become hiring managers?

Interview Question – why you think you are a senior programmer?   View Answer

Reason for Declining – all my answers were interrupted, talked over me, never listened my whole answer.
at some point the hiring manager started yelling
rude people, bad environment, bad place to work

guys, there are better places out there

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