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Senior Software Engineer at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Jun 2012 – Reviewed Jul 2, 2012
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Phone interview went great. Went for a 1:1 interview with 4 different people. Was told 3 days later that they wouldn't hire me. No reason given. Just a weird feeling about that company now...
I've been a software developer for many years...and doing much more complex software... may be they couldn't afford me... but they never let know what they didn't like. Was not completely a wast of time, but pretty close.
Interview Question – Given 2 lists of numbers (A, B), write a program that will return 3 lists. One that has the number common of the 2 lists, one that has the one in A only and one that is in B only. View Answers (3)
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Senior Manager QA at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in Irvine, CA Jan 2012 – Reviewed Jun 20, 2012
Interview Details – Sr. Dev Manager contacted me with an unsolicited request to interview for a Sr. QA role at their A2Z facility in Irvine. He proceeded to pull me along for a couple of weeks and then was a no-show for our interview call. I passed on any further discussion. Extremely unprofessional group!
Interview Question – How old are you View Answer
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Some Sort of QA Or Developer In Test at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Dec 2011 – Reviewed Mar 28, 2012
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Had 3 sessions of phone interview. Questions were no that hard, both interviews had ended in a type_something website. Last one I had to solve a problem by writing a function (word sorting).
On site interview went great, and I was told to get a feedback withing ONE day, lol, yeah I know...It never happened :). Got a call a week later saying that they are passing.
Interview Question – lerler View Answer
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Interaction Designer at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Nov 2011 – Reviewed Feb 27, 2012
Interview Details – Questions are not very difficult but requires comprehensive description.
Interview Question – What kinds of design process do you take? View Answer
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Software Engineer Mobile at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in Orange, CA Sep 2011 – Reviewed Oct 2, 2011
Interview Details – Me and the HR people arranged a phone interview. I was the called by a Software engineer. The phone screen lasted 1 hour. The engineer was very polite and clear in explaining what he asked. During the interview I had to type solutions on typewith.me. The link to typewith.me had been sent to me via email right at the beginning of the interview.
Interview Questions
- Suppose we want to simulate traffic over a new area, which object oriented design would you use? Which objects and interfaces do you design to describe and simulate the system? Answer Question
- Solve this algorithm: find the longest common sequence among 2 string (e.g "EDfghjuy B", "dsicbw B d-oi" -> " B") View Answer
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Software Engineer II at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Aug 2011 – Reviewed Sep 12, 2011
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I was apply for the software engineer level 1. I cought the email of recuiter to set up technical interview. In 3 weeks, we have 3 phone interviews.
The first two phone interview went just as other people's review in Glassdoor, past experience and a little bit programing tests. like find the frequenct of words in a given texture file.
These two interview went really well and I was waiting for the onsite interview. But one week later, the recuiter email me that they would like to move my application to a higher position - "software engineer 2 in test". I guess the level 1 position has already been filled by other guy. The new position require more experience and I failed in the third interview. No programing question but past experice in management. ..
Interview Questions
- find the frequence of words in a given file View Answers (3)
- find the first two words which happen most in the given file View Answer
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Software Engineer at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Mar 2011 – Reviewed Apr 12, 2011
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1st Phone Interview: Series of simple 15 question -overriding,overloading, dom,xmlhttprequest
2nd interview: What kind of data structure to use during a scenario
Interview Question – Best data structure to scan two tables and eliminate duplicates View Answer
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Software Engineer at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Jan 2011 – Reviewed Mar 8, 2011
Interview Details – They called me 2 days after submitting the resume in the Amazon Website to check my background. They set an interview on the phone for the day after. They asked me a lot of questions about previous projects and the reasons why I wanted to work there. Then the lady spent 30 minutes asking me a lot of Java questions and previous experience with threads (they were REALLY interested in multithreading and application performance). I received an email 2 days after saying they wouldn't consider my application.
Interview Questions
- What is the difference between HashMap and HashTable in Java and wich one would you use when programming a network application. View Answer
- What is a delegate in Java. View Answers (2)
- Explain with details how a HasMap works and put some examples. Answer Question
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Junior Software Engineer at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in Jun 2012 – Reviewed Oct 15, 2012
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Applied online for New Graduate Position and was contacted by HR to set up an in person interview. Was interviewed by 2 one Development Lead and the second was a Sr. SE. They asked me some basic questions based on OOP and Java. Then was asked to write a two programs through the shared screen. And i was asked questions on my approach.
1. OOP concepts,
2. OS concepts
3. Power Function Program.
4. Distance formula Program
Interview Question – Nothing Difficult mostly basics... View Answer
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Computer Programmer at a2z
No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2011 – Reviewed Aug 30, 2011
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First interview consisted of a phone interview, where we played computer programming trivia with the caller. There were very mysterious about what line of work they did there... sometimes I got the impression they were looking for a game developer, sometimes, I got the impression they were looking for a web programmer. Whether they did C++ or Java, I am not sure. I passed the first call and got the word counting program. I was hesitant to invest more time into a company that I was really unsure of, but I did it and did all the bonus questions as well.
I received a 2nd call a few days later, but no mention was ever made about the program I wrote. Once again, we played computer programming trivia and the questions were nearly identical to the first caller's. If you review wikipedia's Sorting Algorithms page, I think you'd have a good chance of passing it. I hadn't thought of it too much since college and I guess they do a lot of sorting / checking for duplicates because that's what they were interested in.
At that point I was pretty much turned off by the interview and sort of checked out. There was very little talk about whether the work I was familiar with was actually a fit for them. Was told they'd call me back for a further interview but instead got a standard rejection email. Nice....
Interview Question – Given a series of numbers, how would you determine if there was a duplicate one in the list. Answer Question
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