I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at BlackBerry (Waterloo, ON) in Feb 2010
Interview
Initially I talked with the recruiter on campus who came to our university to promote RIM. I spent about 30 minutes with that recruiter and we went over some of the positions available at that time. After she went back to Waterloo, I received an invitation for a phone interview later.
The phone interview was conducted by both the technical lead and the team lead. The person asking those questions were the technical lead. After I passed the phone interview, I was asked to write a short skill test exam which involved two questions.
One of the questions was to write a linked list class in C# or C++ with the standard operations such as insertion and deletion of a node.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Implement a stack using queue, think about run time performance and optimization
Good chill interview nothing crazy but yeah just ask some questions related to software engineering and that’s all it was imo. No
Big deal at all. At least 30
Words tho
Was good, detailed and laid out process. Communication was good and feedback on timely manner. Could have used more detail in job details. Professional panel during my visit. They did take a while to respond back and the process to completion was rather time consuming.
a phone screen with a phone screener, followed by a lengthy in-person interview with an interviewer, with whom I conducted a lengthy in-person interview, which followed an initial phone screen with a phone screener
