Hitachi Vantara Interview Questions

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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (Orlando, FL) in January 2018.

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Had an absolutely terrible experience with this company. I was astounded by the lack of professionalism.

An external recruiter contacted me and arranged a phone screen and a technical interview with Hitachi Vantara in January. After completing the technical interview, I received feedback from the manager who said, "We want someone with 2 more years of experience" (not even sure what that means since time is arbitrary). That was fine; I moved on with my job search.

One month later, an internal Hitachi recruiter contacts me and says a few more job positions opened up, and that the same manager from before remembered my name and wanted to do another interview. A face to face interview was arranged. They cancelled the interview 2 days prior to the scheduled date without telling me why. The Hitachi recruiter didn't even find out about the cancellation until the following week, and told me the interviewers were going to be out of the office that day. He said he would work on rescheduling.

Two weeks passed, and I still didn't hear back. The external recruiter who originally coordinated the first interview then contacts me, and says Hitachi Vantara changed their minds AGAIN, and decided to not interview me anymore. They contacted HER and didn't even notify me.

I am appalled about how rude this is - it's common decency to not waste someone's time, or get someone's hopes up as if these people have never had to search for a job before. Do not waste your time with Hitachi Vantara.

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I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (San Francisco, CA) in December 2017.

Interview

Interview is standard. One thing to note is probably the Engr lead seemed to ask me the same question in phone interview and onsite interview. The director seemed to be a very nice person and I did like him a lot. And I'm especially interested in one of their projects and really thought it will be a fresh good start.
Everything is pretty smooth and they gave me oral offer. Since I have some visa issue, I asked their immigration team right after I got the oral offer. They told me they're okay with my current situation and then we came to the negotiation package stage. Just yesterday, right after I orally accepted their offer, I got a call from recruiter saying unfortunately, they're not moving forward with the offer because of my current visa issues.!!!!!!Why not say so a month ago when I asked you. After that, the recruiter, the hiring manager is no longer reachable. Expected, right?
Overall, to be fair, the whole interview process is fine. It is just how they flipped over on me after I accepted the offer really broke my heart.
I seriously suggest candidates to play very cautiously with this company. Don't trust them too much, don't take their words that seriously. Honestly, the pay is just-so-so, the project is pretty excited but I guess people can somehow learn from my experience how they're gonna treat you as a candidate or employee.
Just a note, if they told me at the beginning they're not okay with my visa case or at least apologized after wasted my whole month and flipped over, I won't be so furious now. But they didn't.

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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (Waltham, MA) in March 2018.

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I applied through an agency, had a coding test on coderpad. The interviewer asked 2 questions string manipulation and one more which I dont remember (but it was easy too). Then was called for an onsite interview where I had 4 rounds(was supposed to have 5 but one of the interviewers was on sick leave).

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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (Waltham, MA) in November 2017.

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There were a few phone screenings, an online code pair session, and a half-day in person interview. The primary reason I'm leaving this review is because of how they handled travel. I was living out of state, and had to fly in to Boston. I was asked to pay for the ticket and accommodation and the promise of reimbursement. Well, that was in November 2017 and now it's May 2018 and I have nothing in hand. I email them every month asking what the status of my reimbursement is, and get a canned reply of "it's processing, on it's way". A $500 lesson learned, I guess. Get them to pay for your ticket up front.

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The process was great! Interviewer was very clear about the process and made it easy to follow. Gave a brief introduction about the company then asked me to talk about my resume and favorite project. Then there was the code test.

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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (San Francisco, CA) in January 2018.

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Interview went great with the first two interviewers. I interviewed with their boss who was a woman, and she was very short, impatient and unprofessional. Criticized the career I'm currently at now. I knew immediately I was not going to progress in the first 30 seconds based on her tone and demeanor. Probably for the best because if you can't even conduct a civil interview you don't belong in a leadership position.

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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (Santa Clara, CA).

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Initial contract from internal recruiter was quick as was subsequent phone and on-site interviews.

The post-interview process left a lot to be desired. Poor communication on next steps. Typical corporate behavior I suppose, even for a 'startup' like Vantara.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (Orlando, FL) in December 2017.

Interview

I worked with a recruiter. The process was short and painless.

1 hour pre-screen technical phone interview with a SW engineer. Technical questions mostly about java programming language. No coding, screen sharing, or camera required.

Onsite interview scheduled a few days later. 4 x 30 minute interviews one on one with 4 different individuals.
1. Interview with hiring manager - mostly behavioral and job/team fit questions.
2. Technical interview with Lead SW developer - he asked me to code a function. He handed me his laptop and described the problem, I just needed to fill in logic for the function - java. No whiteboard coding :)
No tricks, gimmicks, or puzzles, just straight forward questions.
3. Technical/leadership/team fit interview with scrum master
4. Behavioral/team fit interview with Product owner

Got immediate feedback through recruiter that it went well and that I should expect an offer. Impromptu call with HR VP a couple weeks later - he asked a few behavioral questions and then extended the offer and described benefits. Got the offer letter a few days later. I asked to extend start date out a few weeks, no issues. From first contact with recruiter the whole process took about a month.

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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara.

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I applied through a recruiter, and the process was swift. They asked lots of questions about my problem solving practice, including one I really liked: how would you design a toaster?

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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hitachi Vantara (Bellevue, WA) in April 2015.

Interview

Contractor set me up with a phone screen, had to talk about some school projects I did.
Went to an onsite, thought the spread of interviewers was actually kind of nice. One dev focused, one test focused, and one product-design focused.

Got the offer, told them I had to decline b/c I'd already accepted something else, and they were willing to sweeten the deal enough for me to change offers.

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