I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (El Segundo, CA) in Nov 2009
Interview
Northrop Grumman hosts 2-3 large job fairs every year. An alumni from my graduate program invited me to one of the job fairs. The job fair has many groups within the company looking for candidates to work on their projects so it is in your best interest to open many important looking people since impressing them lands you interviews. Beware of functional managers performing the interviews because you're likely going to be placed on a bad project where no one wants to work. If the team lead is not present at the interview, he or she is usually a jerk and no one wants to work for him or her. That is why the functional manager is performing the interview; the functional can seem nice but place you on a horrible project desperate for people because no one is willing to deal with the team lead. This happened to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you swap variables without using a temporary variable? Assume the variables are always integers.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Rude interviewer. Tried to play the intimidating card. First question: What my old manager would say about me if he was to call. "Well I was up for promotion when I was laid off"... what else is there to say, if you want to know more about how my previous coworkers judged my work performance, call them yourself, I'll supply the numbers. Complete waste of my time. How about you call him for yourself buddy.. BEFORE THE INTERVIEW. NO TIME FOR GAMES HERE. If you want time out of my life working for you, how about some respect.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would your coworkers describe your work performance?
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman (Gainesville, FL)
Interview
they held a "career fair" in Gainesville, FL. Turns out that this was actually standing in line to be interviewed on-the-spot. Only then did they tell me that they weren't hiring people there but they were recruiting for positions in St. Louis. I have no interest whatsoever in moving to St Louis. The online ad said nothing about this and just described it as a job fair.
Seriously? I wasted my time for that? I walked out the door on that one.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Northrop Grumman in May 2016
Interview
Waste of time. I applied online and was contacted by recruiter. After 3 weeks I contacted the recruiter and was selected for a phone interview. Then I had to fill up another online application. After several miscommunication incidents. Someone finally called the conference call and asked the same questions the recruiter asked. I had no opportunity to ask questions about the position and was quickly dismissed.
It was obvious to me they already had a candidate and were just going through the motions of the hiring process.