I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at OSIsoft (Philadelphia, PA)
Interview
Began with Career Fair - Asked to interview next day at College
College campus interview -
Standard questions mentioned in previous interview reviews.
How to troubleshoot excel files.
Tell me about your computer.
If you could have any job in the world, fictional or real, what would be? BE CREATIVE
Q: Track around the equator, raised up one meter
Q. You have three cookies, 2 smaller ones, 1 large one, and a knife, You can eat either the two small ones, or the large one. How would you know which ones to eat if you wanted to eat the most?
A. Cut the cookies into quarters by slicing in half twice, Take a quarter from the two smaller ones and make a right angle, and use the larger one as the hypotenuse of the right triangle. This equates to a^2+b^2=c^2 and you can compare the areas.
Second round in Philly-
Interviewed with a total of 7 people.
First group of two were technical:
Q: Write a program to find the square root without math functions
A: Couple of functions - n/2 then find the error and compare to n +-.001
Q: Rock in a boat in a pool, you throw rock into pool, what happens to the level of the water in the pool
A: Density of item determines the pool level rise
Q:How many golf balls in a school bus
A:500,000
Second group:
Background info, resume stuff
Q:Write an infinite loop function
Q: I had worked with SQL a little - write a SQL statement or query
Third:
Q: Code a function to find the factorial
Q: Explain to me your internship work experience as if I were a 5-10 year old.
Fourth:
Basic behavioral questions
Fifth:
Basic behavioral questions
A week later was told we have decided to pursue other candidates that more closely match our requirements.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Write a program to find the square root without math functions
You have three cookies, 2 smaller ones, 1 large one, and a knife, You can eat either the two small ones, or the large one. How would you know which ones to eat if you wanted to eat the most?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at OSIsoft in May 2017
Interview
A phone call and in-person interview. They were very eager to hire. I talked on the phone with an engineering representative then had a sit down with 3 different employees. All in all, it was quick process, maybe a couple weeks from phone call to sit down interview.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at OSIsoft (Philadelphia, PA) in Dec 2015
Interview
There was a phone interview first, during which I was asked to pretend to troubleshoot some computer issues that the interviewer described to me. The phone interview was probably about 15 minutes.
For the in-person interview, the HR representative that I worked with was very nice and quick to respond, and I was able to set up my interview and travel arrangements very easily. The interview was several hours long and involved talking to 4 separate people, and I was made to wait in the conference room for each of them in turn, which was a little awkward. The interviewers were also awkward to talk to (and I am typically easy to talk to and can make conversation with most people), which made the interview uncomfortable. It also lasted forever. When I was done, I felt that I was not right for the position, but told the HR rep that I needed an answer by a certain date due to another offer I had. The company did not give me an offer by that time and instead wanted me to speak to yet another member of their team. At this point, I knew I was not right for this position and was not sure why they were continuing the process, but I had to terminate the process due to my other offer. Over all, it was not a totally unpleasant experience, but I would not have worked there if I had been given an offer eventually.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Several hypothetical situations, conceptual problems to solve, and generic interview questions (strengths, weaknesses, etc.)
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at OSIsoft (Philadelphia, PA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Basic interview questions that consisted of multiple people asking these questions in succession to the interviewee and some questions were technical while other questions were not technical but were more personality based to see if you would be a good fit for the team at OSIsoft.
