I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at SDLC Partners (Pittsburgh, PA)
Interview
I gained access to the company through networking and had 2 telephone screening interviews initially, one with a senior level manager and one with a recruiter. Both telephone interviews were positive experiences, no tricks, just the expected attempt to understand my skills and knowledge/interest in the company. A second telephone conversation with the recruiter was focused more on making arrangements for face-to-face 1:1 interviews with 2 direct managers and a project manager. The company offered and paid for an overnight stay in preparation for the face-to-face interviews due to the distance I needed to travel. The face-to-face meetings were less than 1 hour with each interviewer, for a total of less than 3 consecutive hours. The experience was very positive overall and there were no "games played" during the interview process, although I did feel a bit like there was a good guy/bad guy approach -- understandable when interviewing/applying for a client facing project management position. Overall, it was apparent to me that this company has very intelligent and dedicated employees and everyone I interacted with during the interview process made every attempt to help me feel comfortable during the interview process.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at SDLC Partners
Interview
I had an interview with a couple of people including one of the partners. They asked me if I had any other jobs where I was interviewing or considering, this might be a typical practice here during an interview. I was honest and told them the company name that I had an interview with the next day and they asked me if it was with a particular hiring director and I said yes. The next day I went on an interview with that other company and the hiring director asked me why I was interviewing with him if I was currently employed at SDLC. I told him I wasn't employed by them I just had an interview with them the other day. I asked him where he got that information and he mentioned that the partner from SDLC called him and told him I was employed with them. Luckily I was hired by the other company, but I question the ethics of SDLC.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Tell me about some of the projects that you've run, what was the budget, what was the outcome?