Wintellect

Wintellect Interviews

1. Mar 23, 2014

   Senior Consultant Interview

   Anonymous Employee in Atlanta, GA

   Accepted Offer

   Positive Experience

   Difficult Interview

   Application

   I applied through an employee referral The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wintellect (Atlanta, GA)

   Interview

   I went through the "early" Wintellect interview process, which was significantly more informal than what our current applicants experience. After multiple technical interview sessions (several hours each), and a lengthy review of my previous work experience, I was finally made an offer. I happened to already know much of the management and other consultants prior to applying, but the interview process was still quite thorough. They didn't skip anything just out of favor.
   
   My ability to present a technical topic to an audience was also assessed during the interview process - my interviewers attended a public user group presentation that I delivered during that timeframe.
   
   Ever since accepting the job with Wintellect, I've been personally involved with improving the interview process itself. As a result, applicants today will still experience the same level of technical depth if we feel that they are up to it, but the process itself is much more formalized and consistent.
   

   Interview

   I was asked to elaborate on the internal workings of the .NET memory manager, and then immediately afterward was asked to go into deep detail on some of the finer points of SQL query tuning. And of course then switched topics back again to some very deep aspects of threading in .NET such as volatile / memory barriers and the threadpool mechanics. I think the interviewer was trying to throw me off-balance :)

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