I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Arrow Electronics (Milan) in Aug 2011
Interview
Many interviews: HR, Business Unit Manager, Team Manager, CEO.
All the interviewer were more busy to describe the role, than listening and understanding.
Few questions to get a picture of the candidate.
With an ex-post understandings, some descriptions were false or at least ambiguous
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviews were quite standard: expectations, role, reasons to change,...
2 step interview process excluding the HR round.
1. HR Round: basic discussion on the position itself and the roles and responsibilities .
2. 2 Rounds of technical rounds. One with the SME and technical folks and another with the whole team.
Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Arrow Electronics with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Arrow Electronics overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Arrow Electronics as a Systems Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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