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      Senior Staff Software Engineer Interview

      May 10, 2014
      Anonymous employee
      Milpitas, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at FireEye (Milpitas, CA) in Mar 2014

      Interview

      Initial interview with internal recruiter, several phone interviews, and full day onsite interviews with 5-6 staff including two managers. Background check after acceptance of offer and prior to start date.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Database mapping of object programming models over several versions of code changes.
      Answer question

      FireEye interviews FAQs

      • Senior Staff Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at FireEye with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Staff Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at FireEye overall takes an average of 24 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at FireEye as a Senior Staff Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  33%

        Background check:  33%

        Phone interview:  33%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(44) ;
        2. Senior Software Engineer(36) ;
        3. Sales(23) ;
        4. Manager(16) ;
        5. Director(15) ;
        6. Staff Software Engineer(14) ;
        7. Senior Consultant(13) ;
        8. Technical Support Engineer(13) ;
        9. Systems Engineer(11) ;
        10. Account Manager(10) ;
        11. Consultant(10) ;
        12. Intern(9) ;
        13. Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)(8) ;
        14. Analyst(7) ;
        15. Engineer(7) .


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