I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Forcepoint (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2013
Interview
One phone interview, one on-site visit where I interviewed with two peers and the engineering director and vice president. Phone interview took 30 minutes. Was on-site the majority of the day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given access to a white board and handed a dry erase marker, the asked to diagram/illustrate and describe a software product that you know well.
First was apti round, in which some qns were quite difficult. Needed manual calculations. Second was dsa round, which i could not clear coz wasn't prepped enough. They asked medium level qns to start with, which i could not answer properly
Introduce yourself, Python Java basic questions, asked about my final year projects and internships, Dsa based questions, Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, Data Interpretation, Basic programming language questions, What is Static vs Dynamic polymorphism?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Check if the array can be partitioned into 3 sets of equal sum ?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Forcepoint (Mumbai) in Jul 2023
Interview
The interview started with the obvious question to introduce myself. Then the interviewer asked about my technical strengths and proceeded to ask questions on OOPs in Java, Normal forms in DBMS and the OSI Model in Computer Networks. She then gave me a question to solve. I coded the brute-force approach and gave her an optimized one but I could not code it due to time constraints. In the second technical round, it was more about my resume and questions related to the same.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OOPs concepts or pillars in any OOP-supported language
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Forcepoint with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Forcepoint overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Forcepoint as a Software Engineer according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Phone interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 7%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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