I applied online. I interviewed at Nokia in Sep 2020
Interview
Applied online, got requested to do an assessment a month later. Got a request for phone screen with the recruiter 3 weeks later. Talked to the manager a few days after phone screen. Manager pushed back our initial talk multiple times on the same day, pushed back our talk 3 times before he finally "found a good time". Manager asked me if I could do a final interview with his team with short notice which I could not do and asked for a different time, he did not respond very kindly to my response, I asked when the next best times would be and he would not answer the question.
Asked again a week after and he said I would have to wait a bit longer. That was the last e-mail I sent and I heard absolutely nothing from the recruiter, manager, or anyone from recruitment ever again.
Very disrespectful of my time, I already had received a few offers from other companies so I was in no rush, but not even responding to me almost 2 months later is a slap in the face.
The process is slow, no clarity between steps. I will never interview with Nokia again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Assessment was very simple, maybe a question about DFS/BFS and a few questions regarding networking.
The phone screen I answered a few trivia questions like what is calloc vs. malloc, how to deal with high usage times, what some technologies are.
The manager had me talk a lot about the various tech I used, briefly into projects, and finally led me into a long discussion about the internet works, as well as what happens when I visit a website.
Good, the first interview is basically on personal experience, no major coding, just minor and just conversation. Need to write on paper to explain answer. The interviewer listen to my story of my experience. Have good communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about youself, and ask me about how to do good design
They asked about oops, sql queries and two problems to solve, each were easy to moderate level and it was based on arrays and strings, overall experience was average for me. It was face to face interview.
Just an assessment and a 10 minutes interview with the line manager explaining the possition and hear your questions. Basic assessment with simple programming questions and a small code to implement. From the interview site there was no technical questions. No HR people on the call
Nokia interviews FAQs
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Nokia with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 160 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nokia overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nokia as a Software Engineer according to 160 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Group panel interview: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
Background check: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 1%
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