I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at SPARC (Charleston, SC) in Oct 2016
Interview
Call with HR, coding exercise. Coding exercise was timed, very academic, and very easy. However, it was the kind of thing a software student completes (hackerrank.com). The task was completely unrelated to any industry experience i have gained in 10+ years. HR immediately started wanting to discuss salary before even getting to the on-site portion of the interview. Continued to lowball me, despite advertising for a senior engineering role. I declined to continue with the interview process at that point. Extremely unprofessional experience. Waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you mentored a younger developer
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SPARC (Charleston, SC)
Interview
First was the phone interview with HR. They were extensive in their recruiting and screening. Then there was an in-person programming test, where I had to write some Java code. And then three rounds of technical panel interviews with too many questions to recall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no difficult or unexpected questions. All questions were pertinent to the position, and pertained to knowledge that a practitioner would be expected to have.
Interview process was very good. Their team is very supportive with answering questions and helping people understand what the job entails. Interview took several hours but this wasn't a problem because questions where also thought-provoking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you could go back and tell your younger self something what would it be?
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SPARC 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 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SPARC overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SPARC as a Senior Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 29%
Other: 14%
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