I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Waters (Wilmslow, England)
Interview
One of my favorite interviews, good questions (hard but not stupid, things like: what was the most difficult bug you ever fixed)
A well rounded technical test, challenging but the questions where things that anyone who calls themselves a C++ engineer (and most engineers in general) should know.
Also everyone involved (I got passed around a little) was very nice and very much "not in interviewer mode" by which, they were open and relaxed and I felt like I would enjoy working with these people because I could picture them being like this during a brew etc.
I went through a 3rd party recruiter initially and he was excellent, sadly I only remember his first name "Alex".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most catastrophic bug you ever caused
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Waters (Milford, MA) in Sep 2020
Interview
They are looking for reasons to reject candidates.
I interviewed for a senior developer position. I answered every question thrown at me. Javascript libraries, C#, SQL, I got it all correct. Then the interviewer asked me about specifics in database indexing. I told him that I wasn't familiar with that concept because our database administrator usually handled that task. That is the point where he told me that I was unqualified and this interview is over.
Why are they rejecting perfectly qualified candidates? I would guess either
- They are looking for an excuse to hire a much cheaper overseas candidate
- The person interviewing is the person's whose job is going to be eliminated
- Or maybe they just have completely unrealistic expectations
Oh, by the way, this interview was 2 years ago and the position is still listed as open on linkedin.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When would you use clustered indexing vs. non-clustered indexing?
They pulled a no-show TWICE on my phone screen. They blatantly don't have it together over there. They asked me questions about Angular and TypeScript despite knowing I had no experience with either (but a willingness to learn).
Recruiter phone screen
Technical phone screen
On-site