Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó más de 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Booz Allen Hamilton (Los Angeles, CA) en jul 2014
Entrevista
Recruiter contacted me, sold me on the company and the job itself. Seemed cool at first. Set up an interview to come to their L.A. location (actually El Segundo). Three interviews with three different employees (manager, jr. software guy, sr. software guy)... the only interview that I felt was relevant to this position was the Sr. SW person's. He asked to solve certain common problems using algorithms, on the whiteboard. The other 2 interviews were a COMPLETE waste of time.
They were asking ridiculous Google-type questions (How many golf balls, etc... if you have 2 pieces of rope and blah blah blah). How is that even relevant to a software engineering position? They've already done studies that show these types of "Google questions" are COMPLETELY irrelevant to finding a good candidate for these positions, and Google supposedly doesn't even ask them anymore.
The entire interview and drive were a waste of my time. Completely unprofessional.
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How many tennis balls can you fit in a 747? Who cares?
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booz Allen Hamilton en nov 2024
Entrevista
The interview was roughly an hour. Only 15 minutes of technical questions. Mostly basic python syntax and web development questions. The role seemed very interesting, I think overall the company is strong and does interesting work. However, after I got the offer they shared the relocation package which amounts to around 5k. I expressed this was not appropriate for a home owner and they refused to adjust on the salary or provide a sign on bonus to offset the costs of selling a house. I declined the offer because of this. If they have a job opening that does not require relocation I would apply.
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How would you debug a daisy chain of function calls?
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booz Allen Hamilton (Washington, DC) en ago 2024
Entrevista
Straightforward. Apply to a position (several in my case) online, and then a recruiter from one of those teams reached out.
Recruiters have specialties such as "DevOps for customer X" or "software engineering for customer Y." My recruiter was unsure about two of the three teams I applied to such as what exactly they were looking for or any more details on the job descriptions.
The recruiter asked that I apply to a placeholder position. I did, and that was the only interview they put forward. I verified "this isn't the actual job right? Because that's not what I want to do." The recruiter said "no, this is for all the jobs you applied to."
That was false. It was for a SWE role with tasks and a customer I wasn't interested in. No one aside from the undesirable role was on the interview.
The team I interviewed with was nice. The interview wasn't difficult, and the people were nice. I would give them a thumbs up with they recruiter had followed through on my other apps.
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What projects are you working on. Give us an example of how you would solve some problem with [tech list on your resume].
Tech questions, behavioral, spoke with recruiter and set up a interview with engineers on the team. Then waited for 1-2 weeks for a response. Overall a rather quick process. Only had to speak with one other engineer, and not a group of them.