Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 1 semana. Fui entrevistado pela Susquehanna International Group (Philadelphia, PA) em set. de 2014
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Applied with resume on indeed.com. They replied and set up a phone interview. I did not get a second phone interview. I don't think they even wanted to hire anyone. I think everyone gets a shot at the first interview. I felt I did very well on the first phone interview but did not get a second. Weird. They let me know two days later that after much consideration I would not get a second phone interview.
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Pergunta 1
Wanted to know my history and why I wanted a job at SIG.
Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 4 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Susquehanna International Group em nov. de 2013
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Im an out of state applicant so it may take less to be offered an onsite interview but my experience was a basic phone screen with the internal recruiter (30 min), a phone interview with technical members of the team (1 hour) and then a phone interview with the team manager (1 hour).
There was an internal communication error so one of the interviewers called me over 30 minutes late and the interview had to be broken into 2x 30 minute parts (due to my schedule) but managed to work it out.
After passing the phone interviews, I was invited for an onsite interview which ran significantly longer than I was told to expect. I was told to expect 2-4 hours and it actually took 5.5 hours which messed up my plans. I was guessing it would be closer to 3-4 hours but even so, I scheduled the interview and plans around the interview based on an estimation of the absolute longest being 4 hours + 30 min (15%). If I had been told to expect 5 hours, I would have planned differently. Running an hour and a half over the time defined was disrespectful of my time and I considered walking out but felt the interviews were going well otherwise and didn't want to jeopardize my chance of getting an offer.
The onsite consisted of 2 interviews with technical team members (2 in each), an interview with the team lead and another manager, an "interview" with HR during which they laid out the benefit package offered by SIG and a meeting with the manager of the IT division.
Ultimately, I was highly disappointed with the interview process both phone and onsite. I was routinely shown a lack of consideration for my time and I was asked questions completely unrelated to the role or questions with wrong information misrepresented as correct and expected to find an answer.
I did not receive an offer and received a generic "we're impressed with your credentials and skills but we've decided to pursue other candidates" email from the internal recruiter. I asked for any specific feedback from the recruiter and never received a response.
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I was asked questions on linux completely unrelated to the role and for the life of me I cant figure out what relevance it would have to the role or even a role as a linux admin (specifically, I was asked, after answering correctly where user passwords are stored and what permissions the file has, how the login process works on a linux box including how the login process, which doesnt run as root can escalate to read the /etc/shadow file which only has read permissions by root)
I was also given a network diagram and asked a question about a network problem where they were unable to get websites from a specific server. I asked directed questions to determine if the network picture they gave me was accurate to which the stated it was. I was able to deduce the problem in 3 steps (though not the device causing the issue because I was assuming based on their affirmative response that the network diagram was accurate). They pressed for more troubleshooting which I did. I got a dozen steps in before throwing my hands up and saying I was out of ideas.... They gave me the answer, to which I pointed out I found the issue in steps 3, 6 and 10 but they kept insisting it wasn't so that's why we kept troubleshooting... They then said it was a "real-world" issue that they had issue with and took half a day to figure out and then argued that they gave affirmative responses that were based on the same assumptions they made.
Problem with that argument is; not having realtime access to the device and see the behavior first hand we can only go based on what we are being told. If what we are being told is wrong, there is no way to determine the answer.
Other interview questions were fairly straightforward and of average difficulty