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Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Aylesbury, England Mar 2008 – Reviewed Aug 13, 2012
Interview Details
After talking to the recruiter, and going through the usual "skills checklist" and "small talk" (personality assessment?), a phone interview (by the hiring manager) was conducted. The interview was mainly technical.
After that, a series of interviews was booked (all during the course of one day). First, there was a C++ test (to be solved by developing software on a stand-alone computer), followed by a 1:1 with the hiring manager (of a technical background), then a 1:1 with the director for the division (the hiring manager's manager).
Interview Question – Can't quite remember. Everything was reasonable for the technical level they were hiring for. View Answer
Negotiation Details – As I already had an offer from another company at the time of the interviews, McAfee moved forward quite quickly, and made an offer on the next day, quoting they weren't interested in a "bidding war" with the other company.
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QA Technical Lead at McAfee
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed Jun 01, 2013
Interview Details Very thorough interview process. Included around 6 rounds with a written technical & aptitude test
Interview Question –
Why do want to join our company ?
Why should I hire you ?
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Senior Product Marketing at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clarita, CA (US) Jan 2009 – Reviewed May 21, 2013
Interview Details
1. Initial Phone Interview.
2. 6 One on One interviews
3. HR Screening (BG check etc)
4. Offer
Interview Question – 1. You think Certifications such as CISSP makes a difference? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – 1. Keep it simple and dont play games.
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Senior Software QA Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed May 17, 2013
Interview Details
There are a minimum of 3 rounds one of which will be a coding round in code of your preference.
Round 1 - involved basic aptitude and QA concepts
Round 2 - involved more details questions on the tasks that you would be involved in
Round 3 - a coding round that involved 2 or 3 simple programs in C++ (they did ask me what language I was comfortable with)
Additionally there will be HR rounds and meetings with your senior managers and so on.
Interview Question – Coding round was unexpected. They asked me to write a sorting algorithm, some previous question, writing and reading from a file Answer Question
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Global Operations Center Intern at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Plano, TX (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 10, 2013
Interview Details Phone interview with a manager.
Interview Question – What do you like least about your current internship? View Answer
Negotiation Details – Didn't negotiate. Got a phone call from HR and accepted the offer and the salary on the spot.
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Senior Software Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA (US) – Reviewed May 01, 2013
Interview Details
No. of technical interviews: 4. One telephonic, 3 F2F
First the project and requirement was explained. Very good questions asked relevant to job and current project.
Interview Question – What is secure programming needed for mobile platforms. Explain various types of security threats which should be considered as use case. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Negotiate well, as you will not get 2nd chance after coming in.
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IT Global Security Services Compliance Intern at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Plano, TX (US) – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details
1st meeting at University career fair
Interview for phone interview, within 1 week
30 min interview, conducted by hiring manager
Pleasant interview, not a stress interview
14 days before announcing decision
only 1 round of interview.
Interview Question – about post 2009 financial market regulations Answer Question
Negotiation Details – i got the top band of the pay range, so I did not negotiate.
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IT Training Manager at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 28, 2013
Interview Details I was referred to McAfee by an employee of McAfee who I had worked with previously. I had a phone interview and a face to face interview with 3 Vice Presidents. I did not interview with the 2 other woman who would be on ym team and that was a draw back.
Interview Question – What is your social media strategy for training? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Very straight forward, I started as a contractor and then was converted to an employee
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Senior Software Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Oct 2010 – Reviewed Feb 14, 2013
Interview Details
There were several rounds of interview, and I was asked about my salary information by the person who interviewed me first. Later on, I realised that he wasn't ask about my salary.
However, every other round that I went through was highly professional, and the HR team was also very helpful and friendly.
The first day was smooth, and I felt very welcome.
Interview Question – They needed me to justify why I'd like to quit my current job, and I felt that this was somewhat tricky. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Not much negotiation. They were very rigid on what they wanted to offer.
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Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 09, 2013
Interview Details
The process had 1 written exam and 3 rounds of tech interviews.Questions in the written exam: program to implement a Stack in Java, improvise it for generics, implement a queue in Java( without using Collections API), what are private final methods, difference between equals and ==, difference between equals and hashCode.
Technical Interview Questions: What are the ways to create an Object, Executor Framework, Concurrent APIs, Singleton Pattern, Database questions-stored procedure vs functions, clustered vs non-clustered index, design questions (design a client-server software which will install McAfee agent into an enterprise having thousands of computers), how will you take care of singleton in clustered environment.
Then there were few telephonic round of interviews with people at US.
Interview Question – If there are 1000 products procuced per minute and 5 consumed per minute, design an optimum using Java Concurrent Packages so that neither producers nor consumers hog the system. Answer Question
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