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Project Coordinator at BlackBerry
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Waterloo, ON (Canada) Feb 2009 – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New
Interview Details
Applied online through their website and received an e-mail from a recruiter a week-ish later with a request for an interview. I live in the Waterloo Region so the interview was held at one of their offices in Waterloo.
Interview ended up being a full-day long, and rotated between the hiring manager and HR rep, hiring manager and one of the project managers I'd support, hiring manager and the director, and hiring manager and a manager from a different department. Asked a series of questions, primarily on past experiences and how I'd react in different situations.
Was thanked for coming in and later received phone call (1-1.5 weeks later) offering me the position.
Interview Question – Some questions relating to PM-BOK lifecycle and process. Nothing too difficult, but a good idea to read through it if you received your designation years ago and forgot some of the fluff parts. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – This was more of a safety position. I had another offer for a position better suited to my skillset at another organization.
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Process Quality Engineering at BlackBerry
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Waterloo, ON (Canada) Apr 2010 – Reviewed May 08, 2013 New
Interview Details Initial communication was at the university's career fair. I met the HR lady and she wrote my name down and told me to apply for the job online. I applied around the beginning of January and didnt get called for an interview till the second week of april 2010. It was a phone interview and it went fairly well. The questions were not very difficult
Interview Question – If you had a phone with one key not working and the other keys working how do you figure out if it is a software issue or a hardware issue? View Answer
Negotiation Details – There was no negotiation. I was given an offer higher than I expected and accepted it immediately
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Product Management: Operation Specialist Intern at BlackBerry
No Offer – Interviewed in Waterloo, ON (Canada) – Reviewed Apr 29, 2013
Interview Details Applied online, and phone interview. Very nice manager, talked about the job, and general behavioural questions. Conflicts, priorities, etc. Overall experience was very relaxed.
Interview Question – What qualities do you bring that other candidates don't have? Answer Question
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Project Coordinator at BlackBerry
No Offer – Interviewed in Montreal, QC (Canada) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 16, 2013
Interview Details
didn't ask me any technical questions. Even asked me what would I like to do for fun.
but I didn't get the offer.
Interview Question – what do you do for fun Answer Question
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Radio Test Developer Intern at BlackBerry
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details I had two interviews with BB, this one came in a hurry with a phone call informing the interview, which will happen in less than 24 hours. I was not a big deal since I just had an interview with BB a week ago. The interviewer is very nice and pleasant to talk to. overall interview went well. The offer came 5 minute after the interview in which I accepted. Keep in mind for engineering position, no behaivior questions only technical for the 1 hour phone interview.
Interview Question – Most of the question I have are programming, and a few hardware question. programming questions are fairly normal (data type and object oriented programming questions). the unexpected question I had was to explain the inner workings of a ultrasonic sensor for my robot project. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – I was happy that I got the offer, no negotiation was attempted.
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Applications Developer Intern at BlackBerry
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Waterloo, ON (Canada) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 10, 2013
Interview Details Applied online, got an interview email 3 weeks later. Phone interview the next day.
Interview Question – How to implement stack using an array Answer Question
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Software Developer at BlackBerry
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Waterloo, ON (Canada) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 31, 2013
Interview Details Applied through my university. Received an email from the BlackBerry Campus Recruiter saying they would like to schedule a phone interview with me. Received the call on the scheduled date. They asked me general questions about my schooling, basic questions about programming in C++, mobile development, and multi-threaded programming. It was all very general and nothing too difficult. Very relaxed and the guys were very nice.
Interview Question – Compare and contrast the differences between developing a desktop application vs developing a mobile application. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – I was pleased with their offer and didn't feel the need to negotiate.
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Software Developer at BlackBerry
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Waterloo, ON (Canada) Nov 2012 – Reviewed Mar 29, 2013
Interview Details Before my previous contract ends, I started looking for another contract, I published my resume to the job agent, one week later I got the on-site interview at waterloo, first technical interview with software development lead and one senior software developer, the interview is more difficult than at Banks, some code optimization questions, after that I had been interviewed by the hiring manager.
Interview Question – Some code optimization questions. Answer Question
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Radio Firmware at BlackBerry
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Waterloo, ON (Canada) Jun 2012 – Reviewed Mar 27, 2013
Interview Details Had one interview, very technical. Know your volatile, masking, addressing, bit-wise functions etc.
Interview Question – Wit only using Bitwise operations, write a program that returns the number of zeros in a binary number. Like 01010010 will return 5. View Answer
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Human Resources at BlackBerry
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Waterloo, ON (Canada) – Reviewed Mar 26, 2013
Interview Details
Phone screen with recruiter, 10 questions, standardized around experience as it relates to role, experience and looking for. Very standard and general every time
Face to face with recruiter, hiring manager and a team member, very prescriptive, scored interview on a 2 page document. Very formula based, behavioural interview.
Final interview with senior leader of HR or business combination. Relaxed, similar experience questions
Interview Question – What was the most difficult employee relations issue you have encountered in your career? Describe the issue, and steps you took to work to resolution, and what the final result was. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Not interested in the work, manager kept emailing and texting during the interview, really seemed unconcerned about my answers. Couldn't imagine working for this person.
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