Coding round Face to face tech interview Behavioural round Coding question was easy to solve but the emphasis was most likely on the programming skills/test coverage/cleanliness of design etc. Face to face tech interview did not cover a lot of range but how thorough the candidate is with concepts was probably evaluated. Behaviourial was straight forward.

Phone interviews, In person interviews - behavior interview with 2 managers and technical interview from 2 technical staff. HR interview finally. After all interviews are done, sometimes decisions are giving within the same hour or end of the day same day. Their is also a coding written tests, which you are write in any language of your preference, syntax is not important, the coding style and logic is given more weightage.

Recruiter contacted me about several openings in Dallas area. Had phone conversation with him regarding why am i looking out for job and what is the role about. This was followed by technical phone conversation with Sr Engineer. Asked questions like - what is hibernate, soap envelope, some spring questions, agile methodology etc. These were really easy questions. After this, a coding challenge -hotel sort by distance, price and one more parameter. Time - 2 days. I personally don't like questions like these. you never know what you will be rated on. They only mentioned the code should be production ready! (Yeah i am not spending my weekend to write production ready code) -- best part they don't define what is production ready. Here is problem with this company, they did not clearly define what roles they are filling up. I got a call from recruiter again and was given onsite interview opportunity for software dev 2 position. I declined for onsite interview since it was 1 position lower than my title. but recruiter mentioned that they will convert it to sr dev position if interviews go well. Onsite interview, 1 white board challenge - reverse a string!! few questions here and there about - chef (lol - they don't use chef but they asked me questions on this), design patterns (thread pool, singleton, observer), agile methodology etc.. 1 pair programming ex - get/post requests using spring. If any orbits interviewers are reading this -- None of the interviewers seemed any interested in the final round. I was hoping for questions on JMM (Heap, GC, Threads, Locking), Weak References, ThreadLocal, ExecutorService and Performance Management etc.. but they asked questions that I myself would ask to a college grad!!! lol ;) Got a call same day from recruiter. he notified me that team was quite positive and asked me about my interview experience and would i be willing to consider Soft Dev 2 role. My response, for obvious reasons, was not in the favor. He tried to explain that if I do really well in 2 review sessions (1 year) I will be promoted to Sr soft eng position. Few weeks later I was notified that they are pursuing with other candidates lol ;). I was not hoping for that email after i had responded on call. A total waste of time in my opinion. I would have rejected the offer if they had offered me anything!