I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Satmap Systems (Leatherhead, England) in Jan 2012
Interview
The hiring process is completely chaotic and very long 2 months!!. An recruitment agency was asked for this contract role that during HR interview turned out to be permanent role (Last moment company decision showing complete unprofessional HR practice). As company lacked technical expertise to interview people they hired a company to conduct the interview. First round was assignment, I was asked to produce code to create a 4 corner colors gradient ramp. After that for telephonic interview: Interviewer forgot to call me on first time!!! Next face to face interview was at hired interviewer's company site. I was asked few good questions listed in question section. Next round of interview was at company's HQ and was little bit unusual one as from CEO to Watchman all took chance to pester me, I found his Finance guy most weird as he asked questions regarding my previous employer that only CEO or Financial head could have answered it (keeping in mind this was interview for Software consultant post). They offered me job and then kept moving goal post for one week before then gone completely silent. After four months of initial job advertise I still see the same role advertise here and there.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
1.5 chicken lay 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days how many eggs would on get with 9 chickens in 9 days.
produce a colour ramp starting with one colour on one side of the screen and changing smoothly to a second colour on the other side.
In the most complex case there will be a different colour in each corner of the screen and each pixel on the screen will show the appropriate mix of these four colours.
Presented with template class to utilize some kind of message with write message and read message readmessage is waiting for some event from write message. producer consumer kind of logic with few mistake like no return statement and all