I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Sears (Redwood City, CA) in Jun 2012
Interview
- Writing / electronic code interview
- Remote Phone interview
Interview started with recruiter giving me a set of questions to answer (details on some is given below) and answer those questions in 45 minutes and send it back.
Past that they took a personal interview with a group of five people - few fellow engineer colleagues (now) and a manager. Started with a few basic questions about myself etc. and then moved on to more specific questions - Questions were mostly opinionated on wether I would choose this technology or something else based on the problem at hand, then a few technical specifics related to a few frameworks in java and finally a general design question - interview was about 45-50 minutes and I was given an offer within 1 hour after that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Rabbit and Mare problem.
Q: find 10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10 in Java.
Q: find a small text fragment in a 1 GB text file (non compressed).
Q: familiarity with sharding, how would you shard mysql etc.
Q: DB SQL querying 101 - few questions on writing a group by.
Q: A few Hibernate specific questions - difference between merge and save, get and load etc.
Q: A few spring framework questions.
Q: Personal questions about myself etc.
Q: If you had to design an email service like gmail how would you?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Sears (Ahmedabad) in Aug 2024
Interview
total three round first round was OA round which have quant,reasonind,Coding question. and also we have two DSA question . and in the second round we have technical round in that they also asked about DSA and OOPs Concept and question according to your tech stack or job post which you are applying
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Sears (Hyderābād) in Sept 2019
Interview
Written exam on Java, unix, sql which is moderate. Second round is Face to face technical rounds regarding Java, sql and unix and managerial rounds on project experiences faced by me followed by HR
Overall good experience
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Sears
Interview
3 round of interviews and one white board interview with lead and architect.
White board more on sql side and joins. Also technical questions on Oops concept and multi threading
