I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Thomson Reuters (Hong Kong) in Jan 2011
Interview
Reuters Hong Kong is hiring a project based web application design lead with C++ skills - firm's office is nice, located at Tai Koo Cityplaza 3, occupying three full floors with tightly packed seats, and the development group in Hong Kong has roughly 200 heads, the interview manager told.
The overall image of the hiring is negative - regarding the hiring process. Vacancy posted via staff agencies, the development manager couldn't come up even with both a written job description and a vacancy title even after I was interviewed. Form filling is still required amid my resume is preliminary reviewed by line manager.
A 10 minutes 1:1 interview with a development manager which consists of mostly basic technical questions:
1) Which SQL Server you started using?
2) Do you have experiences on creating database applications from scratch?
3) Do you have experiences on database performance tuning? How do you tune database performance?
4) Do you have experiences and how do you do unit test, stress test?
5) Do you know C++?
The line manager doesn't seem to be interested in answers to technical questions.
No further questions were raised based on answers.
No indication of how interviewer feels regarding the answers.
No discussion on proposed expected salary.
He then spent less than 2 minutes explaining the role, projects and position info as follows:
1 Year contract, project based position (renewable depends on budget - ie. whether there are still projects), leading a team of 4-5 developers.
1) Realtime Market Data Services for Internal Editoral Group
2) Infrastructure Management Web - alert system that aggregate and compile failures reports in production servers
The manager simply wasn't keen on the hire. Insider reports that the manager believes projects are over by the time hiring can be done.
My real question that weren't asked to Reuters was:
If you have a team of 5 developers worked on the project for 2 to 3 years - Why are you hiring an external design lead??? I feel those projects smell bad...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experiences on database performance tuning? How do you tune database performance?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Thomson Reuters (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2024
Interview
Interviewed by manager and several technical roles. Some questions were difficult but all seemed relevant to the position. No coding test. Good interview format. Mixture of behavioral and technical questions including questions about experience with AI.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thomson Reuters
Interview
Very much dissatisfied with the interview process followed by one of the larger MNC. They conducted three interview in which one of them is coding round. HR was constantly behind me for one saying they need the process to be completed. The following week got an email from the HR stating I was selected and asked for my documents. I've collected all my docs which took about 1 hour and created a google drive link. HR contacted me via mobile and asked for documents in a email and I've done the same. After two days they arranged one more round and didn't turn up. Contacted HR via email for 3 weeks, but it was hopeless. My advice is that if you constantly bother a candidate for the interview process for 2 weeks don't you have 15 minutes to reply back to an email stating you were not selected in the fourth round. It is ridiculous to see how these MNC's actually function. Thanks for wasting a few days of mine.
Location: Bangalore
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thomson Reuters in Apr 2020
Interview
Interview process was clear but with no feedback. I was interviewed by a rookie and he was more interested in pretending to be a product owner rather than being a pair developer in code pair. He didn't set any expectation and said let's start the implementation and change it later, which I followed and was able to make code what was working and as per requirement. I am now imagining that his expectation was that I ask all questions upfront rather than asking questions when developing. I asked for feedback or reason for not moving forward, but did not get any. Not going forward is good for me as I would not have appreciated colleagues who would like to work in silo's instead of collaborating and being communicative.
