- Apple, Google, Microsoft IT Job Applicants Tell All
- Company: AmazonInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.5 DifficultPositive Interview Experience: 52%Negative Interview Experience: 14%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: AppleInterview Difficulty Rating: 2.9 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 60%Negative Interview Experience: 10%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: Cisco SystemsInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 53%Negative Interview Experience: 14%Notable Interview Question:
- Company: DellInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.0 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 53%Negative Interview Experience: 16%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: FacebookInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 32%Negative Interview Experience: 18%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: GoogleInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.5 DifficultPositive Interview Experience: 41%Negative Interview Experience: 21%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: Hewlett-PackardInterview Difficulty Rating: 2.9 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 47%Negative Interview Experience: 8%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: IBMInterview Difficulty Rating: 2.9 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 57%Negative Interview Experience: 10%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: IntelInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.2 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 54%Negative Interview Experience: 8%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: MicrosoftInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.4 DifficultPositive Interview Experience: 50%Negative Interview Experience: 15%Notable Interview Question:
- Company: OracleInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 50%Negative Interview Experience: 8%Notable Interview Questions:
- Company: YahooInterview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 AveragePositive Interview Experience: 50%Negative Interview Experience: 18%Notable Interview Questions:
Apple, Google, Microsoft IT Job Applicants Tell All
by Don E. Sears
Company: Amazon
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.5 Difficult
Positive Interview Experience: 52%
Negative Interview Experience: 14%
Notable Interview Questions:
“If you are asked to design an elevator, what are things to consider?” — Amazon.com Project Manager”Given two strings, determine if the two words are anagrams. Explain the complexity of the solution using the Big O Notation.” — Amazon Software Development Engineer
Company: Apple
Interview Difficulty Rating: 2.9 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 60%
Negative Interview Experience: 10%
Notable Interview Questions:
“There are three boxes. One contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?” — Apple Software QA Engineer”Describe the most challenging work situation you’ve faced and how you resolved it.” — Apple Project Manager
Company: Cisco Systems
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 53%
Negative Interview Experience: 14%
Notable Interview Question:
“Why are manhole covers round?” — Cisco Systems Commodity Manager”Tell me about a time you had to negotiate conflict on a project.” — Cisco Systems Program Manager
Company: Dell
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.0 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 53%
Negative Interview Experience: 16%
Notable Interview Questions:
“How do you handle reuse in Web applications?” — Dell Web Applications Developer”If you were going to launch a smartphone into the market, how would you do it?” — Dell Senior Product Manager
Company: Facebook
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 32%
Negative Interview Experience: 18%
Notable Interview Questions:
“Given an array of integers, find the maximum number that can be reached by summing the best possible consecutive subsequence of the array.” — Facebook Senior Software Engineer”How does Facebook compare to its competitors?” — Facebook Fraud Operations
Company: Google
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.5 Difficult
Positive Interview Experience: 41%
Negative Interview Experience: 21%
Notable Interview Questions:
“You’re given a string, and you want to split it into as few strings as possible such that each string is a palindrome.” — Google Software Engineer”Explain how a Juniper router selects the best path (BGP).” — Google Network Engineer
Company: Hewlett-Packard
Interview Difficulty Rating: 2.9 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 47%
Negative Interview Experience: 8%
Notable Interview Questions:
“What would you do if the client keeps asking for more and more functionality on a project that is already under way?” — Hewlett-Packard Information Systems Analyst”Describe an orange.” — Hewlett-Packard Software Engineer
Company: IBM
Interview Difficulty Rating: 2.9 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 57%
Negative Interview Experience: 10%
Notable Interview Questions:
“What can you bring to IBM that we don’t have?” — IBM Information Technology”Describe a program that can choose the shortest path among few paths between two points.” — IBM Systems Engineer
Company: Intel
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.2 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 54%
Negative Interview Experience: 8%
Notable Interview Questions:
“How would you design a simulator like verilog?” — Intel Design Automation Engineer”How would you find out the middle element in a singly linked list with just one pass through all the members?” — Intel Design Automation Engineer
Company: Microsoft
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.4 Difficult
Positive Interview Experience: 50%
Negative Interview Experience: 15%
Notable Interview Question:
“Find the closest predecessor of a node in binary by doing in order traversal.” — Microsoft Software Development Engineer in Test II”Find the anagrams in a dictionary” — Microsoft Senior Engineer
Company: Oracle
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 50%
Negative Interview Experience: 8%
Notable Interview Questions:
“What are the potential issues or limitations when migrating from Hibernate to JPA?” — Oracle Lead Software Engineer”Which data structure is one of the most common sources of Java memory leaks?” — Oracle Senior Software Engineer
Company: Yahoo
Interview Difficulty Rating: 3.1 Average
Positive Interview Experience: 50%
Negative Interview Experience: 18%
Notable Interview Questions:
“What is the most efficient way to swap the numbers from left to right? For example: 1234567 if giving the k = 3, the result should be 4567123.” — Yahoo Software Engineer”Estimate the volume of water on the Earth.” — Yahoo Senior Product Manager