| NetApp 2014. After a phone interview with the hiring manager to confirm mutual interest, an on-site interview was arranged. 1 entire workday of interview. The whole team worked towards interviewing their potential new team member. The first one in the morning gave a full tech view of what is going on and practically walked out without any evaluation. A good break, and then the second interviewer evaluates some theoretical aspects very much related to the job being hired for. Lovely conversation and learning out of it as well.
Third team member walks in for a discussion about all the tech the first interviewer talked about in the morning. The goal was to see how much I grasped and how I could jump in to an existing environment, think and approach problem solving. Lovely tech discussion discussing merits of solutions proposed to hypothetical problems.
The team welcomes me to join them for lunch. I was explicitly told it was informal and no evaluations of any kind and just a friendly lunch since everyone’s gotta eat and they’d hate for me to eat alone. Nice social lunch. Post lunch, another engineer walks in with their laptop and says, “I’m working on this today.. how about we put up my display on projector and we work together on this for an hour?”. A nice times pair working scenario to test my skills and team playing abilities. At the end of the day, even though I was tired, I was hoping to get an offer from them, and the manager says they liked everything and would leave the final word to HR, but they are going to pass on their OK to HR. Worked there for four years until I needed to move geographically. Best job I ever had yet. |