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Senior QA Engineer at Informatica

No Offer – Interviewed in May 2013 – Reviewed May 15, 2013 New

Interview Details Hiring Process include 1st telephonic discussion , taken by product manager .It was normal discussion about all sort topics i know .
After that they called me for F2F discussion , it was decided between 11-3 PM but it extended to 11-5 PM
Include 4 round technical discussions , questions related to java , puzzles were asked . Some of automation testing questions were also asked .

After having day long exhausting interview they told me they will get back to me in a day or 2 . But after 2 days when i called they dint give any status and also no feedback mail saying if its negative . This is really bad on HR side , they bug candidates until they come for interview and after process atleast they should be courteous to give them feedback .

Interview Question – Questions related to classloader in java from QA i found irrelevant .   Answer Question

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Software Engineer QA at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Sep 2012 – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013

Interview Details Process involves online test with objective and subjective questions on data structures, database systems, Unix, operating systems and 2-3 tech interviews and final HR round. I had 3 tech rounds of tech interview. More of data structures, dbms questions like linked list, stacks, sorting algos, dbms queries were asked in 1st round. 2nd round questions were on puzzles, coding, unix. 3rd round had dbms related questions mostly. final HR round was usual questions. Hiring Process was good

Interview Question – Questions asked were usual interview questions in data structures   Answer Question

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Software Development Intern at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Dallas, TX (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 13, 2013

Interview Details Applied on career section of the company. Got a mail for phone interview after nearly a month. Had a phone interview with a senior software architect. He asked questions basically on Java multi-threading concepts, object-oriented concepts and core java architecture like how a JVM works, how is platform independence achieved. Also asked an algorithm question(Find nth largest element in an unsorted array). Got the results in a couple of days.

Interview Question – Most of the questions were java thread based and oop concepts.   Answer Question

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Principal Software Engineer at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Redwood City, CA (US) – Reviewed Apr 08, 2013

Interview Details Most of the interview questions are related to algorithm, problem solving and critical thinking. Interviewers are very friendly and do make one feel comfortable. They focus less on coding and more on general design skills.

Interview Question – Questions shape up based on the experience and resume, so it is difficult to identify patterns.   Answer Question

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Software Engineer at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Feb 2009 – Reviewed Apr 03, 2013

Interview Details I had 6 rounds of technical interview.

Interview Question – Core java basics and tricky questions.   Answer Question

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Documentation Intern at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 30, 2013

Interview Details Submitted resume, then was asked to email more information about why I was interested in then position. I had a phone interview lasting ~45 minutes, and then a grammar/writing test. The interviewer was my would.be supervisor, and he seemed very knowledgeable and excited about the position. Emails from HR and recruiting were very warm and professional.

Interview Question – What is the best thing you've done and in your life so far?   Answer Question

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Human Resources Manager at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Dec 2010 – Reviewed Mar 27, 2013

Interview Details Hiring process is very rapid and fast. Had intervals between each rounds so i could prepare well for the interview. Was briefed before each interview happened with regards to the panel i talk to, duration of the test

Interview Question – Practical test was given   Answer Question

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Senior QA at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Jul 2010 – Reviewed Mar 07, 2013

Interview Details No defined process
Too many interview rounds by same persons
Long process
Bad response from recruitment team

Interview Question – Describle yourself in 3 words   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – After taking interview for months.. offered less against the expectation. Luckly i had another offer for negotiation

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Technical Support Engineer at Informatica

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Sep 2012 – Reviewed Mar 02, 2013

Interview Details Interview process will involve testing the technical skills on Databases, Analytical skills and puzzle solving capabilities. Expect for at-least 5 rounds of Technical interview before getting offer from the company

Interview Question – Every puzzle they asked was unexpected as well as challenging   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – No Negotiation. Fixed Salary

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Software Engineer at Informatica

No Offer – Reviewed Feb 22, 2013

Interview Details On campus interview with their technical director (I think). He went through several data structure questions and asked me to write a piece of code. In the code questions I've given the right answer but he asked for an optimization, unfortunately there is actually no where to optimize (since the tables are sorted). He suggested to use hash table, but I was confused and not pointing out that it won't be an optimization. So they never contacted me afterwards.

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  • What is the big o of several data structures of insert or search.   Answer Question
  • There are two tables like a relational database table, try to join them. The two tables are sorted.   Answer Question

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