I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at BlackBerry in June 2010
Interview
I received the interview through my University. This was only a co-op position so it only consisted of a 30min interview. The manager was pretty straight to the point and immediately started asking technical questions. He asked technical questions about Oracle, Perl, and some web development stuff. They were not design questions but simply factual type questions. It's either you know it or you don't so don't get too worked up on it. There wasn't too much asked about my previous work experience or any soft skill type questions.
Pretty easy interview overall.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
List all the data types that are used in Oracle DB.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BlackBerry (Waterloo, ON) in May 2021
Interview
The first round was technical resume screening; the second round included coding, behavior, and technical questions.
Then, the recruiter contacted me within a week, saying I am one of the finalists for the round and they would like to initiate a background check and asked me for the details.
After waiting for three weeks, the recruiter emailed me, saying the role is currently under hold. They don't know when it'll resume and will contact me by then; Very Unprofessional interview process. Please don't waste your time applying to BlackBerry.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions based on your resume and an easy coding question on string manipulation
I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at BlackBerry (Vancouver, BC) in July 2015
Interview
I applied to this position through my school and since I live in BC it was a phone interview. There were two interviewers who ask me general interview questions and then proceeded to ask me more technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself?
Tell me about your past projects?
Technical java questions such as:exceptions, collections
When you come to a problem in your program, how do you solve it?
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BlackBerry (Kanata, ON) in July 2014
Interview
- Very casual
- Some simple coding questions (what is an abstract class, create a "shuffle" method, etc...)
- Basic English required
- Brief overview on the job description and what the work entailed
- Phone interview, was given a date of the interview beforehand and the interviewer name
- No "why do you want to work here" sort of questions
- From my point of view, apart from the simple coding questions that were asked it was more to get a feel for whether or not the interviewee had the capability of performing tasks both individually and within a team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly resume explanations, for example:
"You listed XXX experience, could you explain more in detail on the kind of work you did"