Multiple stage interviews that target logical and debugging skills. Non threatening and kind people that make you want to work there. They were looking for analytical skills as well as communication skills.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cray in Jan 2019
Interview
Recruiter contacts at first with some basic question about the skillset and then a phone interview with the hiring manager. Finally an onsite interview with more than five rounds. Got the official offer in two weeks after the onsite interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience working in a complex system?
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Cray in Jan 2017
Interview
The overall review for this company is about their friendly people and supporting atmosphere, but my interview experience with them was quite the opposite.
Applied through job site and soon contacted by company recruiter. The initial talk with recruiter was great, and the phone interview was skipped, I was scheduled directly for the onsite interview.
It was a team interview but for unknown reason one of the interviewer was not friendly from the very beginning. At one time I praised their office setup and location. He replied with something like this is a terrible office... On one question, that individual's knowledge is clearly limited to old ways of how thing was done in terms of software programming and debugging. When I offered solutions based on newer technologies he was adamant about I was wrong. Regardless, I still nailed 99% of the interview questions.
Cray interviews FAQs
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cray with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 83.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cray overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cray as a Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
Skills test: 14%
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