Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Gemalto with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gemalto overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gemalto as a Senior Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 23%
Phone interview: 23%
Skills test: 15%
One on one interview: 15%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Background check: 8%
Drug test: 8%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Gemalto (Jiutepec) in Aug 2010
Interview
First approach will be to review their online postings and to send your resume. Afterwards there may be phone interviews, then on site interview with HR personnel and final interview with manager or technical leader (technically oriented interview).
In additional to your technical skill (Java/net/linux etc) briefly study telecom acronyms and how they interoperate. For example: SMSC, OTA, SIM, ICCID, IMSI, IMEI, HLR, encryption, cellular networks (SIM card only works on GSM but not CDMA for example)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You might have to create a small project with an employee class and test methods. Some questions might be in english.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Gemalto (Prague)
Interview
I applied via Linkedin. They call back in 2 weeks. First technical lead called and told about company and the job. Asked my previous experiences. Then they invated me to a technical interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Gemalto in Jun 2017
Interview
Received a programming challenge through e-mail to develop and send back within a time limit. Did not have much idea about what to expect before the challenge.
No programming languages were defined so I choose the language myself.
Submitted a clean, fast and working solution obeying SOLID principles within the given time limit.
Got rejected.
When I asked for feedback, I did not receive any reply.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A fast program reading the inputs from console and writing the results back.
It had to determine false inputs.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Gemalto in Jul 2016
Interview
Difficult to get co-ordinated interviews. But they try really hard and everyone I spoke to was super friendly. Waiting between interviews was painful. But that is mostly because they are distributed globally.