Senior Software Developer 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 Developer 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 Developer 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 a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Gemalto (Monaco) in Jun 2015
Interview
The process was supposed to be on three steps:
- a technical interview with a Unit manager
- an interview with a Senior Manager and Unit manager
- a final interview with somebody from HR
I did the first interview which took about 3h 30m.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
during the first part of the Interview, the Unit manager introduced me the company and the position which was C/C++ developer.
In the second part I've introduced my self and my experiences so the unit manager asked me few questions such as: what did you learn with this experience, what was the most difficult thing you faced and so on.
After that I had a written test, made of 40 questions to be answered in 40 minutes.
The position was for a DEV in C/C++ but many questions were in Java.
Here's some questions I remember:
What is the difference between an Interface and Abstract class?
How would increase the area of a square if you increase the length of a side of 40%?
How can you swap two variables containing a integer without using a third variable?
How do you convert the hex number CAFE in bits ?
How do you convert the bits number 100112100101.... into hex ?
And then other java questions rather simple for a java Dev.
After complaining about the fact that there were java questions, I have been asked some C++ questions, such as which cast operators do you know, which one you have used, what is the differences, and other basic C++ questions.
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.