I applied online. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation (Boston, MA) in May 2017
Interview
Applied online, then got a phone screening a few days later which was mostly just describing the position. After this was a Skype interview which was a lot more in depth about my background and projects, not very technical. Then was invited on site. This was purely technical, I met with 2 architects from the team. They were very interested in some points I listed on my resume which I had done about a year prior. They wanted me to go into detail about some of this and since it had been such a long time ago, and I was not prepared enough as I did not expect them to focus on this, I faltered. After this background, they went to the whiteboard. The architects were very cold and didn't have much enthusiasm so this can be a bit intimidating and bring down the mood. It was not a good interview on my end so I didn't get an offer as expected.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Brain Teaser: If you have 8 identical coins but one weighs less than the other, find the different coin with only 2 weighs.
Pseudocode: Given two files of equal length of lines, create a separate file which combines both files by line. Line n in file 3 = (Line n from file 1 + line n from file 2) etc...
I applied online. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation
Interview
Was a breezy phone call to assess my past experience and interest in learning relevant software technologies. Questions were mostly along the standard lines - included conversation both from HR perspective, as well as technical aspects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between QA and software development? Which do you think you are better at?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation (Burlington, MA) in Apr 2018
Interview
Phone interview followed by a Skype interview. Both were to gauge your interested and also to know you a little more in regard to past experience. They brought me for an on-site interview after. The people that interviewed me were 10 minutes late and one of them was very pushy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past work experience/projects, bridge crossing puzzle problem, main concepts of OOD, writing a program that takes in two text files and produces a third file that contains only the first and third column of the first file and second column of the second file.
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation
Interview
The interviewer called and asked me general questions about my schooling and software projects. He then went on a bit of a rant explaining that the days of getting a Mercedes right out of school were over. He told me to be on the lookout for a link for a stage two Skype interview but instead told me the next day via email the company had chosen to look at other candidates.
Junior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Sefas Innovation with 2.2 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 33.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Junior Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Sefas Innovation overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Sefas Innovation as a Junior Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
Group panel interview: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
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