The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics (Chaska, MN) in Aug 2010
Interview
I had three phone interviews after which they flew me out for an on site round of interviews. The day started at 8 am and had 5 45 min interviews. Then I had lunch with another group of engineers. I left at around 1:15pm. There was no white board coding, but basic C++ questions and probing into things I had done in the past. Basic questions like "What id the difference between a struct and a class?", "What does static do?", "In C# what is the difference between an interface and a class?", and then more probing questions like: "Exactly how did you create a COM server?", "How did your threads communicate?", "What did the threads do?", "What happened when the thread completed?" "How would you write a program to solve this problem?", "Tell me a good bug story" ... All total I spent about 9 hours talking with them on the phone and in person. In the end I was told they selected another candidate. They had a pile of applications so I guess in the end only one can be chosen.
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Question 1
"Tell me a good bug story", "How would you write a program to solve...."
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics (Miami, FL)
Interview
Great interview process. The process is different for every team. Mine was focussed on my background and resume. Meeting with my manager and group manager. Detailed look into some code I had written in school.