I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Paycom (Oklahoma City, OK)
Interview
Submitted resume and application in response to an advertisement for job opening. I then received a phone call to come in for an open interview/job fair type hiring process. I was interviewed by a H.R. person in an informal, casual atmosphere where they just kind of go over the basics with you and determine your interest level and qualification level. At that time I was advised that they would be narrowing down the group for final selection and that I would receive a call within a week if I was chosen for the next round of interviews but I did not hear from them again. I assume it was because I lacked enough experience.
However the experience was very nice and professional and casual so there was no feeling of pressure or nervousness.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I did not think any of the questions were difficult or unexpected. At this level of interview, the questions were very generalized.
Everything was fine. But during the tech part of the interview, I noticed the interviewer was very talkative. So I asked ahead of time if I could have 2 minutes to read and process the question before he offered any guidance. He only gave me about 20 seconds and kept interrupting my train of thought. It felt like a boss was standing over my shoulder talking the whole time. I got turned off by that. I let the time run out and ended the interview. Personally, would not apply again but others might not have the same experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question about 'what is an abstract class' and some simple SQL questions about joins. Everything was pretty basic.
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It was okay. In my case, the interviewer did not seem friendly at all and was hardly interacting. Even though I explained my entire thought process, he seemed to be distracted by other things lol.
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3 stages of interview:
- phone interview (getting to know you, some behavioral questions)
- technical interview (asked about OOP concepts and basic SQL commands. There was live coding portion with question related to hashmap)
- final technical interview (no live coding portion, Mostly going through resume and discussing it. Asked some behavioral questions.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of items return item with highest frequency. If there is a tie, return by highest alphabet value
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