I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Philips (Foster City, CA)
Interview
Interviewers are professional and cover a variety of topics. Prepare many interviews via phone and brush up your Radiology/PACS knowledge. It can be a lengthy process till in person interview. Don't expect things happen right away but check the status often. Good luck.
Well thought out process. Prompt interview scheduling. Multiple rounds. Technical, behavioral and HR rounds. Total process took 15 days. HR was very cooperative with respect to timelines. Smooth flow overall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions. But cannot disclose due to NDA.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Philips in Nov 2014
Interview
- I was called for the Sr. Tech Lead Big Data. But i was a Sr.QA engineer with the knowledge of Big Data . So there was a difference in the interviewing patterns
1st Round : There was a general interview round with lot of Big Data stuff. Tough i was not involved in the Map Reduce phase . I was asked about following things :
- Partitioner
- Combiner
- Input Split
- How do you test your code before pushing it to production ?
- What is the cluster size
- Sort and shuffle phase?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a mismatch between the interviewer JD and Interview ?
The interviewer follows up with you religiously till you take up the interview, but there is no response about the same to the candidates about the result. It shows , how unorganised the process was.
You will have to follow up with the HR for further details.