I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at McAfee (Bengaluru) in Feb 2012
Interview
One round of long telephonic technical interview to grasp the skills processed
Second round of 1:1 Technical interview for 1 hour with more technical and analytical questions and check for the overall commitment level.
Third round of interview with the Development Manager on the type of work and the type of candidate they are expecting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All about Windows Installer Internals, C++ programming, Installshield
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at McAfee (Bengaluru)
Interview
Very technical - very hands on (expect to write a code on the design you done for the problem statement given
and good managerial rounds where one would be checked on personality
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at McAfee (Bengaluru) in May 2017
Interview
Applied through referal, multiple rounds. 1st round telephonic, then in person interviews
My interviewer gave me a laptop and asked me to code and run 2 problems
1) sort a BST
2) create a "Y" linked list
time was 1.5 hours. Finished the task in 1 hour and executed the code and I was looking waiting for the interviewer who turned up after 2 hours.
The interviewer didnt expect me to finish, so was surprised that I completed task in less time.
Then same interviewer went about with interview ritual asking some irrelevant questions and was giving me cues that I do not possess the right skills and was not the right person for the role. Don't think interviewer read my resume because he didnt expect me to clear coding round :)
Finally interview was concluded with the usual "HR will get back" BS
Mcafee is struggling because of mediocre people who influence hiring decisions and try to secure their position in the org.
Waste of time
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at McAfee (Bengaluru) in Jun 2012
Interview
The hiring was pretty good and it was very methodical process. I was interviewed for a technical lead position and I got an interview call through a consultant.
First HR person called and informed me about interview process completely. Then I had one telephonic interview and 3 personal interviews. 2 Technical levels and 1 management round. Then followed by some US interview.
The HR seems to very co-operative and he was online when my entire US interview was going on.
Then final local HR interview happened and I got selected .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st round telephonic round was simple. Some basic C++ questions with practical things like how did i handle it ?.
For e..g, I was interviewed for windows internals , so How to debug a particualar problem and how it was fixed. and C++ questions on inheritance.
2nd round on direct Hands - on, they gave a PC to me and asked to write a code on implementing stack and queue from linked list with ~1 hours time. I finished that.
3rd round was more interesting like how do a data structure for particular situation( I don't remember exact situation) and why did I choose that data structure ?. This guy seems like some manager ( not hiring manager, but he did evaluate me in general as well with some puzzles)
4th round was from US, then it was related to behavior and attitude in team work and how do i resolved conflicts with a team.
5th round was hiring manager and HR round. Pretty standard stuff, like about team structure and McAfee advantage...etc.