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      UI Developer/Support Interview

      3 Sept 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Enfield, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Metaswitch (Enfield, England) in Jun 2010

      Interview

      I was given a link to an aptitude test, of which I completed about 60% in the alotted time. Apparently I passed, according to the recruiter, as the hiring manager wanted to follow up a few days later with a phone interview. This went well and I was called in for an in-person interview some weeks later. This was an intense 6 hour series of fairly old-fashioned IQ type tests (each lasting 20-30 minutes) with questions on paper mostly of the which-drawing-completes-the-series ilk, but what made this different was the quality of the photocopies where you were not sure if some dot was a smudge or part of the drawing. I should say there was one well-designed test for which I was given 30 minutes: an essay question on how you'd solve a synchronous/asynchronous messaging problem. It tested reasoning and writing skills quite well I thought. As a break between the written tests I was given a 15 minute talk about the company by a senior sales manager . Another employee later grilled me about a tests I completed. He asked me to explain my solution, then kept prompting me to come up with a different answer. Finally that was over and he left. Then the man who would be my manager came in for the final interview. He said I flunked one of the written tests and asked me why he should consider me. By this point I was mentally exhausted, having had a total of 10 minutes for lunch in the same room I was taking all the tests, and a couple of 5 minute toilet breaks in six hours. I answered something to the effect of they've obviously had success with this interviewing/testing process and I won't presume to tell them how to do their job. He then bizarrely told me I seemed nervous. Bizarrely because he was nervous and would barely look at me. We wrapped up the interview fairly soon after that. Needless to say, I didn't get an offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I honestly can't remember the question I apparently flunked. Had to do with using many cpu's for AI.
      Answer question
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