MDA Systems Engineer interview experience (2016)

MDA Systems Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Richmond, BCPosted May 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I first got contacted by HR a couple of months before anything formal, mostly for security-clearance related questions like how long I’d been working in Canada, plus my expected salary range.

After I answered, I went quiet for a while, and then later HR reached back out when they said an architect role had been taken by an internal candidate. They offered me a step-down into a senior software engineer role and mentioned that the salary range they had in mind would be a stretch compared to what I expected.

Even though it sounded like a downgrade, I agreed to the interview to see what the engineering work actually looked like. The interview itself went smoothly: the engineering team seemed organized with prepared questions, and I did a whiteboard problem-solving session with a

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MDA Systems Engineer interview experience

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