Seagate·Software Engineer

Seagate Software Engineer interview experience

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Colorado Springs, COPosted Mar 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I began with a phone interview with an HR hiring manager, and she told me right away that my interests weren’t a fit for the original position.

It turned out she’d still forwarded my resume to two other managers for positions that weren’t even listed. That led to two new phone interviews with project managers, and those calls were much more technical than behavioral.

Each phone interview lasted about an hour. After that, I was flown in for an onsite interview that lasted four hours. It started with one project manager asking very specific questions—things like the C standard library, basic circuits, and logic. Then he brought in his team of two people, and they spent a surprising amount of the time telling jokes while still

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