I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at ERNI (Cluj-Napoca) in Dec 2018
Interview
The interview consisted of 3 main phases, after the initial phone call.
The first one was a home assignment. You had to work on a given project, to model and implement a certain system in 3 hours. Nothing too complex, but it took a lot of time. They use this project just to get an idea about your design and coding skills and style, and can be used as a base for discussion in the next phase, if you get there.
The next phase was a typical interview, followed by a short HR meeting. It was an hour and a half long discussion about multiple topics related to software development, from design patterns, to concurrency control, collections, ORMs, Spring, coding style, and some other Java questions (autoboxing/unboxing, catch/finally).
In the final interview you meet the people responsible with the project and it's an opportunity for them to know you and to decide if you are a good fit for the team. We discussed expectations and responsabilities and other management related topics. I did not get any feedback.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ERNI (Cluj-Napoca) in Sep 2015
Interview
The most awkard interview ever, some paper test, that was testing your compiler abilities, then I had an interview with the most senior person, which was constantly asking me "are you sure about that?", proving the lack of knowledge he had.
Dear candidate. Thank you for your review.
Since September 2015 our interview process changed a lot. Nevertheless I’m still convinced that a software developer should be able to compile code up to certain point. For example, passing variables by reference or by value causes different results and will not be caught by your development environment.
Asking questions in an interview situation does not show a lack of knowledge. It is the common way to get an overview about the candidate’s skills. If you have further needs to discuss on this topic feel free to contact me anytime directly. I’m happy to answer any question (florian.ramsbeck@erni.ro)
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