The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at RTX (Aurora, CO) in Jan 2007
Interview
HR initiated the contact with me. They did the background check first, then arranged the interview. The company leans heavily on certifications because they support public government sites, and the government likes industry certifications.
The company has a generous support program for employee's further education. However, where I was, the company did not make use of inexpensive automated tools, to lighten the workload for employees so they would have enough energy to take school after work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The manager asked general questions about my background. Most of the questions were answered by the information on the resume I provided. The manager was not very technical, at all, so no technical questions were asked.
Current certifications were most important for this position.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at RTX (Tewksbury, MA) in Oct 2009
Interview
The interview was scheduled over the phone through HR. The questions were rather technical and detailed in nature, and many areas concentrated on my ability to get security clearance.
At times, there were many situational questions, behavioral questions were not the main subject of the interview. Very technical interview, focusing on a variety of engineering concepts rather than software development. When the technology based questions did come, they were sporadic and really meant to gaudge the level of flexibility of working with varying development enviroments and technologies while adhering to pre-existing standards and protocols. There was also an emphasis on quality and testing and dealing with deadlines as well as how to prioritize work.
There were three seperate people interviewing, one was the hiring manager, and the other two seemed to be senior engineers who had years of experience with the company.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
A very mind numbing question about memory allocation and writing straight to the OS/registers - I haven't done this in a while, but apparently it was important.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at RTX in Oct 2009
Interview
There are two interviews. The first is with an HR representative. If you are able to pass that screen you move on to their corporate headquarters in Waltham, MA to interview with a variety of Vice Presidents and other senior professionals in the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did I overcome a difficult experience in a team atmosphere? And how?