Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Guidewire (Dublino, Dublino)
Colloquio
There are 4 stages:
1. General phone call (background, experience, CV stuff)
2. Coding test (JDBC, JMS, Bad code, Collections) - not difficult
3. Technical skills phone call (look at the interview questions)
4. Face to face interview in Dublin, hotel and transport paid by the company, a great chance to have a feeling of the place, visit the whole office and have a feel of the environment and working atmosphere.
The results and the scheduals of the next phase is fast and you don't have to be nervous at all.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Basic questions about:
-keywords; private, static...
- XML
- inheritance
all in all basic technical skills
the face to face interview is more like showing some of your projects, and letting them to get to know you a little better. There where also a few questions about how would you implement a function that does a certain thing, you do it on the blackboard
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Guidewire (Dublino, Dublino) nel mese di giu 2017
Colloquio
The interview process took at least a week. I went through a phone screening by the HR and was asked to do a code test, then a web technical interview and finally a 3 and a half hour face to face interview onsite.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Describe the Singleton Pattern. Try and implement it.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Guidewire (Dublino, Dublino) nel mese di apr 2016
Colloquio
Applied online and was emailed a few days later to set up HR screening phone interview, which was fine. The usual stuff about college, life, interests and information on the company and position. A code test is then scheduled whenever you choose. Code test is not difficult, well it shouldn't be if you've put in work in college. Consisted of 4 questions:
1. JDBC
2. Collection of Collections
3. Bad Code
4. JMS (Optional)
Do either 1 or 2, 3 is mandatory and 4 is optional. Took me 4 hours to complete (Most time spent on JMS as we hadn't covered it before this code test)
If your successful with the code test you will then have a phone interview with an engineer where the usual questions are asked. (4 Pillars of java, static, private, abstract, singleton pattern, SQL questions)
Then there is a face to face interview in Guidewire office consisting of 3 1 hour interviews. First was to draw architecture of FYP on whiteboard and talk through it, answer questions and a demo on GoSu. Second is the technical interview where I was asked to explain code on singleton pattern, static variables and a whiteboard problem which was focused on recursion. Final interview was a talk about my CV and HR questions like working in teams etc.
All in all a very positive experience. The people are lovely, very kind and helpful. The two girls working in HR (Dublin Office) were fantastic to deal with.
