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Senior Software QA Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore – Reviewed May 17, 2013 New

Interview Details There are a minimum of 3 rounds one of which will be a coding round in code of your preference.
Round 1 - involved basic aptitude and QA concepts
Round 2 - involved more details questions on the tasks that you would be involved in
Round 3 - a coding round that involved 2 or 3 simple programs in C++ (they did ask me what language I was comfortable with)

Additionally there will be HR rounds and meetings with your senior managers and so on.

Interview Question – Coding round was unexpected. They asked me to write a sorting algorithm, some previous question, writing and reading from a file   Answer Question

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Senior Software Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore Oct 2010 – Reviewed Feb 14, 2013

Interview Details There were several rounds of interview, and I was asked about my salary information by the person who interviewed me first. Later on, I realised that he wasn't ask about my salary.

However, every other round that I went through was highly professional, and the HR team was also very helpful and friendly.

The first day was smooth, and I felt very welcome.

Interview Question – They needed me to justify why I'd like to quit my current job, and I felt that this was somewhat tricky.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Not much negotiation. They were very rigid on what they wanted to offer.

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Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore Jan 2013 – Reviewed Feb 09, 2013

Interview Details The process had 1 written exam and 3 rounds of tech interviews.Questions in the written exam: program to implement a Stack in Java, improvise it for generics, implement a queue in Java( without using Collections API), what are private final methods, difference between equals and ==, difference between equals and hashCode.
Technical Interview Questions: What are the ways to create an Object, Executor Framework, Concurrent APIs, Singleton Pattern, Database questions-stored procedure vs functions, clustered vs non-clustered index, design questions (design a client-server software which will install McAfee agent into an enterprise having thousands of computers), how will you take care of singleton in clustered environment.
Then there were few telephonic round of interviews with people at US.

Interview Question – If there are 1000 products procuced per minute and 5 consumed per minute, design an optimum using Java Concurrent Packages so that neither producers nor consumers hog the system.   Answer Question

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Technical Lead at McAfee

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore Jun 2012 – Reviewed Jan 07, 2013

Interview Details The hiring was pretty good and it was very methodical process. I was interviewed for a technical lead position and I got an interview call through a consultant.
First HR person called and informed me about interview process completely. Then I had one telephonic interview and 3 personal interviews. 2 Technical levels and 1 management round. Then followed by some US interview.

The HR seems to very co-operative and he was online when my entire US interview was going on.

Then final local HR interview happened and I got selected .

Interview Question – 1st round telephonic round was simple. Some basic C++ questions with practical things like how did i handle it ?.
For e..g, I was interviewed for windows internals , so How to debug a particualar problem and how it was fixed. and C++ questions on inheritance.

2nd round on direct Hands - on, they gave a PC to me and asked to write a code on implementing stack and queue from linked list with ~1 hours time. I finished that.

3rd round was more interesting like how do a data structure for particular situation( I don't remember exact situation) and why did I choose that data structure ?. This guy seems like some manager ( not hiring manager, but he did evaluate me in general as well with some puzzles)

4th round was from US, then it was related to behavior and attitude in team work and how do i resolved conflicts with a team.

5th round was hiring manager and HR round. Pretty standard stuff, like about team structure and McAfee advantage...etc.
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Reason for Declining – I had a better offer with some other company, hence didn't join.
But later on I got excellent feedback about this company, but it was too late for me to go back.

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IT Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore – Reviewed Nov 16, 2012

Interview Details 1 face to face interview followed by a telephonic round with onshore manager. Being enthusiastic about the Job helps and also having good communication makes you a strong candidate

Negotiation Details – speak your mind when your expectations are not meant

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Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore Mar 2008 – Reviewed Nov 15, 2012

Interview Details Interview was a dream process. My hiring manager arranged me to fly in to Bangalore to attend the interview. All the four rounds were conducted one after another with a 30 minutes break. Interview was mature and highly relevant to position.

Interview Question – What is your design philosophy for software products and specifically for security products?   Answer Question

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Senior Software QA Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore May 2011 – Reviewed Aug 25, 2012

Interview Details Telephonic round
3 round of interview face to face

They asked questions related to c/c++

Interview Question – Prepare C/C++ questions   Answer Question

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Software QA Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore Sep 2008 – Reviewed Jul 04, 2012

Interview Details I got interview call through employee referral. First round was phone interview. They checked basic knowledge about testing. QA process, scripting abilities and operating system concepts. After a week I was asked to come down for 1:1 interview. There were about 4 rounds. Each consisting of different competencies. They gave me few scenarios and asked to write test cases. Asked few simple puzzles.

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  • What are daemon processes in operating system?   Answer Question
  • Puzzle about crossing a river with time and combination of cannibals and normal humans conditions   Answer Question

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Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore Jan 2012 – Reviewed Jun 24, 2012

Interview Details First 2 rounds were the telephonic interview.
1st one was taken by dev engineer: Basically networing, OS, Kernel.
2nd round was taken by the hiring manager: He focused on puzzles, and expectations.

Then I was called for F2F, where I have 3 technical, 1 HR, 1 discussion with hire management, then I was offered and i excepted it.

Interview Question – From Networking and OS   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – The HR offer me a package, I will says he was not at all friendly, I will suggest him to improve in this field. Well the hiring manager talked to me and he was convincing. Initially they offered me a draft version. The actual package was offered me 6-7 days after the interview. They have some approval process from US. I will say this approval process is very slow, one other area that needs improvement.

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Associate Software QA Engineer at McAfee

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore Sep 2011 – Reviewed Jun 09, 2012

Interview Details -Be Open minded
-Tension Free,frank
-Confident on your answer
-Show your strength(skills)(UNIQUENESS i.e, research/achievmnts apart frm academics)
-draw pics wherever nec to explain ur answer
-presentation should be good , with smiling face..
-they shud knw dat 'u ve intrst in der company'

Interview Questions

  • write a function to Reverse the given sentence
    eg: I play cricket
    ==> cricket play I
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  • What is fuzzing? how DDOS attack is done?   Answer Question
  • database advanced query question(nested queries)   View Answer
  • SQL Injection,xss,ddos,phishing detection   View Answer

Negotiation Details – friendly communication uplifting achievemnts/strngth.
Interviewers were really cool,friendly and awesome.

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