Monsanto Company Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details 1. CV shortlist
2. Telephonic Interview (30 mins) (questions related to your past work ex and practical questions related to the role for which you are being interviewed)
3. Telephonic Round - (Commercial IT head) - (15 mins) - basic questions related to past work experience and assessing fit for the role and company.
4. FTF - at the company HQ at andheri mumbai (30 to 45 mins) - Detailed role expectations discussed (more of an discussion than an interview)
Office & Work Culture - Flat Hierarchy, Open Desk policy

Reason for Declining – Was not comfortable with travel to villages if need be. Also did not want to pursue agro domain. got another domain of better liking.

Interview Details Behavior based interview. Interviewers insisted that I DO NOT disclose any confidential information from my previous and then current employer. Allowed and encouraged me to be myself and express the kind of roles I was interested in. Apparently the role they interviewed me for was not the right match. They called me again for an interview for a different role that fit much better with my aspiration. Another 2-3 rounds of discussions and presentations including with senior people in US headquarters. Made initial offer, they sweetenend it wherever possible and offered a good compensation within the feasible band mentioning that they would like to be fair to their current employees and would respect their internal benchmarks. Subsequently revised compensation based on performance and expertise.

Negotiation Details – Yes. I compiled my CTC very well and approached the expected compensation discussion with sound rationale. It went back and forth 2-3 times till I had the gut feeling that there may not be a further headroom. Checked with industry peers on benchmarks and accepted the offer. They sweetened it with a quick revision with cycle that followed a few months later.

Interview Details Ergonomics and the work culture impressed me at this place. Interview was detail oriented.

Negotiation Details – I could have negotiated better. One should ask for the best before finalising the offer.

Interview Details Pretty long interving round with usually 4 to 7 rounds

Negotiation Details – I did not negociate

Interview Details round 1. technical discussion on java and j2ee .
round 2. they will give one problem to design . i got to design checkers game .
you need to do a presentation of design to the panel .
folllowed by technical discussion
discussion on the design presented.
online coding on editor shared on microsoft live meeting . u get 30 min for coding . problem was to implement an object oriented solution for below report :
      bulb watts unit total energy
energysaver bulb 40 10 xxx
energysaver bulb 80 10 www
 glolight bulb 60 45 rrr
 glolight bulb 100 45 aaa
 fluroscent bulb 80 24 ttt
 fluroscent bulb 30 24 yyy

discussion on the code u did .

they took three days to give my over all result , i chased the hr which was negative.

Interview Details Just had a phone for about 15 minutes. The interviewer's English was very bad and I could barely understand his thick India accent. He was rude, didn't even introduce himself and had absolutely no knowledge on any subject matter. Kept saying HELLO, HELLO every time I paused for one second.

This was kinda fun for me, I would stop for a second in mid-sentence, just to hear: HELLO, HELLO :-)

He seemed more interested in why I am leaving my current company that anything else.

They are looking for a someone who can refactor (comment) legacy (ugly) code and manage a few (unhappy) laborers: One person to do the work of two or more people. Lovely.

Reason for Declining – I never really received an offer but judging by the quality and education of the person who spoke to me on the phone, I knew I wasn't going to work there; I told the staffing agency not to go forward.

Interview Details I did apply on their careers homepage in Sept 2010 and got a call from the HR (Rachana Saxena) after a month. Once I cleared the first round of interviewing by Mr. Srinivas Gunturu on 2nd Dec 2010, the HR team told please wait for next step of communication from me. Till now (18th Jan 2011), I have not heard anything from them. I even 7 to 8 mail to both the interviewer and to the HR but no response at all. This is such annoying thing that being such a very big MNC, the cannot even communicate back to me!! :(

Interview Details Interview taken by the immediate manager & then by HR & Panel of people

Negotiation Details – really good

Interview Details Extremely long process. Started with phone screen, on-site interviews (5 rounds), 2nd set of on-site interviews with business side (4 rounds), final round (2 rounds). Questions are almost always behavioral - specifically center on their 5 core principles. How do you express agility? How have you been innovative? Share a failure (this is always a tricky question). How do you express agility? How have you been innovative? Share a failure (this is always a tricky question). Agility/innovation are 2 of 5 core principles - learn those, frame answer within them, and tie back to position description.