I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Fidelity Investments
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Fidelity Investments (Boston, MA) in May 2012
Interview
After a short phone screen I was brought in to interview in person with 3 people. A manager and two senior developers. The questions were primarily technical - revolving around what I had done previously. There was a little bit of a personality interview.
There was the standard two stage interview with HR and hiring manager. Then a brief introduction to the team. Everyone was pleasant and professional. The process for the interviews was approximately two hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What platforms are you familiar with? What has been your greatest development challenge? What knowledge do you have of financial applications
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 8 months. I interviewed at Fidelity Investments (Durham, NC) in Mar 2016
Interview
8 months wasted...
I was contacted by their internal recruiter from Boston last summer... then after a series of jobs being "de-funded", etc., I got an actual in-person interview through a different channel - a local employee referred me.
So I had to start over from scratch with a new recruiter. This one wouldn't send me the actual job description until the last minute. When I finally got it, it appeared they want someone who knows Angular.
I have several years of JavaScript and know some Angular - not much, so I spend the weekend studying up on my Angular.
Interview time rolls around - not one question about Angular.
Interviews were a series of four half-hour 1 on 1s -- 2 behavioral and 2 technical. The technical interviews were awkward b/c they booked a room without a whiteboard. Also, it's weird when the interviewer tells you your answer is wrong when it's not.
The behavioral interviews were weird b/c the project managers didn't seem to one to have a one-on-one conversation like humans do, but just wanted to ask standard interview questions and look at their clipboards to write down every single word of your answer. Every. Single. Word.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
In JavaScript, how would you count the number of each item in an array, such as ["A", "B", "C", "A", "A"].