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      MTU Software Developer Interview

      29 May 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Cary, NC
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at MetLife (Cary, NC) in Dec 2014

      Interview

      I applied at 3AM one night, and received an email the next morning asking if I could do a phone screening. The phone screening was standard, although they asked for a salary requirement (please research that before going into it). I said a number much smaller than I ended up receiving, but I wish I could have said more still. Then, I was contacted to complete an "intelligence" assessment. This was the only ridiculous and ludicrous part of the whole process. It's basically a bunch of matching and math, stuff that probably has no bearing on my likely performance in the company. Lastly, I passed that and qualified for an in person interview. I think it was 3 hours long, with the first hour being with one PM, the second being with a PM and another employee, and the third being essentially a sales pitch by MetLife. By this point, I knew I was getting the job because of how nice they were and aggressive with selling the job. The first interview was very cookie cutter, he literally had a sheet of questions to ask me. The interviewer was very nice and helped me if I needed elaboration on a question, of if I answered it in a way he didn't intend me to. He was kinda nerdy, but still easy to talk to. He asked me to write a class in Java that was basically a column data type with fields and such. I did well, but he coerced me when I got something backwards. He was very personable and showed me some of his projects as well. He did not leave me much time for questions. The second interview was strictly behavioral, but in a conversational way. We were laughing and joking, the other employee was a Duke grad, and we butted heads jokingly since I was at UNC. The PM felt like the cool uncle with a contagious smile. It was typical "how do you think you fit in this role?" "Why MetLife?" type questions, while the first interview was more like "Tell me about a time when you faced adversity/leadership/etc." Then the second half of it was almost exclusively me asking questions. After that, I was shown the current MTU employees and I chatted with them a bit. My guess is MetLife was testing me to see if I could fit the culture, and I know I did. I recognized some from college. Last was the sales pitch thing, which was a chance for more questions, such as dress code, questions about promotions, that type of HR stuff. I think the next day I got the offer, and I accepted about two weeks later. I did not negotiate, because the way the offer was presented, it didn't seem like they would negotiate. I should have asked for 10-20% more.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about yourself
      1 Answer