I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Honeywell (Atlanta, GA) in Apr 2017
Interview
I was first contacted by a recruiter. Then a test online and last they set me up for a 'hackathon' on a Saturday Morning at 7:00am.
I walked in, greeted and sat at a table by myself (instead of pair like it was intended). No one was able to think... 'oh, let's put him with a pair' and problem solved. No. They sat me down with one of the Honeywell current developers in her very early 20s. (keep this in mind, it is important).
They handed me a sheet of paper with a problem. I was supposed to solve this in one hour I believe and more importantly they will be assessing your interaction with your pair, team work, etc. But, I was by myself... sorry, not true; my pair was a 'human' robot that uttered 20 sentences during the whole process. I feel bad for her to some extent because she was supposed to brainstorm with me the solution. Obviously she knows the solution therefore she was timid on her answers because she didn't want to give much away. I must say that she was VERY nice (she brought me coffee) but other than that I didn't have any way to establish a good rapport there.
When I opened my computer she saw my Chrome theme where my age is displayed. She was "wowed" that i was almost 40 years old. That hit me, specially because really seemed discriminatory in some sense.
That caught my attention. When I started looking around, most of the interviewers were very very young guys and gals. I saw a pattern immediately.
At this point I was already discouraged to even work with this wave of Millennials so I spent my next hour reading between lines what was all this hackathon about.
At the face to face interview rounds, I noticed that they were focused mostly on just the younger crowd. In front of me there was a pair, one young guy and a much older guy. Five interviewers came to talk to the young guy. Only one to the older guy. See the pattern? And this was for most of the people there.
I had the 'privilege' to have one guy sitting with me to ask me about "scaling applications" He mentioned the term "elasticity". When I asked him what did he mean by 'elastic scaling' I was referring to a more technical explanation (either scale horizontally or vertically). Well, this condescending young kid tells me "Elasticity, like an elastic, you know" while doing with his hand a motion of stretching out a rubber band... Seriously?
Anyway, this was one of the most cold, dry and worthless experiences I have had. These kids running the show don't care. They are too caught up in their own ego and they feel like Gods walking around with a fake smile on their faces and memorized scripts that spit out at each table.
I know Honeywell is too big like to worry about glassdoor's interviews reviews. They have too much money and they just don't care. I felt treated like cattle. Honestly. Terrible.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Honeywell (Bengaluru) in Mar 2017
Interview
Experience was worst.
First round was Hackathon round where they gave a problem statement to solve to each team of 4-5 people each irrespective of there technology background.
Single problem can be solved in n number of technologies, but they indirectly expect you to use the one they want.
Simply waste of time if you have experience in other technologies and there is no link between problem statement and you skills.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Honeywell (Atlanta, GA) in Feb 2017
Interview
Interview Process was good.
1. Online Test (Behavioral and Coding challenge)
2. One Manager round (Phone)
3. One Technical round (Phone)
Onsite
4. HR discussion
5. Hiring Manager Discussion
6. Coding Challenge
After a week
7. Technical discussion (Phone)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical:
1. https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problem/403525256396727/
2. http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/count-ways-reach-nth-stair/
3. In english alphabet "a-z and A-Z" letters.
As we know all numbers can be represented by a fibonacci number.
1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89
Suppose 6 = 5 + 1, can be encoded as 1001
16 = 13 + 3 = 100100
4 = 3 + 1 = 101
Similarly, all the letters "a-z and A-Z" should be converted to ASCII number then convert them to Fibonacci encoded number
Then read decode them back to origonal character.
H E L L O
ASCII values of all the letters from (HELLO)
Then covert them to corresponding binary values
e.g H = 72 = 55 + 13 + 3 + 1 = 100100101
And add "1" (number 1) to end of all charcter to find out the number ends there.
So H = 100100101 + 1 = 1001001011 (Not mathematical add, string add or append)
4. What you like to do in leisure time?
5. What you have done something interesting beyond your scope?
6. How do you manage a day in your place when you are heavily loaded?
7. Why are you looking for a change?
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