I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Booz Allen Hamilton (McLean, VA) in Feb 2019
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me after coming across my resume. I spoke with her on the phone for about 30 minutes for what I presume to be the initial phone screening. Afterwards, she signed me up for a hiring event in McLean. The hiring event consisted of a speed dating format of a series of interviews, the number depends on how many teams are interested in you. They give you a survey that you fill out with your preferred teams after the interviews.
The speed dating format can leave you a little winded, so be sure to keep on your toes. In my opinion the interviews were more so behavioral and weren’t the least bit technical. It was more of going through your resume and talking about the different things you’ve done. I was asked a little bit on Vcenter, datacenters, and some basic object oriented programming questions. Very high level and conceptual.
The interviews were okay and easy going. However I didn’t receive any feedback whatsoever afterwards even though I felt that they went well and reached out to the recruiters. So be mindful of that. They might not reach out afterwards. But all is fair in recruiting and job hunting. No hard feelings.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you create a two node datacenter using VCenter?
Technical questions asked about my resume. They asked about projects and different experiences and based the technical questions around that. Computer science topics such as data structures, algorithms, and more.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Job experience and based on that, technical questions such as what is https
Smooth, easy, they were super nice. I felt relaxed and enjoyed it.
There were two interviews after speaking with a recruiter initially. Then they followed up with a phone call.
Single practical coding exercise on test environment followed by discussion on job role and responsibilities. All remote, 2 months from application to interview, 1 week from interview to start date.