I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Informatica in Oct 2015
No offer
Positive experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Informatica (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2012
Interview
There were three interviews over all. First two were phone interviews and the third onsite interview. The phone interviews lasted for 40-50 mins each. Purely technical. They asked questions based on Java and database queries.
The onsite interview lasted for 5 hours including lunch with the manager. Was interviewed by each member of the team. The questions were based on data structures and algorithms only.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the unexpected question was to implement a practical scenario of semaphore using java threads. Had to use wait, notify and all the methods in the Thread class.
I talked to Informatica at my college's job fair. A few week later I was asked to do a coding challenge on Hackerrank. They were 3 easy technical problems as a basic screening. About 3 weeks later they responded to schedule a phone+googledoc interview with a QA manager. The interviewer was extremely difficult to understand and did a bad job explaining the problem. Although I tried my best to extract exactly what was being asked, I misunderstood a simple problem as a something else and wasted an incredible amount of time trying to solve the wrong thing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two binary trees, how would you find the intersection within them, and output a tree of the intersection. However, what they mean to ask was: Write a function that finds if two binary trees are completely identical.
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Informatica (Bengaluru) in Sept 2012
Interview
Process involves online test with objective and subjective questions on data structures, database systems, Unix, operating systems and 2-3 tech interviews and final HR round. I had 3 tech rounds of tech interview. More of data structures, dbms questions like linked list, stacks, sorting algos, dbms queries were asked in 1st round. 2nd round questions were on puzzles, coding, unix. 3rd round had dbms related questions mostly. final HR round was usual questions. Hiring Process was good
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions asked were usual interview questions in data structures