I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sage in Jan 2021
Interview
Applied online, got an email back to schedule an interview with the recruiter and a technical test.
The technical test was very basic C# questions about 15 questions. Mostly just C# syntax checking, and 1 basic programming question ("Finding the balance point in an array").
After that, had about 30-40 min call with the recruiter - just the normal questions of expected salary, current situation, notice period etc. And few questions like what was the most difficult task you had to do - and how did you do it.
The following week had a "technical" interview with 2 senior team leads from the company.
Not the best interview I had, the interviewers were great and friendly. But they have a list of very basic questions (which I think they ask all candidates) - depending on the candidate they ask a set of backend, frontend questions. and score based on your answers.
The next day got an email back from recruiter saying "the team did not feel your technical depth and breadth of experience was sufficient enough for this role" - which was kind of disappointing as neither the technical test or interview covered any of my previous experience.
For someone who has developed a complex product supported by 4 windows services (which I was the sole developer on) and also at the same time leading a team of 4 junior developers to implement a web portal - it was dissapointing as none of my experience was actually covered in the interview but an assumption was made that my " experience was not sufficient enough for this role".
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
2 questions related to C# string immutable / stringbuilder, what does the term boxing mean,
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sage (Vancouver, BC) in Oct 2017
Interview
1. Phone call with Recruiter:
- Went through resume and past experience. Q&A with recruiter
2. Technical Phone Interview
- Standard data structure, Design principle
3. On-site Interview
- Whiteboard coding, In-depth data structure, design principles
After onsite interview, I was told that Sage is on hiring freeze and will be in contact about 6 weeks. After 6 weeks, there's no response from Sage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data structure, design principle, whiteboard coding
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sage (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) in Feb 2017
Interview
Friendly interview, about 2 hours long. First, I was asked to introduce myself. Then I was asked a few personal experience questions such as "tell us about a when that you had to overcome a difficulty at work" and "tell us about a time at work when you influenced the project to go in a certain direction".
Then I was asked a few Ruby on Rails specific questions to test my knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fizzbuzz test: Write a program in a language of your choice (on a piece of paper), where given a series of numbers, if the number can be divided by 3, it prints 'fizz' and if it can be divided by 5 it prints 'buzz', and if it can be divided by both 3 and 5 it prints 'fizzbuzz'.