I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA) in May 2018
Interview
Basic interview process of call with Recruiter, then Hiring Manager. Then in-person interview with people who would be colleagues, and internal customers.
Interviews all went well and everyone seemed to like my answers. I left with a very positive feeling about my odds of getting the offer.
A week went by and no word from company. Left a message after that first week for recruiter, asking for update. No answer for a week. Finally after about the 3rd week I get a short email stating that another candidate was selected. Ok. That’s usually how it goes...either YOU get the offer, or SOMEONE else does. That gives me no information on why I wasn’t selected. If I didn’t have the proper experience, they shouldn’t have wasted my time and risked my current job by having me play hooky to come and interview. If there was some other reason I wasn’t picked, then the company should have the common decency of telling me WHY I wasn’t picked. After all, if a candidate is presented an offer and s/he declines, you better believe the company will ask the candidate WHY s/he declined the offer. So candidates, help even the playing field by NOT telling companies why you are declining. After all, they give zero constructive feedback to candidates on why they were passed over for someone else.
If you do bother to waste your time interviewing here, even knowing you’ll hear nothing back from the recruiter, be careful about the security check-in process. Some of these knuckleheads in the security department have zero people skills, and are completely rude and unhelpful. If you are trying to check into the wrong building (you aren’t an expert on the campus, so it’s possible you might be in the wrong spot), security might make you (and everyone else around in a 20-foot ear shot range), that YOU are in the wrong building (and they add a tone like you are a total idiot for being in the wrong place). Totally inappropriate and unprofessional. How some of these knuckleheads still have a job is beyond me. But then again, I’m not worthy enough to be hired by T-Mobile, even with an advanced degree and “impressive background” (per numerous recruiters that have reached out to me via LinkedIn). So maybe you have to be a jerk to get hired here. No skin off my back, I’ve been hired by a great company with excellent pay and benefits, and in a VERY affordable area of the US to live in. No $1600/month studio apartment type of situation where I was hired. Thank goodness.
The process took 6 days. I interviewed at T-Mobile (Mooresville, NC) in Feb 2017
Interview
Recruiter called and explained the position, the company benefits and other HR staff for the interview/hiring process. Tee set up a round 1 interview with hiring manager. After that, I could expect one more phone and then in person interview if selected.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Tell me about you background and the product/project you implemented and are the most proud of.
I applied online. The process took 8 months. I interviewed at T-Mobile (Dallas, TX) in May 2013
Interview
Hardly a process, more akin to an ordeal. Could easily be compared to King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail a la Monty Python. Along the way there were purges of employees (bring out your dead) political battles with other biz units (it's only a flesh wound) pointless travel (coconuts) pointless posturing (you must bring me a shrubbery) interviews with self-serving, empire-building, rambling junior executives (they said i was daft to build a castle in the swamp, but I built it just the same). The echo chamber will be the end of innovation and I won't she'd any tears when it does.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?