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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      30 Sept 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      5 Mar 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Blue Coat Systems in Mar 2016

      Interview

      My interview was a horrendous experience. It's supposed to be a technical phone interview for a position in bay area. Interviewer was very defensive, it's not possible to communicate with him at all. He didn't ask any technical question but making very insulting remarks. I will not recommend anyone interviewing with this company, I can't imagine working with someone like that.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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      2
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Blue Coat Systems in Jul 2013

      Interview

      Boxborough, MA location, applied last year. Applied as a referral. Hiring manager called and did a phone screen. One on-site interview. Fairly easy interview, one networking technical question. The main thing is that the interviewers wanted to make sure I understood the position and the challenges. After the single round of interviews (~5 people), ended up playing telephone/email tag for ~2 weeks until I found out that they were unable to match the compensation I requested.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe in detail (all layers) how a TCP connection is made.
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      28 Jan 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Salt Lake City, UT
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Blue Coat Systems (Salt Lake City, UT) in Jan 2016

      Interview

      I was contacted by a recruiter and brought in. They asked me some simple questions at first. The questions got harder and harder as time went on. Overall I didn't find the questions too challenging. Stuff about HTML/CSS, Java and Javascript. Nothing was that intense. They ended with some white board questions.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      How do you center a div on a page
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      Question 2

      Write an algorithm to traverse a binary tree and build a list of all the nodes in order of depth.
      1 Answer

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      22 Aug 2014
      Anonymous employee
      Draper, UT
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Blue Coat Systems (Draper, UT) in Feb 2014

      Interview

      I had a technical phone interview, an in-person technical interview, and a standard interview with the manager totaling 3 hours. The interviews were very thorough to test skills and personality.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you explain a technical concept to a non-technical person?
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