I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Crane Payment Innovations (Malvern, PA)
Interview
Worked with a recruiter. Had a phone screen with multiple managers on a conference call. This was followed by an onsite. The process was poorly communicated to me, possibly not the company's fault.
After seeing the remote location, business park 10 minutes from anything, the open layout, one room for all employees that feels similar to a trading floor, and the lack on managements ability to answer simple questions about the position I decided there was no benefit over my current position.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Give a power point presentation on "Your greatest achievement in the last two years"
Design an alarm clock. Given about 30 minutes draw up a concept of a full life cycle for developing a new product. Detail manufacturing to pseudo-code.
Basic C knowledge test. What do all of these keywords and code do. Largly a useless test which won't determine the quality of a coder since it asks "what if" syntax questions and non-standard coding practices.
I interviewed at Crane Payment Innovations (Telford, PA)
Interview
Recruiter call, arduous screening. Have to prove you can be trusted in exhaustive days worth of panel interviewing and group ganging. Clear communication from recruiter however. Underpaid and overworked employees.