I interviewed at Evergreen Investments (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
"Chill Phone Screen. Discuss resume highlights, reasons for pursuing Private Equity, and interest in Evergreen. Provide examples of skills, experiences, and alignment with Evergreen’s goals and values." Overall this was just a phone screen, and there would be a superday afterwards in the SF office
The interviewer was clearly reading off of a script and did not engage beyond the script. The interview was done over the phone, making it harder to communicate and connect with the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when things did not turn out how you expected and how you adjusted.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Evergreen Investments (Boston, MA) in May 2009
Interview
Very knowledgeable interviewer covered most of the common java and j2ee questions. There was a heavy focus on struts, hibernate, spring and content management. Many questions on Jboss and weblogic covering system administration, war and ear file deployments as well as jdbc connection pooling.
Common questions included:
What is the difference between type 1-4 jdbc drivers?
What is the difference between a list and a hash map?
What is the most effective way to manage content tiles?
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Question: Does Java provide any construct to find out the size of an object?
