I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Inovalon (Bowie, MD) in Oct 2015
Interview
Applied to several positions via employee referral (through a friend who already worked there). Got contacted by a recruiter after a month or so for a couple of positions. However, there was no further contact from the recruiter thereafter. A month after this incident, I was contacted by another recruiter for a Sr. Business Analyst position. After the initial call, the recruiter scheduled me for a call with the hiring manager. The hiring manager asked me about my background and some unconventional questions such as GPA, which courses I did good/bad on, proficiency in SQL and excel, etc. He asked me to rate myself on a leadership scales which would be equivalent to comparing apples to oranges. But I did anyway. Finally, he asked me if I was willing to consider if he were to employ me at the Business Analyst level rather than the Sr. Business Analyst level. Although I never replied, the recruiter contacted me a week later to schedule a final face-to-face interview. While on my way to the interview, received a call from the recruiter stating that the interview needed to be rescheduled to another convenient time because the hiring manager was out of office for some conference. I was invited to interview the following week. I interviewed with 4 people (2 in-person and 2 on-call interviews) at the corporate office. Overall, the interview experience was very mediocre (as has been my experience so far) and anyone with some experience of working at a company can clear these interviews quite easily. I was extended an offer the same week and was asked to join within two weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On a spectrum of 1 to 5 where 1 means that you're good at following instructions and poor at leading a team whereas 5 means that you're good at leading a team but poor at following instructions, rate yourself.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Inovalon (Bowie, MD)
Interview
Project manager contacted me through LinkedIn and asked me if I would be interested in a business analyst position at Inovalon. I said yes. Every soon afterwards, I got phone interview with the manager. I didn't do well for phone interview. At the end of phone interview, the manager asked me to prepare two presentations for the on-site interview: one for medical claim process and the other for process modeling. During the on-site interview, I wasn't able to answer a couple of questions about SQL queries. I didn't not get the job. However, people at Inovalon left a very good impression on me: they are very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you change the data type of a table column in SQL database without creating any new column in the table?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Inovalon (Silver Spring, MD) in Jan 2018
Interview
After I applied on line, I received a phone screen about 2 weeks later. Following the phone interview, I was scheduled to have a phone interview with the hiring Manager. The phone interview with the hiring manager was very technical and lasted 45 minutes. I was asked many questions on software, and programming languages. Be ready to answer tough questions and make sure you are super knowledgeable and very eloquent, otherwise you won't make the cut.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What software have you used in the past and describe your level of proficiency.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Inovalon (Bowie, MD)
Interview
Standard interview, no curve balls. The interviewer on the phone was nice and I met 3 of the team members during the on-site interview. The team mainly wanted to see if I was good to work with.