I met one of the recruiters at a career fair at my university and we chatted for a bit. He encouraged me to apply online if I was interested, but it seemed like they needed employees since I got a call from them within a few days, without ever submitting an online application. I was invited for an interview at my university campus for the following day.

I was met by two employees, one from the SAS division and one from IIS. Pretty standard initial meeting, mostly asked me questions about my resume and pitched me the general culture of the company. We spoke for about 30 minutes before it ended.

About a week later I received several emails from the people I had met with as well as different recruiters telling me about job openings they had. I applied for a position and was contacted the next day about coming to the McKinney branch for another set of interviews. I arrived on site by 8am with four other potential hires.

We spent the first half of the morning going over presentations about the company, the different divisions, and hierarchical structure (which was massive and the most boring part of the entire process), and then each of the candidates and myself were required to give a brief 2 minute presentation about a technical project we had done. Afterwards they put us all into different rooms for 3 sets of interviews lasting a few hours. All the questions were incredibly easy, mostly behavioral. I was very disappointed by the lack of technical questions. The ones they did ask could easily be answered by a freshman in college. All in all the 3 interviews lasted between 10am to 12pm and consisted of two 1-on-1 interviews, and one with 3 other employees.

Afterwards we were all treated to lunch with a few of the software managers and a few of the newer employees. The room was eerily quite for the amount of people joining us for lunch, not much small talk going on so I did my best to keep conversations going. After lunch we were given a brief tour of the campus as well as one of the labs and finally escorted back to the lobby by 2pm.

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