Stability. Good work-life balance. Good pay in the area for a software product company.
Very little growth opportunities.
Mostly lateral movements.
People just go around in circles within the different groups in the company since there are not many opportunities within the company. Also not many product-company-based opportunities within the Reston, VA area, hence people don't leave Verisign but feel "stuck" in their careers.
More aggressive investment is needed to fuel growth. The company needs to take more risks. The legal team seems to run the company. Once a proposal goes into the legal "black hole", nothing comes out of it; it just delays everything and dampens the enthusiasm to try new things.
Telephonic discussion: 1. Why do we need the Struts framework? 2. Questions related to Singleton, web application, and classloaders. 3. Technical details related to my current project... didn't give much detail on that.
The first interview was a thirty-minute conversation with an engineer who had been there a few years. The second interview was a low-key coding problem followed by some discussion. They really put me at ease before beginning the coding problem.
There is not a standard interview process. It depends from department to department. Mostly, questions will be from your CV/Resume, especially C/C++ and Java. Most of the company projects are C/C++ and Java-based.
Telephonic discussion: 1. Why do we need the Struts framework? 2. Questions related to Singleton, web application, and classloaders. 3. Technical details related to my current project... didn't give much detail on that.
The first interview was a thirty-minute conversation with an engineer who had been there a few years. The second interview was a low-key coding problem followed by some discussion. They really put me at ease before beginning the coding problem.
There is not a standard interview process. It depends from department to department. Mostly, questions will be from your CV/Resume, especially C/C++ and Java. Most of the company projects are C/C++ and Java-based.