I submitted my resume through the Verizon Wireless career portal after finding the job on job board sites.

Interview #1 About a month later, I received a phone call from a Verizon recruiter to set up a phone interview. It lasted about a half hour, and they just asked me to tell them a little bit about my background and, "Why do you want to work for Verizon?"

Interview #2 I had a follow-up phone interview (about 2 weeks later) that was behavioral in nature. I responded using the STAR method.

Interview #3 The last interview was a technical interview over the phone. Be prepared and know the major concepts of OOP, for example:

• Encapsulation and how you implement it
• Abstraction
• Abstract Class

Also, they will ask you to do a problem-solving question (mind puzzle) over the phone, which can be challenging when you are trying to figure it out while communicating your thought process. Practice puzzles will help you with your problem-solving.

As long as you follow STAR and understand the concepts, you will make it far. The problem-solving question was the most difficult, primarily because it was over the phone. It was a three-part question, and I didn't get the entire problem correct, but I had the correct approach.