I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Verizon (Boston, MA) in Jun 2011
Interview
I had two interviews. One over the phone and one in person. Both were with a great manager. The HR Department and the manager kept in touch often using email.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Verizon
Interview
At the time I interviewed, Hughes Telematics was being acquired by Verizon. I met with several key managers from different areas of the company. After some confusion of "who" was suppose to be on the interview agenda as I sat in a conference room waiting for someone to come in, the HR recruiter came in and made small talk. One manager could not make it so I was asked to come back to meet with him and 2 additional managers that same week. Everyone I met with was very nice and no one asked trick questions just to see how I would respond. However, I feel the top manager (VP) liked my background and was determined to make a job offer that week. I feel this affected how the other managers conducted the interview. When I went back to meet with the other managers, the VP came in and made me the offer on the spot. He also wanted me to start the next week but I could not do that. I felt uneasy about the overall speed of the interview process but accepted the job anyway.
I applied through other source. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Verizon (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2013
Interview
I was contacted by the internal recruiting team while I had already other opportunities at an advanced stage.
I had a short in person meeting with the hiring manager, then interviewed with the rest of the team, roughly 30 minutes each. I thought the interview went pretty well and the questions were all very easy and not particularly probing.
Given my situation (pending offers) the hiring manager promised feedback by the following day or Monday at the latest, then went dark. I pinged the internal recruiter a couple times saying that I had to either get feedback or drop out, and she politely asked me not to and that she would get the manager to reply to me soon.
On wednesday after more prodding, I receive a puzzling message saying that team enjoyed talking to me but that my experience was more focused on enterprise while they were looking for consumer (nobody looked at my resume?).
I'm going on a limb and assume that was either a bogus excuse to really say "you're not a fit" or "we are moving too slowly for you" but the whole process sounds like it was severely cripple from internal disorganization and approximation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Market sizing opportunity for reverse billing Internet service providers for bandwidth instead of Verizon customers.