First questions was:
-What do you know about our company and why are you interested in us?
-Do you know who our customers are and which areas we are working at?
-What do you think is the difference between engineer and consulant?
Later, the interviewer went though my CV asking questions e.g. why my PhD studies were one year longer than usual or how come I speak 5 foreign languages.
All this lasted for 30 mins.
Then the was a case study question:
Five webloggers - joshua Allen, meg Hourihan, jason Kottke, robert Scoble, and joel Spolsky - were competing for karma points on the major search engines: google, yahoo, altavista, lycos, and msn. karma was distributed on a five point scale. the most popular weblog received 5 points, and the least popular received 1 point. for each search engine, no two webloggers received the same number of points. overall scores were determined by adding up the individual scores from each search engine.
Allen got the highest number of karma points - 24. Kottke was consistent in his scores: he got the same karma points from 4 different search engines. Spolsky got 5 points from lycos, and 3 from msn.
no two webloggers got the same total score, and the final rankings were as follows: Allen, Hourihan, Kottke, Scoble, and Spolsky. how many karma points did Hourihan get from lycos?
(the answer is 2)
It was given 15 mins to solve the task although in reality I had 30 mins. If the interviewee cannot solve the task, he is asked the approach for the solution.
There were no technical questions at all. Most probably they should have been asked at the second round of interview process.
