Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Statistics Canada with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 79.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Statistics Canada overall takes an average of 55 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Statistics Canada as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 50%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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Submitted resume and cover letter, as usual. Was contacted later, standard phone interview, asked mostly technical questions, lasted about half an hour, mostly about Java. Was kind enough, said any questions I could not answer I could come back to later on.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Statistics Canada (Ottawa, ON) in Jan 2016
Interview
The interviewers were relaxed and very nice people. Asked mostly behavioural questions. They asked to talk about myself, about my projects, about related experience, if I had any questions, etc.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Statistics Canada in May 2017
Interview
I applied through my school internship program. It was a phone interview. Only a few non-technical questions; they were about teamwork. The majority of the questions were technical; they asked for quite a few definitions, too.