Medidata Solutions interview questions

I was referred by a current employee and was contacted by an in-house recruiter a few days later. The recruiter set up a technical phone screen with one of the engineers, consisting of general background questions and a simple algorithm question which I live-coded via a shared Google Doc. I also used this phone screen to ask several questions about the company. A week later I was invited for an on-site interview. This was a 4 hour process where I met with 5 different managers one-by-one. Each manager had a different interview style, but each asked me a series of technical and behavioral (though, primarily technical) questions. Some questions involved coding on paper or a whiteboard, others were answered by talking conceptually about how an algorithm’s operations, other questions led to discussions about CS concepts or various technologies. I enjoyed the conversational approach used by some of the interviewers. Each manager left time for me to ask questions. I was informed that in order to receive an offer, all 5 managers had to agree to hiring me. The next day I was informed that the feedback from my interview was positive, and I had a brief call with the recruiter about my potential offer. During this call, I felt like I was being discouraged from negotiating my offer once I received it. This left me with a negative feeling, but overall the recruiter was very helpful. I received and accepted my offer a few days later. Other than feeling pressured to not negotiate my offer, my only complaint is that I did not feel like I was given much concrete information about the projects I would be working on and the specific responsibilities of the position.

I was already working as a consultant for a while so I knew all of the players and the interview process was pretty straightforward... although there was massive amounts of miscommunication between HR and hiring manager. The entire process was about 3 months which is a joke in today's growing economy, but I really liked the company's mission and direction and wanted to make it work. After the initial interviews it took about a week or so to get to negotiation and this is where it all went south. To make a long story short, HR used bait and switch tactics to change the title several times and the final time they downgraded it by two levels without telling me. I found out about the the final title change AFTER I accepted the offer and I found this out by accident. The title was on the onboarding forms a week before my start date. After finding out, I inquired about it and the hiring manager told me "there's nothing I can do about it. HR sets the titles". This is ridiculous considering the hiring manager was an "executive". I guess their power is limited OR they knew about this bait and switch tactics that HR uses and was ok with it. Aside from this, throughout the entire negotiation process the hiring manager and HR would contradict each other and even blame each other for all of the mishaps that took place, which I won't even bother to mention. You get the point. Very unethical process, to say the least! I ran away from the offer and never looked back!