Thomson Reuters interview questions

Reuters Hong Kong is hiring a project based web application design lead with C++ skills - firm's office is nice, located at Tai Koo Cityplaza 3, occupying three full floors with tightly packed seats, and the development group in Hong Kong has roughly 200 heads, the interview manager told. The overall image of the hiring is negative - regarding the hiring process. Vacancy posted via staff agencies, the development manager couldn't come up even with both a written job description and a vacancy title even after I was interviewed. Form filling is still required amid my resume is preliminary reviewed by line manager. A 10 minutes 1:1 interview with a development manager which consists of mostly basic technical questions: 1) Which SQL Server you started using? 2) Do you have experiences on creating database applications from scratch? 3) Do you have experiences on database performance tuning? How do you tune database performance? 4) Do you have experiences and how do you do unit test, stress test? 5) Do you know C++? The line manager doesn't seem to be interested in answers to technical questions. No further questions were raised based on answers. No indication of how interviewer feels regarding the answers. No discussion on proposed expected salary. He then spent less than 2 minutes explaining the role, projects and position info as follows: 1 Year contract, project based position (renewable depends on budget - ie. whether there are still projects), leading a team of 4-5 developers. 1) Realtime Market Data Services for Internal Editoral Group 2) Infrastructure Management Web - alert system that aggregate and compile failures reports in production servers The manager simply wasn't keen on the hire. Insider reports that the manager believes projects are over by the time hiring can be done. My real question that weren't asked to Reuters was: If you have a team of 5 developers worked on the project for 2 to 3 years - Why are you hiring an external design lead??? I feel those projects smell bad...

I was hired for a developer who knows Java, Oracle and familiar with linux. Interview was good. Nice tricky question they asked. Only 6 questions had been asked in the interview. Not much waiting time. 3 round of interview happened. 1st one was technical, 2nd was HR and 3rd one was with the company A.V.P