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BlackBerry Interview Experiences

Security Analyst

Waterloo, ON

Summer 2025No Offer

University of Ottawa · Computer Science

3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple rounds

Call with the full dev team. Security questions on threat modeling. No dedicated security background so I was out of my depth

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“What's the difference between an IDS and an IPS?”

Software Developer

Waterloo, ON

Fall 2025Accepted

University of Waterloo · Computer Science

3rd year · 3.7+ GPA · 2 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalConversationalFast process

Thirty min phone interview with two tech leads, they dig into your projects like super detailed follow up's about design decisions and tradeoffs and covered the difference between static libraries and shared objects, no live coding

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Explain the CAP theorem”

Software Developer

Waterloo, ON

Summer 2025No Offer

University of Waterloo · Computer Science

1st year · 2.1-2.4 GPA · 0 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalVirtualGhosted

OA 3 problems and the third was competitive programming didn't pass

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Explain what service discovery is and how it works in a microservices system”

QA Analyst

Waterloo, ON

Fall 2025No Offer

University of Waterloo · Computer Science

3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual

Casual phone call about goals and education first. Then OOP concepts and how I'd test an embedded system function. Got a 5 day take home after, small scope but expected production quality

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“How do you stay current with new technologies and trends in software development”
  2. 2.“Explain what a null pointer exception is and how to prevent it”
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