I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wells Fargo in May 2015
Interview
Recruiter set up the interview. Was contacted by and engineer. Not many personal questions mostly knowledge about the Java. It was fairly easy and I was actually caught off guard with some of the questions. They weren't as detailed as I thought they would be.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a about Java garbage collector.
Tell me about your hardest academic project.
What is the difference between an interface and a class?
What is the difference between a list and a hashmap?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Wells Fargo (Chandler, AZ) in Oct 2012
Interview
Went directly to a panel interview - no phone screening. Panel interview had 4 software engineers and one manager/tech lead. All questions were very C++ focused rather than general programming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
C++ theory - describe polymorphism, inheritance, operator overloading.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Wells Fargo (Phoenix, AZ) in Aug 2011
Interview
They claimed they needed contact software engineers on a contract basis, but after 18 months is was a mandatory layoff folowed by a 6 month waiting period. The pay rate was below average for software contract engineer. The panel interview was disorganized and all they asked were a series of closed-ended questions about C++ and general random software concepts such as multithreading. If you memorize a C++ book and buzzwords in job description, you might pass the interview. If one of your answers doesnt exactly fit what they are thinking, you fail the interview. If this is how Wells Fargo treats software developers, I am glad I got turned down for the job and not working at Wells Fargo.
But my best advice to pass the interviews there are memoize a good C++ book well before the interview, and brush up on your computer science fundamentals or whatever buzzwords are in job description. Be prepared for answering "closed ended" memorization questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Multiple inheritance questions and obscure, rarely used C++ syntax