Anybody work for SAS

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athithi

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I'm trying to find out about their interview process. I've heard that it is very tough and intensive. SAS is rated one of the top employers in the country and they are HQed in Cary, NC. I'd just like to get a heads up about their interview process since I might have a shot at getting an interview with them in the near future...TIA
 
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heh, when I saw the thread title, I thought you meant the British SAS.

unfortunately, I've actually never heard of the company, and also, do no know of anyone who works there.

So this post is useless :eek:


EDIT: not so useless, it's a free bump!
 
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GeneValgene

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working at SAS

Bonuses

Flexible hours

Company fitness center

On-site child care at $250 a month

Profit sharing

Discounted event and theme park tickets

Cellular phone discounts

35-hour weeks

Free on-site medical clinic

12 holidays plus a paid vacation during Christmas

Free M&Ms on Wednesdays

On-site cafeteria


 
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AmigaMan

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I interviewed twice in college. Both times I fvcked up the interview. They're known for their shorter workdays, oftentimes you only are required to work a 7 hour day. Being the brilliant guy I am, I mentioned that to them in one of my interviews, saying how much I'd love to work a shorter workday. Doh! That was 9 years ago though, and I don't have any updated info. But you can be assured that it will be a thorough interview and you better be on the up and up in your math skills. They are a statistical analysis company afterall.

I would expect several interviewee's and several 1-2 hour interviews, consisting of a grilling on your math and programming skills, and probably something about your personality. If you go in calm and collected you should do ok as long as you have the skillset.
 
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theMan

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my dad told me about this once. he said he had a job back in the 70s working with SAS, plugging punch cards into the giant machines. :)
 
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athithi

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Originally posted by: AmigaMan
I interviewed twice in college. Both times I fvcked up the interview. They're known for their shorter workdays, oftentimes you only are required to work a 7 hour day. Being the brilliant guy I am, I mentioned that to them in one of my interviews, saying how much I'd love to work a shorter workday. Doh! That was 9 years ago though, and I don't have any updated info. But you can be assured that it will be a thorough interview and you better be on the up and up in your math skills. They are a statistical analysis company afterall.

I would expect several interviewee's and several 1-2 hour interviews, consisting of a grilling on your math and programming skills, and probably something about your personality. If you go in calm and collected you should do ok as long as you have the skillset.
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Thanks for the info! I submitted my resume to them a long time back, so I am not even sure what the exact position was. My profile is that of a Software Architect. I've heard nothing but great things about this company so it would definitely be nice to meet with them. I don't know if I fancy my chances in a math-intensive interview :eek: Heck, I've got nothing to lose - at least they seem interested by my profile!
 
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Originally posted by: GeneValgene
LOL

___________

working at SAS

Bonuses

Flexible hours

Company fitness center

On-site child care at $250 a month and you can eat lunch with your kids

Profit sharing

Discounted event and theme park tickets

Cellular phone discounts

35-hour weeks

Free on-site medical clinic

12 holidays plus a paid vacation during Christmas

Free M&Ms on Wednesdays

On-site cafeteria at cost

Liberal dress code - saw sandels and cut-off jean shorts on the campus at Cary
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Fixed part of it.

/Econometrics major, used to write SAS code, attend SUGI
 
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gsellis

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Originally posted by: JS80
M&M's is definitely a dealbreaker
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Just when I switched over to doing OS engineering, I was given a box of vendor M&M's. I gave them out for free to anyone on the condition that they counted how many were in the bag, and what the color breakdown was. I created a template for it and was working on a SAS/AF application to run the analysis and present graphical breakdowns of the distributions and other stats on VM/CMS (that is an IBM big iron OS) just so I could submit it as a 'how to'. If the paper was accepted, it was a trip to Hawai'i to present it. I figured the M&M's would make it a sure thing. :D



 
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I know they're developing business models around providing education researchers with Value-Added Analysis models (e.g HLM regression, Markov Chain Monte Carlos, etc...). Thats probably just a small percentage of their overall applications market, but its new, and VAA has been getting a lot of attention from state and federal organizations (e.g., US DoE, state and large district DoEs)
 
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athithi

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Originally posted by: George P Burdell
You better have a strong background in calculus and statistics.
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Did it in high school and college. Nothing in my resume would even remotely indicate that those are strong focus areas for me. I'm really wondering why they called :confused: I guess I'll find out shortly...maybe they just called to chide me that I dared to apply :D
 
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