Applied on LinkedIn. After 3-4 weeks, a technical HR contacted me.

There was one technical phone screen on Skype with the Lead QA. They asked a few technical questions on automation processes, testing, Java, Selenium, and REST APIs and I was asked to solve one coding question.

In the second round, I was asked to take a HackerRank test which had 3 coding questions.

The third round was an onsite interview with four people: an Engineering Manager, an Architect, the Lead QA, and one Developer. I answered almost all questions. I did not do well on the test cases for the Google spreadsheet at a system level because that was the last question with the Manager and we ran out of time.

For three weeks, I was in contact with the recruiter to know the feedback and eventually gave up.

One day, I got a call from the recruiter saying that they had hired an internal candidate. I consider it a neutral experience because, even though they did not select me, I tried other companies and received four better offers than Autodesk.

Coding questions in all rounds:

• There is a file. How do you access the file and find the count of each duplicate word in the file?
• Find the total count of the occurrence of duplicate integers.
• Return n Fibonacci numbers in an array.
• Print Pascal's triangle for a given n rows. Also, add code to read/scan n.
• Write test cases for Google Sheets at a system level.
• Write SQL to find the authors of a book (join 3 tables).
• Reverse "Hello World" to "olleh dlroW".
• Find the pattern: 110000110010100. In this example, the pattern is after every '1' there is '100'.
• Tell me test cases for a billing API for Walmart or Amazon. What do you test and what do you not test (i.e., out of scope)? (Do not be fooled by the shopping cart to help find what is out of scope). (Debit amount from a credit card for orders, etc. One test case I did not come up with is crediting an amount to a credit card for returns.)
• Runtime polymorphism. (I was given code with polymorphism and asked to tell what will be the output).
• Class cast exception. (I was given code with polymorphism and asked to tell what will be the output).
• Given String1 = "abdcbsfe", String2 = "dbas", outputString = "dbbascef". Write code to generate the outputString. Give runtime complexity and space complexity for the solution.