I applied for a Software Engineer - Masters position online and received an invitation for an online WebEx video interview after about three weeks. The interview ended up being audio only.

The interviewer started with a resume review, followed by a coding question and an algorithm. He noticed that most of my projects were in Python, so he asked me to code in Python.

I felt the main question he asked was a bit unusual, and I could not gauge what he exactly expected. When I could not answer it completely, I was not satisfied with his answer or explanation.

I received a rejection after two days.

Q: Tell me about one of your projects.

Q: Tell me about your internship.

Q: What have you done in your Master's so far?

Q: What is your area of interest and why?

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Q: Merge sort.