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QA Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

February 1, 2010
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I initially had an interview with them at a job fair at my university, followed by a random phone interview (they called me with no warning and asked if I could talk for about 30 minutes), and then an on-site interview with six people.

I immediately disliked the atmosphere at their headquarters. No one seemed happy or interested in working there, and my interview was very unorganized.

The person I was supposed to report to was unavailable, so I had to report to an HR manager who did a pretty good job of explaining the process for the day. The second interviewer couldn't make it, so a replacement had to be called in, arriving 10 minutes late. The following two interviewers were interrupted halfway by a call, and one of them even left early because he had somewhere to go.

The questions included:

  • Average technical Java questions (including JUnit testing)
  • Conceptual testing questions
  • Experience with testing questions
  • Thought process questions

My interview was cut short, and I did not get to interview with the last two people, but I had already lost interest after the first interviewer. So, the last interviews involved uninterested people discussing Java and testing.

Overall, the interviewers didn't seem very interested in what they were doing, and the interview felt more like an afterthought for them, like a chore they were forced to do. Even if I would have gotten an offer, I would have declined it.

Questions

You have five bottles with pills. One bottle has 9-gram pills, and the others have 10-gram pills. You have a scale that can only be used once. How can you find out which bottle contains the 9-gram pills?

How to create JUnit tests for exceptions. Give an example of a daemon thread. Basic algorithmic questions. How would you test a certain web page? Basic Java concepts.

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