Applied via LinkedIn Easy Apply and received a call from HR the next day.

Since the budget wasn't surplus, the HR conveyed that they couldn't proceed further.

A couple of days later, the same HR got in touch with me. This time, she said she had consulted with her recruitment manager and if I could deliver an exceptional performance, I might get a hike according to industry standards.

I agreed and we proceeded with the first telephonic round, which I cleared.

I was told that if I cleared the first telephonic round, I would be called for an onsite interview. But after that, they included one more round, a telephonic round, since they expected something very exceptional from me.

After that round was completed, I was told I didn't clear it and eventually couldn't continue with the interview process.

To my surprise, the second telephonic round was much easier, and a few questions were already asked in the first round.

This kind of budget shortage and hiccups in expectation left me with a bad impression of the company.

On the other hand, the HR was polite and gave me the reasons for my rejection in the second round, which directly pointed to the deficit budget.

Round 1: Telephone

1. Diff between linkedlist and arraylist
2. How do you locate dynamic web elements using XPath?
3. My Rest API Automation Framework - Data Driven
4. Diff between Abstract class and interface
5. Final Keyword in Class, Method and Variable level
6. Why do we use Maven?
7. How does Maven build a JAR and where is it placed? - Target folder
8. What configuration has to be done in the POM.xml to identify the starting point of the JAR execution? -
9. How will I form the JSON request in my automation framework?
10. How will I form the XML request in my automation framework?
11. Why should we use TestNG?
12. Do you know about any Searching algorithms and Sorting algorithms?
13. Diff between Overloading and Overriding
14. If I've configured NullPointerException and Exception in two diff catch blocks, will both get executed?
15. Can I use finally without a catch block?
16. Have you injected JavaScript in your Selenium automation framework? If yes, explain.

Round 2: Telephone

1. Diff between String and StringBuffer?
2. Which is better in performance: String or StringBuffer?
3. What is the choice of Java DS if your frequent operation is Insertion and Deletion?
4. What command do you use for Keyboard operations in Selenium Webdriver?
5. What is finally and finalize?
6. Difference between Implicit and Explicit Wait in Selenium?
7. Web Element Locator question.
8. What exceptions have you faced so far?