I was first contacted by the recruiter for a phone interview, which lasted about 30 minutes. A document was shared over Google Docs where I had to answer a programming question and type my answer into the doc so the interviewer could see my code.

Once I passed that stage, the next round of interviews was on campus. This involved interviews with 4 different QA engineers, with a lunch break in between.

The questions were not particularly hard, but apparently, I didn't do well enough to get the job. Three out of the four QA engineers asked mostly programming questions, while the other asked mostly about QA-specific topics. There weren't a lot of data structure questions, no linked lists or anything like that. I did have to show how to do merge sort.

The interviewers were all very nice and knowledgeable.

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