A recruiter reached out to me about a position. After a short discussion, we moved on to scheduling the first phone screen. The recruiter was very welcoming and scheduled the phone screen really fast.

The person who interviewed me for the phone screen had a strange accent and started off directly with technical questions right off the bat, without any introduction. They began with some testing questions for 5 minutes and quickly moved on to the coding part in the next 10 minutes.

The coding part was a simple Java problem (no worries if you are very good at programming). I discussed multiple approaches to solve the problem, and every reply I received was like, "No big deal, just solve the problem." I wasn't able to complete the problem on time, but I tried and explained the logic I had coded. Then we moved on to writing test cases for the code I wrote. I wrote a lot of them, covering different areas: positive, negative, edge, security, load, etc.

I received the rejection email the next day. I guess they are looking for deeply technical coders rather than test engineers. Prepare well. Best of luck to anyone who is giving the interview!!

Function to return the sum of two very large numbers (around 10,000 digits).