I applied for the QA (Gray Box) Engineer position online and was contacted by the recruiter. He was very good and gave me a nice introduction over the phone, explaining the interview process. He set up a phone interview with the hiring manager for the next day. The phone interview went fine.

The hiring manager asked me about my current job and why I was looking for other opportunities.

Then, I was called for the in-person interview the following week. The first hour-long session went well, where they asked me a few questions on Java basics. A couple of problems were given, and I was asked to write programs to solve them. The interviewer verified the programs I wrote and suggested alternative ways to write them.

In the next hour, another QA automation person from the company joined. He showed me a couple of code snippets from their automation scripts and asked me to automate a few actions on their website.

I struggled initially because they were using GOSU, which is their own programming language. There were some differences compared to writing regular Selenium automation scripts with Java.

He helped me and answered all my questions. Finally, I wrote a code snippet and was able to execute it.

The third hour was with the hiring manager. This session felt somewhat performative, where they asked questions about my current project and the kind of work I do. I was given a scenario and asked to come up with test cases to test it. This round didn't go well, as the interviewer expected me to identify a couple of cases I hadn't thought of.

Overall, it was a good experience, and I felt the work atmosphere was very good.

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