The interview process was straightforward.

I had three phone screens. The first one was more focused on Java, and I did not have much experience with Java, so it did not work out well. However, I think the interviewer understood this, and so came the second interview with an engineering manager (hiring manager). They asked some basic questions about my background and then a higher-level testing question: Given an API with minimal documentation that has been in production for a year, how would you go about testing it?

The third phone screen was more about resume cross-checking, spot-checking some of the technologies I mentioned on my resume.

They flew me down to Los Gatos (good accommodation). I was provided with the interview schedule ahead of time, which I liked as it showed that thought was given to the interview process.

There were seven interviews in two sections. If you passed the first technical section of four interviews, you moved on to the next step of three interviews, mostly with VP and director-level people.

Technical interview: Simple algorithm questions for coding. Then some abstract, high-level testing questions.

More emphasis was placed on whether I would fit the culture, which seemed to be open in terms of upper management having direct communication with engineers about the direction the company is taking and why.

It seemed like they are more of a hire/fire kind of culture, but talking to the interviewers, it did not seem like there was pressure on them.

Testing approach for something which is in production for a long time but did not have test infrastructure around it.

Would you go top-down or bottom-up? How will you start thinking about the strategy?