I was rejected after the first telephonic round. The interview was for one hour.

The interviewer seemed to have memorized all the questions. It felt more like a rapid-fire round.

She asked me around 50 questions covering Java, Selenium, SQL, testing, automation testing, and Agile. While the questions were decent, it appeared she had the answers written on a piece of paper.

For instance, when she asked me how to reverse a string in Java, I provided two approaches:

• One using two pointers at the left and right ends of the string, swapping characters until the pointers meet.
• Another approach with O(n) space complexity using a stack in Java.

She seemed to struggle with understanding these complexities. Similarly, for another question about counting characters in a string, when I suggested using a simple integer array of size 26, she asked why not use hashing.

She appeared to have already decided on the answers.

Moreover, at the end of the interview, she asked me to rate myself in Java, Selenium, and SQL. After asking so many questions, she should have been able to rate me accordingly.

Before ending the call, she asked if I had any questions. When I inquired about the roles, she stated that the language for framework creation had not yet been decided.

Even though I answered 85% of the questions, I still don't know what led to my rejection.

Selenium:

• Values in web table column
• XPaths
• Screenshots
• Automation framework
• Window pop-up handling
• Multiple browser handling
• Robot class
• Reporting
• Issues faced in using Selenium
• Tell a scenario you automated
• Requirement gathering
• TestNG data provider

SQL:

• Third highest salary
• Emp and Dept tables: Find count of employees in each department