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Software Engineer Test Engineering Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California

April 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Initial phone call with HR regarding resume, background, and skills.

First interview was with the Senior Software Engineer. He asked an average programming question, and we discussed algorithm complexity and other optimizations. I was also asked to come up with test cases.

This interview went well, and after that, I received an invitation for an onsite interview.

The onsite interview was very well organized. I met with recruiter Laura, who walked me through the entire process.

There were three interviews in total:

The first interview had three engineers join (one of them was based out of Seattle, so his part was virtual). I was asked to do whiteboarding on BST (traversals, etc.).

The second interview was about system design. It was quite challenging, and I had to come up with various approaches for efficient system design.

The last interview was more informal with the product testing manager. He was friendly and asked relatively non-technical questions, mostly about my background.

Finally, I met with HR at the end of the day, and she said they would get back to me.

It has been more than two weeks, and I haven't heard from HR.

Questions

Binary trees, binary search trees

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