This was the worst interview I have ever had! The interviewer asked questions about networking that QA automation development engineers would not be aware of. They need to change their interview pattern.

When I asked why the questions were all geared towards networking, the interviewer answered that it’s part of the job that he does. It doesn’t matter what he does; it should have been a specification in the role description. Or, when the candidate is not aware of networking, he needs to move on to test other concepts, which he didn’t!

Absolutely weird! The interview felt more like it was for a Dev/Network Engineer than for a QA. No QA-related concepts or questions were asked or tested.

1. UDP

2. TCP

3. How does communication happen at the third layer of TCP?

4. Security over the network: How to maintain it? How can attacks happen? SQL injections.

5. Spring annotations and dependency injection.

6. HTTP header requests in detail, including protocol versioning.

7. Program: Find the largest prime number that is not the largest from the given input.