Position: Software Engineer in Test (SET)
Location: Mountain View, CA
Initially, phone interview is scheduled but in a week Recruiter called to inform that Phone interview is waived and i am in for direct onsite interview.
Onsite:
Round 1:
Round 2:
- Given two strings
s1ands2write a function to return two integers one that counts characters of the strings at same index and other count characters of the stings at different index.
Ex: ACBD and ABDB should return 1, 2 or if input is ABDB and ACBD then output should be 1, 2
Follow-up: If there is a continous sequence of characters then how would you handle.
Lunch Break
- Lots of options to pick from. Had a great conversation and went for a 10 min walk after lunch.
Round 3:
- Write all possible test cases to test if the date is a valid format or not. More testing question on flaky tests, interesting bugs found etc.
- https://leetcode.com/problems/permutation-in-string
Round 4:
- Top causes for flaky tests and reasons and how or what you do to overcome these issues.
- https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-common-subsequence
Round 5:
- Test a vending machine, write all the tests that you perform.
- Design a web crawler and follow up questions.
Out of 45 mins, around 20-30 mins are gone for testing questions which leaves 15-20 mins for coding questions or design questions. Although I was able to complete most of the coding questions, i am not good at Design questions.
I did not get the offer but my recruiter gave a constructive feedback and wanted to be in touch with me. I felt sad and depressed for couple of days but now I am motivated to improve to work on design and coding skills and continue my job search.