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      Software Development Engineer In Test Interview

      17 Jan 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Kirkland, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at The Mine (Kirkland, WA) in Aug 2017

      Interview

      Absolutely the worst I've had in 30 years working. First the lead interviewer was out sick, arrived and checked in with receptionist 10 minutes early 10 minutes past the scheduled interview time, checked again. Turns out they were scrambling to find people to interview me they finally got a group of 4 people about 20 minutes after the originally scheduled time. I've been through stress, panel, just about ever type of interview, this was clearly none of them. One guy you could just tell was really mad, every chance he kept saying I told you I need to leave and pick up my kids. Not sure why he was in the interview, could simply tell something wasn't right. Discussed my background and history, got into a rather length discussion about how to design stuff, was a bit involved, good questions by interviewers, except for one I need to leave asap... Interview was suppose to be an hour, about 50 minutes into the interview the have me get into Visual Studio and write a routine to do something, fonts were way too small to read and the colors for the intellisense was light gray one a white back ground, absolutely unreadable so i found i needed to go to reference and see the functions. It seems they thought i was lost and couldn't figure out their API/Classes from the intellisense, but sorry can't read a small font with poor color selections. Anyway got it coded up and finished it about 10 minute, i'd agree it was pretty simply, but took that much time to do as I needed to flip around the different files to see what was needed to be coded. Have a feeling since it went over the allotted time by 5 minutes or so, mainly because it started 20 minutes late, got the feeling they felt i wasn't qualified. Interesting as i've written about 10 complete test frameworks from scratch, have a patient for one of the testing frameworks developed at Microsoft, this was for an Selenium C# SDET, and i've always been the one go to person anytime people can't get something automated, be it Win32, Accessibility, windows/web, anything UI related I've always been able to when others couldn't. Just strange they felt i couldn't do UI testing, then again the interview process was seriously messed up on their end.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Pretty much domain specific, one lengthy discussion was on how to design a framework, pros/cons for various approaches.
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