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| Re: I bombed a fucking phone interview today by Mysterio 06/19/2014, 10:25pm PDT | ||||
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laudablepuss wrote: Meant to say - thank you! I ended up getting an in-person interview with the place I was talking about at the beginning of the thread. They brought me in for a four hour interview, three of which I'd be on a laptop with a one-hour review at the end. The QA lead wanted me to write up manual test cases for their app on iOS, Android and the web and also develop automation in Java using Selenium over eight pages for their web application. There was no way to finish that in three hours, so I spent 45 minutes writing up "manual test cases" in Notepad and then 2 hours and 15 minutes going from a blank page to the start of a Selenium framework. I got two pages out of the 8 automated. I was coding faster and more accurately than at any other point in my career, admittedly it was exhilarating. I felt like a machine! I met with them for the last hour and one of the manual test cases I wrote read, "Ensure that the app, when placed on iOS says 'Foobar.'" The guys there said, hey, it shouldn't say that. That's our competitor. I have seen a lot of apps have different names when they are your phone so I thought nothing of it at the time. As it turns out, they have a competitor that has cloned their app. Or they cloned the competitor. Or they both pulled from the same datasource somewhere. I was going so quickly, and their competitor's app looked so much like their Android and web service that I honestly didn't notice. I didn't get an offer (I was told they "couldn't get past" the fact that I had the wrong app up in that instance) but at the same time asking for about 20 hours of work over multiple platforms to be compressed into three was a shitty thing to do, in my opinion. I remember saying, "I couldn't finish it all in the time allotted" and someone was like, "That's OK." If that's OK then rework your interview into something realistic. ... I did like the part where I started developing automation they could peruse (I hooked it up to the Jenkins build server I had on my laptop for chrissake -- the laptop is there generating green/red ball results). But there was a lot of questions about why I did things a certain way in writing my code that were essentially arbitrary. The lead had contempt for Selenium IDE and one of the other testers said that he uses it all the time. What FoK said earlier in the thread rang true, I really got the sense that there was a sense of smugness to the entire proceeding. I wasn't that broken-up when I got the email saying that they declined. Afterwards, though, I checked in with a friend that works at a place half a mile from where I live. They were looking to hire an automation engineer and had written up a job description that day. I had one phone interview, one interview with the QA lead and one with a couple developers and aced it. I start next month. They do not seem to have an expansive automation framework in place and I am really, really looking forward to walking to work and building something from nothing (or very little). All told, it couldn't have worked out better, haha. ICJ |
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I bombed a fucking phone interview today by 04/22/2014, 9:31pm PDT  Re: I bombed a fucking phone interview today by 04/23/2014, 9:00am PDT Re: I bombed a fucking phone interview today by 06/19/2014, 10:25pm PDT Congratulations! by 06/20/2014, 4:08am PDT Yes, what he said! by 06/20/2014, 5:33pm PDT Condolences by 06/20/2014, 9:32pm PDT This entire method of interviewing is bullshit by 04/24/2014, 4:28pm PDT They have phone interviews for fucking now? NT by 04/30/2014, 12:33am PDT See how painful it is to be on the receiving end of this, TDARCOS? NT by 04/30/2014, 5:38am PDT |
