I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at GlobalSign.In (New Delhi) in Jan 2022
Interview
I got contacted through CutShort platform, one of their recruiters messaged me and sent a test with a time limit of 2 hour 30 minute , which I had to complete before any I am taken forward for one on one interviews.
Test was also very heavy on coding, and barely any MCQs questions.
There were around 5 questions that required me to write full programs, one of them being a god damn computer game in javscript requiring more than 150 lines of code.
So as a fullstack role they expect candidates to know multiple backend languages, in this case nodeJS and PHP. Quite unfair in my opinion and because they emphasize on this so much it makes them a service oriented company rather than a product based one.
the platform on which the test had to be taken is called TestDome.
And the platform is really stupid, because it doesn't show you any detail about the test cases.
So when you run your code you cannot for your life, figure out why the test cases failed, what was the input in test cases, what was expected output and my program's output.
and if there are 3 test cases, 2 pass and 1 fail, you still get marked as 0.
And ofcourse the recruiter will not see your code because they are not a programmer, they will just see the final score.
Your final score depends on how many questions you got correct, and getting a question correct is obviously passing all test cases, which is almost impossible to do in TestDome platform.
The worse part is that you invest 2.5 hours on this stupid platform and the recruiters come back with a standardised rejection message on why they cant take me forward. Stop with this toxic practice of sending big tests that take so much time to complete and even if you do attempt, the platform is extremely buggy and wont mark you fairly.
Lesson learned, dont spend more than a hour on any one round unless its AAA company. and only give face to face interviews. Assignments and automated assessments are a big NO from now on, specially from this company. Should be avoided if you got other offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q- OOP concepts inheritance and static variable php question.
Q- Node Js event loop, process.nextTick() function.
Q - Docker configuration question, what config is used to assign max memory and cpu cores
Q - Program a game in Javscript, write a class which sets up a game and prints the character present in table cell on clicking, characters are not repeated, objective of the player is to select the biggest string possible without repeating characters.
TestDome platform - test cases will fail and not tell you why they failed, so dont bother with this question.