I applied online. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation
Interview
Was a breezy phone call to assess my past experience and interest in learning relevant software technologies. Questions were mostly along the standard lines - included conversation both from HR perspective, as well as technical aspects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between QA and software development? Which do you think you are better at?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation (Burlington, MA) in Apr 2018
Interview
Phone interview followed by a Skype interview. Both were to gauge your interested and also to know you a little more in regard to past experience. They brought me for an on-site interview after. The people that interviewed me were 10 minutes late and one of them was very pushy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past work experience/projects, bridge crossing puzzle problem, main concepts of OOD, writing a program that takes in two text files and produces a third file that contains only the first and third column of the first file and second column of the second file.
I applied online. I interviewed at Sefas Innovation (Boston, MA) in May 2017
Interview
Applied online, then got a phone screening a few days later which was mostly just describing the position. After this was a Skype interview which was a lot more in depth about my background and projects, not very technical. Then was invited on site. This was purely technical, I met with 2 architects from the team. They were very interested in some points I listed on my resume which I had done about a year prior. They wanted me to go into detail about some of this and since it had been such a long time ago, and I was not prepared enough as I did not expect them to focus on this, I faltered. After this background, they went to the whiteboard. The architects were very cold and didn't have much enthusiasm so this can be a bit intimidating and bring down the mood. It was not a good interview on my end so I didn't get an offer as expected.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Brain Teaser: If you have 8 identical coins but one weighs less than the other, find the different coin with only 2 weighs.
Pseudocode: Given two files of equal length of lines, create a separate file which combines both files by line. Line n in file 3 = (Line n from file 1 + line n from file 2) etc...