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On interviewer spoke broken english and was very hard to understand, asked textbook and theory questions and not in a very clear process, seemed like he Googled and wrote down a bunch of questions from a search to ask prior to the interview, saw notes and theory written on a legal pad. Asking questions on free body diagrams, mechanics and thermodynamics, like write and explain Gibbs free energy equation and explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Did not ask too much that would be used daily as the job was described, the theory can be referenced in a book or Googled when needed, people do it all the time and little is used daily unless you work in a research. No applicable skills and appears this person was a recent fresher with not too much practical experience in the field.
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Senior Staff/Principal Mechanical Engineer

Interviewed at Arlo Technologies

4.4
Aug 16, 2018

On interviewer spoke broken english and was very hard to understand, asked textbook and theory questions and not in a very clear process, seemed like he Googled and wrote down a bunch of questions from a search to ask prior to the interview, saw notes and theory written on a legal pad. Asking questions on free body diagrams, mechanics and thermodynamics, like write and explain Gibbs free energy equation and explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Did not ask too much that would be used daily as the job was described, the theory can be referenced in a book or Googled when needed, people do it all the time and little is used daily unless you work in a research. No applicable skills and appears this person was a recent fresher with not too much practical experience in the field.

Third and fourth round were on the same day one was with the QA manager and other with the QA director. Video conference may be because of covid 1- What is Dom.? 2- what does Java do in web applications? 3- good and worst thing your coworker say about you? 4- what is quality? 5- defect management? 6- scrum questions ( how many meetings are there in scrum except daily scrum) 7- what is browser cache? 8- what will you test in web applications? 9- why do you want to join CA? 10- questions from previous job? 11 - what do you prefer manual or automation? 12- do you know API testing?
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Senior/Principal QA Engineer

Interviewed at Curriculum Associates

3.9
Oct 9, 2020

Third and fourth round were on the same day one was with the QA manager and other with the QA director. Video conference may be because of covid 1- What is Dom.? 2- what does Java do in web applications? 3- good and worst thing your coworker say about you? 4- what is quality? 5- defect management? 6- scrum questions ( how many meetings are there in scrum except daily scrum) 7- what is browser cache? 8- what will you test in web applications? 9- why do you want to join CA? 10- questions from previous job? 11 - what do you prefer manual or automation? 12- do you know API testing?

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