Interviewed for the Software development engineer Test position in Bangalore,India The recruiter contacted and after making a quick background check he arranged for a phone screen. The phone screen had basic scripting questions and also programming questions and I did well so I was invited for an onsite interview. I had 5 1:1 interviews. All were technical and programming based on algorithm and data structures. Two were with SDETs, one with hiring manager,one with senior development manager and one was with general manager. I expected GM to ask culture fit ques. But to my surprise he asked me more technical focussing on data structures, modelling and complexity related questions, There was a local de-breif and they were good except that I did not know much on company and asked to read them and they arranged for 2 US phone rounds and HR told that will be the final rounds.They focused on few programming and automation framework related questions. First interviewer was good. But the second interviewer did not ask much challenging questions and there is nothing to do with much logic(technical lead for the project- the very very average interview in the whole interview process). Meanwhile HR requested for the payslips and my compensation details and he was quite positive. Then suddenly after 2 days the HR and hiring manager called me and said they wanted me to wait for 2 months since now they are looking for people strong in automation frameworks in UI and senior level. I mentioned that was not put in the job description and my resume clearly says I had no experience in UI automation and also clearly says I am not a lead. But when u want UI automation engineers why was the interview not focused on that and only on programming and Data structures?? It makes no perfect sense. And when all other interviewers are positive why is one interview the deciding factor?? The feedback was very good and exceptional in coding ,problem solving and DS. But UI and web service testing knowledge is limited and scope of entering company only after 2 months!!! :p... But should understand if a person is good logically and programming is good not a big deal to do with UI and web service testing. I just felt it was mere waste of my time and mind into the process. I accept the interviews except the last one with the lead in US was quite interesting and challenging. But I see some confusion in the over all hiring strategy !! One person decision influencing the whole interview loop!! If this continues they will keep losing good candidates because of bad interviewer!! I sent a detailed mail to HR why did not make the correct resume selection and waste other's time?? I had a very bad experience . A full day interview full of programming and a late night call 10-12 PM with US and finally a useless reason for wait. I mailed HR i am no more interested to wait and join the organisation please proceed with the other candidates. Over all a very bad frustrating experience

Total 4 Rounds Skype Interview - 1 Round How to find the processes running on port 80 and kill them using unix commands How to replace all occurrences of / with \ in a file Onsite Interview - 3 Rounds. 1st round - Coding prowess 2nd Round - Data Structures 3rd Round - Questions on Linux FS traversal, Selenium, REST APIs