Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite l'università. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) nel mese di mar 2014
Colloquio
Consisted of initial phone screen by recruiter, plus three additional 45 minute phone interviews with project and team leads. I was not interviewing for a strictly coding-focused position, more of grey-box or black-box testing, so the questions I was asked were typically general questions about testing some hypothetical product. However, I did have a few basic coding questions that were basically to assess whether I was familiar with certain data structures (hash maps, arrays, sorted heap) and assessing runtime (big-O notation).
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Most of the questions were things like, "You work for a company that manufactures blenders. How do you test this blender?" They're basically looking for you to consider every possible angle in which you would test this product-- Who's the user, what's your company's warranty, how does it handle standard products, how well does it make a milkshake, how does it handle rocks if you put them in there, should it handle rocks, etc. They also asked me to test an office printer, an ATM machine, and a web browser.
The coding questions I was asked were things like, "Given an unsorted array with n elements where every element except for one is duplicated in the array, how do you find the unique element?"
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Palantir Technologies
Colloquio
I was contacted by the HR person and had my first interview with a senior product quality engineer. Then I had another phone interview with a team member. I didn't make it to the on-site interview though. The overall interviewers were very nice and straight-forward.
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Given a code, how would you test it.
How would you test an Amazon shopping cart.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Palantir Technologies
Colloquio
I went through a quick interview with the hiring manager and two different current QE employees over a period of 4 weeks. The interviewers were extremely nice and willing to help out and answer any questions; I very much enjoyed going through the interview process with Palantir. They ask in general two types of questions in the interview: a simple technical question that addresses whether you know about simple data structures and is at least capable of adding on the their current vocab and understanding, and a testing question where they ask you to test a product (i.e. a vending machine).
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How do you get the nth term of a fibonacci sequence?