Trustev! (Cork , Ireland)
Firstly, I was contacted by a recruitment company who asked about my experience and salary expectation. Then I got the telephonic conversation with the Development manager and the team lead. They asked me all sorts of technology used and the projects worked so far. It went for 30mins. Next day,. I got a call from recruiter that they wanted to have Face to face interview. They again asked all sorts of projects worked so far. Asked incomplete and open questions . Face to face was with the development manager and qa engineers. QA
(senior 5-7 yrs) experience repetitively asked if I had done manual testing, which I declined. After getting doubt, I asked them if role is pure automation or manual is also involved, which they said that only 20% manual, rest automation.( I had done total experience of 3 yrs in test automation and wanted to switch only because they advertised the job position with cutting edge technologies using Azure etc.). After an hour of useless questions , interview got over. 2-3 days later ,I got the offer which I accepted. But after going there, I felt there was no system in place, around 50-70% manual. Old automation code is not maintained and of poor quality, so for new release, need to re-write the code. When I asked my manager about more than 50% manual testing ,that during interview, he said 20% manual only, then manager only said, 'it is what it is'." Manual is also important"..blah blah. I changed my previous company to this company in hope of using latest technology, but I was hugely disappointed. Since I wanted to focus on doing Automation, I left this company few weeks back. In new company, I am using great new tools with better salary. So, if anyone is going to have an interview here...make sure you ask the right question and agree before hand, else, you would be stuck and disappointed like me. For laid-back and easy going, this is the good company to go.
