I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Kharkiv) in Nov 2018
Interview
I was contacted by EPAM recruiter after one of the conferences. Overall process took 4 months and I've passed an interview with HR, PMs, PMs from another project and one of the senior managers. Conversations were very pleasant and "light". One of the best interviews I've ever had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you describe one of your worst fuck-ups and how you resolved it?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Zürich) in Jan 2019
Interview
They have a pretty simple interview plan:
1st one is a simple and nice discussion with HR
2nd one is a technical related call with EPAM - team leader/manager
3rd one: you`re invited on-site for a "motivational interview"
I didn't like the 2nd one as a lot of questions were not having sense as you`ll see below. Or they were been trick questions. Who knows... And he was in such a rush that I felt always runned down by someone... His hungarian-english vocabulary was also a bit weird as you`ll see below in the interview questions. Anyway, next week I had (ironically), another interview with another big consultancy for the SAME client on the SAME project, and it was such a nice and relaxing interview... This one with EPAM, it felt bad, because he was just reading the questions from a piece of paper and checked the boxes with my answers...
7. You have 200 test cases. You need to do regression. But another 50 automated and 50 manual tests tops up. From these 100 new ones, 50% are with the highest importance. How many test cases would you include in the regression testing? Including the first 200 ones.
8. It’s Monday morning. You have to finish a lot of tests until Wednesday at 16:00 when the software will be released in production. You know it’s impossible to do all of them until then. What do you do?
15. One developer doesn’t agree with you, how do you handle it? He says the defect it’s not a defect, but it’s a feature. How do you handle this situation?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Moskau, ) in Jan 2019
Interview
First was a simple technical Skype interview.
Second was technical interview offline and some practical task like Fibonaci.
Next was manager interview,
customer manager interview and technical customer interview with some practical problem solving tasks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hard and Soft skills:
-Java SE, Java EE, DevOps, code style, DB SQL/NoSQL, experiences.
-Design Patterns, SOLID, GRASP, SOA, Microservices Architecture.