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-Introduce yourself(the only behavioural i got, I didnt get any situationals after this either, after this question it was all technical) -why did you use this pytest framework and not robot framework in your project? -how many automation framworks are you familiar with -if you were a QE and a developer gave you a fake page what would you do? how will you test it? -how do you run individual tests in maven? -why and how did you use selenium in this project? -what are linked hashmaps(this one tripped me up a bit lol cuz we were only taught hashmaps in out data structures class) -what is recursion? -between java and python which are you more comfortable with -write a factorial recursive function in java -if you had a word, write code to return the letters that are not duplicates(e.g a word like "google" your code should return only "l" and "e"(non-duplicates)) in python. -basically explained my personal projects to them and then they asked me followups plus (basically everything ive listed above)
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Quality Engineering and automation co-op

Interviewed at RBC

3.9★
Jun 23, 2025

-Introduce yourself(the only behavioural i got, I didnt get any situationals after this either, after this question it was all technical) -why did you use this pytest framework and not robot framework in your project? -how many automation framworks are you familiar with -if you were a QE and a developer gave you a fake page what would you do? how will you test it? -how do you run individual tests in maven? -why and how did you use selenium in this project? -what are linked hashmaps(this one tripped me up a bit lol cuz we were only taught hashmaps in out data structures class) -what is recursion? -between java and python which are you more comfortable with -write a factorial recursive function in java -if you had a word, write code to return the letters that are not duplicates(e.g a word like "google" your code should return only "l" and "e"(non-duplicates)) in python. -basically explained my personal projects to them and then they asked me followups plus (basically everything ive listed above)

Excessively repetitive and not really useful "Tell me about a time when you succeeded/failed/argued, etc." type questions based on Amazon's 13 leadership principles. This is an awful method for interviewing - the answers beg for unverifiable embellishment if not out-n-out lying = favor the BS artists. Only one of the 6 during the onsite delved into tech in any meaningful manner (and he was outside the group and industry, so he had no context with which to judge what I was saying). At no stage of the process was I asked to solve any sort of technical problem. Also, be prepared for all interviewers to hammer away on their laptops as you answer (rude, distracting and unprofessional).
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Automation/Manufacturing Engineering

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Feb 12, 2015

Excessively repetitive and not really useful "Tell me about a time when you succeeded/failed/argued, etc." type questions based on Amazon's 13 leadership principles. This is an awful method for interviewing - the answers beg for unverifiable embellishment if not out-n-out lying = favor the BS artists. Only one of the 6 during the onsite delved into tech in any meaningful manner (and he was outside the group and industry, so he had no context with which to judge what I was saying). At no stage of the process was I asked to solve any sort of technical problem. Also, be prepared for all interviewers to hammer away on their laptops as you answer (rude, distracting and unprofessional).

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