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There was a detailed technical question about a test strategy for a complex system built with a domain-specific language. When I answered in general terms, the interviewer kept pressing for more specifics and detailed examples. I finally realized that she didn't really understand the problem. I confronted her with "This is your job, isn't it? And you don't know how to do it!" She admitted I was right.
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Senior Software Development Engineer In Test Lead

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Jul 23, 2014

There was a detailed technical question about a test strategy for a complex system built with a domain-specific language. When I answered in general terms, the interviewer kept pressing for more specifics and detailed examples. I finally realized that she didn't really understand the problem. I confronted her with "This is your job, isn't it? And you don't know how to do it!" She admitted I was right.

Round 3: Skype - Retrieve the number of employees working in each department - SELECT department_id, COUNT(*) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id; - Unix/Linux Command to find replace a text for all the files in the given directory Ans: find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' {} \; - Unix/Linux Command to Find only ERRORS in the log files.
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Senior Software Development Engineer In Test

Interviewed at CA Technologies

3★
Jul 28, 2018

Round 3: Skype - Retrieve the number of employees working in each department - SELECT department_id, COUNT(*) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id; - Unix/Linux Command to find replace a text for all the files in the given directory Ans: find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' {} \; - Unix/Linux Command to Find only ERRORS in the log files.

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