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      Senior QA Engineer Interview

      11 Mar 2009
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Santa Clara, CA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Yahoo (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2009

      Interview

      The hiring process starts with the HR Recruiter calling you up and fixing a date and time for the initial Phone Screen round. Then the cal came at the designated time and it was a Technical Interview with questions mostly coming from the skill I had written on my CV. Most of the questions were centered around UNIX environment and how to run commands on the same and writing of shell and Perl scripts. I think he was satisfied with the answers I gave. (gave an answer to almost all, and said where I was unable to give an answer). Then I was called by the HR person again after 2 days and asked to come for a Face to Face (1:1) interview, which would be Technical in nature. Here, the person started off by offering water and if I wanted to have some coffee or tea. As I declined, we settled down to a interview. The environment was very casual, people walking around in shorts and t-shirts and all the cubes were decorated with various personal effects of every nature. The interview room had soothing colors and it was a real great feeling to just be there. The atmosphere was very vibrant and full of activity. I would advise people going for the same to be not nervous and answer questions as they come and say no to the questions where they do not have an answer. The interviewers are no fools and they can see through if you are just trying to walk through your way, without knowing what you are talking about. Be frank about your knowledge skill and do not write anything on your CV, which you may have heard of or just touched but not have enough knowledge to talk about (like expect scripts, etc.)

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Given a dictionary, with all possible anagrams of a word, how would you test it out and what is the Data Structure that you will use to construct it with Design of the same.
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      How would you kill all processes for user "abc" with name xyz, using only a single command on the command line of UNIX/FreeBSD system. You are allowed to use pipes and sudo commands. Use of killall is not permitted.
      1 Answer

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