Rubicon Project Test Automation Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
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Rubicon Project
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Senior Easy Positive experience No offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
I sent in my application and the recruiter got back to me pretty fast. The week after, I had a 30-minute phone screening. Then, I was invited to their Seattle office for an in-person interview loop. It was a 6-round interview process that included both technical and behavioral questions, focusing on my experience and how I handle problems or conflicts. They were really good at managing the whole thing, flexible with dates and my travel plans. It was a good learning experience, and I'm waiting to hear back about an offer.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- How would you approach automating the testing of a stack of sticky notes?
- Write a function that takes a string and a substring and returns 1 if the substring exists within the string, otherwise return -1.
Rubicon Project
Software Development Engineer in Test
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 8 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
Got an email from a recruiter, then a technical phone interview with the hiring manager about Java and testing. A couple weeks later, I had a day-long onsite at their LA office. They flew me in the morning of the interview, and I went straight from the airport to the interview and back. The onsite had 6 hour-long sessions, including one behavioral with the hiring manager and his boss. The office is an open workspace with catered lunch daily.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Find all 3-element subarrays that sum to zero from a given integer array like {-1,2,1,4,1,-3}, for example {2,1,-3} and {-1,4,-3}, and then test your code.
- Write a function that takes an integer like 543 and returns the string "500+40+3", and test your code.
- Find the second largest element in an integer array and test the method.
Rubicon Project
Software Development Engineer in Test
Entry Average Positive experience Accept offer 7 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Onsite Technical screen Phone screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Coding
It was the best interview experience I've had so far. The process was smooth and felt relaxed. I had one phone interview followed by 6 onsite interviews. The interviewers and recruiters were true professionals and very good at their jobs. Overall, it was a great experience.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- If you were in an elevator at work and noticed everyone was facing backwards, how would you react?
- What's your approach to finding the second largest element in a dataset, aiming for an O(n) solution?
Rubicon Project Test Automation Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Rubicon Project interview reports.
“Write a function that takes a string and a substring and returns 1 if the substring exists within the string, otherwise return -1.”
Read reports →“Find the second largest element in an integer array and test the method.”
Read reports →“Write a function that takes an integer like 543 and returns the string "500+40+3", and test your code.”
Read reports →“Find all 3-element subarrays that sum to zero from a given integer array like {-1,2,1,4,1,-3}, for example {2,1,-3} and {-1,4,-3}, and then test your code.”
Read reports →“Can you write a program to remove vowels from a given string?”
Read report →“What test cases would you create for a typical login page UI, shown as a print-out?”
Read report →“What's your approach to finding the second largest element in a dataset, aiming for an O(n) solution?”
Read report →“If you were in an elevator at work and noticed everyone was facing backwards, how would you react?”
Read report →“How would you approach automating the testing of a stack of sticky notes?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 6 Rubicon Project interview reports.