uTest Interview Questions
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Got contacted by a top manager on LinkedIn. We exchanged emails, and I asked about H1B sponsorship. The manager confirmed they are committed to sponsoring. Had an initial Skype interview about my background. I reconfirmed visa sponsorship twice, and they said yes. Then, another Skype interview with a Java developer, purely technical, covering basic coding, algorithms, and Big O. Passed that, and received a substantial take-home task involving data structures, data access, and text search. It took about half a day. Afterward, the manager said he needed to check with legal about the visa. I followed up for two months every 10-12 days, and the answer was always 'still checking'. Finally, after two months, the manager informed me they could not sponsor the visa. I'm questioning the professionalism of the managers at uTest.

I found the job on LinkedIn and the HR reached out to me about a week later. First, I had a phone screen with the VP of Engineering over Skype. Then, I was invited to come in for an on-site meeting with the team, which went well. I was supposed to have three 1-on-1 interviews with a Software Architect, a Senior Software Engineer, and the CTO. The first two interviews were standard technical ones where I had to do whiteboarding and some algorithm problems in Java, and they also asked SQL questions. The people interviewing me were nice and knew their stuff; after I finished writing my answers on the board, they gave me some really helpful technical tips. The last interview was different and pretty cool. They didn't ask any specific technical questions, but it did cover a lot of different aspects of what it's like to work as a Software Engineer.

So I'm a new grad with a Master's in computer engineering and under a year of experience. After a nice phone screen, I went in for an on-site interview. It was basically 5 back-to-back interviews with tech leads and managers, almost 3 hours total. They had me do some whiteboarding, some paper work, and just talk through my answers. I felt pretty good about the technical stuff, but one interviewer didn't get my hash map solution, which is apparently what Amazon uses for the same problem. The third interviewer, who was the solutions architect, was really weird. He kept laughing and saying "I don't know" and shrugging. I think he'd already decided he didn't want juniors, and the product manager later confirmed he didn't give me a shot. The last two went fine though, and I think I left a good impression. Then I got this email with a misspelled name saying I had no Java knowledge or anything else, which is totally not true. It was weird because it was the same manager from the phone screen. I liked most of the engineers I met, but I guess you can't judge a book by its cover. I got the feeling they're biased and maybe being female didn't help since they were all guys. I wouldn't recommend interviewing here unless you have no other choice. The office was kind of depressing and boring, and I felt like I would have outgrown it fast anyway. But it's okay, I got a great offer from my dream company a couple weeks later.

Getting the first interview took days and lots of emails to get a response after the initial contact. After that, it was pretty smooth with a number of interviews, nothing unusual. But after all the interviews, I didn't even get a 'thanks for applying' or 'we're moving on with other candidates.' Just complete silence. It feels disrespectful.