The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk (San Francisco, CA) in Sept 2014
Interview
I came to know about this position from Glassdor. Applied on the Autodesk career site. Got a call from the recruiter after a week. I was contacted for first round of Technical Phone interview after 3 days. After one week I was again asked for one more round of Technical Phone Interview. Recruiter said they want me to come for an onsite interview. Scheduled an interview for four and half hours. For an Automation QA position the interview panel had one senior development manager, one Architect, one Principal Engineer. No questions at all asked on QA Process/Automation Process. I was wondering for what position was I called for the interview and was surprised if I have to write Automation codes or design spacecraft. Few questions I was asked are - Write a Program to find the distance between a circle and a square on a drawing board. Write a program to print all the nodes of a binary tree. Find out the big o notation of a nested loop. What XML request is sent when a website is called. The detailed parameters sent in url, header and body. Looks like they are already decided to hire someone but to show management that they did a choice out of X people for the sake of interview formality they call people. It's a process of rejection not a selection. Not sure if this is what the policy followed for all similar jobs or it was specific only for me because they had already decided not to hire before interview and looks like they had already finalized someone else.
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Question 1
Write a Program to find the distance between a circle and a square on a drawing board. Write a program to print all the nodes of a binary tree. Find out the big o notation of a nested loop. What XML request is sent when a website is called and what exact response comes in XML. The detailed parameters sent in url, header and body for both the request and response.
Firstly, I got one hr phone screen, and then one hiring manager interview. However, I did pass the second one since my background did not match this position. If I pass the second round, there should be one more technical interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Autodesk (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
- One technical interview length 45 mins: Started without introduction, questions asked was Design and Test Facebook. After 5-7 follow up questions on testing. It went on Coding part. The question was leetcode easy. Done! Then follow up questions on code part.
It went pretty well! But now it comes the twist: I was in the dangling situation for a month. No decision. Contacted recruiter multiple times. After around 20 days of an interview, I heard back that you are neither rejected nor selected. On hold for the moment. I waited 15-20 days more. Dropped a follow up email again and bang! Rejection!
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk (Singapore) in Apr 2021
Interview
I was first called by the recruiter a few days after applying, who then immediately asked that I interview the following day or the day after. The timeline for the whole application was ridiculous, and another person I know who applied for a different position who had to postpone their interview for legitimate reasons was somewhat pushed to the back of the line and never got around to interviewing with Autodesk as the company had filled their spot for that opening.
The interview itself was on Zoom. The interviewers were the testing team and they were generally nice and friendly. The interview consisted of 2 simple algorithm questions and 3 SQL queries. After that, I basically waited a whole month to know that Autodesk was rejecting my application.
Overall the interview itself wasn't that bad, but the whole start of the application process really left a sour taste.