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      Automation Engineer Interview

      26 Aug 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2012

      Interview

      phone scan first then phone exam

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      make a function, given a separator that parses a string into a three tuple or passes a different exception if the tuple is longer or shorter than 3. a="a,b,c"
      Answer question

      Question 2

      ## use a context manager to open a xml file and read it's contents into an object ## root.branch.child.property_name = property_value ## or a nested dictionary := {'root':{'branch':{'child':{'property':'value'}}}}
      Answer question

      Question 3

      ## use a function and a list comprehension to construct a dictionary := ascii ordinal number of a: a
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      Question 4

      ## sort the list first by length of string then alphabetically
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