I suppose we’re assuming the commitment to ship is already there.

But I promise you, Joe…I’ve written about specific solutions to this in the past, and I will again…soon.

But thanks for keeping me in check.

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My telephonic interview is scheduled for tomorrow for QA position. I wanted to know bout the kind of questions to expect. Will it be purely technical?What all things should I prepare for the interview?

Thanks,
Pooja

TW University is typically where freshers are sent when TW feels they don’t have enough work experience, but I’ve known people who have been sent there to help them get a quick immersion into the culture before they go out to see clients.

I read ur journal was really helpful. I just appleied for a test analyst position in sydney thoughtworks university. Do they follow the same interview process like TW. Sorry i am confused abut the word university, thought may be the int would be more like a freshers position. They send me a questionaiire and i have sent them back, Will they only call me if they like my answers? will they let me know if my application was unsuccessful coz im expecting a lot to get in to TW.

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i am like a fan of this organization since my college . The work culture is amazing . I have been really looking forward to join this company and want to initiate things now. Can you please help me with the referral for Bangalore location as I am unable to find one . I understand that you are no longer a part of thoughtworks but if you could help me with referring my profile it would be a great help to me . Looking forward for your reply.

Thanks

I have submitted my code for review,and I dont know what is next.When will the recruitment team communicate to me regarding me being rejected or selected.

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Study agile and lean methodologies and know about ThoughtWorks a bit as well. Searching the job postings will give you an idea of what they are looking for.

Pairing can be a scary thing if you’ve never done it before and your interviewers will take that into account.

Being friendly and outgoing will go much further for you than your development skills in a particular toolset or language. You are bound to be required to write in other languages during your time at TW, so having solid fundamentals (OO, performance, optimization, refactoring, etc.) is better than knowing every bit of syntax in your toolset or every macro in your IDE.

Good luck to you.

Joe

i have been called for the 2nd round of technical interview(after code pairing) as a software developer in TW India.i am a college graduate.Kindly guide me as to what is expected from me and which domains should i work upon?
Thank You!

Joe

I will be having my first phone interview with TW for an Executive Assistant Position in Chicago. Can you tell me if the interviewing process is different than that of an IT based position? Thank You.

So, I used the same technique described in this article to download the Portfile for OpenSSL 0.9.8i.

svn co –revision 45087 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/devel/openssl/ devel/openssl/

Don’t forget to portindex again!

I hope this helps someone!

svn co –revision 36429 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/ruby/ lang/ruby/

Thanks!

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The QA position should be similar to the outline I gave above. There will be questions about your technical experience, especially around test automation, if you have any.

Otherwise, our interviews are the same for all positions except for the developer candidates who also have the addition of a coding assignment.

Joe

I have been called for the Interview at TW Bangalore, India for QA position. How it is different than that you have mentioned above? What is the Interview / Questions pattern for QA position? On what area they might ask questions?

Good luck,
Joe

I am Business Analyst with 5 years of experience. Can you please brief me about TW’s interview pattern. HR wanted me to block 4 hours for the interview.

Lakshmi.

We did alternating numbers and letters on a previous project but didn’t catch the case where a one or zero stands in for the second letter of a kewl-ly misspelled four-letter word.

Joe

I would like to know what the logic assessment be like and for round 2 they have asked me to look into Agile methodology and visualization methods.

Can you let me know what can i expect for round 2?

You’ll be asked about your experience with different testing tools and be asked to give a description of your last job(s). Your interviewers will ask you about testing theory and also get into specifics. You may be asked to write small bits of code or describe how you would test a hypothetical application. It really depends on the interviewers.

In addition, every candidate is given a logic and intelligence test. I can’t tell you much about them, other than that they are straightforward and (almost) nobody ever gets them completely right.

Good luck!

Regards
Ankur

Glad to see this post is helping you. The topics for technical discussion range widely by the role you are interviewing for and the people doing the interview. They will focus on your knowledge and dig as deeply as they can into your background to get you talking about what you’ve done for other companies.

If you’re a developer, there will be a small coding assignment and a review of the code.

The in-office tests are difficult, but I’m sure you’ll be fine. Good luck!

cd /Users/Shared/dports && svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/ruby/ -r 34233 lang/ruby

Thanks for this.
Jim