Principal QA Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Calsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 76.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal QA Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Calsoft overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Calsoft as a Principal QA Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Calsoft (Pune)
Interview
I was looking for experienced positions and interviewed with Calsoft.
As I was not available for an onsite interview, I had 4 rounds all over the phone or online.
The first round was just information; the second and third rounds were technical rounds.
How to find the route a connection takes?
ifconfig - arguments
DNS/DHCP
WAN Optimization
static and dynamic IP address
how to view contents of tarball without extracting
how to list the structure of a directory?
what is traffic shaping?
what goes into a test case?
what is the defect lifecycle
puzzle: John’s mother has 4 kids: jan, feb, march, and?
linux: signal sent when you kill a process
talked about QA: logging; what would you incorporate into your logger
what are the important aspects you would consider in a test framework
valgrind
What TCP ports exist; name any 10?
SSH port number
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When you ping a machine, it returns: TTL expired; what could the cause be?
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Calsoft (Pune) in Jan 2015
Interview
The process took about 2 weeks in total.
As I was based in another city so all rounds were telephonic and on skype.
There were 4 rounds in total:
1. Telephonic : Basic Technical (related to virtualization and testing)
2. Telephonic: Technical (Virtualization and storage)
3. With Director: Technical.. mostly about the previous projects
4. HR round.
Overall a good experience.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Calsoft (Pune) in May 2012
Interview
Excellent and it was really good and more technical discussion, The interview knew what are the skills which were good, and the discussion was healthy and the outcome was too good. The technical discussion had everything right from storage technilogies, clod, networking, vmware and all qa technologies and concepts so equal weightage was given on all factors. All the managers and technical staf were quiet sound and the outcome was excellent too.