Software Engineer In Test applicants have rated the interview process at Instructure with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer In Test roles take an average of 8 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Instructure overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Instructure as a Software Engineer In Test according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 22%
Group panel interview: 15%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 15%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Instructure in Oct 2014
Interview
Mostly the interview went very well. I got the expected questions on how I would test a page and what testing I know of, etc. Everything went great up until that point.
However, when they say "Software Engineer in Test" what they really mean is Software Developer. Be prepared for questions you would expect to get out of a first year graduate with a Computer Science degree. They expect you to code, on paper, basic math questions such as the square root of a number, how to get a palindrome, or find the exponent of a number.
Basically things you would never have to deal with in your daily life as a Software Engineer in Test as there are libraries out there all over to deal with that. I've been doing test automation for 5 years in both Java and C# and even built automation frameworks without ever having to delve into such things.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you code this recursively versus iteratively?
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Instructure (Salt Lake City, UT)
Interview
Recruiter is super friendly and screens you. Next is hackerrank test and problem. Not to difficult. Then you meet with a Techincal interviewer when really they say your meeting with the hiring manager. The interviewer is cold, rude, and even swears at you. I did a brute force 0(n2) approach and was mocked. This interview was the worst i have ever experienced. Stay far away from instructure.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Instructure (Salt Lake City, UT) in Apr 2018
Interview
I had a phone interview with Jared Salisbury and was asked to complete a coding assessment. After accusing me of plagiarism on one of the answers, Jared then informed me another recruiter had already filled the position I was applying for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Did you look up the answer for your assessment question online, or were you already familiar with the problem?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Instructure (Salt Lake City, UT) in Feb 2018
Interview
I was contacted through e-mail and given a link to take a HackerRank test that involved 15 questions and three programming challenges. I was given 90 minutes to complete. Even though my solutions failed most of the tests, I submitted my code and passed the online portion. The challenges were difficult, but inline with what I understand to be part of a Software Engineer in Test position. This would be out of scope for a QA engineer position.
The next day I had a video interview with a team lead that lasted 30 minutes.
Two days later I had an onsite interview. I met with QA team leads, who each gave me a whiteboard coding challenge and followed up with questions on how I would test the function I had just written. Then I met with the product owner who asked similar question, in a more practical format.
I was told I would receive an answer the next day, but this was a holiday weekend and the response was delayed until the next week.