Questions d'entretien chez Incode Technologies

QA Engineer at Incode Technologies Inc Interviewed Apr 2025 in Belgrade, Central Serbia The Process: Officially 7 rounds. The entire process took 3 months. Round 1 - HR Interview: Standard HR questions with a professional recruiter. Note: All emails are in English despite interviews being conducted in Serbian. Round 2 - Assessment: Mathematical logic and personality tests (45 minutes each). Had to retake due to "technical issues" - another 45 minutes of my time. Round 3 - Hiring Manager Interview: Meeting with QA Lead, context-dependent questions. Round 4 - Business Case: Given their mobile app to test and find bugs over 7 days. No clear requirements or expected behavior provided, yet expected to deliver school-textbook documentation with step-by-step test cases and expected results. You use your own device and photograph your own documents. This is essentially 7 days of unpaid work - what you deliver is a complete test suite that could replace their QA needs. Round 5 - Technical Interview: Present your solution to two colleagues who want to hear how "phenomenal" their app is and how manual testing is superior to automation. Round 6 - Culture Interview: Situational questions with obvious "correct" answers that reveal company culture. Round 7 - Reference Check Red Flags: "Unlimited" PTO actually means max 20 days ("to be fair to Mexico colleagues") Working hours 10-6, sometimes until 7pm, "never past 8pm except production bugs require weekend work". Overall: Unnecessarily long process that felt more like free consulting work than a genuine interview process.

Recruiter reached out on Linkedin > 30 min screening > aptitude tests > 1 hour with HM > 1 hour with a panel of ... 7 lol. Super weird process from the beginning to the final interview, I guess they were looking for unicorns but if I were one, I wouldn't join anyway.