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12 questions in Careers & interviews
How do you design an end-to-end test strategy and platform architecture for a high-scale photo-sharing application (e.g., an Instagram clone)?
Tests often copy a shared fixture object before changing it. How should you deep-clone nested objects without JSON.parse(JSON.stringify()) quirks, and if an interviewer asks you to write a deep clone...
An SDET interview asked me to implement a stack and a queue (for example, for navigation history and a queue of test steps) and to test them. How should I approach both parts?
How do you solve the Two Sum problem and array deduplication in linear time (O(n)) during an SDET technical assessment, and which test cases should you write for them?
In an SDET coding interview I was asked to implement binary search and then test it. What does a strong answer look like, both the implementation and the tests?
What do SDETs and QA engineers earn, and how do I negotiate a raise or offer?
What coding and system-design questions come up in SDET interviews, and how should I prepare?
How do I transition from SDET to software engineer, or is SDET a dead end?
How do I move from manual QA to automation with no coding background?
Will AI replace SDETs and QA engineers, and which skills stay valuable?
An SDET interview asked me to implement debounce and throttle and then prove they work. How do I write them, and how do I test time-based code without slow, flaky waits?
What is the difference between an SDET and a QA automation engineer, and which skills separate them?