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OLX Mock Interview

To help you prepare for an OLX job interview, here are 27 interview questions and answer examples.

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Here at OLX, we ask our test engineers to follow specific QA protocols. What role do you feel QA plays in software development and testing?

As an experience software testing engineer, quality assurance should be ingrained in your brain and your interviewer is looking to get a sense of your personal feelings towards it in your work with this question. In your answer, be sure to highlight QA's importance in reducing errors, maintaining specifications, testing failure parameters and preventing defects from occurring. In the end, make sure that quality is your mantra in the eyes of your interviewer by giving an example or two of how you put QA in the forefront of your work.

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27 OLX Interview Questions & Answers

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  • 1. Here at OLX, we ask our test engineers to follow specific QA protocols. What role do you feel QA plays in software development and testing?

  • 2. What programming languages would you consider yourself fluent in?

  • 3. Do you have experience writing a custom exception in Java?

  • 4. In SQL, how do you explain the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes? Can you name a time that you used each?

  • 5. If hired here at OLX to develop iOS and Android software, when would you use a fragment rather than an activity?

  • 6. What do you feel are the primary features and benefits of the Java programming language?

  • 7. The next cloud engineer that we hire here at OLX needs to be able build a system that can handle a high amount of traffic. How would you test our system's ability to handle large amounts of traffic?

  • 8. What skills do you use to cope with the day to day stress and pressure on the job?

  • 9. Walk me through your experience in enterprise software sales, and complex sales cycles.

  • 10. What software analysis and design tools do you have familiarity working with?

  • 11. What is one unique personality trait you possess that would help you be successful in this role with OLX?

  • 12. Discuss a couple of software sales techniques. Which sales technique do you think is most effective for OLX, and why?

  • 13. What experience do you have in the different types of software maintenance?

  • 14. What is one thing that really tests your patience when dealing with your coworkers?

  • 15. Do you have any unique skills or past work experiences that we can't see on your resume that would benefit the team here at OLX?

  • 16. OLX uses business intelligence tools to improve sales performance. With which BI tools are you most familiar?

  • 17. Can you describe the software development lifecycle?

  • 18. Do you have experience working with data in a cloud computing environment?

  • 19. How do you feel cloud computing has positively impacted the software industry?

  • 20. If hired for this position at OLX, what leadership skills would you bring to our team?

  • 21. A huge part of our business here at OLX is designing software for iOS. In this role, how would you steer away from retain cycles when using closures in Swift programming language?

  • 22. What do you feel is one of the top issues that is faced by data engineers today?

  • 23. As you reflect back on your career to this point in your search for a new position, what would you say is your ideal work environment or culture?

  • 24. If you were asked to review a colleague's code that they had written, what key things would you look for?

  • 25. When do you consider a project to be finished?

  • 26. As a machine learning engineer, how do you avoid the curse of dimensionality in your designs?

  • 27. In your current work, what are the important steps you take in the data validation process?