iRobot Mock Interview

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Tell me about the most interesting project you have worked on this year and the biggest thing you learned from it.

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

Discuss with the interviewer one of your recent projects that particularly piqued your interest. Did it stretch you professionally? What was the biggest takeaway for you from that particular project?

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"In my previous role we were working on a variety of projects with fingerprint recognition software. One of the most interesting projects was a fingerprint-based ATM system. It was a test project for a large banking institution. In addition to learning a great deal about fingerprint recognition, I was also able to learn a lot about the critical relationship between software and security."

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During my fall 2020, for my master's project, I have designed an android application that suggests to users the shortest possible path between different points by implementing the NP-hard Travelling Salesman algorithm. Additionally, I have also incorporated the espresso framework with android SDK for UI automation, which ended up saving my manual testing work and time. The project had provided me opportunities to implement an algorithm from scratch which was really challenging, and also to learn the espresso framework which was a new and fun part for me.

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That sounds like a very interesting project indeed. Was the application ultimately successful? Was there one specific takeaway you learned from completing the project? Adding a few more details will ensure you are presenting the full picture to the interviewer.

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28iRobot Interview Questions & Answers

1.Tell me about the most interesting project you have worked on this year and the biggest thing you learned from it.

2.At iRobot, we rely on a full team effort to deliver top quality products to our customers. Tell me about a time that you worked well as part of a team. Are you comfortable in a similar role here?

3.What is one unique personality trait you possess that would help you be successful in this role with iRobot?

4.Give an example of a time that you used a universal design practice in your work as a UI or UX designer. Why was it important to do this?

5.What methods do you use to stay up-to-date on the latest trends in tech?

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

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

8.If hired here at iRobot, what do you feel would be the biggest hurdle for you to overcome from the start?

9.This role with iRobot is highly technical. What is your understanding of this position and the responsibilities that come with it?

10.Do you have experience working with different CASE tools? If so, what do you have experience with?

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

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

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

14.We are looking for innovators to join us here at iRobot. Where have you brought innovation in automation to a process in your career?

15.In designing Android software, what is your experience using parcelable versus serializable within an app?

16.Talk about a time when things didn't go as planned on the job. What was the situation and what allowed your to persevere in that situation?

17.Do you consider yourself stronger in C++, C#, Java, or Python?

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

19.In your mind, when is monkey testing the most effective in testing new software?

20.What unique values can you bring to iRobot in your user experience design skills?

21.Tell me about a time that there was a delay in the project and how did you handle that delay?

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

23.How would you handle a situation where a colleague was being very difficult to work with?

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

25.How do you stay organized and on track when working on multiple projects or duties at the same time?

26.The next cloud engineer that we hire here at iRobot 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?

27.Would you say that you are a goal oriented on the job? What would I be able to do as your manager to help you achieve your goals if hired here at iRobot?