Optum·Software Engineer

Optum Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Minneapolis, MNPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly focused technical track that felt more like evaluating how I think than trying to trip me up.

It started with a discussion that centered on automation and test tooling. I got questions about what test automation is and why it matters, including the practical tradeoffs—both the benefits and the challenges—people run into when they try to automate.

The interviewer then asked about tools I had used and wanted me to talk through specifics like Selenium, JUnit, and TestNG, rather than just naming them. They also pushed on my decision-making process: how I choose which tests to automate, and what factors influence that choice. Overall it felt like an average-difficulty technical

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