First a pretty generic HR interview, nothing really special to say about that. HR person was super friendly and nice. Technical interview: 1. Manual part: Exploratory testing of dummy website. I just had to spend an hour or two to go over the website and sum up my findings in a readable manner. Also I performed exploratory testing on multiple browsers and platforms (desktop + android). 2. Automation part: Write framework and couple of E2E scenarios for a simple web app. Task wasn't difficult at all, but I found the interview in this part to be very strange. Bummer #0: I did my automation task specifically as requested, but interviewer found it lacking because I didn't overengineer it enough. They wanted to see me show off. I felt like they understood that that was the full extent of my automation knowledge and skills. Bummer #1: At one point my interviewer even said he must focus on what I wrote only, otherwise I might just be a guy saying I have experience and knowledge in some areas. This really shocked me, and it felt like he just called me a potential liar. Usually in interviews, I'm asked about my experience and my skills, after which I'm asked to somehow prove it (answer questions, do some coding etc.) Bummer #2: Another shocker for me was that my interview had a remark that my code didn't make sense because after test failure I capture a screenshot, but I don't save it anywhere. I showed my code and explained where exactly my screenshot gets attached to the report, and that it does get saved, but my interviewer insisted that my code doesn't work. Bummer #3: Bummer #3: In the end I was rejected because I don't have real world experience in some tools which aren't in my CV and I wasn't really asked about.