Four Screening Questions to Filter Out Fake Test Automation Engineers in Interviews

Hiring a fake automation tester can be costly. These four simple screening questions may help prevent that.

Zhimin Zhan

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🥇 1st most popular article of the 127th issue of Software Testing Weekly.
This article is one of the “
Be aware of Fake Test Automation/DevOps Engineers” and the “IT Interview” series.

Update 2023–06–22, related article, One Simple Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed

A job interview aims to determine whether the candidate is suitable for the role. The interview time is short, therefore, choosing high-quality screening questions is important. Here are the famous 3-questions in “The Walking Dead”, a popular post-apocalyptic TV show.

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Rick [and later on other members of the group] started asking potential newcomers three questions as a kind of screening process:

1. How many walkers have you killed?
2. How many people have you killed?
3. Why?

Some fans even made a T-shirt with them and sell on eBay.

Screening Questions shall be Simple

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