process Cisco Meraki final

[tropic lion]

Help! The final round is all about unit testing and I have never done it. Did anyone pass the final round for meraki and get the offer?

Please @ me if anyone has anything to say :DD thanks!

[past halo]

Wait you have never unit tested your code before?

How?

I am guessing you are a freshman or something?

@tropic lion

Don't mean to be mean am just surprised

[tropic lion]

LOL im a junior but I never had to write tests myself. It was always written for us. Im also working for IBM rn and we dont write unit tests for testing.

EDIT: If anyone has something useful to say about unit testing or Meraki, please @ me.

[past halo]

Well lucky you I guess. If you know the general process of writing tests though (boundary, edge, corner cases, good data, bad data, etc.) then I'm sure you will be fine. This is not useful information about what you want, but yeah

[tropic lion]

Thanks! Do you think watching youtube vids and stuff would be enough?

[past halo]

I would say that should be sufficient, did they give you some kind of example questions or anything? Just curious cause I can't think of a whole lot to ask about unit testing conceptually other than what I mentioned above about the types of cases to cover and systematic testing and stuff

[tropic lion]

"During this interview, you will need to identify the source, identify more unit tests, and also after running a suite of tests against the utility be asked to find and fix any issues revealed by those tests."

I asked my recruiter for possible resources to study from, she said she had nothing to suggest lol

it'll be 45 mins. My first round was developing and debugging a web server with my interviewer. It was actually fun cuz it wasnt a stupid leetcode question, I felt like the problem solving I did during the interview was valuable

[past halo]

Wow that's pretty interesting, don't know anything about server development but sounds cool XD

[past halo]

So then yeah I think youtube and know about the different types of tests to create and possible errors to look for that I already mentioned would be good to know. If they expect you to use a framework of some kind for writing them, look into JUnit (if you use Java) or pytest (if you use python), and general assertion statements (if they exist in your preferred language, I know they exist in Java at least). Idk about other languages.

[tropic lion]

Thank you sm! This will help me immensely 😄

[tropic lion]

and ikr! I don't mean to sound like a nerd but I actually enjoyed that interview and learned something new. It was pretty cool

[pulsar ledge]

@tropic lion what role?

[tropic lion]

Fullstack SWE intern

[hard ibex]

@tropic lion omg I’m on meraki final round too!👹 good luck!