Today's E-lafda: Manas v/s Amul

I’m really curious to know what exactly the Marketing Team does cause in the previous two organisations that I worked at , The Marketing Dept was kinda meh. So I wanted to know if it’s the case everywhere or does an actual good Marketing Team exist as the ones I’ve interacted with their lead generation and marketing was trash.

So as I am constantly looking for entry level product roles and preparing for GRE together, i somehow received call from Zomato's hiring team yesterday that my interview is scheduled at 11 am today for ZAAP ( Zomato associate accelerator program) . I joined the interview via google meet , the role was based on customer experience aka customer delight where if you will perform well you can get to join other roles such as program management , growth etc. after 8-10 month or an year , there were some hypothetical situations that interviewer given to us while dealing with customers and instead of focusing on how should I present myself in front of customers, deal with them etc , i started giving the solutions for improving the products that would reduce the customer complaints and took some guesstimates into consideration, although my solution was unique where I also added that how apart from refund or replacement for their orders if they are disappointed, we could also provide reimbursement to them via giving coupon codes of blinkit where they could order ready to eat snacks instead of missing order if time was actually a constraint for them but i realised that at the end They were looking for my communication and grammar which is good but i didn't focus much on that instead of solving the problem in a whole product management consulting way , to to them

I recently was asked this question by a very senior person in my organisation. I have 5yrs of work-ex but still not sure what's my ultimate calling..so want to know if people once they start working figure it out or just lie through

Why people who are smart enough to crack FAANG/MAANG posting photos and selfies in their INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE?? I mean how did anyone even cane up with that idea, like “you wanna know my interview experience? Here is my selfie as well.” Not any gender in particular i have seen everyone doing this crap

The interview was face to face. I was told explicitly that it'd be a hands on coding round. DSA and screening round was already completed. The guy who came to the interview basically had the same level of experience as mine. First, he asked me about if I've worked on microservices architecture. I said I have and mentioned details about a few projects. Then, he told me: Since you've worked on AWS heavily, do you know the default timeout of a lambda? Told him, I don't remember exactly and gave him a wild guess. It was too wild it seems. My bad, should've just not spoken. I accept my mistake. Then he asked, what are the different services that can invoke a lambda. I mentioned sqs, sns, cloudwatch, dynamo db streams, etc. He's like, what specifically from a microservices perspective. I repeated SQS, SNS mainly. He's like, Lambda can be also invoked by other Lambdas which is what I was expecting you to answer. Great. Shouldn't have asked an open ended question if he was looking for exact answers, right ? Then a few other questions that I was able to generally respond, but maybe not with the level of exactitude that he was expecting. Then, he asked me to code up a few endpoints related to followers, following, posts and wall. I told him that in the interest of time, I'm trying to get the endpoints working instead of focussing on design and he said sure go ahead. I was genuinely under the impression that he wants to see if I know how to code, but he was testing my system design skills. He was obviously not happy seeing me cut corners. At the end during discussion he said you could've done correctly in a certain way. I said yes - It's obvious that it was the right way, but I only compromised on the design thinking you wanted to see my ability to actually understand the framework related stuff. Interviews can be a bitch !

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Just got to know recently that a tier 1 mba college didn’t conduct interviews as part of their admission process during covid. Just CAT scores sufficed. In addition to this, post admission, these batches didn’t have proctored exams, they could collaborate and solve the exams together and then submit their answers online. Please do reply if this was very common during Covid across other colleges and any other such crazy lapses across colleges.

I usually panic before an interview and end up not attending it at all or postponing it. Even after preparing I feel under pressure and get performance anxiety. How can I tackle this? I’m always worried about what they’ll ask and if I don’t answer properly what will they think of me, I get such intrusive thoughts. And even after preparing I always feel like I have not prepared well enough.

Vai sach to hai ye ki hiring ka mazak bana rakha hai Skills gaya g marane Diversity hiring? Selected : Rejected CGPA > 8 ? Thodi bahut coding aati hai to aaja : apne skills startup me jakar dikha Tier 1 ? send OA link : baad me dekhta hu

I was in an interview with a CEO of an 8 year old startup. The dude was vaping during the interview. Kept saying “whatever” to all my achievements, didn’t even see my resume before starting the interview. Stretched a 30 minutes call to 75 minutes where I only spoke for 15 maybe. I immediately withdrew my application post the call. Did anyone ever experience bad behaviour from the interviewer?