If the person is from HR, they wouldn't know much. If it's someone you're going to work with, run.

They person is going to lead the team 😂

Data Scientist

Generalist

Is AI relevant to the Job being interviewed for?

Yes very much !! But they are focus on traditional ways ...as they say ai is just small part of this job !! But role is " Ai ----"

Software Engineer

What should I do if the person taking my interview in a company is less qualified ask you some funny questions which are dumb !! I just don't how Indian recruitment works😂😑

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An interviewer in a company has no knowledge about how Ai works is taking my interview. Help !!

An interviewer in a company has no knowledge about how Ai works is taking my interview. Help !!- Grapevine

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What should I do when a interviewer is less qualified then you for the role you apply 😄🫣

Has anyone seen this? I've given two interviews recently The first round was taken by AI. If you stick to Q&A, don't ask counter questions there's no way you can differentiate between humans / bots.

Maybe HR can make pixel perfect rangolis in future, TA tasks will be handled by AI only.

Put a comment company name if you've given an interview to an AI bot.

Interviewed by AI?

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So basically I don't hesitate in challenging the interviewer if I feel like they don't know how to interview a senior candidate

so during many interviews, this is how I have caught them off guard:

1. The interviewer was asking me technical questions and expecting to explain properly throughout. So at the end i asked him about the tech stack they use, he said Azure. I asked him why they use Azure and not AWS, to which he said "it's cheaper", i didn't let it go, i asked him for a proper technical explanation, his red face was worth seeing.

2. The interview asked me a hard DSA question, and I wasn't able to solve it properly, he didn't even give me enough hints, just expected me to solve it. So halfway I asked him, would you like to solve a DSA if I ask you right now, he said no because it's not his interview. To which I asked, are you afraid that you won't be able to solve? If you are going to reject me for not solving this question, would you resign if you aren't able to solve the question. He ended the call.

3. One interviewer was asking me absurd technical detailed questions. I asked him why are you asking such questions, he said he needs to know my thought process because he will work with me. I started asking him similar questions, he said he won't answer because it's not his interview. I said I also need to know your thought process because we'll work together, so you should also answer these questions, he had no reply.

4. The interviewer asked me about a challenging project that I had done recently. I don't like this question at all. So I said there wasn't any challenging project because I'm good at what I do so it's always easy for me. He moved on to the next question.

5. HR asked me why I resigned without an offer? I asked if it's mandatory? No reply.

Having some fun with the interviewers

Not sure whether this is something to tom-tom about. Talks more about the quality of interviewer & the approach taken by the person.   
  
 To be honest, they're well within their right to ask you a tough question and/or to test your thought process, that's their job. If you get so easily offended, you're probably not going to fit in, in the long term.  
  
 I'm sure there are better ways to communicate that the interviewer is asking you a lame question or there's insufficient information.  
  
 Honestly, I take tons of interviews, an hour spent interviewing is an hour spent not doing actual work and drop in productivity. Doubt if senior people would ever do this to waste 'their' time... (Forget yours). Sensible people wouldn't.  
  
 No offense, but with so many interviews going this way, maybe time to point the mirror the other way...

Corporate Strategist

Senior Software Engineer

Today, I had an interview for a job as a software developer. The person interviewing me started by asking if I could speak Hindi. I told him I could understand it but wasn't good at talking because I'm from South India. He gave me a mean smile, which made me feel really unsure of myself right away. 😔 We went on with the interview. He asked a question that was kind of a design question, and when I tried to answer, he didn't really listen. Even when I asked him some questions, he didn't give a good answer. He was busy with his phone, and it seemed like he wanted to say no to me. I'm feeling pretty down about it. 😞 I don't get why he acted like that, but now I feel dumb after doing the interview.

A bad interview experience 🤕

Team Lead

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Recently I have been interviewed by a company and cleared the first round. Then I had 2nd round of the interview conducted through intervue.io which is a outsourced platform. The interviewer was least bothered to know what I am doing in my current role and how I can contribute to org but only conducted interviews by posting code snippet to solve. Do you think it is right way to conduct interviews? Please share your experience

Why companies have made interview so hard?

Lead Engineer

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Hey,

So I completed my prelims round @google , cleared it
completed 3/5 and its been almost 10 days - haven't heard back from my recruiter.

I have just one point of contact, so feeling kinda helpless as to whom I can reach out to.
Like i followed up thrice now over a period of one week - very respectfully.

I mean its my dream role and honestly, every day not getting any response is honestly painful - even If I didn't make it - At least I should hear back right? and I understand the number of applications must be extremely high - but still the process should be somewhat smooth right? Its Google after all.

Any suggestions on how to tackle the above situation?

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Product Manager

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I got myself referred to a position of Senior Data Engineer in Publicis Sapient, later got a test link to complete coding assessment before being considered for interviews. The test was about UI development using javascript and node.js. This is nothing to do with data engineering neither to with the job description. Indian IT HR’s are the rarest species of the planet.

Dumb recruitment

Data engineer

I just finished an interview with ServiceNow for a senior software engineer role and writing this up.

Anger rushed through my body after finishing the interview for multiple reasons.

reasons:
1. The interviewer joined 10 minutes late and he was very lethargic.
2. The questions he asked regarding my current job were very basic and then I realized that he should be fresher or should have 2 - 3 years of experience.
3. After the interview I checked his profile on LinkedIn and he was a 2021 graduate (as I guessed).
4. I don't understand why an organization assigns software engineers (2.5 YOE) as interviewers for hiring a senior software engineer(8+ YOE). It doesn't make sense to me.
5. Then the interviewer asked a basic DSA question, and I gave him the solution, now he was not familiar with the Python language hence intrigued about the implementation of the heapify in Python. I explained to him how Heapify works but still, he could not understand what it is.
6. The part I got pissed off is the interviewer's attitude of him knowing everything.
7. The interview was scheduled for 1 hour and we went overtime, it's okay to go overtime by 5-10 minutes., But this guy is taking more than 20 minutes. He din't have basic ethics of valuing candidate's time.

This is not my first interview with ServiceNow, this is my second and I had same feelings in the first interview as well.

It's okay for me to not grab this opportunity, but think about someone who is really struggling to get a job during this tough time, because of the interviewer being lethargic.

Hope ServiceNow focuses on their interviewing system and improves it.

ServiceNow interview is shit 💩

Software Developer

The worst part about applying for a job is the process of impressing the dumb recruiter so that she sets up your interview. It is funny when a recruiter who has zero technical skills and has not written a single line of code in her life cross questions me about my engineering projects in past organisations.

How can companies change the hiring process so one does not have to deal with these annoying recruiters?

or are dumb recruiters just a necessary evil?

Are recruiters (headhunters) just glorified gatekeepers?

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Companies like Big4, Infosys etc. what type of questions they ask from GenAi. If anyone has experience please share questions.

GenAI interview

Rumor mill is fired up since a week and all meetings with senior leadership this week have been removed from calendars without any notice! Also noticed that several leaders are WFH today. Guessing that is to avoid nervous conversations and to engage in private meetings over phone calls to decide which heads they are going to chop off. 
The 🔔are going off! Prepare yourselves!

Wayfair Likely Doing a Mass Layoff Tomorrow

Analyst

So i got a call from "vyapaar-apps" HR, she asked me the salary I started my career with and the salary at which I left my last company. 

I understand them asking for the current salary but this is quite weird and it's the first time any HR has asked me this question

According to her, they just need to know my growth. 

Were you ever asked such a question? And please share any other weird questions you were asked during the initial HR call.

Were you ever asked the salary you started your career with during the initial call with HR ?

Anyone here got dirt on Quillbot ? Have an interview with them tomorrow.  Really not happy with the shitface recruiter who ghosted twice already but I m desperate for a change. Least I want is to jump from warm water into cold acid.

Quillbot information

Digital Accessibility Technologist

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Hello Grapeviners,

What is with Indian recruiters wanting to know your CTC as the very first step of hiring? And when asked to share the ctc range in which the role falls, they refuse to share.  So basically they just want to lowball candidates based on their current CTC and parity is a joke?
Now If a recruiter denies sharing the range for the role and insists on knowing my CTC, I run!  What are your thoughts?

Recruiters want to know your CTC

As a recruiter, i have candidates asking me the payscale and i usually share them the compensation bands we have ...although in most cases we are told strictly not to tell the applicants ...however for me , i think it kinda makes my job much easier as they don't false expectations with the role or the salary ...neither i make them waste their time interviewing us ...saves a lot on both sides  
 My managers do expect me to have certain extra good profiles just to maintain our pipeline and show a good funnel of quality folks..but it does not work my way ...

Consultant

Share other such question(s) which you feel doesn't make sense to be asked or share your thoughts why you think it makes sense to ask such question(s).

This interview question has never made sense to me

Software Test - QA

Bruh! Kudos 👏

I feel Linkedin should remove posting pictures option or should allow to report the post if the photo and content has no co-relation.  
  
  
 lots of so called influencers be posting copied content or success stories with a random ass photo.

Staff Engineer

I have an interview upcoming and want to know whether it will be DSA round or domain specific round. The recruiter is not being clear about it. How do I approach her and ask her what is the first round about? I asked once but the answer has confused me. (interviewing for  SDE 2)

P.S. It is an AI company and I am being hired for a speech tech role

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