I've reached the culture round in the interview process. Does this mean I've cleared the technical rounds? Is there still a chance of being rejected even after receiving positive feedback on my des...

I've reached the culture round in the interview process. Does this mean I've cleared the technical rounds? Is there still a chance of being rejected even after receiving positive feedback on my design assignment?

Culture/ HR round in interviews

Product Designer

Culture/ HR round in interviews- Grapevine

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What can I expect in a cultural fit round? After two rounds of technical/case studies for an Analytics related role. There is a third cultural fit round prior to a HR round.

Cultural Fit Round

Data Analyst

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I've recently appeared for the Interview at Apple. Total 7 rounds and last round was with the HR. Till 6th round feedback was quite positive and in the 7th Round there was discussion that happened about Salary expectation. HR mentioned that she will check and get back with approved numbers and If I'm okay then they will proceed with releasing the offer letter. So I was expecting the same.

But One week later HR called and rejected me saying that another Candidate is selected for this role. I was heartbroken and devastated. When I asked for the feedback, She said they cannot share the feedback it's just that they felt another candidate is better fit than me so they are going ahead with that candidate. On the very next day of my rejection call, they opened the Same position again in the Careers site.

After 2 weeks again I called the same HR to understand If I could apply for the open position. She said that the Careers site it posted wrongly, the open position is not for my experience but it's for more experienced/senior Level. I could think that HR is not being transparent. This time again I asked for feedback, what went wrong or what could have been better, to which she replied that I was not clear on certain things and I was not transparent.

Background is : After 6 rounds were done, HR called me suddenly one day and informed me that I cleared all the rounds and asked me for the expectation. I thanked her and asked about the Role (IC3 or IC4 or IC2) that I would likely get So that I can do some research and get back.
She said she doesn't have clarity yet on the Role and mentioned mostly it would be IC3. So I asked her for some time to get back and 2 hours later I discussed my expectations. 
Then a week later, the Rejection call.

Not sure what went wrong. In my most recent call she mentioned that for some simple questions like expectations I was not giving answers properly. It's been 3 weeks and I still could not come out of that rejection.

Rejected After clearing all the rounds at Apple

Software Developer

It is in Manufacturer to customer and is actively hiring in India. 

Can anyone please share insights on work life balance, culture, work being done?

How is Quince?

UX/UI Designer

Context- Applied for the 24’ Kalaari Fellowship, still waiting for interview shortlists

Would love to hear your experiences/ what you know about the fellowship. 
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Tips on how to crack VC (analyst) interviews are welcome!
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To all 24’ applicants- have you heard back? If yes, pls share deets

Kalaari Capital Fellowship

Digital Marketing

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

To all the senior level employees here. Why do companies take so many rounds of interviews? Why can't they judge based on 2 rounds of interviews - 1 DSA and projects and other on System Design. 

The first round is any way a bogus round I feel. Years of education, work experiences and still it doesn't say anything about my qualifications. Also, all the rounds have same questions - Leetcode medium. Then how the fuck they are helping in final decision? Any lights upon these.

Why 4+ rounds of interviews

Software Engineer

Is it normal to get good feedback during the interview and the panelist explicitly mentioning that “you will receive a mail about the next steps from the HR” and then get negative feedback for the same?!

Design hiring process

Do you know anyone who got rejected in the HR round because of genuine HR/CultureFit related issues?

Senior Software Engineer

I recently started interviewing after a period of about 5 years and I am very surprised about the change in the way interviews are conducted these days. I have now interviewed for few companies like Sitetracker, Avance Clinical, Iron Mountain and expedite commerce and each organisation had their first round as a fit check round which i’m unable to clear. Can you guys share some tips around it.

Need help regarding Fit check round of interview

Salesforce Developer

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I recently interviewed at a startup for a Backend role. I cleared the initial take-home assignment round and subsequent DSA round and their HR told me the third round would be a Design round. I prepared accordingly. At the time of the interview, no one showed up. I had to wait for 15 minutes for someone to show up. Instead of asking me a Design question, the latecomer asked me another DSA question. I asked him why is he doing that as it was clearly communicated to be a Design round. The interviewer said Design would be asked in the next round if I clear this one. Weird!

He only gave me 10 minutes to come up with the solution. After that he spilled the answer, and cut the call abruptly. I get a rejection email the next day.

Now why am I writing this post? Because I just saw the CTO of thar company rant on Linkedin about how his candidates declined their offer letters at the last minute. The moral of the story is that if you misbehave with your candidates, they will misbehave with you. So be prepared to take the L.

Poor Hiring at Fintech

Senior Engineer

Welcome to Ask Grapeviners's Private Community

Please help me with your suggestions which can be helpful for the upcoming technical Round 2 interview scheduled on coming Tuesday

Technical Round 2 with Associate Vice President will be focused more on technical knowledge or a casual catch up vth leadership?

Product Manager

How should I interpret it? I have already had 3 rounds of interview, the HR had already requested for documents but now they come back asking for another round of interview with CSO. I had already interviewed with CPO and a product manager along with a tech round.

Another round of interview after collecting documents and 3 previous rounds

Welcome to Moving Abroad's Private Community

Does any one work for startup’s which are not based in India? What should be the ideal compensation expectation in such cases. Is it fair to ask for a salary equivalent to that of an US software dev if the startup is based in the US?

Compensation at international remote startups

I had a very positive interview experience with one of the firms. I had cleared 3 rounds and my final round was a culture round with HR head and few colleagues from other departments. 

We had a very fruitful and fun conversation as well throughout the call.

But after that it's been 3 weeks and they haven't contacted me or even sent a rejection mail. Not sure how to go about this, I have sent the HR a mail too to check on any updates. Any advice on how should I proceed?

Ghosted after 4 rounds?

I am applying for the role of chief of staff for a  startup. I already am currently swamped with work. They have shared the details regarding the hiring process. 
Do you guys feel that the hiring process looks very time consuming? Or is it normal for such roles?

Hiring process for chief of staff

Quick rant: Why do I have to submit a 10 slider with 3 rounds of interviews for a company I had never heard about 5 days ago?

This is my first attempt at switching jobs and it's so freaking painful. Is something like an assignment necessary? 

P.S - I'm NOT interviewing for a tech role where you might have to showcase coding skills

Assignments in a job process

Consultant

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

Hi Guys,
I am attending an interview process for Lead Data Science. I want to know the previous experiences with to improvise my interview experience. 
The company having 5 rounds and each round is an elimination (the scary part).

First round is DSA and Data Science fundamental. Where I have learnt DSA 5years ago and now I’m out of practice. For Data Science it might be more like ML (I assume). 

Second round is System Design, which will be more on designing system and scalability 

Third round is more off Technical And Managerial around.

4th round is managerial round 

5th round is HR discussion 

I want to know where to prepare for all the rounds and what’s the efficient way to prepare for it.

Interview Experience Required

Data Scientist

Interviewed with Agoda for Lead/Staff Full Stack role and cleared their coding, design, architecture and a special round called coding+architecture. The interview went well as per my assesment. But finally a rejection mail saying they moved with other candidates. They even asked about the ECTC (before coding +architecture round) and also asked details about relocation to Bangkok assuring that I have almost cleared interview for Staff role and final round ie was coding + architecture was meant for deciding  b/w lead and staff role. What could be reason behind this. Preferably would like to hear from someone who had similar experience with Agoda.

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