Had one incident, interviewed with an MD of professional training organisation  
  
 Half the way into interview I knew she wasn't interested, so when she asked this, I said - I like Pani puri  
 This really flared her up 🤭  
  
 Of course didn't get the job

Consultant

"Meri Ek taang nakli hai, Mai hockey ka bohoth bada khiladi tha. 
 Ek din Uday bhai ko meri kisi baat pe gussa aagaya aur mere he hockey se meri taang ke do tukde kar diye. 
 Lekin dil ke bohot ache hai, Fauran mujhe hospital le gaye aur ye nakli taang lagwayi."

Software Developer

Have you had any funny incidents around this question

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

How do you answer - Tell me something not in your CV

Founder

How do you answer - Tell me something not in your CV- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

So there was one company I was being interviewed at for position of product role. They told me to make a mobile app, not an actual one just on paper but it was a lengthy assignment and took me 5 days to complete it. (Day and night with minimal sleep)
Now in the deep assignment discussion round the interviewer asked me why I built an app. 
In my head the answer was you guys only told me to build it😂😂 but I managed to fake something for sophisticated. 
Mention below if you have some funny interview stories.

Funny interview story

Operations Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

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 ?

Senior Software Engineer

Whats up with this? 

Have you ever put up a non-work related stat on your resume?

New Age Resume - Consulting

Sales Manager

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I have been working in company for 10+ years and now moving to different project now and they are doing fresh BGC, I don’t know why as It was already done when i joined it. I want to understand, how these third party vendors who does BGC, check our criminal records? I have one case for family dispute, which is pending since 2016, there is nothing proven against me and court is just giving dates. What should I do? Should I mention this in BGC ?

Help required. How does BGC third party checks criminal records?

Business Analyst

what would you tell in response to "tell me about yourself" without mentioning anything about your job/work ?

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

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

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Hello Grapeviners. Few of us must have had to do some naughty stuff in order to pass an online or face to face interview. Could be second screen during online interview, a mobile used, using a proxy, having another person attend on another call going in parallel...And so on.
Be frank and share it here😊

Things I did when desperately wanting to pass interview

Program Manager

Why are you looking for a change?
Please help me find an appropriate HR acceptable answer for this 😅

How to answer this?

I believe most of the questions available on the internet are quite redundant to test someone's system design knowledge.

I'm not looking for typical questions like building YouTube/Instagram/Whatsapp, which are only for beginners.

I'm looking for questions which you are able to answer on the basis of your personal experience, in depth questions. 

e.g how did you use indexing/sharding/query optimisation/rate limiting etc in your project?  what would you do in a so&so situation?

the questions which show me whether a person has actually worked on the systems instead of just having the theoretical knowledge.

I know it depends on how the interviewer asks the question, because it's supposed to be vague but I'm still looking for very specific questions.

So please tell me, what are such questions which you like to ask someone or the questions which you were asked in an interview ?

or just share your interesting system design interview experience, would be helpful to others.

Practical System Design Interview questions to test genuine knowledge

Candidates should be allowed to respond like this in interviews 😄

Software Test - QA

I have a job interview coming up and want to get everything right this time. Would appreciate any suggestions.  I usually start by telling where I've done my college from and then talk about the work I've done at my current firm. Anything more that I should add?

What do you say when interviewer asks "Tell me about yourself"

I wish to know the pros/cons of frequently switching jobs. 
I am in a dilemma, there are posts here and there that say don't switch frequently and then there are posts that nobody cares about frequent job switches, as you are a dev.

Let's discuss ladies & gents✍️

Pros/Cons of Frequent Job Switching

Imagine you are the Hiring manager looking for a Tech Lead who is having 8-10 years of experience. 
  
 He/She has already switched 6-7 companies in the period of 9 years. Will you consider that person working for you? 
  
 I personally won’t.

DevOps Engineer

I will go first, i have deleted my first company from my resume because even though i was very good at coding. They put me in a support project in graveyard shift.  I faked illness to get out of shift, and later on was removed and put in angular project. 

I moved on 6 months later to a good company as backend engineer but i really regret joining my 1st company.

When asked , I just say the work was not relevant to what i wanted.

Please share your experience too.

Have you deleted any experience from your resume ? Why and how do you explain the gap?

AI Engineer

nobody cares about these questions and nobody has follow-up questions, these are only asked as a formality: 

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Tell me about a challenging project you did.

why ask such questions when your very next statement is "let's do a DSA based question"

Absurd interview questions

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hey folks,

Having 3.3 YOE. In one of my past stints I left a company in 2 months due to toxic work culture and joined a better company. 

I am a junior product manager. Will this short stint create problems for further opportunities?

Need suggestions.

Is my career ruined? 😰

Product Manager

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Talking to my nephew nowadays seems like the AI bug has gotten to him. Even going back during the early parts of my own career and even undergrad, ML and stats was still a fledgling field. Most of the smart folks went into SDE roles at top tech.

I still remember that even back then, hiring for roles like these were extremely theoretical. You would test even experienced candidates with undergrad topics which was slightly outdated tbh because most of the functions were abstracted away and it is obvious that you would not remember the matrix approach to finding weights for a simple linear regression model.

Has this changed now? Because I don't think interviews like that actually evaluate the accumulated wisdom that experienced professionals bring to the table.

I mean it is generally a waste of time for anyone to brush up manual derivations or remember SQL niche intricacies. Usually it is better to test for the 80% knowledge that is actually useful on a day to day basis. I mean if the main things that companies test in experienced candidates is something that can be rote-memorized from a book then they are not testing the right things no?

What do you all think? Just wondering about this for some time now especially considering the hype around AI?

Is Data Science a bad bet for your career longevity?

Hi,

I have almost 10 months of experience as software developer in 3 companies one internship, 2 full-time. First 2 was absolutely initial-stage startups, this one is a seed-funded startup. In my current company the culture and the manager is really nice. I work as a backend developer, node, MongoDB, express, genai, auth, etc. tech stack. But the work does not excite me at all, I was enjoying at my previous company a lot more. That was young team, so everyone was new to tech and trying to figure out things and was helpful and collaborative. Here everyone is in their 30s and 40s and I am 23, no one even cares of what I work and how difficulty I am facing in work/team. That's why I fear of losing my job every day and I am still on my probation. So I thought of applying in case I get laid off. I got an interview opportunity at company. I want to ask what should I answer if the interviewer asks me about the frequent switches.

In first company I switched because the company is like 3 people and no funding was received so only 3 more months of money remaining( btw now only the founder left and he is still trying to raise money, my other colleague left too). So what should I give a reason for this potential switch? 

Current perks: 6LPA base. Nothing else.

Have an interview coming up, how to prepare for frequent switching question?

Suppose I have worked with reactjs and other frontend stacks. But the recruiter asks for nextjs experience, which I have never worked upon. Should we lie at this point given you can learn and prepare for the techstack if it is to be asked in interview or state clearly you dont have any experience with the techstack?

How do you answer - Tell me something not in your CV

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