Just had the wildest interview with Intuit India! No one showed up from the invite list, got mixed up on the time, and my window was a halfhour mess. Midcall, I'm wondering: India or overseas role?...

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Just had the wildest interview with Intuit India! No one showed up from the invite list, got mixed up on the time, and my window was a half-hour mess. Mid-call, I'm wondering: India or overseas role? Did I mess up? Then boom, rejection email! Asked for feedback, nada. Now the team's checking if the interview even happened. What even is this chaos? #InterviewGoneWild

How not to land the job

Human Resources

How not to land the job- Grapevine

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I received an email from Infosys regarding a job application. They asked me to confirm a timeslot for the interview. I checked if the sender is genuine.

Also I received automated phone calls and WhatsApp messages confirming my decision to proceed with the application.

On the day of interview, I kept waiting for hours. I didn't receive any interview email nor call from the recruiting team.

I wrote to them and their response mentioned that they wanted to check my availability but it doesn't mean they are available or going to actually interview me.

This hapenned with me for the fourth time. Lol.

Infosys recruitment sucks

Data Scientist

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I’m on the lookout to a switch, but I know many are, might be very helpful to have shares across diff companies and roles. 

Hope this is okay. Thanks good people!

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Software Developer

Consultant

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There I said it. It sucks.

The start is a joke - cause here's the plan - If you spend too much time on intros, and you wasting the so called "interview" time. And then you think I should save it for later, lets focus on the interview.

so we move to the stinky middle - the interview part - a web of questions with the obvious non relevant ones in there - and for a fact you will still give a green light to folks by a measure of retention of knowledge, not by knowledge application - cause you give hints to solve the problem sparingly. Here's the fact about your measure of potential - Take away Google and ChatGPT from these managers, and more than half your team would crumble. Wouldn't they use it on everyday job? If yes, then why are you depriving them of it in the interview. 
You will ego battle them - Not answering most of their questions - cause you are not interviewing - you are an interviewer - and they are the interviewee.. or you will conveniently park the questions for later, until a hiring decision is formally made - so you save your time - I mean cmon! thats your game plan. 

And the closing: it’s usually a weak handshake or a sign off and a 'We’ll be in touch' OR 'HR will get back to you'
CLASSIC. And yet.. you expect the job seekers to buy into their 'mission and vision' and become dedicated team member to "your" team. 
Seriously? 

CONVERSATION has a CON in it and you are doing it.
+ you cant hold it, even if your life depended on it.

The only reason the job seeker turned up, and thanked you for your time after the interview - is cause they need a job and were polite. NOTHING ELSE.
In a rare case - you really did a good job, and hence the "thank you"

Podcast here - https://lnkd.in/gMe6v9hV

Most hiring managers can't handle the start, close or even manage the middle of an interview - even if their life depended on it.

Human Resource

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I'm freaking out rn. I had an interview with at 2 today and no interviewer had  joined the call for 30+mins. Followed up with the recruiter and scheduler over email and WhatsApp messages him too.

Not sure what else I can do? I'm sleep deprived as I work the night shift and I hate where I'm working. This is the worst. I really thought I had a chance even though it was so off my reach;-;

Interviewer no show

Account Manager

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Had a weird job interview experience a few days ago, for a pretty senior-ish PM position. This was the first round interview with the team after a basic recruiter round.

Hiring manager joins the call on his phone with camera off. Sure no problem. 

He was presumably on AirPods with terrible sound quality, and his internet connection was terrible too. I could hear 2 out of 5 words.

I pointed it out immediately, thinking that he would change his internet connection or something. But it continued throughout the interview. 

I kept telling him that I can't hear him to either repeat himself or point out that its his internet connection. 

This ended up breaking the flow of the conversation.

He turned on video during the interview, I even told him to switch off his video to improve the quality. Barely improved even then. 

Still told him that I can't hear him. He even changed his room to see if it helped. Didn’t. He should've been embarrassed by now? 

He didn’t suggest an alternative — to move to a phone call or reschedule later, wondering whether I should have. I've never faced this before, so didn’t know what was appropriate.

Then towards the end, puts on his video again and I see that he is eating something. 💀 

I don’t know if this is normal???

If he was so busy, he could've possibly rescheduled instead of wasting both our time. He chose the time. 

I know it's an employer's market, but how bad is it?

Weirdest interview experience at a startup for a senior PM role

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Recently had a chance to interview at a pretty mature startup(moengage), a recruiter called me up, we set up a time and date for a machine coding round. I was pretty excited to be honest and looking forward to the interview.
Fast forward to the day of reckoning , I join the interview with my intellij set up, my pen and paper to draw the ERD ready and my mind full of design patterns, only to be confronted with two DS & Algo questions(i legit gave up the moment i heard ds), the questions were interesting and the interviewer chill but it blindsided me by a whole lot and I couldn’t solve anything.
It’s pretty weird that startups with so many resources at their disposal could be so out of sync internally.

Weirdest(worst?) interview experience

Software Engineer

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So recently I applied for Intuit SDE 1 role for 2024 grads via referral.
On 10th July I got OA link and I solved all 5 problems.Some of the problems I had seen before. I think they were repeated.
So I had my first round scheduled on 16 July on call with HR. 
Intuit was not that interested in informing interview details, time before 15th night. So I was informed my interview will be at 8 Am.
I joined the interview. The interviewer asked my introduction and then gave me a DSA problem on glider. 
DSA is the thing I am confident about myself but that day it backfired. It was some counting problem to calculate number of diff types of combinations. I was trying to approach it using basic mathematical counting and loops. Interviewer guided me very well and gave me a lot of hints. After a lot of hardwork on that problem I was finally able to solve it. But I realized I had ruined my interview already. 

Then interviewer asked some questions from my resume and oops, dbms , and operating systems.
I answered all of them. I believe they were correct and interviewer was satisfied.

On 22nd July I received a mail stating I wasn’t moving forward in process. Felt really bad as this was a good chance to increase my current CTC to around 1.5 times.
Lets see if I get any chance in future.
Any tips on improvement like how to manage interview preps along with job n all.

Intuit Interview experience

So I interviewed for a SaaS company serving US clients. I got selected after three rounds (basic email chat, built a project, technical coding round at last) and got selected. 

Finally, it was time to discuss salary and joining date with the CEO. He was impressed by the about section on my portfolio, where I mentioned that I like to go on treks, hikes, read books, lift weights, go on a run, etc. During our call he mentioned that everyone at the startup works 6-7days a week, 12hrs a day and asked if I'd be fine with it as I have a "happening life".

I said that I'm not used to it but I'll manage and work in appropriate working hours. He seemed to agree on it.

But he ghosted me after that, and when I pinged him in the email thread; he said he's not moving ahead with me because my other properties won't allow me to "work as much as other employees".

How am I supposed to react to this lol

I didn't get selected because... I have a happening life?

Glad, that CEO let you live for a better opportunity

Growth Manager

The interviewer Ghosted me during the interview round of a Bangalore based startup. Even called the HR multiple times, but no response from her as well, I guess she also ghosted me🤣

Interviewer Ghosted

I had 1st round with hiring manager of a famous SAAS company. It was a 30 min call. He came 20 mins late. Was in hurry. Rejection mail came after a day.

Got Rejected in a 15 min call. 🥲

A company called loop health started allowing remote work and hiring in early 2022 soon after receiving $25 million dollars investment. 
Founders are a great pair in the initial but as soon after investment of series A , difference broke out and one of the co-founders left the company in the name of sabbatical from backdoor out. He was visionary and had great product sense which the CEO got jealous of and stopped him at all the cost of investors recognising him. Anyway now the real unhealthy thing is not this story but due to this product the scope got messed up and customers started complaining and renewals badly hit to 60-80%. The competitor got them easily , one of the sales people said on call at a loop that loop company customers are easy to catch for competitors.
Now the real story is, the CEO wanted only the Pune office to survive and all remote employees to leave so he did a little magic ✨. Instead of laying off people, strategically not compensating anyone started layoff from the beginning of the 2023 this year by asking each outsider to resign and leave. The strategy was simple, 
Find weakness and make them accept simple mistakes as well and ask them to resign. At the same time, hire contractors at Pune to join and work. If any employee is strong or doesn't want to leave then make them contract employees and expect work in the same way.
This is not at all acceptable and the CEO is not alone on this. CEO, CTO , CPO involved plan. 
The problem with this approach is unfair practices, if someone makes a mistake they won't give any PIP plan. They just fire them in easy  ways to resign. CEO proudly says he wants great tennis 🎾 team but infact ceo is just a ball boy.

Loop is unhealthy!

Data engineer

Any thoughts on Intuit design team?

Product Designer

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I am a 25 yr old male and I come from a very small town in Jharkhand. My dad was a mechanic.

I am their only son. I graduated from a tier 3 college where getting any job was a dream. I worked hard and cleared a 9 LPA job in Pune. Got promoted and got hikes and came to around 13 LPA in around a year’s time. Resigned it for Amazon, BLR at 30 LPA. I joined in Oct 22 and got laid off in Jan 23. When I cleared Amazon, it was moment of pride for me and my parents. For the first time everything looked well and life felt happy and promising. It was just perfect.

After the layoff, life has been full of struggle. It was so difficult to get a job. Somehow got a decent company who would at least hire me without reducing my pay, but had to deal with a pathetic manager, and the culture wasn’t too good. Joined here for ~34 LPA

I finished 1 year in this company this April and I started to interview. Started with a startup, they said they can’t offer that much. Next was MSFT. They took 8 ROUNDS for a SE2 role and they offered me a L60 role and won’t budge at all, for a lower comp. I had to reject. In the meantime, I had already cleared Intuit at 50 LPA and DE Shaw at around 60 LPA. DE Shaw HM told me this role is SDET which the recruiter didn’t mention. Had to reject there. I resigned after I cleared Intuit and expected MSFT to give me an offer and I was sure that whatever comp they’ll offer I’ll take, but didn’t expect them to give me L60 and a comp around 29 LPA.

When Intuit’s joining came close I considered taking my resignation back but my manger bullied me and didn’t take my resignation back.

I got a chance to interview with Apple. It was so close to Intuit’s joining date that I asked Intuit to push it by 3 weeks. After 5 rounds, Apple said they can’t go ahead with my profile because of less experience. 

Folks trust me: All my interviews at MSFT and Apple went very very well.

When I made up my mind to join Intuit, they announced lay offs. My only option is to join.

Feeling like I lost in life

Which company did you have the worst interview experience with?

Interview experiences

Founder

I had applied for a company, a dream job. I had 2 rounds of interviews and then submitted an assignment. When I sent the assignment, I had to push the recruiter to acknowledge. And one week later they sent me an email that they've hired someone. It's so depressing. Thoughts? 

I don't think it was a fair play, I wasn't given a fair opportunity.

Frustrated

Product Marketing Manager

Sharing my worst interview experience with Accenture...last week HR scheduled an interview but panel did not join. They called me day after and rescheduled interview. Again this time...same happened...I waited for 25 mins and left the meeting as panel did not join. Trying to contact HR but no response. All the efforts and time candidate put into interview are of no value to them😑.

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