Interview experiences

PayTm. After 4 interviews they ghosted me before the last interview. Never told me if I was rejected or doing okay. The HR just lost me in the system or something g

Airtel (dragged for their airtel tv n xtream app for 2 months, 4 interviews , assignments and what not then complete ghosting) firework, snap, fb (no feedback after multiple stages of interviews, ghosting) Zomato (guy kept asking sell me this pen, watch, phone, nahi bechna bc) josh (thrice b/w ‘18-‘22 bsdk ceo bhi banaenge still won’t go)

Google Applied for a position around August last year. Completed all the rounds and interviews. In 2nd interview, interviewer didn't joined the meeting and nobody knew why. Later they gave an excuse of an urgent work which came up just before the interview. After completing all the assignments and interviews, there was a month of silence from them. I followed up and found out that they started prioritising the roles and then hiring. Later, they sent an email after 6 months that they are no longer hiring anymore due to hiring freeze. Well, that gave me a hint of what we are witnessing today with Google layoffs

Google… bc itna tough problem solving kaun poochta hai 😡

Cognizant, BCG and one saas based funded startup. Cognizant the interviewer didn't come on the first call. Then got a random call asking if i was interviewed. Got scheduled no hi no hello straight to questions. BCG interviewed for a month and a half after the final round i was 100% confident that I'll will get in rejected a few companies like Paytm then i got an email saying the position is no longer active, called the hr she said it was filled internally.

Olx, fucker was doing rapid fire round by googling questions and expecting exact answers. Closed the call in middle of 3rd round and said not interested. Gameskraft, took 5 rounds and never returned call. Paytm, the interviewer in 3rd round was not interested in taking interview even. Siemens, back then i was a fresher and they called me to bengaluru for a experienced role, just to fill their interview quota.

Jio 4 back to back dsa questions with increasing difficulty 5th question which was a DP question after we were already 10 minutes over and asks me to solve in next 5 mins as he has a meeting Only let me go when I said I think it'll take me More than 5 minutes His voice seemed the satisfied sigh, like yeah He has won the interview 😵

Quikr 1) interviewed directly with the CTO on first round, we spoke for two hours and he was mighty impressed. 2) rolled out the offer then and there 3) HR asked for standard details and asked me to join in 1 week. 4) I had just joined a job through campus placement and quickly realised, that they over hired and didn't really care about our skills or job fit. Was thankful I got a better role in Quikr 5) Quikr HR asked me to put down papers, gave details of Quikr accomodation, salary details etc etc 6) I was waiting for Quikr to role out offer letter before putting down papers, WHICH THEY NEVER DID 7) Quikr Ghosted me completely, and after a week of trying various ways to reach them, they said they didn't have the approvals to hire for this role, all this when the CTO himself hired me on the spot. 8) thank God i didnt quit the job in hand, by trusting Quikr guys

Deloitte. Multiple HR called multiple times for the same position over 2 months and none of them scheduled an interview.

Park+

Leap finance Engineering manager bullied for changing multiple jobs without asking for the reasons.

Paytm. Their interview process is quite unusual. They schedule each rounds with 2-3 weeks gap inbetween each round. Also they sent me an email that I got shortlisted and asked for my documents. It's been 2+ weeks and still they haven't released my offer letter despite multiple followups. Their interviews were also quite shabby where you don't feel like you're being tested for the role they are hiring.

The hiring manager loses his chain of thought. We started the entire chinwag from my career transition to design & ended up in his love marriage, kids, property and leased cars when he was in U S the A fyi he was the only one who enjoyed the conversation.

Happiest minds. I suggest don't even say yes if you get asked to attend to this company's interview. I was told to visit office for a face to face interview, I denied. And later a virtual interview was scheduled. In that the Teams call he made me wait for 20 mins and then as soon as he came in its straight away questions. No questions on previous projects or skills. He asked me 3 basic theory questions on SQL and 2 Pyspark questions where I was asked to say the syntax orally 🙄. I answered all , may have missed a bit of syntax. That whole interview was over in 15 mins. Yes my wait time was more than the interview itself.

Jodo. Horrible questions. Had nothing to do with the role and the interviewer was constantly on his phone

Accenture: Waited for more than 6 hours. Evergent: Cleared 2 rounds of interviews, one with Director level. HR called and said got strong recommendations and will follow up. After that I followed up after 3 days, she said that I will hear from them. Same reply for one month and then ghosted me.

Cvent

Hotstar

PepperContent. Their recruiter reached out to me for an ML Engineering job. First interview scheduled was with one of the non technical guys. First question after talked about myself was my salary. After I told my expectations, rudely stopped the interview. Felt absolutely flabbergasted and disgusted. The recruiter tried to reach out again, told him to fuck off.

Urban Ladder Final interview with the head of product and he joins 15 mins late. Asks vague questions like what is product management? What does a product manager do? and ended the interview in 10 minutes. This remains the only interview I haven't converted till date.