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

most of us have come across at least one of the following bad interviewer type: 1. Not knowing why they are asking that specific question, which skill are you testing ? 2. Those who ask questions in a Google doc. It's the worst, the candidate ends up struggling to format whatever they write. 3. Have "YouTube" knowledge instead of in-depth understanding. Imagine the candidate asking you a question and hurting your ego. 4. Asking candidates to switch on camera, while keeping theirs off. 5. Staying silent, not being interactive, not giving any kind of hints. 6. Not putting any effort to understand the candidate's mindset or background, asking intro just for the sake of it. You might work with that person, put some effort in, ok ? 7. Having a fragile ego, not accepting a different school of thought. 8. Just copying the question from somewhere & not knowing how to solve the questions themselves, giving hints which ends up confusing the candidate instead of helping. 9. Expecting the exact answer, instead of focusing on the thought process. 10. Asking Hard DSA questions in a one hour interview. 11. No proper intro, no setting the interview base, eager to just jump to questions. 12. Those who think interviews can only be for one hour, not keeping extra time. Who decided the interview will only be one hour ? 13. Not knowing how to format the interview. Interviewing is a skill/art, please learn it, don't waste your or anyone's time. Imagine a skilled candidate not getting the job they want/deserve because you didn't know what you were doing. It's better to treat the candidate like your other colleague and you are just brainstorming a problem. Whenever I have come across a good interviewer, I have always ensured to tell them they are a good one.

Then the interviewer again calls after few days and says before rolling out offer letter I want to discuss for 10 mins. And the discussion goes on for 1 hr. PS - it is a global MNC.

So, I recently gave interview for a trading firm. Got rejected after the 1st round(live coding round) itself. All this time (~3yrs of my career, I have only been rejected when my resume doesn't get shortlisted). Once it gets shortlisted, I have always cleared all rounds. I guess there's 1st time for everything. I just got feedback that my answers didn't have much technical depth (when the person asked casually about things on my resume). I mean, what? I gave overview on the point asked, if you wanted depth, you can ask for it, I am not gonna deny! What's this feeling of entitlement that interview answers should be the way they expect, the code should be the way they would've solved. Why? We are 2 people who could potentially work together, why can't interviewers come to an interview with the perspective of working together? For all the interviews I have cleared till date, everyone of them came into the interview with the focus that, hey, I want this guy. It's gonna be a conversation and I wanna see if it's fun working with him While I am interviewing, I am also evaluating the right fit. Something did irk me when he interviewed. I mean, this guy is head of the department, and he's coming to take the 1st round? Really? I guess, all that happens that is for good. I know I have lot to improve upon, I am gonna work on it. This rejection just didn't seem fair as I personally would love to know more and more based on the explanation given

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?

Hey all, idk what's been happening recently but I'm not able to clear any interviews, ig I mess up in managerial type questions due to nervousness and then the whole thing goes down, it's been 2.5 years since I've been working but now I feel so demotivated that I've been thinking of leaving tech. Idk what's been happening, even the companies don't provide a good reason for rejection or at least a feedback on where I went wrong,

1. Red flags during the interview conversations 2. Red flags on social platforms - Glassdoor etc 3. Red flags on LinkedIn

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

1/ an employee has got a raise in his/her current org recently and then asks for raise again to switch to a different org 2/ an employee has got a raise in his/her current org recently, gets an offer from another org and then asks for the current org to match the offer What’s your first thought? Is this justified? 90% of orgs will label them as opportunistic, money hungry & capital centric. But let’s get brutally honest here: Is the talent wrong to ask for more? We’re quick to jump to conclusions and slap on those labels. But have you ever stopped to consider their perspective? They are leveraging their value in the market. They are pushing for what they believe they’re worth. Isn’t that exactly what we teach about knowing your value and not settling? Are we really being fair when we default to calling them greedy? How many of you would really go back to hard, clear benchmarking and justify why this ask is justified? How many of you are really fighting this battle of moving a godzilla out of their position (in this case, a manager) who just says, "Nai yaar... pagal hai kya... bolo same salary pe aane ke liye... abhi to raise mila hai"? Most likely (as it is today) that this will result in a no-go from a manager or a comp approval request. And when it does - you can go all gaga on how you sold opportunity cost, how you justified the value the candidate brings to the table and all that verbatim in my head translates to CONVENIENCE. Someones convenience. This will always labelled "outlier" case. {continued in comments}

This was my pathetic interview experience with Acceldata india with a very unprofessional and lying recruiter. This story has a satisfying ending. I attended 6 rounds of interviews in 1 month and completed a take home assignment. I cleared all the rounds and even had a manager discussion about my onboarding. All good so far. Few days later the recruiter called back and said we need one more round (8th round) with the director who sits in US office. I said Ok and he scheduled this call on a Friday 10pm at night. At 9:55pm I tried to join the meeting link he sent but the link was not working. I tried in different browsers, different laptop, different internet connection. No luck. So I reached out to recruiter on mobile and he doesn't pick up. I know he's available because he was on call with someone else. I even tried reaching him via a different phone number but still no luck. Imagine the anxiety and panic I had to go through since I felt that it was my fault. On, next day he casually calls me in the morning to say that "Sorry I tried calling you 2 days ago but your mobile was unreachable (which is a plain lie). He says he cancelled the meeting because he found another candidate with lower salary. That's fine, and I don't give a damn at this point. But I asked why didn't he send meeting cancelled email so I didn't have to panic on a friday late night. He casually says "Sorry about that". That's the last I hear of him. No response after that. All this after going through 8 rounds of interviews and a take home assignment. All because this a--hole recruiter lied to my face and couldn't send a simple email. Funny thing is: Another recruiter reached out to me 3 months later for the same role. Apparently the candidate they hired instead of me backed out at the last miniute. 🤣 If you get a chance to interview at AccelData, trust me, please don't waste your time. The company and the recruiting practises are not worth your time, even if you are jobless.