Japanese companies have pathetic culture; people treat you like shit.

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What is your experience while interviewing with Rakuten Bangalore 

Mine was irritating and disconnected the call : Interviewer was old school type and He acted

What is your experience while interviewing with Rakuten Bangalore 

Mine was irritating and disconnected the call : Interviewer was old school type and He acted like Mahagyani. Pathetic!

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Education: Tier 3 College
TC: ~34L
YOE: 3 in PBCs (including MAANG) (Currently SE2)

I recently got a chance to interview with Microsoft and it was probably one of the worst interview experiences ever.

Team: CCE - Commerce Customer Experience (BEWARE OF THESE FOLKS!)

Round 1 - March 27, 2024
An engineer from WA reached out to me via call and told me that they want to interview me for an opening. I was happy and agreed for an interview the next day at night. In the meantime, I asked the seniority, the job description, and the interview structure. He said 4 rounds and sent me a SE2 job description. He asked me DSA and some basic Java Questions. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Round 2 - April 1, 2024
A manager (who would have become my manager if selected), called me. He sits in HYD office. Asked me for an interview. He asked me tougher DSA and System Design. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Round 3 - April 10, 2024
Another person, who is the manager of the 2nd interviewer called me and asked me for an interview. Same, DSA, System Design. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Before round 4, I had to call and write emails to my 3rd round of interviewer to ask for updates as there is no HR involved; and he said, "The position has been put to hold because of some internal restructuring. Please just wait!"

Round 4 - April 24, 2024
Another perosn called me from WA, and requested to schedule an interview. I thought this would be my last round. He asked me DSA, and tried to understand my profle and asked me some AA interview like questions. The interview went very well.
Self Verdict: Pass
Actual Verdict: Pass

Now, I was just hoping for a call form the HR to ask me for details to release an offer. But now the twist starts!

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I had an interview today with a service-based company. The first round was conducted by someone who used to be a content writer but is now a community lead with no design background.

During the interview:

Interviewer: Asked me to showcase my proudest work.
Me: Presented a detailed walkthrough of a feature, explaining every design decision and inviting questions throughout.
Interviewer: Expressed high praise for my work and asked about my design system.
Me: Explained my design system approach, including the collaboration and cross-team communication it required.
Interviewer: Continued to be impressed.
Me: Thanked them.
Interviewer: Inquired about my salary expectations.
Me: Stated my expectation.
*Now things gets mad*
Interviewer: Criticized my design system as outdated and implied my work could be done by a beginner watching YouTube. Asked me to prove my worth was really upto the salary expectations.
Me: Pointed out that I had already justified my value through my work during the past 50 minutes.


It's disheartening that the interviewer discredited my soft skills and the experience I gained from two years of designing. They seemed to dismiss my achievements due to a lack of "full-time experience." It would have been more appropriate if they had asked follow-up questions about my portfolio. This experience felt like a waste of time, as the interviewer appeared immature and conducted the interview poorly, despite having over 8 years of experience. It's a disappointing and unprofessional approach to an interview.

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The interviewer shortlisted my profile for APM - growth and reached out multiple times to schedule an interview. Once the interview was scheduled, within 5 mins, he said I don't think you'd be a good fit because this is a complete growth role. I asked him why he had mentioned APM then and why he shortlisted my profile, to which he said it's just a growth role and had no answer about why they were looking for an APM! 

He left the call in 10 minutes, saying he had another meeting and, since I'm from a Product background, I won't be able to fit in their APM- growth role! If someone from the product can't fit into APM roles, who else will? -_-

Also, the interviewer didn't seem interested - he said 'got it,' and 'yes' to everything I said and wanted to end the call ASAP! 

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Product Manager

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I was in an interview with a CEO of an 8 year old startup. The dude was vaping during the interview. Kept saying “whatever” to all my achievements, didn’t even see my resume before starting the interview. Stretched a 30 minutes call to 75 minutes where I only spoke for 15 maybe. I immediately withdrew my application post the call. Did anyone ever experience bad behaviour from the interviewer?

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Hit me on @realoldmonk on telegram for more details. No clickbait.

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Computer operator

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Scaler's whiteboarding round

#rant
Damm yesterday i met the most dumb@&& idi&₹t interviewer ever. I was interviewing with him for principal engineer role. 
Oh dude his ego was out of the roof, Asking a question and then saying ok leave it aside jumping to next question. Asking bookish subjective questions.
Dude that guy can demotivate and kill a newbie not sure how he might be treating his peers in his organization.

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they rejected after giving all answers and took more than 3 days to reject  and interviewer was not able to understand deep concept which i was explaining

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Today, I had an interview for a job as a software developer. The person interviewing me started by asking if I could speak Hindi. I told him I could understand it but wasn't good at talking because I'm from South India. He gave me a mean smile, which made me feel really unsure of myself right away. 😔 We went on with the interview. He asked a question that was kind of a design question, and when I tried to answer, he didn't really listen. Even when I asked him some questions, he didn't give a good answer. He was busy with his phone, and it seemed like he wanted to say no to me. I'm feeling pretty down about it. 😞 I don't get why he acted like that, but now I feel dumb after doing the interview.

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