Happens with the best of us. Can’t do much. Just learn from the mistakes and move on. No time to regret and get demotivated. Never let your confidence and belief go down no matter what happens. It is the only thing which will stay with you when you are at your lowest. Onwards and upwards. 💪💪

Yep, will try to move on. Can't do anything else. Fuck the current hiring process. It's just a black box.

Software Developer

Software Engineer

Order momos, watch a movie and then get back on the grind

Apply for Swiggy they are hiding for interns

swiggy's employee are  expecting HLD from interns, they asked one of my friends

Lawyer

Most of the times the interviews are very subjective. Despite doing best you can get rejected, used to happen even when demand was very high too. 
  
 Btw how do you have dream company ? Personally I could never think of any dream company because apart from compensation everything is uncertain(team, work, colleague etc)

By dream company I mean a organization which I really really wanted to work for due to the amazing people it contains from whom I can learn while collaborating as well as the vision too which excites me a lot.

Got rejection email from the company which i so much wanted to get in. Got rejected after the system design round. I tried my best but not sure what went wrong. How do you guys handle such situatio...

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Got rejection email from the company which i so much wanted to get in. Got rejected after the system design round. I tried my best but not sure what went wrong. How do you guys handle such situation? One email just thrashed whatever you were expecting since past few days.

Rejected from dream company

Rejected from dream company- Grapevine

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Need answer to just one thing. 

Do you guys intentionally ghost candidates or do you guys intentionally ghost candidates? 🙂

Dear HRs - Answer Me.

Profession dominated by women - typical passive agressive behaviour. Avoidance

Founder

All the Folks who are laid off, my sincere wishes for strength and support during these challenging times.
Swiggy is hiring for a few roles, I can help you with referrals. Anyone can write me up with the job profile at ahujahghg1@gmail.com 

Currently available roles:
SDET (19 positions)
ASDE (Backend or Android or iOS)
SDE2 (Android or iOS)
Data Scientist 2
Business Analyst (multiple teams - total 7 positions)

Swiggy is hiring

Technical Director

Recently started giving interviews and cleared a few rounds in a couple of companies. I never heard back from any of them even if I felt the interviews went well. Very frustrated because of this as I fail to understand how difficult is it to just reject or send a rejection email if they don't want to hire. I understand that companies have 100s of candidates in their pipeline but it's so frustrating to not even get any rejection mail and get stuck in a limbo.

Why do companies ghost after interviews?

Hello grapeviners. 

I was recently interviewing at a big MNC and gave 5 rounds of interviews. (4 Tech, 1 Managerial). I did fairly well in the interviews (according to me).
Got rejected in the end and received no feedback... Just a generic rejection mail.

How do you guys keep up with failures like these?
Whenever I give interviews at a good company and perform well, I tend to imagine myself as a future employee in that company and how my life would be after joining there... and it really breaks my heart when I get rejected. This happened to me few times before as well and I still have no idea how to move on from feelings like these.

Really interested to know what do you folks do in situations like these... How do you calm yourself down?

Interview Rejection

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Had the first round with HPE VP (Product). For senior PM role where the candidate should have experience with building data pipeline and data tools. 

I have the same. The interview went well. I spoke about how i helped business building the pipelines and platforms. While discussing, i said that i once in a while code as well. 

Later i found that i was rejected. Not able to comprehend, what went wrong here. Can someone share your thoughts?

Review

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

So few days back, The company (huge Product based MNC) after a whole month of review , extended their Pre Placement Offers to 2025 Undergraduates in which unfortunately I didn't get.
I was part of a Data Operations and Engineering team during my internship and me with another cointern came up with a GenAI solution to prepare a Data Validation Engine for the Data Product Platform which included a Semantic Table Recommendation based on Business Rule and a Natural Language Data Validation Platform with Dashboard to select , drag and drop and see end results. It was a complete Full Stack project for a 3year B.Tech student who straight got thrown into world of Oracle, PySpark, Langchain , NLP , React , FastAPI, and even we mounted the Dashboard as a specific route of API and almost prepared it for pre-production.

Now, our manager and other teammates (SDE I and II) said that this is a new team and one of most ambitious long term project and they are in need of personnel and based on what we accomplished in 2 months, they said they definitely wanted to see us back in January to improve the platform and actually push it into Production.

Also it's normal for the Company to push 90-100% conversion from Internship to Permanent Job offers from its last 3-4 year track record.

But everything changed, when the PPOs dropped in. Colleges were witnessing 30-50% conversion only and the conversions for the students didn't make any sense in any way. Though I was lucky enough to come back to college and get a backup Job Offer but I waited desperately for this PPO since I felt like family in those two months and because of this I gave up my streaks of practice and got deviated from my own projects and everything. 
Today, I talked with one of my senior SDE from the team and he said that review of our work was impeccable and they were themselves shocked that we didn't get. My other co-intern who is also placed in a backup offer had the same interaction who was himself shocked how could they cancel our PPOs.
The manager said , after they submitted the review and requirements, the HR gave no visibility to the managers themselves and hence no consultation from the actual need was taken while extending. For a large organisation venturing deep into AI in daily life projects, extending offers to 31/84 people and that too in Legacy Stack like C# , Java , Frontend was quite abnormal for the students. 

Though how much I pretend to be not affected by this event but deep down I am broken from inside. I worked da y and night , I even worked from office every day where WFH was still there. 

Well, though I have this huge MNC internship on my CV , but in reality, I am not in that big of a college that anything I do can beat this company nor I was such consistent code-worm who kept on grinding Leetcode and DSA everyday. Now I am even worse than most in my college.

Got rejected for a PPO after a successful Internship. Even my manager was shocked at how I got rejected.

Hey everyone, I hope you can help me out with this one query i have, is it fine to tell the interviewer that i got laid off when they ask why i am looking for a job change in this marker?
I have been WFH for 2 years, have 6L in liquidity for runway i guess, idk if it's safe or not but how is the job market currently. 
Recently gave interview in a tier 1 product based company, got rejected in 2nd round as well so what should be my plan now? 
How to tackle this feeling of being incompetent and anxiety?
I hope you can me out with these questions 😭

Got laid off today after asking for appraisal for 2 months.

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hi , this post is intended to be a disclaimer to anyone who is planning to join Yubi. A lot of things are happening here that show some signs of an impending layoff

1) Several senior folks in tech and product have quit. Also there is no replacement hiring planned for them. Several projects are also getting shelved as a result.

2) there were several open roles a few weeks back and almost all of them are on hold as of now across all depts( tech , business , ops)

3) rampant cost cutting. The lunch options have been reduced to just 1 dal , 1 veg , rice and chapati.  Snacks have been removed too.


Because of several folks quitting in less than 6 months and no replacement hiring , load has increased tremendously on existing members who are themselves trying to leave. 

People have serious doubts on whether any hike or bonus will be given or not this year.

Rampant negativity at Yubi

Growth Manager

Not able to get into HR rounds after doing well in technical interviews. 

Comp1: cleared 5 technical rounds.  They asked me to come in person for a particular date, informed me that date and time will be informed later. After a week got rejection mail. 

Comp2: Done well in the technical round. Profile was in process status  in the company portal for the last 45 days.  Today I got a rejection mail. 

Mera life ithna kharab hogaya.... Ithna kharab hogaya..

Ghosting companies

Cloud Architect

Recently, I gave an interview at this early startup in Bangalore. It consisted of 5 rounds.
- The first four rounds were technical, design, and assignment rounds which went well. I answered all the questions fairly well and the interviewer was happy knowing the answer.

- The fifth round was with the CEO - Now this was the turning point. He was more concerned about my personal situation. He asked questions like, where I live, where is my hometown, if WFO is okay for me (I was working remotely in my current company ), and where is your dad ( I said he was no more and that turned off the CEO of a company), how will you keep my mother in BLR, why your mom not living with your siblings?. And I was like "WTF man".the only technical question he asked -> "Have you ever hacked a system in your recent days?". 😂😂

After wasting more than 14 hours in the process I received a rejection mail without any feedback.

Message to recruiter - if you are more concerned about the personal situation of the candidate, please conduct a preliminary round for that.

Got rejected because of personal situations.

Sharing my interview experience for grapvine audience.
I applied to this company called Weave for Software Engineer role.

1. Recruiter call was very good
2. Coding round 45mins -
     a. Interviewer wasted 30mins Asking irrelevant questions for the coding round.
    b. Asked why my current company uses AWS instead of other cheaper cloud providers like GCP, Azure etc, as if I am CTO at my employer.
    c. Asked Hr questions like why I am looking for switch and what is my tenure at current company, it was totally irrelevant to coding round.
    d. Asked manipulative question to frame me, "What is the strength of my current engineering team?", I answered 5 engineers, SDE2, staffs etc. He then put his narcissistic comment "If I don't consider EM and PMs as a strength of the team" as in strength-weakness manner.
    e. Wasted 30mins in these BS questions and then gave a coding question which I solved with working code and he was satisfied with it.
    f. I was already shocked by his un-professional behaviour, to add to it he extended another 15mins to interview by asking follow up tech questions.
   g. I knew it's something wrong with this interviewer, then he started asking from which place in the country I am from.
I was not in a mood take anymore of his BS, so I gave vague answer mentioning my State in India, he yet started pressuring me to tell exact city.

Don't know how this interviewer was a senior engineer at that company with such foolish behaviour.

Even after coding a working solution and acknowledgement by interviewer.

I got rejection email saying "rejected due to my coding round".

I ain't taking such BS and un-professional behaviour, so I reported entire interview details to recruiter and Head HR of that company, it's totally unacceptable for interviewers to waste time of candidates with their incapability, bias and un-professional behaviour.

I got response that they will look into this matter internally and such behaviour is totally not acceptable

Weave Company- Unprofessional Interviewer

Was under a 3 month long process for an internship position at FAANG level company. Had multiple rounds of interview and breezed through all. Was on the last stage of the interview which was yet to be scheduled and received an email from the recruiter that I've been rejected because they have found better candidates who have completed all the rounds and I had one round remaining. A week back I shared my availability for the last round and was following up daily for the schedule but didn't receive any response from the recruiter end and now this. Such a shitty hiring process.

Rant for getting rejected for no reason.

Completed my MBA from An Indian Tier 1 college and applied for a marketing role (my previous role was non marketing, but I did some offline stuff) Was amongst the best performers and the company is one of the popular ones in the country rn. When I applied again for a marketing role, I got interviewed once long back and have been waiting for a revert. Worst Part - I know someone has been hired for the part and she is a friend. The person who was handling my application is a great guy, have met him personally before my former stint. Dont know why would they not give a rejection letter. Really need to move on but cannot because this will always be my dream company and was also the profile I have been reeling for. Tell what to do!

Rejected by ex-company after MBA, was a high performer

Sales

Cheating happening in a lot of online assessments. I'm a 2024 graduate and I've worked very hard. I've a consistent streak of 390+ days on leetcode. I'm proficient at CS fundamentals. I have knowledge of web, restAPI and ML. Recently a company visited (startup). It was offered 20L CTC for associate software engineer role. This company conducted OA in 4 batches and all batches had same qn. I'm tye only guy who got shortlisted from batch 1 and rest of the batch guys cheated and shortlisted. In the interview they rejected me for not knowing system design. I then messaged the founder of the company about cheating in exam and how crappy their system was. He didn't care. He replied saying that he already knows. Idk where the hell our world is going with such founders. For him it's about his company. For me it's about my job and hardwork. Is there anything I could do about this? And the guy who got selected cheated in OA and he was in the 3rd batch.

Online assessments, Fresher and Depression

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.

Don't bother interview with AccelData

This is EXACTLY one of the ways this platform is meant to be used. Call out the BS and NAME THE DAMN COMPANY. Dodged a bullet there OP.

Security Engineer

Analyst

was on the last stages of the conversations and got rejected for god knows what reason. capable enough to do stuff and get shit done and good experience but still. what a bad fucking time.

just got rejected again!

Intern

Trying to see companies that people here have had the dream to join, but didn’t ultimately work out. Have you now grown over it?

Which company were you obsessed with joining, but never could?

For me it was McKinsey 
 It was the best job out of college, status wise. 
  
 Did well in college and made it to the final shortlist. Was obsessed with it, read books and all about The Firm. 
  
 Then the interviews happened, couldn’t convert. Was a downer.  
  
 But 5 years later, doesn’t matter much. I feel life taught me better things. And my fascination of consulting jobs has changed drastically since :p

Corporate Strategist

Hi guys(Mainly HRs), 
              Recently I applied to one SaaS company for the position-Solution Engineer/Implementation engineer, I had 2 rounds and was done with both the rounds. As I was expecting results, I got this mail from the previous round interviewer saying ( See the below/above image).  It sounded very odd and strange to me and frustrating to hear this, I acknowledged it and mailed the interviewer and HR asking to  give any constructive feedback if there were any; Until now they haven't responded back. I feel better now but obviously very disappointed with such a reply, can any one of u from startups/ HRs from start-up Please clarify - Is this the way Start-up rejects candidates or I got unlucky in this situation?
Please help friends.

Rejected from dream company

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