It's best to reach out to the interviewer for some feedback, while it's good to reflect on what can be done better next time, there can be numerous internal reasons for which they chose not to continue with your application.

Tried asking via recruiter but it seems its just say rejected parallel to my name 🥲

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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 sp...

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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?

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The interview was face to face. 
I was told explicitly that it'd be a hands on coding round. DSA and screening round was already completed. 
The guy who came to the interview basically had the same level of experience as mine. 

First, he asked me about if I've worked on microservices architecture. I said I have and mentioned details about a few projects.

Then, he told me: Since you've worked on AWS heavily, do you know the default timeout of a lambda? Told him, I don't remember exactly and gave him a wild guess. It was too wild it seems. My bad, should've just not spoken. I accept my mistake. 

Then he asked, what are the different services that can invoke a lambda. I mentioned sqs, sns, cloudwatch, dynamo db streams, etc. He's like, what specifically from a microservices perspective. I repeated SQS, SNS mainly. He's like, Lambda can be also invoked by other Lambdas which is what I was expecting you to answer. Great. Shouldn't have asked an open ended question if he was looking for exact answers, right ? 

Then a few other questions that I was able to generally respond, but maybe not with the level of exactitude that he was expecting. 

Then, he asked me to code up a few endpoints related to followers, following, posts and wall. I told him that in the interest of time, I'm trying to get the endpoints working instead of focussing on design and he said sure go ahead. I was genuinely under the impression that he wants to see if I know how to code, but he was testing my system design skills. He was obviously not happy seeing me cut corners. 

At the end during discussion he said you could've done correctly in a certain way. I said yes - It's obvious that it was the right way, but I only compromised on the design thinking you wanted to see my ability to actually understand the framework related stuff. 

Interviews can be a bitch !

HighLevel Round 2 - Rejected

Sorry man, I didn't know you felt this way. 
 I will improve myself.

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Gave an interview for Product Ops at Cred. Didn't convert, but the overall experience was great: 

1. HRs were empathetic and helpful - called after a week to give detailed feedback (covered what they liked, didn't like, what they were expecting)
2. Interviewer was also nice and keen to know more about my experience 

They were expecting a good understanding of growth and metrics, and I didn't have much experience with that, so I got rejected, but overall, it was an excellent experience. 

I have been putting all my recent bad interview experiences here, so why not also put a good one! :)

CRED - Product Ops Interview - Great experience!

Woow you must be someone really in control of your ego. Being able to appreciate a company even after getting rejected is a high quality

I recently gave an interview, it was 4th round, the manager round, interviewer was tired and seemed not interested, he gave a ui and told me to think of data structure and edgse cases in 5 min. And got off the call , he joined after 5 mins and asked me answer, I was annoyed by his behaviour and couldn't perform well, I missed a single edge case and after that I got rejected. Is this the common behaviour or should I complaint it to the HR. He was director of engineering and seemed too much introverted.

Bad manager in interview

Is there any generous Senior Product Manager here who can review my resume. Its getting rejected from almost everywhere. My profile is bit of mixed as Technical and Product Ownerships . While writing it moves more towards TPM rather than a normal PM. 

Let me know if you have a discord or telegram. Would love to get an opinion.

Need help on resume review.

Hi everyone, can anyone please help how good/bad the PM role at Juspay is? I have been made an offer. I went through a coding round. The money is okay but not sure about learning. Seems to be a very flat organisation and hence dont think will find good mentors in there
Can anyone help? How is the overall culture?

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Anyone who has given the cars24 PM interview in the recent time.

Please share the interview process and questions asked

Cars24 APM/PM interview process

Recently gave interview for adobe sde2. It’s been a month and hr is coming up with new reason for sharing feedback and saying they will conduct one more round of interviews. 
Anyone else having such experience ?
Also is adobe actually hiring or just doing this for filling backup positions .

Horrible hiring experience  of adobe

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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

Anyone working there can share about work culture, teams, pay range etc?

How's Keka HR?

Program Manager

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In jp morgan chase- how much time it will take to confirm the candidate one month is over from the interview date

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Getting rejected from everywhere somehow.If anyone has done it. Please do share your experience!

Trying to move from Dev to PM.Seems impossible in this scenario?

Has anyone worked at Leadsquared in the Product Team? How was your experience?

Evaluating their offer currently and wanting to understand the culture.

Leadsquared - PM experience

Hello. Is there any MoEngage PM here ?
Wanted to ask about interview experience.

Any MoEngage PM here ?

Recently gave amazon interviews for theirs ads team. My DSA round with LP went good and the lld and hld round also went fine as i was able to come up design in HLD covering metric’s monitoring and fail safe and in LLD i was able to cover p0 and p1 requirements. Got rejection after 4 days and recruiter said HLD and LLD rounds were not upto the mark.
Folks i wanted to check where did i made mistake?
I checked with interviewer also if he/she is fine with what i was suggesting and they were okay with it

Amazon SDE-2 interview experience

Got a chance to interview at a really good pbc which I always wanted to be part of, but got rejected in the first round itself. Bad days teaches us more I guess.

Interview rejection

desperately looking for a change so I gave interview in Deloitte, cleared the technical round but in techno-managerial round they asked even more indepth technical questions and even took a screenshot of the code I wrote. Overall it felt like they were out to reject me cause the questions they asked were pretty different from what I mentioned in my resume. Does anyone else have a similar experience?

Deloitte Technomanagerial round

It was a red flag for me already. But they had a coding round(2nd) in their 4 round interview process. Stack was Haskell/typescript. Told them I didn't know the language, they told they will give the material to study.

Never heard PMs asked to code. Anyone had any similar experience before?

Juspay product interviews had a coding round

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Deloitte technomanagerial round

I attended one interview today. The interview went only for 11mins and as a courtesy the interviewer should introduce himself before he starts interviewing I found a big gap here. I decided not to continue with the interview further due to below reasons;

1. The interview was a one way video call where I was feeling awkward as I was not able to see other person's face and was talking in the air.

2. I was asked why did I apply for this role which is a Senior role and I have no experience in handling a managerial role of team handling?

2. I found the way I bombarded with the questions from the starting was very unprofessional and somewhere I felt embarrassed.

3. I was asked by the interviewer to check with the HR/Recruiter why he/she has shortlisted me ?

My answer for the 2nd question was as follows;

I am having 9yrs of experience and I found the responsibilities mentioned in JD are suitable and I have the skills of handling the role confidently, I do not see anywhere in Required skills it is mentioned that the candidate has a mandatory team handling experience required to apply for this role.

Candidates can apply for any role he/she finds suitable and no one can stop them applying. I have applied for this role as I found it suitable but if this was not suitable for me why did my resume get shortlisted and called for a VC interview and wasted my time

Unprofessional Interviews

Human Resources

Storytime: I work at Gojek. This year on 10th March 2023, I was supposed to be laid off in their second minerva round. But got saved due to office politics. Ever since I found out, like a sane person, I've been on the lookout - but like an insane person, for whatever reason, not aggressively. Finding out that you got saved because of petty office politics, and how pointless everything is- changed the way I look at Jobs/companies. While I did wanna move, I wasn't desperate. All of them are snakes.

Anyway, Since then, I've interviewed only for 3 companies. All 3 of them didn't work out.

First company - After the intro call , I was told that this wasn't a good fit . No explanations given. I was quite sad on that one. First kick back from the world after learning I was to be fired. Self doubt was heavy at this point. 

Second company - cleared everything but they weren't making a good offer. Took 1.5 months to meet at an agreeable salary. I still wasn't happy and parted ways,sad that it didn't work out. 

During our negotiations, the Indian government changed some policies that hit their industry hard. This company is now just trying to minimize the impact of the new policies, currently. They were not able to offer market industry salary then and I'm sure wouldn't be able to do so now. Layoff rumours in the air. I wonder what would have happened had I given in and accepted their mediocre offer or they had given in and given me something they couldn't sustain. 

Third: I interviewed at MPL. I was impressed by the HR, the interview panel- great product minds to work with and grow. The salary discussed in the intro call seemed great. I cleared 3 rounds. Went and met them. However I didn't clear, post that. HR ghosted me abruptly. I kept following up. After a week they responded. Feedback wasn't constructive or detailed . It was borderline harsh. I was super sad. I thought MPL would be it. 

Woke up to the news of MPL layoffs today. Indian government  changed GST 🤣

Are these signs from God or the government? Starting to believe there's some higher power in the universe

What happens, happens for the best. People don’t seem to get it initially, however, retrospectively it all makes sense somehow.

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