Same is happening with me in IJP. Almost feels like nepotism

ML Data Associate

I've recently interviewed with Amazon, and the experience was shit. Although I exceeded all the expectations set, I was Not hired because they had made that specific role for internal candidates on...

I've recently interviewed with Amazon, and the experience was shit. Although I exceeded all the expectations set, I was Not hired because they had made that specific role for internal candidates only. Why do these people waste our time if they have no intention in hiring outside people... Such a waste..

Worst Experience with Amazon

Risk Analytics

Worst Experience with Amazon- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Nowadays companies tend to take 5-6 rounds of interview and
One of my friends had gone through a similar procedure for 3 companies now- all into Fintech(one is a big MNC doing good and the other ones are startup) initially they moved forward with the CTC although they didn't have the budget and after 6 rounds of interview(5 general rounds and 1 to be more sure). 
I don't know how you cannot be sure of someone after 6 rounds of interview and why companies are not transparent about the CTC they can afford.
It has happened to a lot of my known SDEs including myself. 
Just wanted to vent out, just because of the ongoing market conditions, companies are troubling the candidates a lot.
Did you guys also have similar experiences?

A new trend going on... 💀

Software Developer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Recently gave a PM interview with a b2c saas company. I was asked to do a take home assignment. The interviewer has no intention of conducting the interview. He was late and he looked like he just woke up from sleep. 

The questions were all over the place. And he didn’t even spent 5 minutes going through the case study I prepared. 

I don’t know why people take interviews when they are not interested in it. Such a waste of time!!!!

Worst PM interview experience

Product Manager

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Sharing my worst interview experience with Accenture...last week HR scheduled an interview but panel did not join. They called me day after and rescheduled interview. Again this time...same happened...I waited for 25 mins and left the meeting as panel did not join. Trying to contact HR but no response. All the efforts and time candidate put into interview are of no value to them😑.

Accenture Interview

Data engineer

Most of the queries asked here should be sorted easily if an HR can respond with their insights, but i rarely see any HR participating in discussions, maybe we don't have that many HR's here ?

Or 

maybe you folks want to stay the same as you are on the job, totally useless.

Aren't there enough HR's users on grapevine? I hardly see you folks responding to queries?

Senior Software Engineer

I recently applied to Indian Fintech, first round went well. Got no response from HR for 3-4 days. Once I called her on 5th day, she told me that I had cleared first round and they will assignment next day. Assignment didn’t arrive for 2 more days. HR stopped picking my calls. After this I reached out to third party recruiter (who started the process initially). She contacted this company HR and they sent me assignment next day. 

I had to complete it in 48 hour strict timeline. Spent entire 2 days on it and barely slept. I submitted it on time. 

After this no reply from HR for 4 days. Finally I reached out to my interviewer from first round for help. He said he will remind HR. 

Next day I got call from HR that all open positions are closed and we will consider u in future. No feedback on assignment was given. Not even sorry for making u wait. 

Isn’t the only thing HRs need to be good at is people handling & professional communication?

What’s the worst interview process experience you had so far?

Product Designer

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.

Worst interview experience till date

Founder

Google's hiring process is so shitty , I have already been through 8 interview rounds and spent a whole year in the process but still yet to get a confirmed outcome result. What is wrong with these people, half of the interview rounds didn't seem justified for the role also. Almost every time the recruiter says this is the last interview then the hiring committee recommends another one supposedly "to fill the gaps ". Seems like an elitist process being followed to sastify their egos.

Why is Google hiring process so shitty?

Business Analyst

Hello guys,
I have an interview lined up for non-tech specialist (L4) role in HYD office. The interviewer is based out of Seattle HQ. Just wanted to work culture of the team and the salary offered for L4 role in such team

Anyone working with the Amazon Publishing team at Chennai or Hyderabad?

Supply Chain Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Candidate experience is the first point of contact that shows the culture of the company. From recruiters ghosting to giving interview assessments that is actual work for the next quarter to  getting too personal about your life, what has been your worst candidate experience?

What are some horrible candidate experiences you've had? Name the company if you are able to

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

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! 

#WorstInterviewexperience

Kirana Club APM Growth Hiring - Awful experience

Apart from DSA rounds does it take other rounds too like system design etc.
Just got laid off, please provide inputs if you have any.

What interviews does amazon take for SWEs with 1 year of experience?

Data Scientist

After all rounds cleared successfully during HR discussion for offer she told they can't offer more than my current. If that was the case why can't they inform initially before taking interview.

Worst experience with IBM.

SAP Consultant

So recently I interviewed at Geekyants and it was horrible. 
 I mentioned about my existing offer and what I wanted before the start of the recruiting process. They took a communication assessment, a coding assessment, two technical assessment and an HR assessment only to give me an offer of 8 lpa ( lower than the offer I had ) with freaking 18 months of bond. 
I remember mentioning that the offer I have is time bound and would appreciate if they fasten the process, I think they thought I would accept their offer given my urgency. Shit behavior.

Shit recruiting process at Geekyants

I'll go first. I got a call for an APM role from one of the companies which did sound pretty sketchy and the recruiter was started bullying me into answering questions, when I asked to know more about the role. The recruiter was extremely unprofessional, and obviously the conversation was nowhere great. They however, did go ahead and sent me the JD and other links, etc to fill in and apply for the job. Mind you, I hadn't applied for the job. 🥲
It just was a pretty sour conversation which had left me in an uncertain situation. Any similar experiences?

Weird recruiter experiences

Asked for my expected CTC. I answered and they weren't happy with it. Said they could only give at 40% increment of current CTC and then asked for my current CTC. After hearing my current CTC they said I shouldn't be earning this much and that I was obviously making it up. Then asked to send over my salary payslip which I refused. Basically the HR started being extremely rude at this point stating that I was being unprofessional. I asked their salary budget for the role which they refused to answer. Then I asked if they were willing to hire me for a lower CTC which she instantly agreed and said she knew I was reasonable and I shouldn't have lied about my CTC. I then said good luck finding a candidate for that amount and hung up.

Software Engineer

Was interviewing for a B2B SaaS which would've been a great company to join. Started speaking to them in December. Went through 5 rounds of interview, the last one with the founder. Ended up rejecting me because of my past work experience not being the best fit for what they want.

This was such an incredibly frustrating experience. They checked my skill set with an assignment and product solutionising round, and yet relied on past experience to filter me out after being in conversation for months.

Only thing for me to learn here is to never let your guard down, always be wary that you can be rejected at any point. Your skills, even if tested, matter only to the extent that you can combine it with telling them what they want to hear.

That said, anyone looking for a product manager? :) Have ~2 years of experience as a PM (3+ overall).

Frustrating interview experience that lasted months.

Recently, I had a mind-boggling encounter during a senior finance role interview at a prominent startup. After impressing the Finance Director and Controller, I expected an interview with CFO as a logical next step. Instead, I found myself facing an Independent Director—a puzzling addition to the process, especially with a CFO in place.

What baffled me more was the interview's focus. Despite the role's clear scope within India, the Independent Director bombarded me with international tax inquiries, completely unrelated to the position or the company's operations. It felt like a ploy to glean free consultancy for personal matters.

This experience left me questioning the rationale behind hiring protocols. Why subject candidates to irrelevant interrogations by individuals detached from the role's purview? It's disheartening to witness such a flawed process at the hands of those meant to guide a company's growth.

The Absurdity of Hiring Processes: A Personal Experience

Scrum Master

I just finished an interview with ServiceNow for a senior software engineer role and writing this up.

Anger rushed through my body after finishing the interview for multiple reasons.

reasons:
1. The interviewer joined 10 minutes late and he was very lethargic.
2. The questions he asked regarding my current job were very basic and then I realized that he should be fresher or should have 2 - 3 years of experience.
3. After the interview I checked his profile on LinkedIn and he was a 2021 graduate (as I guessed).
4. I don't understand why an organization assigns software engineers (2.5 YOE) as interviewers for hiring a senior software engineer(8+ YOE). It doesn't make sense to me.
5. Then the interviewer asked a basic DSA question, and I gave him the solution, now he was not familiar with the Python language hence intrigued about the implementation of the heapify in Python. I explained to him how Heapify works but still, he could not understand what it is.
6. The part I got pissed off is the interviewer's attitude of him knowing everything.
7. The interview was scheduled for 1 hour and we went overtime, it's okay to go overtime by 5-10 minutes., But this guy is taking more than 20 minutes. He din't have basic ethics of valuing candidate's time.

This is not my first interview with ServiceNow, this is my second and I had same feelings in the first interview as well.

It's okay for me to not grab this opportunity, but think about someone who is really struggling to get a job during this tough time, because of the interviewer being lethargic.

Hope ServiceNow focuses on their interviewing system and improves it.

ServiceNow interview is shit 💩

I have read that they are burning a lot of money. But I still see them hiring.
Have they laid people off recently?
Current employees shed some light on what’s happening internally.

How is Jupiter doing?

Gave interview in Amazon Ads team for AAM role (L3), all three round went well still no response, where I was hopeful. How HM's are curating profiles, after holding 3+ years of experience in the applied role domain, with relevant experience basis JD, still HM's are not responding. 

What kind of hiring is this?

Worst Experience with Amazon

Discover More

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Gabriel

Startup

A new trend going on... 💀

Product Managers on

by Jordon Nadeen

Startup

Worst PM interview experience

IT Company Discussion on

by Coy Lee

Infosys

Accenture Interview

Misc on

by Matilda Lee

Stealth

Aren't there enough HR's users on grapevine? I hardly see you folks responding to queries?

Product Managers on

by Matilda Hyrum

Stealth

What’s the worst interview process experience you had so far?

Designers on

by Karilyn Dean

Stealth

Worst interview experience till date

Misc on

by Kendall Nadeen

Google

Why is Google hiring process so shitty?

FAANG on

by Kendall Taye

Fmcg

Anyone working with the Amazon Publishing team at Chennai or Hyderabad?

Office Gossip on

by Blair Gabriel

Stealth

What are some horrible candidate experiences you've had? Name the company if you are able to

Indian Startups on

by Kalan Carmden

Stealth

Kirana Club APM Growth Hiring - Awful experience

FAANG on

by Matilda Everett

Microsoft

What interviews does amazon take for SWEs with 1 year of experience?

IT Company Discussion on

by Jordon Nadeen

TCS

Worst experience with IBM.

Indian Startups on

by Anise Lee

Student

Shit recruiting process at Geekyants

Product Managers on

by Jordon Lee

Stealth

Weird recruiter experiences

Product Managers on

by Kendall Olive

Stealth

Frustrating interview experience that lasted months.

Indian Startups on

by Jordon Denver

Stealth

The Absurdity of Hiring Processes: A Personal Experience

Software Engineers on

by Kalan Lee

Microsoft

ServiceNow interview is shit 💩

Indian Startups on

by Dezi Taye

Plivo

How is Jupiter doing?

Bangalore on

by Kendall Olive

Amazon

HM not responding after taking three rounds of interview!