The HR short lists and schedules for an interview, I was informed that there might be three to four rounds of interview and that they would like to finish all in a day’s time which is good. But, I was asked to leave after a F2F interview. Before that the HR is like a stalker ensuring all you moves and reminds you about the interview but after the interview doesn’t even share the feedback or informs how the interview went and what are they looking for. If you are pushing the candidate to take off a day to complete the rounds and spend time/energy the least you could do is tell what they are looking for in a candidate and why they didn’t get through. If F2F is an elimination round why not have a telephonic round and the short list instead of making the candidate come over.

The application process included 3 stages - phone interview by a recruiter, on-site interview with the direct manager and another last interview with the immediate team. The interview with the direct manager on-site was about sharing the vision and business model of the company, some questions regarding my previous experience and my approach to given tasks. I was also given a quick task to edit a write-up given by engineers in a way that is suitable for external readers. The team interview was a bit harder as there were several people in the room asking different hard questions about personal behaviour and approach to problems or urgent asks.