Worst interviewer from TCS
Today I had went to Bhubaneswar location for walk-in interview my profile was PL/SQL. I had entered facility at 10:00 am and was finally interviewed at 5 pm (don’t know how they were managing resumes, they were simply shuffling the papers and passing from one volunteer to another.. ok lets ignore this ) . Finally my turn comes . I saw an interviewer who was some SA level . The first question he asked - What is SubQuery ? I answered when we use a query inside another query by the help of a block it is called sub query . My next question was find 3rd largest salary . I answered the question using ROWNUM he was not satisfied he said it’s wrong, then I answered using Dense_rank he then immediately says don’t use any function , then I used one select having two subqueries he is still not satisfied. Then he asked some theory I answered all of them like difference between function and procedures .. meanwhile he is busy eating samosa having tea .. never mind it is hard for him .. then he started gossiping with collegue about why offer letter didn’t come.. and all this went on while he was on interview.. he gave me a coding when i submitted he was uninterested because I missed a semicolon .. then asked me write a sql statement such that he will get the result as. Empid, emp name and manager name from a single table employee having empid managerid and empname whereas empid 2 is the manger of empid 1 .. so if you understand here we need to join the employee table twice with E1.empid = E2.managerid … so his question why u used only join not self join .. will those impact on answer that you need ??? I noticed one thing whenever i answer the question he changes the conditions of the questions.. with 4 to 5 questions my interview was done.. hereafter will never go for interview to TCS .. I have answerd all questions but interviewer was busy finding my silly mistakes, putting several conditions after I answer his questions .. Pathetic management .. if your seats are filled up on the basis of first come and serve better ask to leave than acting like this …
Last year, in an Infy interview for the role of Angular developer (2-3 YoE), I was asked to introduce myself first.
I started off with my educational qualifications, focusing on college and my current work experience. At the end of the interview, as apparent "feedback", the f*cker tells me "when asked to introduce yourself, you shouldn't tell me about your experience and all that, I don't care about how many years of experience you have, I want to see your communication skills to judge if you can work with clients." This, even when I had told him about having worked with clients in China. I can understand wanting to test communication skills, but trust me (because I can't recall the specifics now), nothing he asked me during that interview would have allowed him to judge my competence in handling clients or the day-to-day work of a developer.
He got hung up on a weird question imo ("why did you choose to study CS, not IT" – asked essentially the same thing twice, even though I explained the first time the differences between both branches in theory and practice). Not to mention him bragging about having travelled to multiple countries for work.
Needless to say, I got an immediate rejection mail. Wouldn't say I regret it, I'm just happy to have dodged a bullet. Looks like you did, too :P
Point is, from what I've seen and heard, idiots like these you'll find aplenty in the Indian IT industry. Sometimes I wish I could've chosen another profession; strongly regret having to work among such people... but then again, I suppose it's not a profession problem, it's a society problem — other professions might be even worse off.
You're right...pathetic management. Sometimes the HR doesn't want to hire but can't dismiss anyone so take easy route and ask interviewer to take tough interview and reject on few failures so it looks like candidate fault and not company's... ignore the shit hole company.
Oh that might explain my interview at Infy. Although I would describe that less as tough and more as meandering and stupid.
Service based companies don't care about one person. It's a hit and miss scenario.
