Ariba Interview Questions & Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Interviewed Apr 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)

1. A 40 minutes telephonic interview was done.

2. Was called for face2face interview after 2 days.

3. There were about 7 rounds of Technical Interviews(full day), each by a different person, one after another.
4. Of these only one interviewer actually asked me questions relating to my resume, all the 6 others had come prepared with some questions in their mind.
5. One interviewer asked me a puzzle, which i could not solve satisfactorily. That was the only question he asked, and
6. Another interviewer spent most of the time talking about what he does in the company.
7. One interviewer had come prepared with the standard algorithm related questions.

8. In the end a manager met me. He just asked some questions about what i do, and described the role at ariba.

9. After that a Recruitment girl from HR, met me and said their HR Manager was not available today, and they would call me later.

Did not hear from them again.

OBSERVATIONS
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1. Most of the interviewers did not bother to read the resume.
2. I felt cheated because interviewers concentrated only on their preset questions, not giving me an opportunity to demonstrate my skills and past experience.
3. There were questions around - writing Linked List program and search algorithms, and program to solve a puzzle.
4. There were almost no questions about J2EE itself or even core java.
5. It appeared that most of the work they do was maintenance kind, infact they referred to something called a Bug Fest often. My impression was that there was not much for any developer to learn here.
6. The recruitment girl clearly lied when she said that HR Manager was not available that day. The hidden message obviously was - go home now - we don't like you.