The interview was conducted on 19th Aug 2017 in the form of a hiring drive. First there was a coding test. There was 3 face to face interviews. First was on Data structures and Algorithm. The next two were on projects and mainly focused on java, hibernate and sql, the technologies the company uses. After this the HR comes to the interview room and tells me I am selected. We had a discussion on salary and documents to be submitted. After 3 days, I call HR for the offer letter he said, the team did not find you fit for the role of SDE2 but for SDE1, and since you already have a good offer, we cannot make any offer for the role. I was stunned by this reply after telling me I was selected that very day. Also the reviews on glassdoor are actually true no matter how much the company denies it.

The hiring process was NOT good. The first round was a 60 minute on-site online test. One had to solve 2 questions. I completed the 1st question and got a runtime error on 2nd question when I ran out of time. The recruiter asked me to leave for the day since both questions were mandatory and my approach for the 2nd question was incorrect. I asked him if I could have a review for the 2nd question because I thought that was right. Then, the engineer reviewing my code came in and I explained to him how the code was supposed to work and why I was getting Runtime error. He argued with me for about 5 minutes and came u with the following conclusions: 1. My code was not readable. 2. My code was not using optimal data structure. 3. We expect not only the correct solution. We expect the most optimal solution. 4. I dont care if you can write code, analyse the complexity and provide the most optimal solution, this code does not look good. 5. You are using too many if blocks. You are bound to miss somethiing. I told him I am using these if blocks for error-checking and corner cases. After all this, he asked me to redo my 2nd question and I said I was NOT willing and terminated the process. In hindsight, the whole attitude of the reviewer was to find out any silly reasons he could to reject my solution and accept that I had a working algorithm and solution. These people have a notion of a question and answer and if you get the answer they have thought beforehand, then you are a good fit for this company.