Interview Stories

Interview with Karthik, an MS Graduate working for INTEL in the USA

September 20, 2011 Education

Srimannarayana Karthik, a 25 year old Indian International student of University of Southern California is a role model for all upcoming engineers. He didn’t compromise his dream of getting a CORE job for anything else in this world. He pursued his love for VLSI (Very-Large-Scale-Integration) designing and recently joined Intel as a Design Engineer. The [...]

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Dos and donts in a job interview for marketing position

January 12, 2010 Interview Stories

Watch below an interesting video recording of an interview for a marketing position. Here are few important dos and donts that can be drawn from this video.  Make a mental note of these points before appearing for a job interview. Dos Convert negative to positive

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Would you hire samuel, a frank guy who speaks his mind at interviews

December 1, 2009 Interview Questions

This interview is my imaginary work, a sample response for 50 commonly asked interview questions, attempting to answer few of the most tricky HR questions ever asked. A fictitious software professional, Samuel Johnson attends an interview with an IT company, Amdocs. Samuel Johnson is confident and is a natural leader. He is too frank at [...]

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“Do you have any questions” – at the end of an interview

September 18, 2009 Interview Stories

If the title of this post implied to you that this post is going to tell you the questions that should be asked by a candidate at the end of an interview, I apologize; this post is not going tell you that. Instead, it’s about a gaffe that I made in an interview. This incident [...]

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Interview for experienced PL/SQL programmer @ Mastek

August 21, 2009 Interview Questions

This post is a recorded interview for a job posting that requires experienced PL/SQL Programmers at a Software Firm, Mastek. The interview candidate is a three year experienced PL/SQL, Cognos developer who works for IT division of financial services giant, Merrill Lynch. He was recruited by the company after successfully clearing all three rounds of interview: [...]

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Swine Flu effect on Interviews

August 13, 2009 Interview Stories

This is a real interview appointment letter that my colleague actually got. Dear Candidate, Further to our discussion, we are pleased to inform you that your profile has been short listed and your Technical round of Interview has been scheduled on Wednesday 12th August 09 @ 10.00 AM. Please make yourself available for the same. [...]

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Comments – First Interview Experience of a Fresh Graduate

August 5, 2009 Interview Stories

This is a follow up post of the Original Post on First Interview Experience of a Fresh Graduate. Before I comment on whether the student should have been selected or not, I thought I would share few of the best email responses/comments that I got for that Post. One thing common in all the below [...]

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First Interview Experience of a Fresh Graduate

July 20, 2009 C

This is a recorded Interview conducted for a Job posting of Junior Software Engineer at a Multi National Company. The company’s core business is Information Technology outsourcing. The job requires competency in latest Computer technologies. The Company is also ready to train if they find enthusiastic and budding engineers. The interviewee, being a graduate of [...]

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