Interview ka safar

I had appeared for loads of interview over last 2 months on nearly all the weekend. There were some top notch companies, some small scale companies but what amazed me that they don’t know what exactly they want from a candidate. During this journey some incidents were very funny...  I will share here some of the events which is in my mind and will be there for a long time ;)

Interview 1
This was my first interview after a long time so I was not much prepared for that. The company is situated in Hinjewadi and it’s a CMM 3 company. I got a call from HR saying that your interview has been scheduled and it is a schedule walk in please be there by 10:00 AM.  I reached there by 9:45 AM and there were 500 candidates for the interview (what kind of scheduled walk in was that). I waited there for nearly 5-6 hour then someone called me for my first round of interview.  I will direct start from the interview questions.
Interviewer: Why you have mentioned ASP.NET(C#/VB) on your resume? Do you know VB6?
Me
: No this is the code behind language for ASP.NET.
Interviewer
: Then it should be VB.NET right?
Me
: Yes but I have mentioned ASP.NET already and in parenthesis I have written it. Anyways I will correct it.
Interviewer
: Okay, why you have written Oracle in your database list at first? Have you worked on oracle on your last project?
Me
: No, it was SQL Server 2005.
Interviewer
: Then it should be SQL Server.
Me
: Okay I will correct that as well.
Interviewer
: Why you have mentioned Finance Domain in bold?
Me
: Because I am working in finance domain and I wanted to show the domain expertise on my resume.  
Then he asked some basic questions which I answered easily. After that he said you can leave for the day HR will get back to you (By the way I am still waiting).  

Interview 2
This company is situated in Hinjewadi at two locations and it’s a very great company to work with (that’s what I heard).  The interviewer in white shirt with some brown prints on it (By looking it closely I realized that it’s not printed actually just few mud drops made it printed).  He was having bunch of paper and he started asking questions from this paper. I will start with the funny part ;)
Interviewer:  What is WCF?
Me
: I don’t know.
Next question
Interviewer: What is windows communication foundation?
Me
: I said I don’t know.
Interviewer
: No you said you don’t know WCF.
Me
: Oh yes I don’t know this as well (For who don’t know WCF stand for Windows communication foundation).
He has asked me WCF, Delegates and Serialization 3 times in the interview (May be it was printed there in bunch paper 3 times).

Interview 3
This was a small company and they started Pune branch few months back in Panchshil IT Park, Viman Nagar.  There was 2 interviewer and they both were looking at me like Aaj to iski band baja ke rakhenege ;)  After giving too many answers confidently and correct (well...according to me) they started with my project architecture.  
Interviewer 1:  Why you have not used any design patterns in your projects?
Me
: Well I have joined this organization in April 2009 and the project was in development since 2007. So the architecture and everything was in place and we are just developing the remaining modules.
Interviewer 1
:  But you can change it anytime, why you have not suggested that?
Me
: I suggested few changes and whichever was feasible that we implemented.
Interviewer 2
: Okay tell me what is Debit and Credit (all of a sudden debit and credit)
Me
: Definition of debit and credit (I said whatever I know)
Interviewer 1
:  Why you have not used WCF in your project?
Me
: It was not required; we have not used any web service as well.
Interviewer 2
:  Write down a LINQ query to fetch record and store in collection.
Me
: Started writing that.
Interviewer 1
: No leave it. Tell me why you have used LDAP in your project.  
Me
: Well that was required to provide window active directory credentials.
Interviewer 1
: We can achieve it through database login also, why LDAP?  
Me
: That information is not stored in database.
They asked me such stupid questions for 1 ½ hours and said you can leave for the day.    

Interview 4
This was a US based company works in Finance Domain situated in Kalyani Nagar. I was having a keen interest in this company but somehow we didn’t agree on finance and I have said no to them.
Interviewer:  How much you rate yourself on OOPS out of 10?
Me
: 9.5
Interviewer
:  Great then let’s start with OOPS; you must be having an idea about Abstract Class and Interfaces. My question is what you will use if there is a requirement in your project.
Me
: It depends on the requirement…blah blah… after all justification and explaining him one example… I said I will use Abstract class (That was suitable for my example).
Interviewer
: Okay after one year I ask you to change it to Interface then?
Me
: I will check whether it is required or not.
Interviewer
:  No, I am the boss and I am saying you to change it so change it.
Me
: Okay sir then I will take a written approval from you and I will provide you the estimation ;)  I don’t know why they have selected me after giving this answer. 

Enough for this post, I will post the second part later on with more funny interview incidents.