Yet another interview!!!
Well this time it is a reputed company from Mumbai India
All in all there were 4 rounds of interview, not that one was tougher than other, but many of the recruiters were interested in knowing my potential.
1st was telephonic interview:
One thing I observed about telephonic interviews is that they are really painful, but I think this becomes a must for companies to filter out the candidates.
Problem, I had with 2 of my telephonic interviews: as the interviewers want the interview to be done during normal office hours, I have an additional tasks of finding a suitable place where no other employee is roaming around. It got to be secret you know!!!
However, this is not the ultimate problem, turning point comes, when you dont get a call...you wait there wait there and then you to head back to your seat and continue to work. Now, the call comes!!! Come on man ... I need to find another place now!
Ok, I cope with this and then attend the interview, now new problem creeps in. The place that I chose, was an excellent location, my primary aim was to find a place where no body else was available. Irony there was that mobile signal was also not available. So, the interview stopped in between and I was waiting there, waiting there, but never received any other call. I didn't even get a call saying that they will get back to me later. Ok! I head back and start working....
By the way some of the interview questions:
1) Tell me about your self
2) Do you consider yourself as a hardware engineer or a firmware engineer
3) Explain one your projects
4) What is your experience in hardware development
5) Give some review points that you could catch in h/w review
Now, later that evening...one other guy from the same company calls.. and looks like he is from other department and wants to inteview me. I said ok go ahead!
1) How long have you been working with current company
2) How long in automotive
3) Do you know about CAN (Controller Area Network)
4) Physical & Transport layers in CAN (controller area network)
Ok, I though he felt satisfied. But for long time I do not get a call from anybody.
That is ok I felt because, I was having a good time in the current company.
But, now some of the engineers/managers are coming to Hyderabad to conduct a personal interview!
I was not interested to attend the interview, but thought, whats there to lose - lets give it a try.
Ok, It was Saturday, I selected early morning time for the interview 9:30am!!! Ya man it's early considering Saturday. Got there, at 9:40am because of some address mismatch.
First guy:
I enter the interview room!
Greets me happily!
1) Talks briefly about my name / my name is shared with a famous singer
2) Tell me about your self! (this is a stellar question) 100% guarantee
3) Can you draw block diagram of the module
4) Do you consider yourself a hw or a fw engineer?
5) How many team members do you have
6) Why do you want to leave your current job?
All in all, all the questions that were asked to me were random ones and only tested, if my resume' was saying truth.
Lastly he wanted me to get interviewed by another colleague of his, who was coming after 15 mins. Ok!
Second Guy:
1) Why do you want to change
2) Explains about the company & growth it has to offer
3) Discusses on his company offering an entire solution as compared to most others. He said that he had previously worked in Infosys, Wipro & TCS etc
4) Tell me about yourself (100% pakka question)
5) Questions about safety systems and how I use it in the ECU (electronic control unit)
6)Tells me that he has engineers working with him who have good domain knowledge & expects me to also be a part of CORE team, which is having good domain knowledge.
7) int func (char a, char b) use a function pointer to call this function.
Ok! now, thought this was over, buy this time it was already 11 or so; but no!!!
I receive a huge sheet, that was application for employment. Solid 8 pages. Come onn man! give me a break I have not yet decided to join and yet there are so many formalities!
After that there was a HR Round!!
1) Discussion on Bhimsen Joshi (name)
2) Discussed about willingness to relocated from Hyderabad to Mumbai
3) Why do you want to change
4) What are your expectations
5) What are your strengths
6) One incident in the recent past which you would like to improve.
7) What should be the incentive that their company give so that I would join them!!!
Phew!!! Did you actually read all this !!!
Completely! Really! Wonderful! --- now, do me a favor, kindly also post a reply !
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