Recently(On 31st Apr 2012) I have attended the interview for CapGemini. There are lot of candidates waiting in the hall. Most of the candidates are for PL/SQL, And I am for C/C++, there are only three candidates for C/C++ including me. One C++ candidate completed his interview and he left. His name is Vishnu.
HR called me , and showed me a way to the room. One lady was sitting there, she must be interviewer. I opened the door and asked her permission by saying "excuse me", and she looked @me, and no answer from her, she just smiled. I went into the room and sat. She was looking at my profile, and asking me the questions in the following way
1. can you brief about your self??
Ans: I told :-)
2. What is a class?
Ans: explained
3. what is diff between functional n object oriented programming?
Ans: explained
4. what is the diff between malloc and new?
Ans: explained.
5. Can you tell me about the diff between stack and heap?
At this time, HR came into the room, and he has given some profiles to her and told about other candidate Vishnu, for whom she already took the interview. HR told her that , he is not available(he already left). HR told her that his attitude is not good, as he left the office. But she told he is very good. After HR left the room, she asked another question by looking @ my profile. She forgot what was asked previously.
6. what is Vtable?
Ans. explained
7. what is virtual constructor
Ans: explained
8. what is copy constructor?
Ans: explained
9. do you shell scripting?
Ans: I didn't write shell scripts, But we use shell commands
10: then she asked how to kill a process?
Ans: explained
11. what is pipe?
Ans: explained
And finally she told me that she was done and asked me to wait out side for few minutes. And this Interview went for nearly 20 minutes. Yes T-W-E-N-T-Y minutes.
After few minutes HR called me, and told me that "you can leave for the day". I smiled @HR (he too smiled) n left to my home.
Here the my concern is that look at the way questions she asked. She was looking @ my profile and whenever she got a question in her mind, she was asking that question and she was not considering my answer. look at 5th question, whenever she asked me that question, HR entered the room and had some conversation and HR left, immediately She was asking another question. Is this right way to take the Interview?. I am very much disappointed with this. But I don't take it seriously.
Is this right way to take the Interview? She don't know, what she was asking. she just came without preparation and she was asking whatever comes in her mind.
I am requesting Capgemini recruiting team to select the good interviewers. Interviewer should find whether the candidate have the knowledge or not and Not like question and answer kind of(at least for 4+ yrs exp candidates). Some times candidate may get wrong answer, but how approached for the problem is important rite?
I am seriously requesting CapGemini recruiting team to take care in selecting Interviewer. If rite interviewers are not available, wait for them and arrange the interviews whenever they are available. But don't play with the candidates and don't waste our time to kill your time.
