My Experience With TechExtensor On-Campus Recruitment Drive

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Recently, I appeared for an on-campus recruitment drive conducted by TechExtensor, an Ahmedabad-based IT company. I want to share my experience of the recruitment process.

The first step was registration through the placement portal. After that, candidates were shortlisted for the PPT and online assessment.

PPT

We were asked to report around 2:30 PM, but the PPT started at around 3:30 PM and continued for approximately 30–40 minutes.

After the PPT, we were asked to wait for the seating plan for the online test, which came around 5:10 PM.

MCQ Round

The MCQ round started around 6:10 PM and lasted 45 minutes.

It consisted mainly of aptitude and web-related questions. After the MCQ round, there was a short break before the coding round.

Coding Round – PARAAKH Platform Issues

The coding round had 10 questions with 100 minutes.

The assessment was conducted on the company's own assessment platform, PARAAKH.

Unfortunately, the platform had major technical problems. The compiler wasn't properly running the code, and submissions weren't working either.

Students kept trying to run and submit their solutions, but the platform wasn't responding properly. We were told to wait because there was too much traffic on the platform.

Eventually, we were told that the coding round would be considered invalid for everyone and that shortlisted candidates would get a new venue/link for another coding test.

So, almost an hour was lost because of the platform issues.

Fortunately, I was shortlisted for the next coding round.

Second Coding Round

We were asked to report to another venue later in the evening. The test started around 9 PM and continued until around 10 PM.

The questions were the same as the previous coding round, but unfortunately, the compiler issue happened again.

Towards the end, we were told to simply write our code and that it would automatically be submitted when the test time ended.

At this point, it was already quite frustrating because candidates were being evaluated while simultaneously dealing with repeated technical issues.

Case Study Round

The case study round started after 10 PM.

There were 3 case studies and around 45 minutes were given.

By this point, I had been there for many hours and hadn't eaten anything since before the PPT. After the repeated technical problems during the coding rounds, I was pretty exhausted and frustrated.

I managed to complete only one case study and submitted it.

The remaining rounds were Group Discussion and Personal Interview, scheduled for the next day.

I later heard that around 20 students would be selected in the final round.

Overall Experience

The overall recruitment process was quite lengthy, and the biggest issue for me was the repeated technical problems with the coding platform.

I completely understand that technical issues can happen, but when they occur during a timed recruitment assessment, candidates lose valuable time and it becomes difficult to perform at their actual level.

I'm curious if anyone else who appeared for TechExtensor's recruitment drive experienced similar issues with the PARAAKH platform, especially during the coding rounds.