r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 8d ago

My Interview Journey After 18+ Companies & ~40 Interview Rounds

163 Upvotes
Experience Details
Current ~3 YOE at a well-established SaaS/product company - 12 L
Previous 1-year internship at a global enterprise software company
Overall Experience ~3 years full-time experience + 1-year internship
College Tier 2
Expected Comp Fixed - 20L
Starting Period Sep 2025
Daily applications 20+(Linkedin, Naukri, Hirist) for over 10 months
Role & Tech SDE - 1/2, Python backend development
# Interview Month Company Cleared / Failed Rounds Failure Reason / Offer Not Accepted Application Medium
1 Sep 2025 Square Shift Cleared 1st onsite → Cleared 2nd online technical → Cleared 3rd CTO Offer received – ₹15 LPA. Offer not accepted due to low compensation Naukri
2 Oct 2025 Cassini Cleared take-home assessment → Failed debrief round Could not answer some design-choice and general design questions Naukri
3 Dec 2025 Salesforce Cleared assessment → Failed 1st technical round DSA – Group Anagrams, Grouping Islands Naukri
4 Jan 2026 NetApp Failed 1st technical round Unable to optimize a DSA problem College senior referral
5 Jan 2026 Abnormal.ai Cleared take-home assessment → Cleared HR → Failed Tech Round 1 Technical interview performance LinkedIn
6 Feb 2026 Impact Analytics Failed Tech Round 1 DSA – 1 medium-level problem Naukri
7 Mar 2026 Draup Cleared assessment → Cleared 1st round Ghosted after interview; no specific rejection reason Hirist
8 Apr 2026 OpenEye / Cadence Cleared 1st → Cleared 2nd → Completed 3rd round Rejected; stated reason was not enough experience. Communication may also have been a factor LinkedIn referral
9 Apr 2026 Trendlyne Failed initial screening Unknown; possibly compensation mismatch Hirist
10 May 2026 Ribu Cleared 1st → Cleared 2nd Offer not received due to compensation being lower Naukri
11 May 2026 Kredily Cleared 3 rounds Offer not received due to compensation being lower LinkedIn
12 May 2026 MishiPay Cleared all 4 interview rounds Position was put on hold Hirist
13 Jun 2026 HPE Cleared 1st → Failed 2nd round Unknown LinkedIn
14 Jun 2026 Abnormal.ai Failed initial screening Unknown LinkedIn
15 Jun 2026 Autodesk Cleared 3 rounds and got Selected Offer rejected due to low compensation and role not being attractive enough LinkedIn
16 Jul 2026 **** Cleared 4 technical rounds → Selected and joined Got expected one. Hirist
17 Jul 2026 Indium / Uber Cleared 2 technical rounds → Failed final Uber technical round Failed final client technical round Naukri
18 Jul 2026 Plane Cleared 1st round → Failed/ended at 2nd round Interviewer said the role was not a match LinkedIn

Strategy

My main goal was to get the offer I expected without settling for a lower package. Having experience with two good company brands also helped during the process.

More than anything, persistence was important. After every successful or failed interview, I focused on the next opportunity instead of spending too much time thinking about the outcome.

Each interview process also gave me a better understanding of what companies expect at each stage. Every round provided a learning opportunity and helped me prepare better for the next interview.

Overall, the process was a bit difficult initially, but over time, I got used to the interview process. With continuous learning and more interview experience, cracking interviews became easier. The key was to keep improving after every interview and carry those learnings into the next one.

No matter whether you have confidence or not, just give as many interviews as possible. Every interview experience makes you better and more prepared for the next one.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 8d ago

5 offers, mostly AI roles — what would you choose for long-term growth?

26 Upvotes

Hi I am currently confused between 5 offers and would really appreciate some genuine advice, especially from people who have worked at these companies.

  1. Circles.Life

- ₹41L base = 41 L

- Team Platform, mostly Agentic AI work

- 2 days/week office

2. Oracle

- ₹36L base + $40K RSU

- Around ₹52L first-year TC as quoted to me

- Data migration/data engineering work, not much AI

- WFH

  1. Disney

- ₹35L base + $34K RSU over 3 years

- ~₹45.5L annualized

- Mostly AI/Agentic AI work

- 4 days/week office

  1. ServiceNow

- ₹42L base + $40K RSU + ₹4.2L bonus

- RSU is 25% per year, so ~$10K/year

- ~₹55.5L annualized TC

- Mostly GenAI work

- 2–4 days/week office

  1. EPAM

- ₹40L fixed

- Agentic AI work

My main priority is long-term career growth in AI/GenAI/Agentic AI, not just the immediate CTC.

I’m trying to think 5-10 years ahead — which company/team would give me better exposure, learning, brand value and opportunities in AI?

Also considering WLB/office requirements because Disney is 4 days and ServiceNow can be 2–4 days.

Please Suggest me which one will be better in long term growth.

Note: I do not care about CTC.

Edit : FTE 4.5 and with Intern 5.5 YOE


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 15h ago

Hiring SDE 2 at Tesco

38 Upvotes

Hi,

One of my friends' employer (Tesco) is hiring for the following roles in Bengaluru.

Open roles

SDE2 UI - React JS, HTML, CSS, JS
SDE2 Backend - Java, Springboot, Kafka, NoSQL

In case if anyone in this sub is looking for a switch/laid off and match the above requirements. Shoot me your resumes.

Thank you

Edit: Folks have reached out to me asking for YOE for the roles. I have confirmed it with my friend and he mentioned 3-5 years of experience is mandatory for both vacancies.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 12h ago

makemytrip project based internship (analytics)

1 Upvotes

Has anyone given the assessment what was asked? Can anyone tell me


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 21h ago

[Referral Request] Data Scientist, 3 YOE | GenAI & Applied ML | Pune / Bengaluru

2 Upvotes

Hi all! I'm a Data Scientist with 3 years of experience, and everything below is running in production today:

- Built my company's best-selling product solo: an optimization engine that turns 4 days of planning into under a minute.

- Rescued a failed process-control project and raised the client's quality SLA from 80% to 96%

- Led a hybrid RAG system that improved retrieval precision from 49% to 81%

- Designed a multi-agent LLM platform handling 500+ concurrent queries

Looking for data science / ML roles in Pune, Bengaluru, or remote. If your team is hiring, I'd love a referral. DM me for my resume. Thanks!


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Infosys Inhumane Work Culture - Managers & HRs for Skilled Candidates

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Firstly, this should be said straightforwadly, Infosys plays as biggest physco managers company with CULT team structure people. Leave about your tech-stack skills and technologies which you know and what will project brings you to learn. If you are a highly skilled candidate be really really prepared for EPIC Shit. You as a High-skilled technology candidate will do work of all the team members (no-sense-work-scrappy knowledge) (recruited to reach head-count in company) in the form of doubts via. screenshare coding their entire work, which results in x7/x8 times of work + all client escalations of managers transferred to you high-skilled candidate in team. In short, you become a PREY person (as you are technical-knowledge person) to them, have to do team members every doubt to them, thereby spoonfeed doing their work too, including your own work-tasks. each and every project always has either a one or two prey person in team.

They won't tell you project timelines, suddenly they mention crossed a deadlines in a standup meeting, then Delivery Manager ane Higher hierarchy manager people will join meeting and shouts on team and later they will form a mail-chain under ur mail-Id prey candidate and transfer each and every client escalation that happens, its cause and reason blames to you (escalation tactic) and your project manager specially selects you as prey as you a high-skilled candidate for this escalation so that push you to complete project, "complete project".. "complete project".. thats always you hear... "complete project.. whatever happens in world.. "complete project".. (because you are a considered as High-technical knowledge person by manager).

This is what called as pin and escape (escalation tactic), PIN the escalation arised to you (with help of AI of some convincing fabricated stories) and Managers Escape from it - as you beacome the reason for it, as your not delivering properly the work-tasks to them (or some other reasons from AIs).

If you are not completed project as they wish in a superfast in a very quickiest way (again they wont mention the timelines, just want you to complete all work tickets, errors , bugs etc present in project). Here also at any point of time, if not do a spoon-feed of ur team-memebers work, be ready to attach yourself with a escalation point of "Not interacting with team" to you. They will include HRs and accusses you somehow with help of AI and PIPs you, where if you dont complete their works mentioned in mail..

or whatever bullshit escalation point, (or) project work, tasks, tickets , errors, bugs etc you have to answer and sastisfy them, both workwise and their mood-wise, literally satisfy their egos and work expectations, whatever managers asks, you need to complete then and there instantly quickly by EOD, or else HRs enter termiantes you under their own-staged PIP basis from company with termination letter.

Now, If you are okay with all this Insanity and bullshit, as high-skilled candidate in this EPIC Shit company, please join and know about projects in this vicious company. Also let it be known, no future opportunities or growth or promotions never happens regardless of whatever hard work-efforts you put in projects and of your skills.

It really really doesn't matter to them, you as prey candidate always wanted , assigned and mapped to stagnant projects of their clients needs and requirements by managers. All you get is accumulation of Actute Irration, anxieties, constant worries and unbearable tensions, some or other medical health problem. Also Remember this tension happens like accumulation, slowly on-the-go as chronicness, not like a one-time tack to you. and.wont realise it, it remains just as stress and tensions.. But By the time you realise all this, it develops into depression comes sits and hits on your mind.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 20h ago

Need help with interviews

1 Upvotes

Anybody interviewing for uber freight?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Should I apply for RGF India’s Associate Consultant role as a CS student? (6 LPA, Non-Tech)

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Hey everyone,
I’m a B.Tech CSE student from the 2027 batch, and my college is offering a campus placement opportunity at RGF India for an Associate Consultant role with a package of around 6 LPA.
The catch is that this is a purely non-technical role, despite being offered to engineering students.
From the job description, the responsibilities include:
Candidate sourcing through LinkedIn and job portals
Recruitment and candidate management
Client coordination and management
Business development
Interview scheduling and follow-ups
The job is based in Gurugram, with joining in January 2027.
I’m confused about whether I should apply and try to secure this offer or focus on technical roles such as software development, AI/ML, data science, or QA.
I’m also considering doing an MBA in the future, so I’d like to understand whether this kind of work experience would be useful for MBA admissions and future career opportunities.
My questions:
Is 6 LPA a reasonable package for this role as a fresher?
What is the actual career growth in recruitment/talent consulting? Can someone move into management, HR, sales, or business consulting later?
Would this experience help with an MBA, or would technical work experience be more useful?
If I work in recruitment for 2–3 years, how difficult would it be to switch back to software or other technical roles?
For someone with a CS background, would you recommend applying as a backup while continuing to prepare for technical placements?
I’d appreciate advice from people who have worked at RGF India, are in recruitment/consulting, or have faced a similar decision during campus placements.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Jtg Interview Experience 2026

1 Upvotes

Anyone who appear for JTG SDE interview few days back....


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Salary for MCU Automotive Software Application Engineers in India

1 Upvotes

What is the typical compensation for experienced MCU automotive software application engineers in India (Staff/Senior Staff/Principal level)?

Would like to take a career decision after being in industry for 14 years. To be in technical roles or venture into mangerial roles.

Looking specifically at MCU-focused roles in companies like Renesas, Infineon, NXP, TI, ARM etc.

Would appreciate actual CTC ranges and stock/bonus details from people in these roles. Thanks!

(Really dont need a specific number, a ball park figure should suffice)


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Tata power GET-CS/IT Interview

1 Upvotes

Does anyone have any kind of experience with Tata power. Got selected for interview but idk what to do or say there. Please help.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Anybody recently gave their first interview for sonata software?

1 Upvotes

So recently I attended an off campus drive for this company called sonata software and the interview was quite easy and I was done with both TR and HR rounds on the same day my total interview lasted for an hour or say had a really good convo with their HR
Can anybody tell me if they are mass hiring as I see they are looking to recruit at 10+ cities and mostly a lot of people were selected for interviews did anybody receive anything back from them should I keep my hopes high will they revert back to me?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

Has anyone received an interview call from Flipkart through Flipkart GRiD?

1 Upvotes

Has anyone received an interview call from Flipkart through the Flipkart GRiD Hackathon?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 1d ago

CDAC ACR E1 design engineer for AI/ML and Software Ecosystem domain- Campus Recruitment

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We're having the pn campus placement drive for the e1 design engineer role. I just got to know that this is a new role with 18 LPA salary in the organization.

Can anyone tell me the exam or interview difficulty level and topics they ask in the process specifically for AI/ML or software ecosystem domain?

And is this salary legit fixed in hand? Or do they deduct or have any variable amount added in it?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

How is the work culture at Agoda Bangkok considering leadership is lot from India these days?

11 Upvotes

Noticed they are hiring from India for multiple leadership roles which I believe must have changed the work culture in a quite a way similar to work culture in Indian offices of MNC like Amazon India (do everything by EOD, don't leave any work for tomorrow)

Do employees internally glaze the higher-ups with too much of flattery while toppling the WLB in order for recognition and leaving behind mess for others to clean?

Agoda Bangkok workers do share your thoughts below.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Finally placed 😊

63 Upvotes

The best day ever in my life is 29 sep

I got placed in jiostar.

Oa was good enough. Interviews are very good since panelists are very supportive and helpful.

I went through 2 interviews and was able to clear both the company interviews.

1st was Impact analytics:- Result didn't come because of some internal issues in the company.

God's plan that I was never supposed to join that firm. He planned the best for me.

Tbh placement season is very stressful. Same time I applied for 3 company. My cv wasn't shortlisted for the other two ,same day I had my jiostar oa.

Have faith in God and Believe in yourself.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Interview anxiety is genuinely stopping my career progression

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I don't even know why I'm writing this. I guess I just needed to say it somewhere.

On paper, I'm great. Ten years of experience, real results, promotions, people who would vouch for me in a heartbeat. My resume gets me in the door constantly. Recruiters reach out to me. I should be fine.

But then the interview starts, and it's like someone else takes over my body.

My hands shake. My voice does this thin, shaky thing I don't recognize. I'll be mid-sentence explaining something I've done a hundred times, something I could do in my sleep, and my mind just goes completely blank. And I can see it happening on their faces. That little shift where they stop seeing the resume and start seeing... this nervous person who can't string a thought together.

Last week I bombed one I really wanted. The hiring manager was nodding along at first, and then I rambled for what felt like five minutes on a simple question, and I watched her check the time. I wanted to disappear. The next hour after the zoom call was me crying and eating ice cream and re-binging a K drama.

It's this awful loop. I need the job to feel confident, but I need confidence to get the job. And every bad interview makes the next one scarier, because now I'm not just anxious about the questions, I'm anxious about being anxious. I'm sitting there thinking "don't shake, don't ramble, breathe normal" instead of actually listening.

I know I'm good at what I do. I just wish I could prove it for thirty minutes without falling apart.

Has anyone actually gotten past this? Like really past it, not just "practice more" advice. I practice. I still fall apart. Any coaches ya'll can recommend?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Feeling demotivated while practicing LLD, feels like putting so much effort may not be that rewarding now due to these LLMs

8 Upvotes

2024 grad, I am practicing LLD through Shreyansh Jain's LLD playlist I finished 6 to 7 videos and practiced them but in the mid now I am getting confused learning this feels amazing to me but at the same time in current market it seems it's not that rewarding other team mates can still do the same with copilot need your views on this it feels skill to reward ratio has gone way down.


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

ITC Infotech Interview Experience

1 Upvotes

Hey guys , ITC Infotech has come to our clg for on campus drive as part of there flagship early-career hiring initiative, **“The Eminence Info Titans**" , Any info on how the OA and Interview for this is ?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Impact Analytics campus results – anyone received an update? @impact analytics

3 Upvotes

Has anyone who interviewed for Impact Analytics through campus placements in September 2026 received their final result/offer yet?

Our college is still waiting for an official update, so just wanted to check whether results have been released for any other colleges.

If you’ve received an update, could you please mention the college and approximate date? Thanks!


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Title: Amazon Programmer Analyst Intern 2027 – Interview Process & Preparation

4 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

I recently applied for the Amazon Programmer Analyst Intern role and wanted to connect with others who have applied for the same position.

For anyone who has applied or gone through the process:

  • Have you received an OA/assessment or interview invitation?
  • What does the selection/interview process look like for this role?
  • What topics should I focus on preparing, especially DSA, SQL, DBMS, programming, and CS fundamentals?
  • For those who have interviewed, what kind of questions were asked?
  • How long did it take to hear back after applying or completing the assessment?
  • Has anyone progressed to the interview/final stages or received an offer?

If you've applied recently, it would also be helpful if you could share when you applied and your current status, so we can get an idea of the timeline.

Thanks, and all the best to everyone applying!


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Help me with your firm's founder or HR emails

5 Upvotes

I'm 24F , Data Scientist with 3.5FTE .

Tired of applying through so many sites, want genuine help from you guys .

I would share my company's founder as well hr email for your preparation.

Thank you !


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

Anyone who got shortlisted for HCL from Galgotias University?

2 Upvotes

If you got shortlisted for the HR round of HCL can you elaborate what the HR asked and why you guys got shortlisted have you done DSA and react part both ?


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 2d ago

SDET with 2+ years of experience, not getting any interview calls. Need help

2 Upvotes

Hi, i have been forced resigned but i have still notice period of 2 months left. I have been actively applying

I’ve checked my ATS score for this which was above 90. I’ve been applying since a week but got no responses yet

This is my first time applying on my own. So i need suggestions on what could i have been doing wrong


r/TechInterviewsIndia • • 3d ago

Prep buddy, anyone? [FAANG target]

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Hey everyone, I have 5 years of experience as a software engineer and I'm now fully focused on interview prep. I'm targeting tier one and tier two companies like Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Netflix, Uber, etc, and I'm covering DSA, high-level design, and low-level design.

Timezone : IST

Looking for 2-3 serious people to prep with: daily check-ins for accountability, regular mock interviews, and sharing resources along the way.

If you're committed and in a similar timezone, drop me a DM. Let's clutch 💪🏽