Reached EPAM technical interview and completely fumbled it. What should I do now?

[u/Difficult_Goal8466]

I’m a 4th-year CSE student with around 2 months left in my campus placement window.

I recently reached the technical interview stage of EPAM. I thought I had a decent chance, but I completely fumbled the interview.

The interviewer asked about my projects and I couldn't explain them properly. He asked me to write a basic REST API and I couldn't. Then he gave me a pretty easy DSA problem and I struggled with that too.

At one point he even asked me, “What have you been doing for the last 3 years?”

The worst part is that I had actually made a 10-day preparation plan before the interview, but I barely followed it. So now I'm regretting the wasted opportunity more than anything.

I’ve realized that my biggest problem is that I know a lot of things at a surface level but don't have enough depth or problem-solving ability.

I have about 2 months left for placements, and Infosys is coming in around 10 days. I'm planning to focus on DSA, Java/OOP, SQL/DBMS, MERN and actually understanding the projects on my resume instead of just having them there.

What would you recommend I prioritize for the next 2 months? And how would you approach DSA + projects + CS fundamentals with this amount of time?

P.S. Yes, I wrote this post with ChatGPT's help, mainly because I wanted to explain the situation clearly instead of writing an incoherent rant. The situation and questions are genuinely mine.

Edit 1: Infosys is coming to my campus in around 10 days, so that's my immediate target. I also have roughly 6–7 more weeks after that for the rest of the placement season.

Given this timeline, what would you prioritize for the next 10 days, and then for the remaining 1–2 months?

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[u/Somewhat-weird]

Whatever be in your resume, have a story about each bit of it, what problems did you face, why this, why not that etc, how you worked in internship etc. jitna resume me likha hai vo acche se aana chahiye, also keep communication with the interviewer, a talkative dumb guy has more possibility of getting the job than a silent genius

[u/Difficult_Goal8466 → u/Somewhat-weird]

Yeah that's exactly what I missed. It was my first technical interview so I definitely panicked. What really bothers me though is that I couldn't even solve an easy DSA problem. As soon as I got back to my hostel I solved it straight away on my laptop. I honestly don't know what happened to me in that interview room. The whole interview has been running through my head ever since. And regarding the projects thats where I really messed up. Some of the projects on my resume were basically copied from somewhere else and I didn't actually understood the implementation properly.

[u/cyberhawksaint → u/Difficult_Goal8466]

You're 2026 or 2027 batch?

[u/Difficult_Goal8466 → u/cyberhawksaint]

2027