I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Smarsh (Bengaluru) in Aug 2021
Interview
The interview process was smooth.
HR was always available and responded with feedback.
I was referred.
The interview process consisted of two rounds -
1. Technical Round
2. Managerial Round
All interviews were held virtually via teams and 1:1
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduction
What Project did you work on?
Standard Coding Questions ( Easy )
Thread, Process, Multithreading, CPU Scheduling,
Simple Questions regarding course work,
Someone contacted me on LinkedIn to see if I was interested. They then promised a colleague would call me, which they didn't. So I applied online and got a call from an indian callcenter where the employee was clearly reading questions from a script without understanding my responses. I was then told I would get an offer of a first interview. A week later I got another call from another employee at an Indian call center asking me the exact same questions and misunderstanding my responses in exactly the same way. This employee did at least send me the spec and try to arrange the first interview, at which point I declined. If a company can't do basic interview filtering, it's not a company I wish to work for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Every single question was asked in a yes/no fashion. eg "You do CI/CD pipelines, yes?". The employees didn't seem to want anything other than yes/no, and using words of any technical level rendered them confused.
