Home task that needs to be solved in 7 days. After which there is a problem solving round.
I had read a couple of interviews on glassdoor stating that their interviewer was in a hurry and I was just hoping that something like this won't happen with me. There were a couple of problems with the interview, because of which sadly I lost my chance:
1. Interviewer joined a bit late because of some issue, then he started running through the interview as fast as he could.
2. While solving the problem. from what I have learnt from my case study interview practice so far, that you divide the problem into various buckets and state your hypothesis for each of that. I did that, but while I was stating my hypothesis he said why are you already concluding the problem already.
3. During the course of problem statement, according to him only his wat of approaching the problem was correct, and we just cannot approach the problem by any other mean I guess only because he might have passed the interview due to that approach. Instead he could help the interviewee to let him approach the problem on his own while redirecting him/her when he is stuck.
I had so many hopes from this interview and that guy simply ruined it for me. I think I did pretty well on the home task, even though it was a time of pandemic in India and I had lost someone in my family during that week only but I gave my best in that submission and had put my soul and heart. And this is what I had to experience in the problem solving round.
