Initial Telephonic Round - Scheduled by consultancy.

Ten minutes of screening over the phone, and I was called for the next round.Second Round - Technical, with all standard testing-related questions and a puzzle. I answered all questions and solved the puzzle correctly. Good people.

Third Round - Another round with the team lead, as managers were not available. Very good and healthy discussion. The team lead was a great motivator.

Now was the game changer. As no managers were available, I was scheduled to come on another day at 4:30 pm (invariably, people are more busy packing up for the day).

First, a lady manager came, took a seat, asked me to introduce myself, and got busy on her laptop replying to some emails, not even bothering to look up once. The second question asked was relevant, and again she was busy with Outlook. Meanwhile, another manager walked in, and thankfully, she took the pain to introduce me to the latter. Not to mention that the person who walked in later looked a little more interested in listening to me.

She asked questions about coding for a testing profile, about Java, UNIX, data structures, and almost nothing related to the job description. I was under the impression that they were both more interested in showing off what they knew rather than showing some interest in helping me bring the best out of me.

The lady had to rush within 10 minutes, so she left. The gentleman waited for some more time with me, supporting the fact that he needs coding/development/programming knowledge for a black box testing profile. Well, in my opinion, testers don't even touch the code ever. Anyhow, after a not-so-convincing round of interview, the person left.

Guys, all I can say is a lot depends on your luck. You don't really know the person's thought process who is interviewing you. I was lucky enough to reach till the last round but was a little surprised to understand why the company wasted about 4 business hours and 4 man-hours at all. They could/should have screened me out in the very first round.

So, as a rule of thumb, go to Adobe; there are some great people and a lot to learn, but never be sure of them until you get the offer, as was with me.

Which technology do you support most: Japanese or Korean? And why?

This was highly unexpected, but I managed to support my answer well.