I got a call from some consultancy and forwarded my resume to the HR of the company. After 2 weeks I got a call from the HR of the company and she scheduled my telephonic interview for the technical round. In this round, the technical guy asked me about whether I have any experience in HTML5 and I said NO. But still, he said my profile seems interesting and hence he is going to consider me for the next round, till the time polish your HTML5 knowledge. That conversation took hardly 5 minutes, he did not ask me any questions. I was like what !!!

After that, I did not get any call from them, and I thought that I might get rejected, but on the 8th or 9th day again I got a call from the HR and she asked me to come to their office for the next technical F2F round. I went there and again that guy has not asked me any technical questions rather he was more interested to know about my past work experience and my past projects. He kept asking me questions on my past projects. He also asked me about web app performance tuning, how can you improve the performance, what standard practices you follow, how you manage your team.

Then he told me one database-related scenario and issues associated with it and he asked for my suggestions to solve those issues (this is completely irrelevant to the job position for which I'm interviewing). This interview was not more focused on the technical front. And at the end, he told me that you have to go through one more round of technical interview with an onsite person, which was scheduled after 4 days. I was very disappointed by both of these interviews.

After 4 days I got a call from the onsite technical guy, this interview was quite technical, the onsite guy was more intelligent than the two Indian guys who took my previous interviews. The interview was OK but still, I had no hope of getting selected.....but after 4 days I got a call from the HR and she said I have to go through one more round of interview with the manager and this will be the final round.

Next day I went there on time. The manager was 45+ years of age. He went through my resume and asked about the reason behind my job-switches (I had 3 job switches in 6 years, and this is very normal in India), percentages in my SSC, HSC, BE (I have one year gap in BE), from where I completed my schooling, college and degree, and my family background.

Then he asked very typical manager's questions like -

1. How are you as a person in real and professional life?
2. What are your aspirations?
3. Where do you see yourself after 5 years?
4. Which things make you angry in professional life?
5. What are your strengths? Blah blah blah

He expected very typical answers, but my answers were very weird and he was disappointed by that.

He was more concerned about my job switches and told me that it's a tough decision to choose a person like me who already had multiple job switches. He asked me to wait for 10 mins and he went outside to discuss with a few other people. After 10 mins another guy came and took me to his cabin. He was also a manager. He started very rudely with me. He also asked the same questions which I had already answered to the previous manager.

And finally, he told me to leave...... it was a very big relief. Overall, the interview process took more than one month and 5 rounds, most of them focused on typical managerial questions of a service sector company and not on the technical front.

I would not say them difficult but useless questions:

1. How are you as a person in real and professional life?
2. What are your aspirations ?
3. Where you see after 5 years ?
4. Which things makes you angry in professional life ?
5. What are your strength ? Blah blah blah