There is only one word for the interview process and the HR department: pathetic.

I gave a HackerRank test in February and received a response that I had cleared it.

Then the HR department was lost. I followed up two to three times with no response.

In April, I received a call for a screening round. I scheduled one, which was a CoderPad round with an interviewer on a video call.

My virtual onsite was then scheduled (virtual due to the pandemic).

It was distributed across three weeks, and I had seven rounds.

During these three weeks, HR was very responsive, and everything went smoothly.

After this, I was informed that I had cleared the rounds and that they would start offer approval. They did mention that they hadn't offered me yet and that it would only be done after approval from the MDs.

They asked for various documents, such as salary slips, which I provided on the same day.

After this, they did not reply to even a single email of mine for a good 45 days. Not a single email; I kept following up.

Suddenly, in the last week of June, they directly called me saying they were offering me, etc. I declined the offer on the call and told the recruiter about the unprofessional behavior.

Also, they did not meet my salary expectations in the offer. The recruiter told me that I would be associated with a "brand" like Goldman Sachs, and the brand itself is valuable. The recruiter was not even polite; they were presenting GS benefits, assuming I had never heard of such benefits before. I countered by telling him about my current benefits to calm him down.

Overall, a really bad experience. Note that the interviewers were really good; it is only the process and especially the HR department that sucks.

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• Final keyword
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• Matrix filled with characters and a dictionary provided: Find all words that can be formed.
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