The first call was a basic HR screening. The second was a phone interview with a standard set of questions.

I then had an onsite interview, which began with a technical interview.

During the tech interview, I was asked to implement sorting algorithms. I implemented Quicksort and Bubble Sort.

I was also asked about the shortest, most efficient code to check for powers of 2, nested try-catch and finally blocks (a really challenging one).

Other technical questions included: the permutations of 'banana', a class inheritance-based question, and a file I/O coding question. I was also asked to correct errors in code and answer theory-based questions similar to those in previous phone interviews.

It was a simple interview, but I feel I messed up, mostly because I focused on learning the math-based questions. If you are a computer science student, please focus on coding. Interprep+PIE is sufficient; go through these intensively. Do not focus on various math problems; they are not needed.

Then there was a behavioral interview that lasted an hour and left me completely exhausted.

This was followed by a lunch interview with two ASEs.

Finally, there was a final HR interview where they explained visa status and asked a few more behavioral questions.

The job is, in essence, technical support for their clients. Although you get alternate weeks to work on projects, there is no guarantee you will end up in a team as a software engineer. Eventually, you would have worked on different fields (QA, testing, mobile apps, cloud, etc.) without gaining in-depth knowledge in any of them. If this is your first job, it's quite important to gain in-depth exposure in a specific field of software. The two ASEs I met were from an electronics background and were working on distributed systems and mobile app development, which were completely unrelated to their degrees.

After two days, my status changed to 'not ideal,' and I later received a call informing me of the decision.

Computer Science applicants, please focus on coding questions.

No Linked List, BST, or other data structure-based questions.

Be prepared with basics.

Math questions: just the basics.