Nokia

It was 6 levels, with the last one being a project round. I cleared all rounds and the project in 2 days. Then, a recruiter contacted me. We had a 15-minute call where they said, "I don’t think we need one more service here," and cut the call.

Learn from basics like C and Java. If you know Python, add it from your resume and learn it. Understand the difference between lists and tuples, exception handling, SQL, and JDBC. Writing queries is key in the interview.

Applied online via job portal. A few weeks later, there was one phone screen interview. After that, there was one phone interview. Following that, round one in-person interview, which was more behavioral in nature.