It was a pathetic interview process. The reporting time was 8:30 a.m., but the HR himself reported after one hour, at 9:30 a.m. The entire office is highly secured; even the washroom access area requires a Siemens badge to be displayed. Coming to the employees and the HR, everything was so unprofessional; they used their native language, Marathi, to communicate. I had given interviews at numerous companies in Pune, but I never saw such discrimination. HR professionals are meant to be polite and soft-spoken; I could hardly find the HR smiling or showing positivity. Coming to the interview, there was a 45-minute online test followed by a technical discussion. I was highly surprised to see the technical interviewer's very first question: "What's the name of your college? Where are you from, basically?" I mean, why does an interviewer have to judge me based on my hometown, or why would it bother him so much where I belonged? Honestly speaking, I already had three offers in hand, but due to Siemens' reputation, I had gone to give the interview. The level of difficulty and the types of questions were exactly the same as those asked in other companies' interviews. However, there was definitely some attitude problem from the interviewer, some sort of superiority complex that he was Marathi. Even after I was satisfied with the types of answers given, he was not convinced and rejected me. Anyone going to Siemens, kindly note: be ready to face unprofessionalism and attitude issues.

Where did I belong?

Finally, some technical questions on core Java like strings, arrays, HashMap, ArrayList, frameworks worked on, and hashCode.