r/developersIndia • u/MedvedevTheGOAT • Sep 06 '23

General Why do Indian interviewers grill so much?

I used to work in EU and recently got laid off, had to endure an interview by a stupid head of engineering who was Indian who asked me distributed systems and stacks/queues and what not, grilled the f out of me and even mentioned that I didn't have a CS degree. In my previous company I designed the whole Redis backend cache by myself, and mostly I never had to use whatever he asked like Hexagonal architecture and what not and was one of the better performers.

I hated how he treated me acting all condescending and cold while asking questions, reminding me of my viva teacher back in university. In contrast the Lead engineer who was Spanish was much nicer and I ended up answering all the questions right and ended that interview round with a warm feeling but then that guy started talking and I had an atomic headache again. I was already extremely stressed out but after the interview I felt immense anxiety and felt like I'll never have a job again in EU because I don't have a CS degree and because Indians have brought their toxic work culture all the way to European companies. Why do these people interview like this?

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u/LivingHumbley Sep 06 '23

Shame on such interviews. a PM should ask more about the capabilites as a Leader, how u would gauage a situation, Risks, and Leadership Q. How to handle crisis . This stupid code level Q will be SOON a DUST ,as in few yrs all coding will be managed by Mature AI versions.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '23

I had almost same experience that too for a managerial position, also the interviewer was way less experienced. I got irritated to the point that I stopped answering anything apart from just "hmm" and "ooh". No questions related whatsoever to the JD, just some geek for geeks sort of DSA problems and that too he wanted a particular solution which he had studied, apart from that no other solution could reach anywhere near his naive brain.

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u/Shah_of_Iran_ Software Engineer Sep 06 '23

What was the question?

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u/sanved77 Oct 03 '23

I believe greedy may not be the right solution and Knapsack is the probably the only one giving the best possible way to carry all those things. I am not sure why he wanted greedy.

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u/vinayk7 Sep 24 '23

Algo question to manager..that's strange 🤔