I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Freshworks (New Delhi)
Interview
The whole process was poorly executed, and I had to do all the followups before HR would schedule an interview round for me.
The first 2 rounds were with very smart people who asked scenario based questions.
The final round with the hiring manager realized he isn't going ahead with the hire. He firstly joined late and hurried along the interview stating he has a hard stop. Told me he's seen my CV so he doesn't need an introduction from me. Gave me a scenario and asked me to write my analysis, giving me 15 minutes. After 16 minutes I asked him if we could get started but it seemed he'd left his desk (his camera wasn't on). He came back another 10 minutes later and acted like I didn't remind him (even though I'd also pinged on chat) and hurried through my case study. Gave me 2 minutes at the end to ask questions. When I asked which stakeholders would I be most interacting with, he got angry and said I'll have to interact with anyone as the job desires (I had asked him politely just to understand the demands if the job).
After further followups with HR, 2 days later I got the feedback that I was technically sound and had business acumen and was a capable product manager with good cognitive abilities, but apparently didn't have the seniority required for the role. It was clear to me the hiring manager had not paid attention during my interview, and had probably had someone in mind already.
Painful. An assignment was given after the first interview with a very short delivery time but the feedback for the assignment took weeks. The next call was rescheduled multiple times before eventually being cancelled
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Question 1
What feature do you want to add in your favourite app?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Freshworks
Interview
Worst Interview experience i have ever experienced, I was interviewed for a role and completed all the rounds, HR didnt even have a courtesy to acknowledge with progress, everytime i had to followup , then there was an update that there will be another round, After going through the entire interview process, spending two and half weeks time with this process, they least the HR can do it to acknowledge what the status of the application is, its either a reject or accepted. Wish they had more professionalism towards people who are giving interviews. I have never come across such a bad experience.
Two Technical Rounds - Mostly Technical or design aspects. They will explain on kind of applications Freshworks have, typical load or traffic on those applications and non functional requirements they are looking at.