1. Sent email.
2. Received response with 4 questions; I sent responses.
3. Called in for face to face which I nailed.
4. Received email 2 weeks later saying I was being offer employment but their legal team found a conflict of interest. (because i have a personal project i do for my skill improvement).
Issue: Being in the tech industry I have a side personal project for personal growth as of today, as many tech people do, and I told them about it, biggest mistake. Their legal team rejected employment for having this project without speaking to me or even taking to time to see if there is a conflict. The project has nothing to do with Nokia yet employment was rejected. Just shows a company that is so full of itself and legal teams who are far off from reality where a tech person in today's industry cannot do a side project to improve their skill when it has nothing to do with their business. What this tells me: Nokia wants slave employees who will only work for them and not do anything outside work or be passionate about technology. Other companies I interview with take the time to actually validate if there is a conflict and almost always the answer is no conflict. I was shocked by their legal team's decision.
Advice to Nokia: Hire smart legal experts who understand the tech industry. If you reject people because of side projects you will never grow into a quality company like Apple or Google where employees do side projects and thus increase work place contribution.
The interview started off with intro which was interrupted and they didn't allow me to finish it. then they moved to k8's concepts and didn't want to check on any other concepts apart from that. they were rude.
7 round in person interview. Most grueling and felt pointless because of how repetitive it was. Both system design and Leetcode style questions were asked. Most interviewers were friendly, but I did not think it was worth going through all that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Know your resume really well and be ready for several coding questions.
it was good, face to face, group also, written test, regression test, jenkins
interviwe held on office with officer, it was helpful, please all of you apply in the glassdoor comapny
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