I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Persistent Systems (Pune) in Jul 2011
Interview
The use some hiring agency for Resume screening.
After shortlisting the candidates based on resume, there is a Telephonic Interview. This is just about 30 minute interview which check what kind of work you have done and will you be a fit for opening
After clearing telephonic interview, the call for In person interview in one of their offices. Usually there are 2 people interviewing you. Not a big panel. Also there is 1 interview for 1 hour or so. If required there will be one more round. In most cases for junior positions only 1 interview.
There is an HR interview after this.
On joining the company if the position you were interviewed for is closed for reason, you have to go for fitment interview in other project teams that have open positions. This is facilitaed by their internal staffing team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About previous projects
Simple questions on most skills and technologies mentioned
then specific questions that are related to the job description
For QA/Testing - They give a scenario and ask the candidate to come up with test scenarios, a simple programming problem, basic Unix, SQL and data structures questions
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Persistent Systems (Pune)
Interview
Total 3 round is there
2 technical and 1 managerial and then HR round
Offer get released in 2 days
Java questions basic testing questions test scenario
Face to face interview conducted on same day
It was very missed behave by hr saying I won't let anyone hr from persistent to gave you any call... And I will never let you in to this company . But the mistake was with hr she arrange meetings with wrong mail id and sent it to it but scold me for not receiving meeting invites
For QA, first there is a technical round where in they ask questions on coding and scripting.
If this round is cleared then there is a second round where in they ask about pure functional testing.
And at last there is a managerial interview.
Test Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Persistent Systems with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Test Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Persistent Systems overall takes an average of 11 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Persistent Systems as a Test Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 20%
Background check: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
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