I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at XLHealth in Nov 2020
Interview
I got a call from the recruiter via Naukri. The profile was for a .NET developer.
An interview was scheduled the next day. Since this was during the pandemic the process was to be online.
The recruiter had failed to mention I will be required to write code during the interview, so I had joined through my iPad. But, the interviwer clarified some code would need to be written and run via screen share.
The interview had to be reschduled by half an hour so that I could join via desktop. Note that camera was required for the interview process.
The interview itself was very simple, but I had a negetive experience because the questions did not involve any sort of thinking or logic building.
The interviwer already had a list of questions somewhere and she just pasted the questions to the chat window and asked me to code. When I started explaing my thought process or my code, she said she only cared about the output and nothing else. I was asked 2 coding questions which were to be solved in C#, which I did.
These were done in an online portal which allowed the code to be saved, and it generated a link which could be used to open the code. I had to send these links to the interviwer through the chat window. All this, while my screen share was already on and she could see me writing the code online.
After that I was asked 1 question from linq, which I could not answer.
I guess the interviwer assumed I did not know linq at all because she swiftly moved to SQL without asking me anything else in C# or .NET.
After that I was asked to write 3 SQL queries for different scenarios. I struggled here as well because I was not very familier with SQL syntax. I tried explaing that I was not very well versed with the syntax but was ready to explain the logic required to arrive at a proper query, however, the interviewer said she only cared about the sql query and not really about how I got there. I had to type in the queries in the chat window.
I am not sure if the interviewer even had a technical background, because it was obvious she wanted to have the exact outputs and codes so that she could get it evaluated by someone else.
She did not even introduce herself or her position, and I would'nt even have known her hame had it not been for the name that showes up on MS Teams.
It did not really matter a lot because I attended the interview online from my home, but I guess I would have been more annoyed if I would have had to travel for this interview.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Write code to print this pattern:
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