HARMAN interview questions

The first round is a pen and paper coding test (Yes, coding on paper, not even algorithm). I was not too positive about the company on the very first round itself. In the software industry, how can any company take a paper-based proper coding test. There are several websites nowadays which allows hands-on coding tests. Or they could have arranged for some systems if they really wanted to check a candidate's programming skills. Moreover, I found the questions pretty vague and didn't understand what exactly they were trying to look for in a candidate based on the questions. I got a feeling that I was writing a school exam where you just have to memorise everything. No concepts, no logic. Just memory and memorising the code. Even the questions were very specific instances. A person who might not have worked with a particular feature would never be able to solve it. Although they might have worked with several other features. There were 4 questions and had to attempt any 2 of them. I attempted them and as far as I am concerned they were correct as I cross-examined them after I came back. There might have been a few things here and there, it might not have worked or syntactically correct but I think that should have been discussed in the interview as to why this was solved this way and this and this is wrong. But what can we expect out of a paper-based coding test? Another candidate who solved just 1 question was asked to appear for next round. They should share a little feedback about what went wrong with the test.

The interview process was highly professional and no specific domain questions were asked, rather they asked about the general problem solving. They would also check the presence of mind and latest technologies. A lot of puzzles were asked in the process