I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Infosys in Jul 2010
Interview
Refered by my friend who posted my profile. For about 2 months the status was 'under screening'. Since one division was screening the profile, it was not available to other divisions for 2 months. That was lost oppurtunity. My friend requested the HR guys to speed up the process. The status was changed to 'Short Listed for Interview'. Finally my profile was shortlisted and the HR fixed up a telecon. For some reason it got cancelled. It took almost a month to schedule another interview. The interview was telephonic and i was supposed to call a number along with passcode. And the number was not toll-free! There were 2 people taking the interview and both were not in sync at all. One guy was always interrupting the other and asking questions. At one instance the guy even remarked on call that "Why are you asking this question"??!?? Anyway, I did not fit into the role that they were seeking. Atleast that was made clear to me in the call itself. Other wise probably I had to wait for another 1 or 2 months for the result!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain with a specific example why we should choose you for this specific role. The example should have a specific situation, specific error condition ... [a few more specific things] and what was your specific role in resolving the specifc error. I do not want general or vague answer ok? I want a very specific answer. Ok?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Infosys (Bengaluru) in Feb 2010
Interview
I asked my friend to refer me for Technical Architect position in Bangalore. I am in US. It was so confusing that initially HR thought I am looking for a position in US (not sure if it was intentional). After lots of debate back and forth finally I got and cleared the interviews and the Sr. Manager told me that I need to work in US for first few months, then go back to India and work from there. I agreed for that.
God knows what happened, I did not hear anything after that. When I checked with my friend he said my interview results have disappeared from their system. He started following up, lots of debate once again back and forth etc...
Later HR came back saying I am not eligible for a Technical Architect position, so would hire me as either Project Manager or Technical Lead in Bangalore.
So finally I realized and decided that its not a place I want to work...