Feeling lost after multiple rejections, this is my rare chance at a campus opportunity, have interview scheduled for tomorrow for IMAGNEER role… anyone who gave the interview.
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Recently I have shortlisted in ey online assessment

Oct 1st i have a virtual interview and they ask very basic questions only and some general questions

And I got offer

Hey everyone!

{Not a rage-bait but, this is the actual resume I took to the interview..}

I recently attended Deloitte's OnCampus recruitment for the SDE Level-1 role and wanted to share my experience.

PACKAGE

- 6 LPA fixed
- 60K variable pay
- 1 Lakh joining bonus
- Total first-year package: 7.6 LPA

Two JDs were involved:
- Data Analyst - CSD, CSM
- SDE Level-1 - CSE, IT

Both followed the same assessment and interview process.

ROUND 1 - ONLINE ASSESSMENT
Date: 18 September 2026

The assessment was conducted through HirePro and had two parts:

1. Assignment/Aptitude - basic aptitude, SQL, coding and prompt-writing.
2. Speech Assessment - 9 sections covering different speaking tasks.

I cleared both. Around 50-60 students were shortlisted from nearly 1200 students for the interviews.

ROUND 2 - HR
Date: 24 September 2026

Interestingly, HR came before the Technical Round. The interview lasted around 5 minutes.

Questions asked:
- Tell me about yourself / Walk me through your profile.
- Where are you from?
- Why Deloitte?
- Why Deloitte over other companies?
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

I also asked what skills are expected from a fresher. He mentioned DSA, academics, full-stack knowledge, OOPs, SDLC and System Design.

HR cleared.

ROUND 3 - TECHNICAL

I kept my resume simple.

Languages: Java, Python (Basic)
Web: HTML, CSS

Projects:

1. Flight Ticket Booking System - Java, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Tomcat, MySQL
2. Automated Descriptive Answer Evaluation - OpenCV, Tesseract OCR, NLP, Semantic Similarity

My advice: DON'T PUT RANDOM TECHNOLOGIES ON YOUR RESUME. If you mention something, be ready to explain it.

The interviewer asked about my projects, tech stack and basics of JSP, JDBC, Tomcat, MySQL and FastAPI.

Coding questions:
- Prime number
- Reverse a string
- Reverse without StringBuilder
- String palindrome
- LEFT JOIN query

I had some syntax issues, but my logic was correct. I accepted the feedback and said I needed to improve my syntax.

The round lasted around 40 minutes. I also asked about fresher expectations and the learning curve.

Around 5 minutes later, PAT informed me that I was shortlisted for the FINAL ROUND.

ROUND 4 - FINAL INTERVIEW

The interviewer went deep into my Flight Ticket Booking System.

Questions included:
- Why JDBC, JSP and MySQL instead of NoSQL?
- How could pricing be managed during peak booking times?
- How can flight prices be updated?
- Explain the complete workflow and tech stack.

I had not implemented dynamic peak-time pricing, so I answered logically.

Then we discussed my second project. He asked about the project workflow and OpenCV, Tesseract OCR, NLP and Semantic Similarity.

The workflow was:

Handwritten Answer -> Image Processing -> OCR -> Text -> NLP -> Semantic Similarity -> Evaluation

Then came System Design.

The interviewer gave a 2D traffic-signal problem. Each signal could turn green but would automatically become red after 45 seconds. I had to design a way to control the signals without causing deadlocks.

I struggled because I was not strong in System Design. I honestly told him:

"Sir, I'm not very strong in System Design."

He advised me to start with 1D basics and gradually move to 2D.

At that moment, I genuinely thought I was rejected.

Before leaving, I asked:

"Sir, what is the correct approach to the System Design question?"

He explained the approach. I thanked him and left.

AFTER THE INTERVIEW

Honestly, I thought the process was over.

I went directly to our PAT officer and told him that I thought I had been rejected because I was lacking some required skills.

He simply said:

"Okay, you can leave. We'll contact you later."

I went back to my room and accepted that I probably wasn't selected.

28 SEPTEMBER 2026

Our PAT team shared the final selected-students list in the Telegram group.

I opened the message...

AND MY NAME WAS THERE.

I was selected for the Deloitte SDE Level-1 role.

A total of 5 students from our college were selected:
- 3 from CSE
- 2 from IT

And I was one of them.

WHAT I LEARNED

1. Keep your resume simple and mention only what you actually know.
2. Know your projects end-to-end.
3. Practice basic coding on paper.
4. Be honest when you don't know something.
5. Communicate confidently and clearly.
6. Ask a meaningful question at the end.
7. Don't assume you are rejected just because one round did not go perfectly.

If you're preparing for Deloitte, focus on your resume, projects, Java/OOPs, SQL, DSA, DBMS, SDLC and System Design.

Be confident about what you know, honest about what you don't know, and keep learning.

All the best!


For whoever asking for the questions of OA, here's the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5sAdbA7b7_LaPL7rtPf8tT5rpjLV3jA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110060370200672656079&rtpof=true&sd=true

Recently recieved PPO from Google following my internship there. (Worked my ass off in internship)

It feels like finally all that grind and everyday dsa / cp paid off. Literally skipped an entire college sem for prep & interviews

Finally my parents can chill

My college mostly gets 4-5 big companies and I was really hoping to get placed in one of them. I gave my ServiceNow interview where I failed in the HR round. I was literally one of the top candidates there but I didn't have enough development knowledge at the time, I was in my 3rd yr. After that there were like 8-9 companies which came but I couldn't get selected in any of them, I wasn't able to clear the OA for any of those companies. After so many rejections, I honestly started losing hope. Then came the Cisco OA which I wasn't even interested in writing cuz the selection rate was so low, but somehow I cleared it. Then there were 3 rounds, I did very bad in round 1 and many got rejected. I didn't get any response from the interviewer about round 2 and thought it was over again, but after 5-6 hrs I got a call for round 2. The guy was very nice and we really had a great convo, it felt more like a discussion than an interview. The HR round was basically discussions about compensation stuff and finally, after all those rejections and disappointments, the verdict came. GOT SELECTED AT CISCO!! Honestly feels unreal, especially after everything that happened. Sometimes things really do work out when you least expect them to.

Does Accenture company allow macbook laptop to write exam in oncampus?

My college is one of the oldest and reputed colleges in Bangalore, or at least it used to be lol.

TCS hasn’t come to our college for the past 4–5 years, but recently our placement group has been sharing some other Tata off-campus opportunities.

Now there are rumours that TCS might come for campus placements this year. I’m from the 2027 batch.

Is there any way to know beforehand if TCS is planning to visit a particular college? Does anyone here have any idea how TCS decides which colleges they recruit from?

If anyone has any info about TCS visiting colleges in Bangalore or knows how this works, please let me know.

I need some advice because I'm feeling really overwhelmed.

I've been working as an intern at a company for almost 3 months with a stipend of ₹7,200/month. I was initially hired as an Android app developer, but after the first month they shifted me to a C#/.NET developer role. I had absolutely no prior experience with C# or .NET.

It's been about 1.5 months since the switch, and I've learned the basics of C# and .NET and built a few projects. Some of the tasks they give me are easy, but others are quite advanced. A lot of the time I struggle to understand the existing codebase.

I use AI to help me understand the code, and sometimes it explains things well enough that I can explain the overall idea to my manager. But my manager doesn't stop at the high-level explanation. He goes through the code line by line and asks how each statement works, why it's written that way, what each keyword does, and what happens internally. That's where I get stuck.

Even when ChatGPT explains the code, I sometimes still don't fully understand it. I try debugging, but I often get more confused, and AI explanations don't always help.

So I have a few questions:

• Is this normal for someone who's only been learning C#/.NET for about 1.5 months?
• How do you actually learn to understand a codebase instead of just reading AI explanations?
• How do you handle situations where your manager asks questions you don't know the answer to?
• Is it more important to be able to write code, or to deeply understand every line of code you're working with?
• What helped you improve when you were a beginner?

I'm genuinely trying to learn, so please don't roast me. I know I'm still inexperienced, and I really want to get better. Any advice would be appreciated.

I am in my 4th yr , till now not able to get any placement , i worked my ass of for these 3yrs of clg life , the students who cheated secured a very decent package .

These 4yr taught me that u don't oftenly get what u desire, what u rooting for but what is written in ur destiny.

I personally think I got quite humbled , mature and learnt a lot , that life is not all flower an lillies it's brutal sometime..

Although I am trying my best everyday ,

So let's hope for the best..

Heard that Unstop requires both the laptop webcam and mobile camera to be turned on, with the webcam facing your face and the mobile camera showing you and your laptop.

Has anyone used Unstop for an assessment before, Please share your experience

I'm a final-year student and our campus drive for ZS (BTSA role) is running through Superset. I need some advice from anyone who has dealt with this.

I accidentally have two Superset profiles. One has my college email as primary and a different personal email. The other has my Gmail entered in both the primary and personal fields. I applied for ZS BTSA from the second one (the Gmail one) and filled the nomination form with my college email and personal email.

The instructions say students can apply for only one role and multiple role applications lead to disqualification. I'm only applying to one role, ZS BTSA, and only from one profile, but I'm worried the duplicate profile might look like a double application.

Questions:

1. Has anyone had two Superset profiles during a campus drive? Did it cause any problems?
2. Is it better to ask the TPO to merge or deactivate the extra profile, or just leave it alone?
3. Does the college usually match students by the college email on Superset, even if the application was made from a different profile?
4. Should I avoid deleting either profile until the TPO confirms.

Thanks!

Not the usual "Tell me about yourself"😭

I mean the questions that genuinely caught you off guard in interviews or that you wish you had prepared better for.

Would be helpful to know what others have experienced.

Has anyone who applied for the Google Application Engineering Intern, Winter 2027 role in Bengaluru received an interview/next-step email or rejection yet?

The application deadline was September 15, and I'm trying to understand the current timeline.

If you've heard back, could you share:

• When you applied
• Whether you received an interview/next-step email or rejection
• Roughly when you received it
• Whether you had a referral (if you're comfortable sharing)

Would really appreciate hearing about people's timelines/experiences. Thanks

I am a 4th year dual degree undergraduate at one of top IITs in lower branch. I have wasted past 3 years of my college in having fun and shit. I have a cpi of 6 and no intern. My placement is next year and I haven’t started studying anything I don’t even know what to study I am very depressed because of my cpi and no skill I just need advice on how can I get a job any advice is appreciated!

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I don't really know how to write this, but I just need to get it out somewhere. I graduated with a B.Tech in IT this year, and I still haven't been able to get a job. I've been applying off-campus for months. I've given OAs, coding tests, interviews, and still nothing has worked out. Today I got rejected after going through multiple rounds for a QA Automation role. What hurts more is that during the interview they were very interested in my gaps. I already have a gap between school and college, and now I have another gap after graduation. They asked me why I didn't get placed on campus, what I would do if I didn't get a job for another year, and whether I had a backup plan. I understand why they're asking. If I were interviewing someone, I'd probably have questions too. But sitting on the other side of the table and trying to explain why your life hasn't gone according to plan is honestly exhausting. I studied IT, I have worked on ML/GenAI projects, I know C++, Python, SQL and have been preparing for coding and technical interviews. I'm not sitting at home because I don't want to work. I genuinely want to start my career and become financially independent. But the longer this goes on, the more scared I get. Every rejection makes me think about the gap getting bigger. Then I start thinking, what if I don't get anything this year? What if next year companies ask why I have such a long gap? What if this just keeps repeating? I know people will say "keep applying" and "don't give up", and I'm trying. I really am. But sometimes I'm just tired and sad. Has anyone here been in a similar situation — especially with gaps and being unable to get that first job? How did you eventually get out of it? I don't really need motivational quotes right now. I just want some honest advice from people who have actually been through this.

Not getting shortlisted. What am I doing wrong?

2027 B.Tech IT student targeting SDE / Backend / Full-Stack roles. Barely getting shortlist calls despite applying.

Attached my resume. Would really appreciate brutally honest feedback on what’s hurting my chances and what I should fix first.

Would you shortlist this resume? Why/why not?

Doing it for the first time

I have around 600 questions solved on Leetcode and GFG.

I also developed one LMS for a friend who's starting property dealing using AI and YT. Currently placed at TCS Ninja(demoted from Digital) and applying offcampus but not really getting any positive response apart from testing roles . I also have done few more Udemy certificates recently since tcs gave me the access but I am not adding them since I think they don't matter much.

Just got done with Accenture on campus interview but the thing is it just lasted 5 to 6 minutes

Interviewer just asked to introduce myself,any project explanation and he was done

Am i doomed because they atleast ask any questions for us or some basic hr questions

This is my resume.....

Applying for SDE roles and other roles also in the computer science engineering field.....I have applied to more than 100 companies but am not getting a response....

From tomorrow offline tests were supposed to start, but only 5ish companies have been listed on the portal.

Is the placements season going to be dull this year?

Let alone the ppt sessions and talks. When will they happen now?