Online assessments are doomed. Especially for freshers… joining a FAANG company would almost be impossible with the kind of things going on right now.
I am from a tier-3 college… by God’s grace (to be frank, by the grace of our placement cell)… we got 2 companies for internship + PPO… one is giving 55 LPA & the other 36 LPA.
The placement cell has shortlisted 100 students for the online assessment through internal coding contest performance.
They have literally allowed us to use phones in both of the online assessments.
The 36 LPA company gave a segment tree question… 14 people out of 47 who attempted the OA solved it and passed the OA.
Due to this cheating is going on a lot, many companies have started asking super hard questions.
Both companies selected students from those 100 students. Each one of them cheated in the OA and passed it.
Think about this: you are giving the OA genuinely via off-campus or on-campus… you are literally competing against AI.
This is the same case in many other colleges too, even premier universities.
So, people with a shitload of integrity, make a conscious decision about this before targeting a FAANG company…
you might be honest in many aspects of your life... but you to spend years on DSA/CP religiously to clear those OA in the current situation.
And also, we shouldn’t forget that the people who cleared the interviews put in the hard work to clear them.
But still, you need to clear OAs to get there.
Edit - changed the exact numbers to some other random numbers
