Few weeks back, I just got a call from a “reputed” company called Ness technologies located in Koramangala, Bangalore. From the way the HR contact person enquired about my availability for a face-to-face interview, I felt as if they were desperate to get me on board. As this post was as a team lead, I could not have asked for a better deal either! They did even called me few times before the interview date to just confirm my availability too.
On the interview day, I went in with as much enthusiasm I could have and after receiving the “interview” badge from the securities, I went in to the reception steaming with confidence J
The fun started here – I reached the place at 11:00 am and was called for the interview only by 12:30. It was supposed to be a scheduled interview and I could see many restless faces around, hence somehow felt ok, as it was not just me who is waiting for a long time!
The interview was fine except few questions meant to have only one answer, as “I don’t know”. It seems nowadays that u got to have few “not answerable” questions in your list regardless of whether it has something to do with your profile or not!
I was then led to a big hall where I could see few people who is filling few forms frantically. Few of them had two rounds and few even had their 3rd round completed. I was quite surprised to see that even I was supposed to fill the same even though I just had my first round completed. The documents were lengthy and it even had a form to provide your feedback about the selection process itself!
As I fought through the pages of “application form”, I was asked to move to a different cabin for the managerial round. With my choppy handwriting, I must admit that it took atleast half an hour of effort to have half of the forms filled.
The managerial round was interesting as I got more insights to the companies profile and the kind of work they do. I was asked to wait in the same room after a 40 minutes discussion and it was not before another 20 minutes that a person came to collect the “application form”. I was done with the document by then and was happy to have it handed over J
The HR guy updated me that “We will be calling you on Monday and letting you know the status” and I was happy not to hear a “I will let you know” reply to be frank. With not less than 4-5 hrs spent there, I was happy heading back home though it really spoiled my Saturday, which I was supposed to spend with my family.
I did not get a call by Monday, neither did I get a call on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I could not control it anymore that I called up the HR guy who was in touch with me before the interview. I was told that he is in a “meeting” and will be calling me back in 10 minutes. Unfortunately it was me, not him who made a call as I didn’t get any feedback again after two days. Though I knew the obvious answer by now, I asked him the status and this time he was about to call me back in two minutes!
Now this really started pissing me off as I didn’t receive a call in next two days either. I contacted the guy who had actually forwarded my resume to the HR and with great difficulty, he could get me the response as my profile has been rejected for some reason!
Now my question here is, being a candidate who spent almost a day in an office for his job don’t have the privilege to know the status of his/her application?
Why is the HR’s being so slipshod and lethargic when it comes to giving response to the candidates?
At least when contacted in person, don’t they have the fortitude to give a clear answer?
The answer is simple… this industry has degraded so much that there is hardly any value in the entire HR team or they are rushed off their feet with so many tasks in hand.
What ever be the reason, what these “HR” people can do is to let the candidate know what happened if not immediately, at least by next day or so.
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