I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ServiceNow (Hyderâbâd) in Jun 2022
Interview
Got the call from its recruiter.
Then after 2 weeks, first round was scheduled.
This round was coding round & I was given from problem to code for.
I was not able to come up with the right approach but the interviewer guided me towards the right solution & helped in fixing the issue in the final code.
It took 1 hr & experience was good.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a stack class which will return the most occurring number in the stack.
If 2 numbers have the same count of occurrence then return the number which is at the top of stack.
For this I was required to write the class with 2 methods push() & pop().
The process took 5 days. I interviewed at ServiceNow
Interview
Please stay away and do not waste your time. I am not sure why do they waste candidates and their time if they cannot even get back with the interview feedback. I interviewed twice with two different times and they asked me same question both times first time I wasnt able to solve completely and it was with manager. The interview went to until 1.2 hrs although scheduled for 1 hr . Discussion was good. But no feedback not even no. I emailed the recruiter multiple times. Second interview. Interviewer came 10 mins late. Asked same question. Solved in 20 min with running solutions obviously no time left for him to review or understand the solution as 5 minutes also went on intro and questions. Already told him start of the interview that we are late. Do we really want to do this now? What I understood they are not interested hiring and may be interviewing just to show numbers. Very disappointed that companies like this wasting time of candidates.
I had applied to Staff position. Interviews went well, new recruiter (let’s call her Recruiter 2, initial recruiter who contacted me and scheduled the interviews was different, lets call him Recruiter 1) reached out the same day with positive feedback but she said we are giving Senior Software position. I asked the reasoning but she was vague in her answers. For next 1 hour she was trying to get my current TC, I gracefully ignored and asked for the initial offer. She said will get back to me. Next day Recruiter 1 contacts me and spends almost 2 hours trying to get my current TC, I didn’t budge. He ssks me to schedule a call with Recruiter 1. In the call, she starts giving me wide ranges for base, RSUs, bonus etc, another 45 minutes gone. I asked her to come up with an initial offer and let me know. For 1 week no response, upon following up to her, she didn't bother to respond to email or phone. I called Recruiter 1 to understand what's happening. He says that the feedback that he sees from my call with Recruiter 1 is that she has mentioned your expectations are too high and you are just using the offer to negotiate with other companies. I tell him that’s not what had happened. He says I’ll hook you up with new recruiter and you can talk to him/ her. After 2 hours, the Recruiter 1 calls and says she was busy with other things and couldn't get back. She starts low balling the numbers she herself had promised a week back. That was the end.
This is by far the worst recruiter experience in my entire career so far.