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Sharing the best interview experience of my life, courtesy of Jforce Solutions (Vile Parle).

Saw a post on LinkedIn from Trupti Thakare about an opening for a Node.js developer. I emailed them and got a reply.

They invited me for an onsite interview, with the condition of a 3-year bond. Since I’ve been jobless for the last 3 months, my desperate self said yes — just to hopefully get one offer letter 😭

Day 1:

Reached at 10 AM. They gave me a full-stack web app task (for a Node.js developer role). I built it using React + Node and finished by 1 PM.

They told me to take lunch and said the next round would be after 2 PM.

I waited till 4 PM. Someone finally came, reviewed my code, suggested some changes, and I implemented them. At 5 PM, they told me to leave and said they’d update me.

Reached home, and around 7 PM, HR called asking me to come again the next day at 3 PM.

Day 2:

Reached at 2:45 PM. Waited till 4:30 PM, only to be told the senior interviewer wasn’t available and the interview was postponed to the next day.

Day 3:

Yes, I still went (desperation makes you do things).

Reached at 2:45 PM. Waited again till 5:30 PM.

Finally interviewed by the senior developer, who didn’t even seem interested. Didn’t look at my resume, didn’t ask about my past experience — just glanced at the task.

Then got busy on a call, asked me 2 random questions, spent 10 minutes discussing their internal bugs with another developer, and finally said:

“HR will update you.”

Still waiting for that legendary update

I'm a developer with 2+ years of experience, and I've been jobless for the past 2 months. The market is absolutely brutal right now.

Applied to 350+ jobs

Got only 6 interviews

Not a single company has sent a proper rejection email

Out of those 6:

2 went up to 3 rounds

3 involved submitting take-home assignments

Even when I politely followed up asking for feedback, most of them just reply with the classic:

"Unfortunately, we're not moving forward with your application at this time."

Last week was the cherry on top. I had an online technical interview scheduled. The interviewer didn't even show up. I waited, then called HR. The next day when I followed up, HR said the interviewer faced some "technical glitch" and that they'd update me for a reschedule.

It's been days — still no update, no call, nothing.

This level of unprofessionalism is becoming way too common. Companies expect us to prepare, build take-homes, clear multiple rounds, and then they can't even show basic courtesy of a rejection email or a simple "we've filled the position"?

Best interview experience of my life 🙃