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My exam was scheduled for 9 in the morning, it was from home remote proctored, and it had two sections the first section had MCQs of aptitude, logical and English. The second section had a few MCQs of CS fundamentals and two coding questions. It was strictly monitored for any suspicious activity and the candidates were disqualified.

My interview was scheduled in the morning at 9 on Microsoft teams. I joined the meeting at 9 and was waiting in the lobby and the waiting period went for 4 hours. My interview started at 1 noon. I was very nervous while waiting, then suddenly a panel of three interviewers appeared on my screen. They greeted me and started the interview with " hi sambhav, have you had your lunch?" and I replied "no sir I was waiting for you all", with a smile and they also smiled. Then they asked me to start with my introduction, I introduced myself, then a sir told me that madam will continue with technical questions. There were three interviewers: one ma'am for technical questions, one for HR, and one for MR. Ma'am started with my hobby which I mentioned during my intro about blogging and she was impressed with the topics on which I write then she asked me about my project deeply, when she was satisfied with my project she asked some OOPs questions, a few DSA questions and about some latest technologies then she said that I'm done with my questions and said another sir to continue. Sir started with "so sambhav, as you mentioned you are from Jamshedpur, do we need to tell you about Tata?" I said with a smile not at all sir being a jamshedpurian I'm a fanboy of Tata, I am well aware of Tata. And everybody started laughing and that was the moment that changed the mood of the interview. From then it was more of a friendly kind of discussion than an interview. How the time passed in all these discussions I couldn't know. With all these discussions MR asked a few basic situational-based questions and at last few HR questions about relocation and flexibility of any technologies and all. At last, I was asked to mail my documents and received my offer letter after a few days. I can say that it was my luck that my interview turned out to be a kind of friendly discussion rather than a serious and nervous one.