I applied for the opening via LinkedIn. The next day I had a 15 minutes call with their HR Executive who invited me to their upcoming recruitment drive.
From the first impression, the hiring process seemed very unconventional as they were inviting almost everyone to the recruitment drive, even the experienced people. Regardless, I thought to give it a try!
The recruitment drive day involved solving a 36 minutes aptitude test that had basic questions on maths and reasoning and a few Excel formula based questions. I cleared the aptitude test and then was sent to a different floor for 'culture fit round'. After the culture round, I was asked to wait and I observed that in that room everyone was being called out one by one and was sent back with a small bag full of goodies. The same thing happened to me, I was asked if I have any personal feedback regarding the recruitment drive and then was handed a bag of goodies. The bag had a few toffees, a chocolate, and virtue cards of wellversed.
Overall, the recruitment drive experience was negative. It didn't seem professional, the way they called seasoned and experienced people to their office for just 2 rounds - aptitude and culture rounds. These rounds could have been conducted online.
When I asked whether any technical round will happen as this is what was told to me by HR on the call. I was just told that the culture fit round was the main round and that I would be told about the feedback on email later.
I was on the fence of going to this recruitment drive as this seemed like something you would organise to hire freshers. I regret the experience and think organisation can do better than this. They should not waste time of experienced folks . I also didn't feel like using their goodies as the whole experience turned out to be cloudy and negative without enough clarity. I really don't understand why they are organizing these drives, if they want to call 200 people and send everyone back. This could be done digitally in this virtual age - how most companies are hiring.
Really a wrong approach!!