Dec 03, 2011 09:38 PM
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I want to write this review to complain about how casually employers like Wipro treat the employment process especially for lower levels like WASE and for BPO processes and how the result of the same can cause great emotional damage to young candidates.
Today my daughter appeared for the Wipro recruitment for BSc/BCA candidates for the 2012 batch held at Dpauls college Angamaly, Kerala. I am writing to complain about the emotional havoc wreaked by one particular individual(who was among the half a dozen or so who conduced the technical interview)on the candidates whose misfortune was to draw this particular interviewer. One of the candidates happened be my daughter who has been preparing hard for such exams as she was not able to do Btech but still wants to make a career in the the IT industry, in Kerala or outside.
The good things first.
1 The recruitment was organised by a local partner SHREDS who were professional. Candidates were called in small batches in fixed time slots and the briefing and the written test was conduced professionally. No OMR but all the answer sheets were all evaluated properly(they were given to to candidates who made it to the next HR round for review). My daughter got 47/50
2 Second round was HR which was also exhaustive but professionally done. Candidates could see their written exam answer sheets and also the comments of the HR interviewer. Even the marks were made known to the candidates in the subsequent Tech round(she was informed she got 15/15).
3 After the HR round elimination came the Tech round and the horror started. One particular interviewer who my daughter as well as around 30others had the misfortune to draw seemed hell bent on making candidates life miserable. Wonderful questions which the person apparently could dig up like, the greatness of Ramanjuan number, the discoverer of number zero etc were all thrown at the candidates by this particular demi god! After 20 minutes of this grilling, the interviewer took pleasure in informing my daughter that she was rejected due to non competence in tech interview.
Fair enough, I am not from an IT background and I guess most of these questions were of the greatest relevance ot the post they were interviewing BSc Maths graduates for! However the joke was the questions the other tech interviewers were asking(there were about 7 -8 interview desks). My daughters friends and acquaintances(many of who scored atleast a good 20-30% less in the written exam) ended up with a cross section of questions like the ones below in their TECHNICAL interview but they had all drawn other interviewers.
1 Please tell something about your native place
2 If you stumble upon 1000 Rs while on the road what will you do?
3 Things to be noted when you come for a WIPRO interview.
4 Why is eye contact important in an interview?
While my daughter was grilled for 20 minutes with the high brow questions like the discover of zero and then told she was rejected by the interviewer, many of her coleagues who had to answer maximum 3 or 4 quesitons about their native place or their sudden windfall of 1000 Rs for their TECHNICAL interview all went home with their appointment letters.
After many candidates came out of this particular "horror desk" with similar results, they got totgether and complained to the organiser SHREDs who full credit to them immediately took it up with the head HR person of Wipro at the venue. It turned out that the interviewer in question had by then rejected around 90% of the his/her interviewees through the brilliance of his/her questions. Apparently after this issue was raised. the head HR person addressed the affected candidates and appeared to acknowledge an evident disparity between this particular desk and the other desks but none of the affected candiates including my daughter were offered a second tech interview chance which by any standards of basic fairness should have been done and instead all these people reached home empty handed while many others who did not draw this particular desk went home with appointment letters.
WIll Wipro compensate my daughter for the emotional agony she faced thanks to the incompetence or lopsided priorities of one particular person? In any Western country they could not have got away with this and would have been sued out of sight. Does coompanies like Wipro ever understand how such insensitive actions can ruin the confidence of emotionally fragile youngsters already cracking under a highly competitive education system with loop sided priorities?
Any parents reading this in Kerala or elsewhere, be aware of such happenings which happen in the recuitment drivers and in your and your childrens interest, take due care.
