My failure story in placement

I failed to clear one of the so-called Dream Companies, during my final year!

I did not dream to join these companies, to call them a dream company, lol.

After clearing the aptitude and coding tests, the third round was a very generic round, in which I was asked questions from different domains including cloud, networks, web, mobile, internet of things, etc.

I answered every question without a second thought. To my surprise, I cleared that round.

In the fourth round, probably the second last round I was asked a lot of questions in the theoretical aspects of coding.

Surprisingly, I did not know any answers!

Then their question turned out to be, "How did you pass through your coding round?", suspicious!

Then they asked me to write a logic for identifying the prime numbers!

I gave them the O(sqrt(n)) solution. They thought I learnt it by heart.

I did not learn by heart, but it was quite a common problem and I did go through such problems already.

Then they jumped back to the point, that I did not know any answers to their theory questions.

They asked me what I know other than coding. I said I know very little of the theory that was taught in college and most of my strength stays in applying what we learn, to a project.

Then, she questioned what all languages I use to develop the projects.

I started listing all that was used, including Ionic, Angular, Firebase.

Never expected to FAIL here.

Her, next question was "What's FireVase?".

Instead of directly answering it, I said, "It's actually FireBase!" and answered further about it.

Everything went well and I waited for my result with full confidence.

A well-known staff who was in charge of placements that day came to me and enquired what happened inside. I wasn't sure of what she was trying to say, but she confirmed that I'm not going to the next round due to my Attitude!

That was a complete breakdown!

Where does my attitude come into the picture? I was confused initially, but learnt a huge lesson!

Not everyone takes your correction as an improvement. It's perceived differently based on their knowledge!

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Every person in their interview would have experienced a similar situation.

That one point that you would have never expected, becoming your own rejection point!

It's either you or the interviewer who has the problem!

I take it as an improvement for my next companies!

How should you take it? Thoughts?

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