The Managerial Round
By the title every one already guessed about what we are referring. This is a small portion of my experience that I just had.
It began very well coz when you apply for a specific job description, it means you are prepared well. And even if there are 2 or 3 technical rounds as well, you’ll not hesitate to raise it as a point coz they are around the same job description and thus are already prepared by you.
However, you'll be wondering why so many people are interviewing you to judge the technical skills. Which trails with the list, me giving a telephonic technical and a face to face technical, whereas it was decided that only 1 tech round would be scheduled. Anyways you’ll take them as the process part and you’ll imbibe all, as they are around the same job description. But if something out of syllabus you can directly ask not in JD (its job description, not Jack Daniel guys). Thus when you clear it you got a good feeling coz you finally make it to the managerial round.
So you got an invitation to meet manager and you started brushing your manager skills (srs, documentation, Estimation etc.) and there comes the day when you finally meet the manager.
Now here comes our “The Managerial round” in which he is supposed to ask about the Managerial tasks, but instead he started proving his technical knowledge is better than yours, where he started the technical questions. But please do tell him that they are all out dated and irrelevant to job description.Â
And now you started scratching your head remembering the old things that you may learn or read some point of time. But unfortunately you were not good enough to get the correct answers for the obsolete technologies and thus you get rejected.Â
The JD was: WEB API, SOA, WCF REST, DESIGN PATTERNS Â Â He Asked: Connection Pooling, COM objects, DATASET.
And when I asked are we still using data tables and datasets in our project he smartly replied yes there are other technologies as well. So why don’t he ask me about those other technologies which are meant to be asked in the interview.
I missed the basic description about our manager, so he used the phrases like:
- I didn’t asked - Assume there is a two Databases - You mentioned it and you didn’t rode (read walla 3rd form) it.
Also, just to add on he was wearing something “sonna shoes” and they were just like his tech knowledge, that’s right obsolete.
For the companies like policybazaar.com and its Managerial team, it’s my request to pour some light on the management level layer. As this will help to grow further else the day is not that far when your business gets affected from these kind of reviews as well…
I’m not revealing the manager name coz that wouldn’t be appropriate. I guess you (@policybazaar) guys will figure it out….
Anyways in the end, keep coding keep learning…