A consultancy got in touch with me regarding an opportunity with Samsung Electronics for their E-commerce domain. I was pretty much interested as I've only worked in product companies and never really had an experience in a service based company. It was good to know that my profile got shortlisted and since I was in Bangalore, they scheduled a telephonic interview as my first round. I had cleared the first round and got scheduled my F2F in Chennai the same week. I went there and completed all the rounds. Altogether I dislike (You can read it as Hate too!) SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS. Here are my reasons - Standard: While asking the panel member who selected me for the next rounds he said, there would be 2 rounds which will only focus on the technical part of my career. I prepared problem-solving questions, the product architecture which I'm working on, the testing concepts, TestNG, Selenium and what not? Though I was asked the technical questions, they rejected me by asking puzzles. My 5 years of experience, was put into question by a puzzle which looked like a random content that would get printed on some corner of a Sunday Daily. - Courtesy: The consultant was kind enough and synced with me until I completed the interview. Whereas, the company's HR acted as if I don't exist. A small startup in Chennai, who called me for an interview, took the responsibility of the travel and gave me the options to choose the mode of transport to come to Chennai. These people never really bothered to ask how I'll come to their office that too on a working day. - Mindset: The panel members are way too arrogant (I'm not calling this out of frustration). During my telephonic round, the person hasn't gone through my resume. He right away told me that I'm fit for a manual role more than an automation role. The irony is, I'm an automation framework developer for a highly reputed investment banking firm in Bangalore. The second round panelist and the third round panelist treated as if they're worshipped as a Demi-God in the programming world. Those poor guys couldn't come up with one better question in problem-solving. - Miscommunication: If the puzzles are the deciders, why did they told me it is a technical discussion? God Knows! - Place of Work: The office is like a rotten dungeon. The moment you step inside, you would definitely lose the feeling that you're in a renowned product company called 'Samsung'. - Interest: People who interviewed hate their jobs. It was pretty much evident in the way they behaved. - Work: I'm very sure, Samsung Chennai has nothing to offer much. This is because, the next week one of my close friends got selected for the same role (In fact a much higher role) and he said that, the company is not worthier enough to consider joining. I repeat, even "consider joining". There you go Samsung Chennai, you're already out of the league. - Ego: Big and Bloated. - Offer: They didn't consider the offer I was holding. They told that they won't even bother to match the current offer, even if I'm getting selected.