Being a master's graduate from a reputed university, we were asked to attend a telephonic interview for internship. The telephonic call lasted for about 10 min. Wherein nothing technical was asked and only explanation related to project was asked. But for few even that was not asked and basic questions on programming language were asked. For which few of them lied and said yes we know all the programming languages and got selected for internship. People with more knowledge and better projects were rejected but people who had prior experience anywhere and lied on the call were selected! Thats how intellectual and educated the interviewer was. Later, all the people were converted and given PPO. I would like to say that " you never judge a book by its cover". Similarly with no proper process people were selected and given offer letters. Apart from this, the conversion from internship to PPO was also no big a deal. No matter how the results of the internship projects were, they were placed. I would say this is totally unfair on their part.

I got a referral for an interview. I gave it in May. The position was not declared. I assumed it was something related to ML. The interview was theoretical, a one-on-one call with a solutions architect. I did well. The interviewer said that if there were an open ML position, I would get an email. I haven't got one yet.