IBM recruitment Drive "What a Fun!"

Let me share my new experience with you all. This time its regarding a job opportunity in Hyderabad. After shifting to Hyderabad,I started looking for a job. IBM is the only company which is doing mass recruitments. Really surprised to see that when all the companies are holding their hiring plan ! But after experiencing the drive, i got my answer.

All the consulting agencies have only one CMM Level 5 client(IBM). I got more than half a dozen  mails and phone calls from various consultants and one of them didn't bother to ask for my resume but picked it from some website and forwarded it to the company directly. One fine day i got the call from IBM HR that your resume has been shortlisted and we would like to meet you for personal discussion. I was happily surprised to get this call (looking for a job and got a call:). I asked her from where she got my details. She told me that through some consultant which I was not aware. But i was happy that finally i got a call in such a slowdown scenario. I went for the interview and got cleared my two rounds of technical interviews after waiting for 2 hours. 

But From other people experiences i got to know that HR people were so rude and inefficient to handle all this mess. They gave the contact no of the interview panel people to the candidates to directly talk to them and fix their interview schedule. The panel people were not picking up the calls and nobody was getting any proper response. Few candidates wasted their whole day with no interview although it was pre-scheduled. I thanked my stars to get interviewed and only one final HR round was remaining.

But i didn't know that it was just the start. HR lady told me to come later on because its already too late. She asked me to ask the consultant(Topplanet) to know the schedule for this last HR round. I left for the day. After one week, I got the call from the consultant that your last PDM round has been scheduled pls reach in time next day. I thanked the consultant and reached the IBM office in time but after reaching thier I got the sms that your schedule has been cancelled. I talked to consultant(Topplanet) and she told me that we were nor aware and IBM cancelled the interview right now, we are sorry for that.

Now after 20 days, I again got a call from the consultant that your PDM round is scheduled and pls reach in time at 10:30 morning. Somehow I collected my self and reached IBM in time again. I waited their till 2 o'clock but nothing happened .I talked to HR people to know the status and the HR lady replied so rudely that it will happen and just wait. It was already more than 3 hours but i was in dire need of the job so I sat there and waited for another one hour. I went to her again and asked if it will happen in one hour or not. She replied me it will not happen in another couple of hours if you can wait then sit down else leave from here. Till that time other people were also getting restless and querying her. After listening to other people experiences I decided to leave.

I was really surprised to see the functioning of the India's Top MNC company that too a CMM Level 5. I wonder how come they get this CMM level5 assessment done. Do they have any processes to manage their HR department. If their recruitment process is such a chaos how do they manage their deliveries and I really doubt about the quality of the deliverable.

That was not the end of the story,That "Topplanet consultancy" again called me up after one week. After apologising again for the last experience, asked me to visit the company again. This time she assured me that a senior person is coming from Pune to close these positions and everything will be finalised that day only and you will get the offer letter same day. I again got convinced and reached the venue 3rd time for the last round and again the same story. After reaching the venue I got to know that interview schedule has been cancelled. 

I had never experienced this kind of recruitment drive in my whole career. I don't know what to say but may be "IT Happens only in Hyderabad" or I should say "It Happens only in IBM".

I wanted to share my experience with the people to caution them to beware from such companies  and consultants to save their time and effort to utilise somewhere else effectively.