I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Novartis
Interview
I appeared through hackathon event. I came in top scores. Even after this, I did not hear about any further interviews.
It seems like even though people come in as top scorers Novartis Hyderabad do not think they need to take interviews for them.
There seems to be something terribly wrong at Novartis Hyderabad, there is some foul play from HR team and technical teams of Novartis Hyderbad.
This is actually a foul play from Hyderbad Team, where they are on purpose not taking interviews of people who have done well.
These people bypass the whole interview process and cancel interviews or selections and hire their own or locals.
Hyderabad HR team first sent email saying Thank You for Participation without any interview.
When US team contacted me to participate in their knockri AI based video assessment tool as I was in top scores, it is at this point that Hyderbad HR again sent me email to apply again.
And after few days closed the application with status Application No longer in consideration (just like that)
Next day when I asked about status, they said send me your resume.
I mean this is like Novartis Hyderbad think we are fools.
5
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I applied through university. I interviewed at Novartis (New Delhi) in Aug 2025
Interview
There are 3 rounds of the interview.
2 are rounds are related to the technical based where the 1 st round is based on the resume that can your projects in details .another round is about the pratical questions and how the algo used in real world and 3 rd round is Hr round.
This was an interesting interview. None of the questions asked were linked to the JD of the role. Questions were designed to ‘catch you out’ by asking random questions with have no bearing on my experience, or what is on the CV… It seemed the interviewers with one being the hiring manager came into it with a pre-determined mindset of ‘let’s get this out of the way’. There was no genuine conversation to see if there is a ‘team fit’ or capabilities that I can offer on the role… more importantly there was no time given for questions at the end and just a last ‘you have one question to ask which needs to be a quick one as we’ve run out of time’ - Appalling effort from a team supposedly looking to attract talent into their team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the definition of a project plan and what steps do you follow to create one?
Very boring and run of the mill questions. The interview was over in an hour. It seemed like they had already made up their mind and decided in the first few minutes that they want someone else for whatever reasons. Very disappointed with the process