Hello Community,

I will share my bad experience while interviewing with NewRelic.
They had a hiring drive in last week of march where they invited people post resume screening and a mettl test(This itself was mixup of 2 MED-HARD questions along with basic CS fundamentals which are often seen in campus screening in India to be solved in 60 mins). Recruiter(Contractor Camsdata technologies) already had discussed about the current ctc and expected ctc and mentioned that there is no upper cap for good candidates.
Onsite interviews consisted of two techincal rounds[1 techno-managerial round].
To a bit surprise, the HM only focussed on behavioral aspects for the whole time and other person asked both DSA and Design(HLD) in one round.

After three days, they intimated that feedback is positive and asked for expected numbers. Here as well they made clear that there is budget and soon offer will be released. Next day they asked for the salary slips, and no further update for next two weeks. After multiple followups they let me know that expected CTC is high and they can offer max upto a number which is less than even my current CTC. I rightway declined that.

My Observation : They have recently started the hiring in India post their layoffs in US and here they are just assesing the market and salary ranges. They should have clearly mentioned that budget at the first touchpoint itself and not after taking salary slips of other company.

If your salary is in FAANG range, you may want to avoid this.
Please share if anyone faced similar situation.
Posting here in the comp section as this section has max visibility.