A Complete Guide To IT Hiring Process For Freshers

The IT job market today is not as friendly as it used to be. With factors like AI automation, global recession, and hiring freezes, opportunities are limited while competition is at an all-time high. This situation becomes even more challenging for students from tier-3 colleges, where companies are fewer and chances to sit in selection processes are extremely limited. Many students may not even get multiple attempts to learn from their rejections.

So hey, I’m Priyanshu Chaurasiya, and I welcome you to Hey Sainty, a platform where I talk about technology, coding, development, learnings, experiences, and much more. Today’s blog is a little special. One of my readers, Divy Prakash, asked me to write about how the IT hiring process works and how juniors can prepare for it. I’m genuinely glad, Divy, that you find my blogs helpful.

Since opportunities are limited, you cannot rely only on trial and error. You must learn from others’ mistakes and prepare smartly to prove yourself in the few chances you get. This blog focuses entirely on the IT hiring process, the different rounds involved, their objectives, how to clear them effectively, and the common mistakes that lead to rejection.

This blog is inspired by my experiences over the past year, where I’ve been through multiple on-campus and off-campus interviews, faced selections, rejections, virtual interviews, in-person interviews, and even AI-based interviews. All of this gave me a realistic understanding of how hiring actually works.

During your final year (or sometimes pre-final year if you’re from a good college), you will mostly face two types of hiring processes

While the end goal of both is the same, selecting the best-fit candidate for a role, the way candidates are evaluated differs significantly.