This recruiter is from one of the top 10 companies in the world. They have a branch in India, and I applied via Indeed.com. I received a call from the recruiter who scheduled an interview for two weeks later, sent me an email and a week later called up to confirm the interview and told me the datastructures I could expect questions about.

A day before the interview he calls up again and says that the interview is confirmed and says that what they've decided to quiz me about during the interview are certain datastructures and design problems (he mentioned the names of those datastructures).

I was surprised. Why was he telling me all this?

1. Either they were desperate to hire me.
2. Or there's some kind of fraud going on (his email id was from the company domain and the interview location is at their company)
3. My engineering was not done in Computer Science, and the position is for a software developer. But I do have 8 years of software development experience. Perhaps this recruiter is trying to save his ass for calling a non-software engineering guy for an interview?
4. Is this an ethics scenario where they will later ask me if there was anything strange about the interview process and I'm supposed to either say "Yes. They recruiter told me what questions will be asked" or to check if I rat out their employee or not?

Have you encountered such a situation or heard of one? I do hear of people getting conned in India by fake recruiters who offer them a job and say that it'll cost them a certain amount of money. No money has been asked of me yet, but I don't understand why a recruiter would tell me what is going to be asked during the interview...

This recruiter is from one of the top 10 companies in the world. They have a branch in India, and I applied via Indeed.com. I received a call from the recruiter, who scheduled an interview for two weeks later, sent me an email, and a week later called up to confirm the interview, and told me the data structures I could expect questions about.

A day before the interview he calls up again, and says that the interview is confirmed, and says that what they've decided to quiz me about during the interview are certain data structures and design problems (he mentioned the names of those data structures).

I was surprised. Why was he telling me all this?

1. Either they were desperate to hire me.
2. Or there's some kind of fraud going on (his email id was from the company domain and the interview location is at their company)
3. My engineering was not done in Computer Science, and the position is for a software developer. But I do have 8 years of software development experience. Perhaps this recruiter is trying to save his ass for calling a non-software engineering guy for an interview?
4. Is this an ethics scenario where they will later ask me if there was anything strange about the interview process and I'm supposed to either say "Yes. They recruiter told me what questions will be asked" or to check if I rat out their employee or not?

Have you encountered such a situation or heard of one? I do hear of people getting conned in India by fake recruiters, who offer them a job and say that it'll cost them a certain amount of money. No money has been asked of me yet, but I don't understand why a recruiter would tell me what is going to be asked during the interview...

This recruiter is from one of the top 10 companies in the world. They have a branch in India, and I applied via Indeed.com. I received a call from the recruiter who scheduled an interview for two weeks later, sent me an email and a week later called up to confirm the interview and told me the datastructures I could expect questions about.

A day before the interview he calls up again and says that the interview is confirmed and says that what they've decided to quiz me about during the interview are certain datastructures and design problems (he mentioned the names of those datastructures).

I was surprised. Why was he telling me all this?

1. Either they were desperate to hire me.
2. Or there's some kind of fraud going on (his email id was from the company domain and the interview location is at their company)
3. My engineering was not done in Computer Science, and the position is for a software developer. But I do have 8 years of software development experience. Perhaps this recruiter is trying to save his ass for calling a non-software engineering guy for an interview?

Have you encountered such a situation or heard of one? I do hear of people getting conned in India by fake recruiters who offer them a job and say that it'll cost them a certain amount of money. No money has been asked of me yet, but I don't understand why a recruiter would tell me what is going to be asked during the interview...

This recruiter is from one of the top 10 companies in the world. They have a branch in India, and I applied via Indeed.com. I received a call from the recruiter who scheduled an interview for two weeks later, sent me an email and a week later called up to confirm the interview and told me the datastructures I could expect questions about.

A day before the interview he calls up again and says that the interview is confirmed and says that what they've decided to quiz me about during the interview are certain datastructures and design problems (he mentioned the names of those datastructures).

I was surprised. Why was he telling me all this?

1. Either they were desperate to hire me.
2. Or there's some kind of fraud going on (his email id was from the company domain and the interview location is at their company)
3. My engineering was not done in Computer Science, and the position is for a software developer. But I do have 8 years of software development experience. Perhaps this recruiter is trying to save his ass for calling a non-software engineering guy for an interview?
4. Is this an ethics scenario where they will later ask me if there was anything strange about the interview process and I'm supposed to either say "Yes. They recruiter told me what questions will be asked" or to check if I rat out their employee or not?

Have you encountered such a situation or heard of one? I do hear of people getting conned in India by fake recruiters who offer them a job and say that it'll cost them a certain amount of money. No money has been asked of me yet, but I don't understand why a recruiter would tell me what is going to be asked during the interview...