u/WasabiSad3634

so i am a 4th year btech student, been grinding my ass off since 1st year to get a good job with good package. won 15 hackathons, done 2 internships, got 2 grants for my projects and solved 600+ dsa problems. not flexing just giving context for why this whole thing is bugging me so much

so recently i sat for a placement drive at a good company for software testing role, not a dev role but i thought its still good as a fresher. there were 3 rounds

first was OA round, happened in college and obviously everyone was copying, i had the bad luck of sitting in first row so couldnt even if i wanted to. but questions were easy anyway so i solved all except one sql question. still got into next round tho

next was in person technical round, 6 of us got selected. out of the 6 i knew one other guy who was actually good at dsa and coding, lets call him Y, rest were my college mates from my club who were never really into tech or serious coding ever. technical round was 2hrs for the boys but for girls it was only like 45min-1hr, dont even wanna comment on that

so theres this one guy, call him X, his interviewer was literally watching reels on his phone while X was writing test cases for the website. and when he got asked dsa questions he just straight up told the interviewer he doesnt know dsa. his last round was apparently just basic prompting

but for me and other 2 guys the interviewer was a senior engineer. mine was proper continuous discussion, for every test case i wrote we were talking it through and it went pretty good. then dsa, he gave me 2 questions both moderate, gave me custom test cases to solve infront of him which i did, except 2 test cases failed on the second one. i even explained him 2 different approaches including the optimal one

so me, Y, X and one girl all got selected for hr round. hr round went pretty good for me too, for boys they asked testing questions again, i answered all except one where i tried explaining all possible failure scenarios but he wasnt fully convinced. everything else went really well tho. my hr interviewer was a senior manager

for the others hr round was taken by a fresher. for the girl they didnt ask any technical questions at all. for Y and the other guy they just asked the same questions from technical round again and they gave same answers, no follow up or anything

company said theyll tell results same day but took them a week instead, with constant back and forth between my college and them the whole time. and in the end they selected X and the girl, even though mine and Y's interview went the best out of everyone honestly

i genuinely dont get what i did wrong or what else i shouldve done

one more thing, X and the girl were both cse main branch, me and Y were from sub branches. been overthinking this a lot lately and my college people arent even giving me the hr's email so i can atleast ask for feedback