No, I don't agree with you. The interviewers do not have any idea as to where( which department) the candidate will be working. They ask general questions in interviews. They just make sure whether you have a right aptitude. As an engineer, I have experienced this. Companies usually have a quota of grduates to be hired for a year. They(HR Dept.)don't have any idea as to the actual number of garduates needed for each department. HR does not have any idea about the duties and responsibilities of each job in each department. HR department just conducts interviews. After a candidate joins a company he/she is asked to work for a department which has put in a request for fresh graduates. I know this because my niece works for an HR department of a reputed company. In many IT companies, new hires are on the banch for more than a year. In many companies they are asked to do data entry just to give them some kind of work and keep them occupied. This is reality. I have seen many computer science graduates doing a job of a secretary. Their job is to send e-mails to clients, take notes during meetings, ask project members about their vacation plans etc. This happens in India and this happens in the USA too. I know someone who quit the project I was working on because he was doing a job of a secretary and he was promised that he would be working as a JAVA developer in his interview.
