Behind the Scenes at Blueshift: Bhavti’s Story

Job interviews can be nerve-racking, that’s for sure. Bhavti Sharda, an AI Solutions Engineer based in Blueshift’s Pune office, had a unique experience during her Blueshift interview process. Due to nervousness, when she was given a prompt and asked to share her approach, she got stuck. However, instead of discounting her or moving on to the next question, the Blueshift team decided to look at the solution from her perspective and explore her approach further. After joining the team, Bhavti’s solution was implemented into the platform.

Speaking from personal experience, something unexpected happened when another candidate interviewed at Blueshift. (Well, maybe not so out of the ordinary in the era of video calls with unexpected background appearances, pet shenanigans, and the infamous potato filter.) In the middle of a conversation with Josh Francia, former Chief Growth Officer at Blueshift, the fire alarm in the candidate’s apartment started blaring.

Thankfully, it was just a drill, but that didn’t make the candidate any less rattled. Josh asked if everything was alright and graciously offered to push the second half of our conversation to later in the afternoon. As the candidate signed off and waited for the fire alarm to stop, he took a deep breath. A couple of hours later, they both hopped back on Zoom to finish the final interview and the candidate said, “Well, I guess you got to see firsthand how I handle situations under pressure.” After sharing a laugh, they resumed their earlier discussion without a hitch.

Less than an hour later, the Senior Director of Brand & Creative at Blueshift called the candidate and officially offered him the Senior Copywriter role. The candidate was ecstatic that he got the job — and relieved that the ill-timed fire alarm didn’t ruin his chances.