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Dear M' Sundaram,
Pardon me if I didn't understand your query fully well, still I replied.
Let me say this:
1. Your management asked the responses from the candidates who appeared for one of your interviews about the HR interview process;
2. In reply the response received (one among the few received) went on like this:
"If I(employee) was interviewed by her then i would not be in a position to answer for the questions which was posted on me"
3. And you were also in the panel observing her questions (which U mean your colleague who, a lady, also put some questions to the candidates).
4. Apparently, presumably your candidates found them, her questions, extremely difficult to answer and they naturally felt but for her they would have easily bagged the job.
5. And you viewed her, your colleague's interview questions, are in order and nothing wrong;
6. And How the candidate(s) could judge her wrongly just by facing her in an, only interview she and the candidate involved.
7. And how she, on the panel could be judged by only a few responses thus received ?
Am I correct friend ? I understood your query correctly ?!
I am not sure what prompted you to raise this query. Was she under fire because of her supposedly tough questions ? Notwithstanding,
It's very much common and usual that panelists put various questions on various things. It's very much unfair, in the first place, to judge a panelist on the basis of responses from the candidate. You placed her on the panel just because she was found suitable to be in the panel. And in her wisdom she went on to put few questions (we have no information what kind of questions she raised and what were the answers or went unanswered). It is always possible even for a simple question, let it be either from the curriculum or outside, the candidate fumble. And still the candidate might found it a tough question to answer. It's all depends on case to case. It's also very common where candidates are found not upto the mark and as dejected lot simply raise some customary family matters, about college days, hobbies etc. and pause(pass) them off, in which case they might find them very easy to answer.
This candidate in question probably frightened by her startling questions which the candidate didn't prepare well and hence went rattled. And I don't appreciate your process of judging her caliber on the basis of such candidates' responses.
So I won't suggest you to unnecessarily conclude that she is a tough nut to crack or not fit to be among the panel.
By the by did she selected any candidate at all, I mean your panel ! or all went jobless as unfit !