8,400 freshers. 11 days. One rubric.
Axion's campus team used to spend 8 weeks visiting 22 Tier-1 colleges. With AI Interviewer they ran the first round across 64 campuses — Tier 1, 2, and 3 — in 11 days. Same rubric, same standard, every candidate.
Tier-1 colleges got everything. Tier-3 candidates got nothing.
Axion's campus drive had an honesty problem. The talent team could only physically visit 22 colleges in an 8-week window — heavily skewed toward Tier-1 institutions. Tier-2 and Tier-3 candidates either didn't get evaluated at all, or got a rushed 10-minute panel during a single combined campus day. The leadership had been asking for years: are we missing engineers because of geography, not ability?
- 22 campuses visited per drive — half the addressable pool ignored
- Tier-2 and Tier-3 students got 10-min panels vs Tier-1's full process
- Regional-language candidates penalised by English-only interviews
- No way to compare a Bengaluru candidate fairly with one in Coimbatore
Sent a link to every candidate, regardless of where they studied.
Axion built a 20-minute technical aptitude round in AI Interviewer, scored on Problem Decomposition, Communication, Code Reasoning, and Ownership. The round was opened in 5 languages (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada). Every candidate from every campus — Tier 1 through 3 — got the same link with 7-day validity. The shortlist that emerged ranked purely on score; the talent team flew only to campuses with strong concentrations of top scorers.
- Bulk upload by college (CSV per campus)
- 5 languages enabled per round
- Defined questions (8 technical)
- Multi-skill scoring rubric
- Strong-hire / Hire / Hold / No-hire
- Per-campus access for college coordinators
Axion's first campus drive on AI Interviewer changed who they hire.
The most uncomfortable insight from the drive: our best-scoring batch this year was from a Tier-2 college in Coimbatore. We'd never visited that campus. The rubric we'd been using all these years wasn't measuring ability — it was measuring our travel calendar.
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