Tip 1: Don’t join a company for the brand name alone; go for the job content.

“I want to join your company because its such a huge brand,” is one of the silliest answers I have heard in several phone screens. Usually after this statement there is a long pause and the candidate has no more reasons. I think this answer is more during campus interviews for fresh engineers. Infosys, Wipro, Oracle, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google — all have big brand names so why should you join one and not the other? What is your career goal that makes you a good fit in one of these companies?...