Seniority of reserve list

Querist : Anonymous (Querist) 19 January 2022 This query is : Resolved
There are two candidates X and Y.
1) X- selected in waiting/reserve list ESE (Engineering service examination)-2011 and joined dept in May 2015
2) Y candidate- selected in the Main list of ESE-2012 and joined in April 2014.

Now my question is
a) Who is senior ?
b) Validity of Reserve list ? Please elaborate on the above case.

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kavksatyanarayana (Expert) 19 January 2022
The examination was conducted in the year 2011 and he joined duty in the year, 2015 the X is the senior as the exams were not conducted in the same year in a list only. There are no waitlist and main list. In the selected list, the reserved candidates are selected under their quota.