Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Its Me vs Them

It was a pleasant monday. The atmosphere was busy yet delightful. Yeah it was the mass recruitment day in my college. It was like a festival. I was there on time as i was asked to attend this company. The pre placement talk was delayed as usual and it ended by 11'o clock. As it was a direct interview for many, fellow mates went to get their employment form. I was around 17th or so and i left the hall,waiting for my friends. As they arrived we walked towards the Boy's hostel. We actually dint know where to go but we got to the right place with others. People were busy with their books and where curious as it was the first interview for so many. Me and ,my friends who weren't looking forward for this job, kept watching others study and helped a few by clarifying their doubts,actually confusing them even more :D
So knowing that i ll be first one among my friends to attend the interview,i sat there worried as i was in my worst form ever. They called us for interview at around 1.30 or so,am not sure.I was sent to panel 8. Within few minutes ,my friend's friend came and sat next to me for the same panel. We exchanged a short smile and we started looking at our own resumes. As i was glancing it to have an idea for my self intro,i found that the resume was actually odd! The formatting for which i took intense care were gone! I could neither curse my friend nor my friend's friend for that,as they were responsible for me actually having a resume in hand :D
"Super cool girl,your resume sucks! you neednt under perform at all, they ll throw you out for the resume you have" said my mind voice.This thought made me feel better actually :D
So this interview of mine, will be big flop as expected,i thought.They called my name and i went in. He asked me to sit and i thanked him. The comedy show starts now

Interviewer 1 : So how was the day?
Me : Yeah it's great so far.
Interviewer 1: Does that mean the climate?
Me: Yeah climate is awesome and the atmosphere seems so busy!
Interviewer 1: So tell us about yourself.
Me : My name is,blah blah and i cut it short to almost 2 and half minutes i guess
Interviewer 2: So you are OCP or OCA?
Me : I am an OCA.
I 2: Which means you have completed two papers rite?
Me: yeah.
I 2: so tell me, what are the type of indices?
Me : (mind voice) How the hell these guys find out that i would get struck up with the first question!?
As far as i know,it primary and secondary indices used in storage structures,Sir
I 2: Type of constraints?
Me : (mind voice) Why did i get an OCA!?
Its primary key constraint,foreign key constraint (uh! then what is the first one?!), null,unique!
I 2: you missed check constraint
Me: oh yeah.
I 1: so what is your final year project?
Me : (mind voice) Aaramichutaingala?!
Well, i am planning to work on Independent task GRAPH ,sorry Independent task scheduling. I haven't selected a base paper yet.
I 2: what language u ll use?
Me: C sir
I 1: so you have done 3 so far, were they mandatory?
Me: No sir, it was on my own interest.
I 2: So you know java, tell me the difference between operator overloading and overriding!
Me:(mind voice) When did they introduce "operator" overloading in JAVA?! I gave stupid explanations for it but dint care for the relation between first part and the actual question
I 2: What is the purpose of public static void main?
Me:(blah blah blah)
I 1: So tell me, do you want this job?
Me: (mind voice) Are you a mind reader man?!
Well, May be yes!,or may be NO!
(mind voice) engakitaye va :P
I 1: Oh come on,you want it or not?
Me : I ll be happy with anything. Give me the job,I ll be happy with it. Don't give me the job, I ll still be happy!
I 1: Fine, so do you have any questions?
Me: Well, NO!
I 1: What, you don't even have one?!
Me:(mind voice) ?!
No sir
I 1: So here's the deal, ask me THREE questions and i ll consider giving a job for you,else you can simply leave and its a straight No!
Me : THREE questions sir?!
(mind voice) Wat!? 3?! no way!
I ll try framing them sir
How will be my career growth in your company?
I 1: what do you expect?
Me: Well i need constant improvement and attain increasing positions,how will your company help me?
I 1: okay,next question!
Me : Sir,you don't intend to reply my questions? Is it just me who is going to ask the questions?
I 1: You ask the next, i ll come back to you.
Me: (thinking for 30 to 45 seconds)
I 1: What is this? You don't even have one question to ask to the company you look forward too?
Me:(mind voice) Did i ever tell you so?!
Due to certain circumstances, if we are unable to take up the onsite deployment stuff,will you ppl adjust or force us to go abroad?
I 1: (bigggggg explanation which i never listened :D)
I 1: So the third?
Me: ( a little pause) So, do you people put us in projects immediately or you will delay them
I 1: How do you want it to be?
Me: Glad if its immediate.
I 1:(blah blah blah) and he answered my first question as well
They enquired about the location preference and shift and stuff.I nodded first and then told them i cant :P
When it was about to end,he asked me "How about another 3 questions?!"
Me:NO way sir!
I 1: okay then,you may leave
I thanked them and ran out of the room :P
And the results are tomorrow,So people keep your fingers crossed.Lets see if he figured that i wasn't ready to take up the job :P

5 comments:

Ramkumar said...

pachyaa, i'm placed already , not interested nu sollirukalam
two people interviewd at the same time?? lol

Sruthi said...

enatha panna! :( placed again :(

ΛЯ√ΐÑÐ said...

so dual placed! :D :D enjoy! :D
intha performance kum vela kudutha tcs vaalga :D

Gautham said...

congrats :)

Sruthi said...

@all : Thanks!