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One of the best interviews!! !
Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.
Candidate: I am SAMEER GUPTA.
I did my Tele Communication engineering fromBabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.
Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had never heardOf this college before!
Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an admissionInto it . What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! In 12th.IWas getting a paid seat in a good college. But my father said (I prefer toCall him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much of money".(The baap actually said- "I will never waste so much of money on you"). So I had to join thisCollege. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most beRelated to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya. I
nterviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete yourEngineering.
Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But youKnow, these cricket matches and football world cup, and tennisTournaments. It is difficult to concentrate. So I flunked in 2nd and3rd year. So in all I took 4 + 2 = 7 years.
Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6.
Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I will tryTo keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good, thanks. These cricket matchesReally affect exams a lot. I think they should ban it.
Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.
Candidate: No, no... I am talking about Exams!!
Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?
Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never thought IWould complete it. In fact, when I flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for a jobFor me in BEST (Bus corporation in Maharashtra) through some relative.
Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?
Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing 'lower' educationItself was so much of pain!!
Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms haveYou worked?
Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my currentPlatform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform then. As you canSee I have experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are thePlaces in Mumbai)
Interviewer: And which languages have you used?
Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet inGerman, French, Russian and many other languages.
Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?
Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a higherVersion than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a newLanguage VD!
Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?
Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is theLanguage our ministers and MPs use in assembly.
Interviewer: What is your general project experience?
Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of the timesThey are in pipeline!
Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?
Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech Ltd. SinceJoining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used to think thatBench was another software like Windows.
Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?
Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult. I know Word andExcel. I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for International phone callAnd use speaker facility. And very important - I know few words like -'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes','SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' , 'CustomerSatisfaction' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!
Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?
Candidate: Not much.
1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.
2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not haveDeadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.
3. I believe in flexi-timings.
4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so IWould like to wear t-shirt and jeans.
5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so as toAvoid breakdown due to overwork.
6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short termpreferably 2-4 months) assignments. Personally I prefer US, Australia andEurope. But considering the fact that there is a world cup in West Indies in2007, I don't mind going there in that period. As you can see I am modest anddon't have many expectations. So can I assume my selection?
Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in ourorganization.
In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome toINFOSYS .. :-))
No intention to offend anybody..
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