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6th January 2011….
Don't feel like studying anymore…..Jo hoga so dekha jaayega kal….vaise bhi kise place hone hai vahan….
7th January 2011….
Online Aptitude test….(Test did not go well….no hopes for getting selected)….. Results at 3:00 pm….postponed to 6:00 pm…. 8:00 pm…..Boring ppt starts….. Did not understand a single slide except the last one i.e the salary package slide! …… Aptitude test results to be declared shortly….God, although my test did not go well and although I wasn't much interested in this company, but still select karwa do please! ….. I saw my name nowhere in the list :-( …. Was preparing to go back to hostel. Just then, my friend called me and told that I was selected and have been alloted Group 4 for the Group Discussion Round :) I was like, seriously??!. Out of tension, I did not notice my name in the list!)
10:00 pm : GD starts….. Had very much fun in this round…. As usual I did not give my parents any idea about what was going on in the college…. GD results declared and I was through this round….
11:00 pm : Had maggi and popcorn for dinner…. No energy to study…. Jo hoga so dekha jaayega….(Slept)
8th January 2011….
6:00 am : (Alarm rings)….(Snooze)….and the drama continues till 6:30 am
6:45 am : Yaar thoda bohot toh padh hi lena chahiye afterall kuch toh bolna padeda interview mein ;)
8:30 am : FET (Faculty of Engineering and Technology), in front of Room no.1…..slots for the technical interview are displayed…..
11:30 am : Called for the Technical Interview round…. Sweet looking Interviewer with a mocking smile and with a caboodle of tuff questions!.... He asked me everything that I could not answer and which was totally beyond my Area of Interest….. Neither did I understand his questions nor the answers to the questions, that he gave me later on!
But somehow I managed to understand few things that he asked but I had no idea whether I was giving the right answers or not.…..Thankfully I could solve all the 3 puzzles to his surprise and he looked quite impressed…..12:00 pm : The TI round has not finished yet…. I started looking here and there, wishing that he would spare me now, after half an hour, and let me go…. But no!.... He offered me tea and then again started asking me a few questions…. Finally I was allowed to go….. Thank God!
I was in a trauma after coming out of the room and was wondering whether I went through a stress interview or not……
3:00 pm : After waiting for a long time, I was called for the HR interview…. Ahh, the HR is is neither sweet looking nor is she sparing me with her weird questions….(Thinking) Can you please shower some mercy on me ma'am and let this li'll creature go! She had squelched me completely…. The kind of questions she asked me, I felt like I am an experienced candidate who already has a few years of experience and has now appeared in this interview for migration of job… I mean, seriously What the Hell is going on!!…. Is this a HR interview or Technical Interview Part 2??..... Anyway, after 40 long minutes which seemed to be a hour, I was set free…. There wasn't a single hope to get selected…..
6:00 pm : Called back in college to submit the documents for verification….. And suddenly there goes the results for the selected candidates of Batch 1…. The HORROR SHOW begins…. List 1….List 2 and Yesss! there goes my ID no. !! ….. I am in… I am in…. I am in…. Still unable to believe ….. (recuited by IBM too :-) )
8:00 pm : Came out of my doubtful world of not yet selected, after signing my 2nd Letter of Intent…. Finally….. an IBMer, to contribute in making the world 'a smarter planet'….. :-))
you are too much precise with the figures and data, and by the way congrats once again and let me tell you the best part of the blog--guess what?? yeah, yeah, you are right.its srsly appy?? :P
ReplyDeleteSeriously Noopur?? :P
ReplyDeleteAnyway thanks :-)
again a good piece of work...but i would say that you missed out some imp. things....
ReplyDelete1)the confusion about your documents and your running here and there in search of the file and you even went half a way to the hostel and then returned as the file was lying in the next room(Room No. 305) ........ :-))
2)You left your bag in bag room.
3)You left your box containing your PAN card and Prerna's calci.
(and credit goes to me.....for the last two points.)
I know all this was b'coz of the excitement ....congratulations and good luck...
Haha...Thanks Sakshi for reminding me of the small blunders that I made out of excitement and ya, my pancard and bag still thanks you for returning them to their owner :P
ReplyDeleteJokes apart....Congos to you too :-)
Sugandha : By reading your blog i have realized what we went through , what we felt , sometimes scared , sometimes fearful of the unknown and eventually on Cloud Nine .....
ReplyDeleteThanks for this realization .....
Reshmi,
ReplyDeletei must say that you write really really well!! this piece of work with small n big episodes in it...
with all the thoughts that were coming to your mind (well more or less similar to mine except for the "padhai" u did n i didn't :P)
and putting those words in a way to convey everything in a manner which you'll cherish forever!! :)
@Ritzie and Sugandha: Thank you so very much for the appreciation. This is what actually motivates me for updating my blog :)
ReplyDeleteYear 2013 it is... I joined the company whose placements which I attended with a, "jo hoga so dekha jayega" attitude! Sometimes you only propose and life decides! :)
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