Senseless Syndrome

ramanujam March 17th, 2007

This week was filled with full of joy,hope,tension and a mixed bag of feelings. Finally it all ended well and i got a job with Asia’s largest software and services company TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) with the upgraded pay package TCS was the first company to recruit people from my batch and if i join it would be some 14 or 15 months from now. It’s way too ahead. Anyway chuck all that out. It is my first job and am very happy. People in my college were preparing like hell to get in to TCS and i was soooo lethargic but luckily i also got in along with 142 other peeps *oops* from my college.

First day there was a screening test and it was conducted online. The worst/best part of the test is once you click the submit button the result flashes on the screen… The test was very easy and most of them got “Congratulations you are selected for the next round”. On the second day were the actual interviews. The first interview was Technical interview in which anything from what you have studied in the entire engineering course could be asked. I had it for some 20-25 minutes and there were three interviewers in my panel.

I gave a impressive self introduction with a lot of boasting and one guy seemed interested about my blogging and other publishing stuff. I even gave him my visiting card. He said he will visit my blog which means I cannot bitch about TCS or the interviewer here! “sorry! if you are reading this” One guy questioned about my project for some 10 mins and another 10 min on C++ and DBMS. He asked me to write some queries in which i slightly screwed. I knew i was through to the next round from their facial expressions and exchange of views.

Then there was a MR(Managerial Review) which lasted for around 5 minutes. The HR manager was very jovial and it went on well. I spoke about all my achievements (shameless self-boasting again; I love it though!). Then he spoke about the stock markets as i had mentioned it in my interests in the resume. He said it was impressive and asked if i wanted to share something else. Then again i started putting bit about cycling, wikicamp experiences and some other stuff. We didn’t experience “that moment” when the selected list would be read as it was mailed to us late in the night.

Many are brainwashing me that it is better to do an MBA after gaining some work experience. I am not sure of what to do. There are a few other companies in which my college may allow double placements. I will be attending HP/IBM after my semester exams.

Finally it’s all beyond ” Beyond the Obvoius”~~~ Experience certainty.

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