Friday, March 18, 2005
XIMB Interview Phod Dala !!...As expected!
GD/PI on 17th March at XIM,Mumbai.
Profile :
2 years work exp in TCS.Currently Module leader of team of 10.
BE : 71%
XII : 65%
X : 70.4%
Reached the venue thinking 2 Pm.Actual time was 4 PM!!
One Reshma was missing from that group and I was an extra in the 2Pm batch, so the XIMB guy who'd come for a rollcall insisited that I should be Reshma...When I vehemently refused to condesend he agreed to have me retain my original name and description
Anyways hung around 2 hrs with the "Cricket and Natural/National Resource" guys. That was a pretty vocal and competitive group.Our 4 Pm group was more accomodating...
Our GD was on "Business and Ethics do not coexist."
Someone started as soon as the bell had rung...I ventured in 2nd with my ideas of Corporate social responsibility etc...Bulwarked a few more times sating that ethics is to be sincere about the quality of deliverable prodcut/service that your business gives the customer and according to his requirement etc.When someone pointed to work of NGOs I Came in again with the point that if you have profit as a motive and create wealth , then the employees and other related business, the location of ur business also rub off good work to the society (Got cut off here with Somebody stating his point...which was good cause I was running out of steam with this line of thought)...
Finally the bell went off...the lone girl started to summarise...someone dissented with his point..and the GD started all over again.We all were aware that the GD has to be cut-off when the gal agian tried to summarise.THis time the timing was spot on.End Of debate.
Overall...cool debate ..just according to the guidelines mentioned to us.
PI: 3 panelists including the Dean Fr Abrahim (FA) , The Smiling bald guy(Sb) and the Techie Interrogator(TI).
Me enters.
FA : Ah! So u r from our own bhubaneswar(Me smiles).
After a brief silence when they could have enuf time to take in the fact that I was one of thier own , I remembered to put in one of my prepared strengths:
Me : Sir, Although I am from Bhubaneswar I have lived in 8 cities across 7 states, which has added to my diversity blah blah.Helped me in my current job as module leader blah blah
SB : Oh , so what does ur father do..transferable job?
Me : blah blah
SB : U dint fill ur BE yearly marks on our XAT form (!)
ME : take my cert and tell them we dont have yearly,but sems..can i avg 2 sems for a year!
SB : Sure.
ME : I need to calculate (opening my marksheets...I had hoped they'd forget that!)
SB : Approx will do.
ME : Thanks.Also give them my aggregate..
SB : Thanks.That's what we were looking for actually(whispers something to FA).
FA : U mentioned ur job...
Next 7 minutes on my job...I explaines them the whole gamut of my roles,responsibiliteis,org structure,products, services,Proj Management,Quality stds blah blah.Also my tech area:Open Systems.
TI takes over: Some flat questions on Unix...before he asks a question about selecting the 3rd column from a text file containing one row of data.
ME : sed and awk.
TI : Give me sed.
ME : I prefer awk..more powerful etc.
TI : ok gimme awk statement. (Passes a paper..I was 3 feet from the desk,had to get up to accept paper ).
Me : In true requirement gathering style: Delimeiter?...TI says space.One row only?..that means no loop....etc etc..wrote down awk '{print $3}'
TI : (looking at paper) ...thats not what I want.
ME : Again veryfying my premise and assumptions.And explains
TI : NO ... $3 takes 3rd char..not column.
ME : Now I was half way between standing/sitting...because of the distance between the desk and chair and looking at the paper...then try and convince him that awk yakes column wise ....
TI : no thats wrong.
ME: Still want to refer paper...and want them to see it too...so standing and scribbling explaiantions on the paper...letting him know difference between sed and awk...
TI : finally, OK I dont knwo enuf awk..maybe ur right.Are u sure?
ME : I use it everyday sir!
TI : Oh , I dunno...cause I dont use it everyday.
(Now I felt bad...maybe he took it too agressive the last statement + I duno what FA and SB may have thought about me standing and explaining...cause I was talking only to TI !!!)Me back in seat!
FA : Why shld we take u?
ME : Prepared ans.
FA : Any questions?
ME : Asked abt Student exchange prog in XImb if any and prospects of it in Indian colleges. Nice discussion we had 1 min.
FA : ok, thanks .
ME : Sir , I didnt get your introductions.
SB : Shows me the nameplates (I had not noticed those!).
Dint time but someone said it was close to 20 mins!
No grilling .No stress.No acads.Cool talk as if we were in our living room!
Came out feeling maybe they thought I was too agressive. Maybe the intro part was also a faux pas!
I had maintained politeness thruought though.Fingers crossed.God damn me if I cant make it even after my domicile! Now that'll be cool comfort for the Open categories hehe
Am optimistic though.
Cheers.
Profile :
2 years work exp in TCS.Currently Module leader of team of 10.
BE : 71%
XII : 65%
X : 70.4%
Reached the venue thinking 2 Pm.Actual time was 4 PM!!
One Reshma was missing from that group and I was an extra in the 2Pm batch, so the XIMB guy who'd come for a rollcall insisited that I should be Reshma...When I vehemently refused to condesend he agreed to have me retain my original name and description
Anyways hung around 2 hrs with the "Cricket and Natural/National Resource" guys. That was a pretty vocal and competitive group.Our 4 Pm group was more accomodating...
Our GD was on "Business and Ethics do not coexist."
Someone started as soon as the bell had rung...I ventured in 2nd with my ideas of Corporate social responsibility etc...Bulwarked a few more times sating that ethics is to be sincere about the quality of deliverable prodcut/service that your business gives the customer and according to his requirement etc.When someone pointed to work of NGOs I Came in again with the point that if you have profit as a motive and create wealth , then the employees and other related business, the location of ur business also rub off good work to the society (Got cut off here with Somebody stating his point...which was good cause I was running out of steam with this line of thought)...
Finally the bell went off...the lone girl started to summarise...someone dissented with his point..and the GD started all over again.We all were aware that the GD has to be cut-off when the gal agian tried to summarise.THis time the timing was spot on.End Of debate.
Overall...cool debate ..just according to the guidelines mentioned to us.
PI: 3 panelists including the Dean Fr Abrahim (FA) , The Smiling bald guy(Sb) and the Techie Interrogator(TI).
Me enters.
FA : Ah! So u r from our own bhubaneswar(Me smiles).
After a brief silence when they could have enuf time to take in the fact that I was one of thier own , I remembered to put in one of my prepared strengths:
Me : Sir, Although I am from Bhubaneswar I have lived in 8 cities across 7 states, which has added to my diversity blah blah.Helped me in my current job as module leader blah blah
SB : Oh , so what does ur father do..transferable job?
Me : blah blah
SB : U dint fill ur BE yearly marks on our XAT form (!)
ME : take my cert and tell them we dont have yearly,but sems..can i avg 2 sems for a year!
SB : Sure.
ME : I need to calculate (opening my marksheets...I had hoped they'd forget that!)
SB : Approx will do.
ME : Thanks.Also give them my aggregate..
SB : Thanks.That's what we were looking for actually(whispers something to FA).
FA : U mentioned ur job...
Next 7 minutes on my job...I explaines them the whole gamut of my roles,responsibiliteis,org structure,products, services,Proj Management,Quality stds blah blah.Also my tech area:Open Systems.
TI takes over: Some flat questions on Unix...before he asks a question about selecting the 3rd column from a text file containing one row of data.
ME : sed and awk.
TI : Give me sed.
ME : I prefer awk..more powerful etc.
TI : ok gimme awk statement. (Passes a paper..I was 3 feet from the desk,had to get up to accept paper ).
Me : In true requirement gathering style: Delimeiter?...TI says space.One row only?..that means no loop....etc etc..wrote down awk '{print $3}'
TI : (looking at paper) ...thats not what I want.
ME : Again veryfying my premise and assumptions.And explains
TI : NO ... $3 takes 3rd char..not column.
ME : Now I was half way between standing/sitting...because of the distance between the desk and chair and looking at the paper...then try and convince him that awk yakes column wise ....
TI : no thats wrong.
ME: Still want to refer paper...and want them to see it too...so standing and scribbling explaiantions on the paper...letting him know difference between sed and awk...
TI : finally, OK I dont knwo enuf awk..maybe ur right.Are u sure?
ME : I use it everyday sir!
TI : Oh , I dunno...cause I dont use it everyday.
(Now I felt bad...maybe he took it too agressive the last statement + I duno what FA and SB may have thought about me standing and explaining...cause I was talking only to TI !!!)Me back in seat!
FA : Why shld we take u?
ME : Prepared ans.
FA : Any questions?
ME : Asked abt Student exchange prog in XImb if any and prospects of it in Indian colleges. Nice discussion we had 1 min.
FA : ok, thanks .
ME : Sir , I didnt get your introductions.
SB : Shows me the nameplates (I had not noticed those!).
Dint time but someone said it was close to 20 mins!
No grilling .No stress.No acads.Cool talk as if we were in our living room!
Came out feeling maybe they thought I was too agressive. Maybe the intro part was also a faux pas!
I had maintained politeness thruought though.Fingers crossed.God damn me if I cant make it even after my domicile! Now that'll be cool comfort for the Open categories hehe
Am optimistic though.
Cheers.
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