Wednesday, October 27, 2010

be outspoken and frank..you could land in a job at Infosys

This morning I read this amazingly unbelievable forward..err..shouldn't I mentioned "amusingly" instead of "amazingly"?? never mind..both are the same if you read ahead..




Amazing interview probably can help you in your future interviews. Last answer is awesome..............

Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.
Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication
engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.

Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had
never heard of this college before!
Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an
admission into it.
What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! in
12th.I was getting a paid seat in a good college.
But my father said (I prefer to call 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 this
college. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most be
related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya.


Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete
your engineering.
Candidate : Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But
you know, these cricket matches and football
world cup, and tennis tournaments. It is difficult to concentrate.
So I flunked in 2nd and 3rd 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 try to keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good,
thanks. These cricket matches really 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 I would complete it. In fact, when I
flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for a job for 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'
education itself was so much of pain!!

Interviewer : Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms
have you worked?
Candidate : Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my
current platform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform then. As you can see I have
experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are the places in Mumbai)

Interviewer : And which languages have you used?
Candidate : Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet
in German, 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
higher version than VB. I heard very soon they
are coming up with a new language VD!

Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?
Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the
language our ministers and MPs use in assembly.

Interviewer : What is your general project experience?
Candidate : My general experience about projects is - most of the
times they are in pipeline!

Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?
Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech ltd.
Since joining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining
BIL, I used to think that Bench 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 and Excel. I can talk a lot. I know how to
dial for International phone call and use speaker facility. And
very important - I know few words like -
'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes',
'SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' , 'Customer
Satisfaction' 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
have deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.
3. I believe in flexi-timings.
4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would like to wear
t-shirt and jeans.
5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so
as to avoid breakdown due to overwork.
6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term
preferably 1-2 months) assignments. Personally I prefer
US, Australia and Europe . But considering the fact that there is Olympics coming up in
China in the current year, I don't mind
going there in that period. As you can see I am modest and don't
have many expectations. So can I assume my selection?

Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our
organization. In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome to INFOSYS.

The fellow was appointed in a newly created section 'Stress Management' in the HRD of Infosys

1 comment:

  1. Dear Sudh,
    I havent heard of this case but yes I believe that this can happen in infy due to my personal experience. I attened Infy writtern test by Dec2000 and was called for an interview the very next day. Since out of 5000 or so 100 were selected for interview , the interviews were conducted round the clock and mine was at 7 PM at santhome office.
    Following was a part of the interview .

    Interviewer:What do you know about Infy?
    Me: Nothing except that all my CSE friends are crazy about getting a job here.(I , being an Instrumentation student , wasn't aware of IT at all).

    Interviewer: Then why did you apply for Infosys?
    Me: After seeing the job market , I understood that getting into IT field is relatively easy than into Instrumentation area. Hence I started applying for all the IT companies and Infy is one of them, nothing more.

    Interviewer:Where wil you be after 5 years?
    Me: Don't know. But honestly speaking , will be married and settled in some city. Who knows may be I would have quit Infosys .

    Interviewer: Why do you want to quit Infy job ? There are many working women out there in Infy.
    Me: May be but if my would be is in a different city , Job will obviously my second priority and I will quit.

    Interviewer:What will you do if you are not given Job in Infy?
    Me:Continue with my search.

    Interviewer:If we select you here and after 3 months of training if you get some other offer may be with more pay in another company what will you do ?
    Me:May be if it is before my confirmation here , I may join that org.

    Interviewer:But you know the brand Image of infy is great.
    Me:Yes , but end of day as an employee I care about my pay check only.

    and it went on...

    You know what the result was right!!! :)

    I LOVE INFY !!!

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