This is definitely one of the unforgettable event in my life. This placement drive was held at Munnar, around 380 km away from my hometown. Most exciting part according to me as far as this placement drive is concerned is, even now my parents didn't know that i had attended such a placement. I dont know why i didnt tell, well simply didnt tell. thats it.
Well here also some eight to ten friends were with me. We made all arrangements for our stay with a friend's friends. That guy was studying at that college and staying at a rented house along with other guys. So stay , food nothing was a problem, we only wanted to perform well in our exam.
Well this time, I was even more prepared. I had done some research on the company, made a tailor made resume especially for Wipro like " I would like to apply my thoughts for the betterment of some world class company.... " like that. And one more thing, I also bought an Aggrawal!!
Well that was a nice college and nicer was the environment out there. Well guys its Munnar!! One of the top tourist spots in kerala. The college was like fully air conditioned, centralized Ac complex.
On the D-day , we reached the college within the time and got ourselves registered by paying the registration fee and 'accomplished' the food coupon. And time for the pre placement talk. It was just as the usual thing...our company..our company..etc etc.
And here comes the 'APTI'. Nothing was in my mind, just gave it and waited for the results to be announced.
Oh man!! I was in the list of people who went through the apti.
I made a progress man..;)
Some other friends were also got selected, but could see some sad faces as well.
Well the next item in store for me was the tech interview- Yes the Technical Interview. Questions from c, C++ etc were expected to ask for tech interview for software development companies like wipro. Well during the two years of my +2 life i learned c++ and SQL. So tech interview wasnt a nightmare for me.
But you know there are some 'etiquettes' for this interview thingy, -executive dressing, shoes,tie etc etc. As I was not sure of clearing the apti , i wasnt prepared with all these 'interview equipments'. Friend in need is a friend indeed. I was lucky to have such friends and one such friend helped me by giving his shoes.
And thus I am fully prepared for the tech interview.
I was along with many others made to wait outside a room where interview was going to take place. I really don't like to wait. Thats really a kind of tense moments. Finally my turn came and I entered the room after the usual " may i get in sir" question and then greeted him and took my seat when i was asked to.
Initially some simple techical related questions were asked and i gave the answers. then he asked the following question. " there is one helicopter, 2 people , one other and you and only one parachute. what will you do if copter crashes??" I asked the question to myself and I thought i cannot be that much selfish ,i am playing with someone else life which i have to value more than mine, so i would have let the other person to escape. I could related this situation with some of my past experiences. So i said I will let the other guy to use the parachute.
Then he asked another question : there are one jobs, two applicant, other guy and you(obviously). You got the job. Will you give your job to him??
Again i started to think and i thought i got this job because of my hard work, why should i hand it over to an undeserved guy and i just told him what i felt.
Then he told me that I was contradicting myself. May be you guys also think so, but I am sure that I was true to my heart. I know that you guys may have some problem in accepting my view, but i just followed what my heart said and stick with that. And he asked some other personal matters and the interview was over.
i got the result of the interview unofficially from one of the placement coordinators when i left the room. She told me that if you are selected, you will be given a form to fill in for the next HR interview. As i was not in possession of that invaluable thing i was not selected. Well I was rejected in a tech interview simply asking some HR questions. I was really angry over this, but who cares!!
When i started searching for my other friends I saw a happy face. He gave the interview very well, he answered most of the questions well, and even wrote c program. So he was sure that he would clear the tech interview. then i told him about the 'form' that was given to the 'clear people'. When he heard this his face became dull and he also became angry like me. I shared my story with him, not in a serious tone but in a lighter tone. That carried his sadness away and we as a team started to search for other guys.
Only three or four got the tech cleared and they were busy filling the 'form'. We wished them 'all the best' and started to wander through the garden and hills nearby, savoring the beauty of munnar. Well we decided to enjoy the trip as at least like a tour.
At the end we came to know that only one person got selected for the job from our team. ie from around 10 people. After a 300-400kms of journey only 1 was lucky enough to be placed in wipro!!!
Well some of us decided to stay back there one more day and to have a blast. But many other people were not willing to stay anymore minute there, may be because of their mood at that time. So we changed our plan and decided to return to home.
The return journey was even memorable. Most of the people vomit in the bus(some exception- 3 guys including me!!!)
Well thats how my second placement attempt over..
story continues......
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
placement diaries - 1 [IBS]
Well just like any other student i was also looking forward for my campus placements, to get into some company and to secure my life(!) Well by the month of February, when i was fastly approaching the end of my 3rd year, the placement season starts to blossom. Some companies start to come to nearby colleges for placement drive. As our placement coordinators gave a later date, so forms will visit our college as late as April or so depending upon our exam dates etc.
As we were all excited about our first placement attempt , all us those who met the 70% criterion decided to attend it. Well the company name was IBS. Frankly I have nt heard that name before, but who cares!! We all prepared for it. Started preparing resumes.
Well preparing resumes is a kind of funny thing. Some three or four people will prepare their resume and all other 'not that keen' guys will simply replace their name and address and some 'must be replaced' kind of data like parents' name etc. . Thats all!! Their hobbies, activities, achievements everything will be the same.!!!
That was a two day placement drive. In the first day there will be aptitude test and those who clear the aptitude test have to attend the interview on the next day.
For most of the people , they will realize something was an opportunity when it just passes by them. Count me in that category. some of the people were started preparing for the D-day. They bought Aggrawal for 'Quanti' and all.. I just make fun of them and simply enjoyed my life!!!
The day has finally arrived. The place where the eight world wonder was about to take place was near my home. So some two three friends stayed at my home. On the D-day in the morning, by 7.30, we left to our place of interest. We reached there. Then saw too many similar people running here and thee for many purposes. Then some kind of feeling started to creep in. Don't know its name[hey not love n all..;)] May be a kind of fear, inferiority or what evear. I told you I don't know its name..
Well then heard a news that we need some more copies of our resume. So we also started to run here and there. And after all kinds of rituals like registration, remitting the fee etc we got settled.
Then started the PPT [pre placement talk] of the company, briefing about the salary, perks, working environment etc etc etc...
After that instructions were given to us to go to various classes for writing the 'apti'. Got the question paper. I was confident that i can crack it, because its all about common sense and a bit of mathematics, arithmetic and all ; but that wasn't the scene. I could do something easily (most of others could also) and for some other i ponder over it and without my knowledge and permission time flew away and lots of areas unaffected by pencil remain in my answer book.
Lunch was provided by the college. After the lunch, results will be announced. During the lunch time, I came across many of my old friends. well leave all those things. After the lunch, results announced. Many of my friends went through the apti, but not me. Well in my first attempt , i lost.
The next day- interview day. obviously i have nothing to do with that. But the other guys who were staying at my home, all of them cleared the apti , so have something to do with that. As they are not familiar with the place i also escorted them. And one more thing, all of them got placed with IBS!!
Well thats how my first placement attempt ended.
I was looking for my next chance....
so story continues..........
As we were all excited about our first placement attempt , all us those who met the 70% criterion decided to attend it. Well the company name was IBS. Frankly I have nt heard that name before, but who cares!! We all prepared for it. Started preparing resumes.
Well preparing resumes is a kind of funny thing. Some three or four people will prepare their resume and all other 'not that keen' guys will simply replace their name and address and some 'must be replaced' kind of data like parents' name etc. . Thats all!! Their hobbies, activities, achievements everything will be the same.!!!
That was a two day placement drive. In the first day there will be aptitude test and those who clear the aptitude test have to attend the interview on the next day.
For most of the people , they will realize something was an opportunity when it just passes by them. Count me in that category. some of the people were started preparing for the D-day. They bought Aggrawal for 'Quanti' and all.. I just make fun of them and simply enjoyed my life!!!
The day has finally arrived. The place where the eight world wonder was about to take place was near my home. So some two three friends stayed at my home. On the D-day in the morning, by 7.30, we left to our place of interest. We reached there. Then saw too many similar people running here and thee for many purposes. Then some kind of feeling started to creep in. Don't know its name[hey not love n all..;)] May be a kind of fear, inferiority or what evear. I told you I don't know its name..
Well then heard a news that we need some more copies of our resume. So we also started to run here and there. And after all kinds of rituals like registration, remitting the fee etc we got settled.
Then started the PPT [pre placement talk] of the company, briefing about the salary, perks, working environment etc etc etc...
After that instructions were given to us to go to various classes for writing the 'apti'. Got the question paper. I was confident that i can crack it, because its all about common sense and a bit of mathematics, arithmetic and all ; but that wasn't the scene. I could do something easily (most of others could also) and for some other i ponder over it and without my knowledge and permission time flew away and lots of areas unaffected by pencil remain in my answer book.
Lunch was provided by the college. After the lunch, results will be announced. During the lunch time, I came across many of my old friends. well leave all those things. After the lunch, results announced. Many of my friends went through the apti, but not me. Well in my first attempt , i lost.
The next day- interview day. obviously i have nothing to do with that. But the other guys who were staying at my home, all of them cleared the apti , so have something to do with that. As they are not familiar with the place i also escorted them. And one more thing, all of them got placed with IBS!!
Well thats how my first placement attempt ended.
I was looking for my next chance....
so story continues..........
Friday, June 26, 2009
IAF EKT Question paper
hi all..
here is the questions that were asked for Indian Air Force , Engineering knowledge test held on April 26th. It is intended for Mechanical engineering stream aspirants.
There may be some variations in the questions because the accuracy of questions depends on my memory power!! ;)
I could not remember all questions correctly and also the multiple choices.
please forgive me.
Questions
General Engineering
1. what does the symbol "j" represents in vector
2. Sulphation in Lead acid battery...
3. Transient current....
4. Principle of hydrogen bomb
5. radio activity is the property of...
6. above curie temperature, magnetic material will become......
7. series circuit current
8. byte= ___ bits
9. Control and arithmetic logic section is known as...
10.Micro computer is a computer...
11.power factor of a resistor..
12.hexadecimal digit..
13.fluorescent tube related qn.
14.change in dimension during the process of magnetisation..
15.in nuclear reaction , conservation of...........
16.unit of inductance..
17.petrol in india ..octane no.?
18.controlling device for small load?? [related to servo motor etc.]
19.viscosity of gas directly proportional to...
20.instruments to have wide range of scale..[related to exponential or linear scale etc.]
21.rating of electrolytic capacitor..
22.name of electric motor-both rotor and stator rotating at equal speed.
23.in reversible adiabatic process, change in entropy?
24.calory is a measure of??
25.compressed air inside a tire, what will happen if air passes through a hole??
26.work done in adiabatic change in gas..
27. related to carnot cycle in carnot engine
28.maximum efficiency of carnot engine
29.something related to mix of ice and water.
30.efficiency of otto cycle
31.floating battery bus or something..
32.longitudinal wave prorogation
33.unexcited single phase synchronous motor.
34.inductance ralted question
35.cylinder pressure, if height = 1/3 rd radius, then % of heat used to increase internal energy.
Mechanical engineering section
[the related topic are given here as i'm unsure of the exact questions.]
1. Gantt chart
2. work study
3. break even analysis
4. a box in operation chart represent what?
5. thermal expansion vale..
6. chip formation
7. tool wear
8. rake angle
9. lathes
10.theory of machines connected with what?
11.pairs
12.links
13.hooks joint
14.idler pulley
15.kinematics
16.COP
17.refrigeration
18.fatigue
19.creep
20.arc welding
21.butt weld
22.coating electrode
23.non contact electrode
24.adiabatic work
25.brayton cycle
26.surface tension
27.4 stroke
28. top dead centre
29.isothermal process
30.basis of heat transfer
All the very best for all the IAF aspirants.. :)
please let me know your comments.
here is the questions that were asked for Indian Air Force , Engineering knowledge test held on April 26th. It is intended for Mechanical engineering stream aspirants.
There may be some variations in the questions because the accuracy of questions depends on my memory power!! ;)
I could not remember all questions correctly and also the multiple choices.
please forgive me.
Questions
General Engineering
1. what does the symbol "j" represents in vector
2. Sulphation in Lead acid battery...
3. Transient current....
4. Principle of hydrogen bomb
5. radio activity is the property of...
6. above curie temperature, magnetic material will become......
7. series circuit current
8. byte= ___ bits
9. Control and arithmetic logic section is known as...
10.Micro computer is a computer...
11.power factor of a resistor..
12.hexadecimal digit..
13.fluorescent tube related qn.
14.change in dimension during the process of magnetisation..
15.in nuclear reaction , conservation of...........
16.unit of inductance..
17.petrol in india ..octane no.?
18.controlling device for small load?? [related to servo motor etc.]
19.viscosity of gas directly proportional to...
20.instruments to have wide range of scale..[related to exponential or linear scale etc.]
21.rating of electrolytic capacitor..
22.name of electric motor-both rotor and stator rotating at equal speed.
23.in reversible adiabatic process, change in entropy?
24.calory is a measure of??
25.compressed air inside a tire, what will happen if air passes through a hole??
26.work done in adiabatic change in gas..
27. related to carnot cycle in carnot engine
28.maximum efficiency of carnot engine
29.something related to mix of ice and water.
30.efficiency of otto cycle
31.floating battery bus or something..
32.longitudinal wave prorogation
33.unexcited single phase synchronous motor.
34.inductance ralted question
35.cylinder pressure, if height = 1/3 rd radius, then % of heat used to increase internal energy.
Mechanical engineering section
[the related topic are given here as i'm unsure of the exact questions.]
1. Gantt chart
2. work study
3. break even analysis
4. a box in operation chart represent what?
5. thermal expansion vale..
6. chip formation
7. tool wear
8. rake angle
9. lathes
10.theory of machines connected with what?
11.pairs
12.links
13.hooks joint
14.idler pulley
15.kinematics
16.COP
17.refrigeration
18.fatigue
19.creep
20.arc welding
21.butt weld
22.coating electrode
23.non contact electrode
24.adiabatic work
25.brayton cycle
26.surface tension
27.4 stroke
28. top dead centre
29.isothermal process
30.basis of heat transfer
All the very best for all the IAF aspirants.. :)
please let me know your comments.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
The existence of a writer...
I always wondered, why do you people spend time on my blog, and why do you want to spend your precious time and effort reading the craps written by me??!! Well I must ask this question myself when I read others blog.
Well this is just the case of a blog only. In a bigger scale you can see many people spending their time in book stalls and spending their hard earned money buying books and voraciously reading from page one to the end.
An author may have definite idea about some definite topics, and it may be good, bad or even ugly!! So we are paying and spending our time to understand somebody's idea, which the creator thinks right. There are different genres of books. I do agree with people who buy 'self help' books, because it definitely help people to some extend. But what about other types??!! Its all about we are paying attention to somebody's work, somebody's prejudice, somebody's ego, somebody's fantasy etc etc..
Recently I saw a person near the second hand book selling place or seconds book place. He appeared to be a budhijeevi kindaa person, shabbily dressed,with a cloth bag and carefully careless about himself. Well he wanted to buy a lots of books from there, but he didn't have enough money with him, but still after a long negotiation and all he manages to buy some books and that too on a promise to pay later, I suppose.
Well is there any need for him to buy books like that??!!
Well if we think in a pessimistic way, there is nothing in this world that we have to do. Like wise no need for buying a book and savour the ideology of some other man with some brand name!!
But its all about passion, not reasons that keeps us going in our life. If such people were not present in this world how many of the so called classics will get published?? Its all about the appreciation and comments that an author gets from the readers that keeps him going. Well I personally know the happiness when i see a new comment to any of my creation. It helps me to satisfy the ego!! ;)
So you, you are the reason for the existence of a writer in me, even though I didn't produced any world class things...;) So keep commenting and give me feed backs. :)
Thank you for your support so far... :)
Well this is just the case of a blog only. In a bigger scale you can see many people spending their time in book stalls and spending their hard earned money buying books and voraciously reading from page one to the end.
An author may have definite idea about some definite topics, and it may be good, bad or even ugly!! So we are paying and spending our time to understand somebody's idea, which the creator thinks right. There are different genres of books. I do agree with people who buy 'self help' books, because it definitely help people to some extend. But what about other types??!! Its all about we are paying attention to somebody's work, somebody's prejudice, somebody's ego, somebody's fantasy etc etc..
Recently I saw a person near the second hand book selling place or seconds book place. He appeared to be a budhijeevi kindaa person, shabbily dressed,with a cloth bag and carefully careless about himself. Well he wanted to buy a lots of books from there, but he didn't have enough money with him, but still after a long negotiation and all he manages to buy some books and that too on a promise to pay later, I suppose.
Well is there any need for him to buy books like that??!!
Well if we think in a pessimistic way, there is nothing in this world that we have to do. Like wise no need for buying a book and savour the ideology of some other man with some brand name!!
But its all about passion, not reasons that keeps us going in our life. If such people were not present in this world how many of the so called classics will get published?? Its all about the appreciation and comments that an author gets from the readers that keeps him going. Well I personally know the happiness when i see a new comment to any of my creation. It helps me to satisfy the ego!! ;)
So you, you are the reason for the existence of a writer in me, even though I didn't produced any world class things...;) So keep commenting and give me feed backs. :)
Thank you for your support so far... :)
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