placement diaries - 2 [Wipro]

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......