2009 is a past for every1. I don know how the year was for others..But was a forgetful one for me. I started the year 2009 at infy campus dancing to the tunes of dj. The first time that i ever had done jumping(well thats my dance). There were a lot of people dancing and singing along with me.Thats a year before. But now 2010 has come. But i find no one around me for the celebration. Where are they????
Oh!!! I forgot every1 is busy with their job. No one is idle like me. They have enough things to care about. Well this time i celebrated the new year in my style.."Alone". Actually thats the way i like it. Perhaps i have started liking it. I think am a saint now. Away from the worldly things. U know i have a new definition for life. It goes like this "There are only two things in life...First the start,i.e the birth the second is the end i.e the death. Everything in the middle is just a journey towards the end." Ah..now i know what you think in your mind. You just said that you have heard the saying somewhere else before isn't it??? Hey give it up man!! This is genuine. I said it ok.
Nov17 was the date am trying to forget. Yes, that would have marked my first year anniversary at infy. Am a alumini now. Infact i thought of getting into some job before that date. Dint happen.. Well many things dont go your way isn't it?? In my case nothing does. My stint with Eclipse too dint go well. Thats a different story. Perhaps would say about it in another post. I was desperate for a job. I started to go to Varehouse(my centre). I started taking my material and learning it my own. I dont know if any1 would have visited the centre that regularly even after the course was over. I was firm on my decision to get a job or learn something new. Thats half true. The real truth is... atleast i could give people a answer when they ask the most difficult question on earth "What are you doing now???".
Then i came to know about the interview via Mohan sir. I applied i dint get a response. But one of the applicants did. So i called them and they replied that they dint get any resume by my name. So i resent it. Still they dint get it. Then i applied through naukri and mail. I got a mail back on 3rd Dec that i had to take up the interview on Dec 5th. The location was alwarpet and i dint know the place so i started early. People thoroughly misguided me and i had to really hunt the place down myself. And it was not looking like a IT company but a good house. When i got there i saw couple of my friends. My test time was 11:30 but i dint notice that and was very early, so they called me up in the first batch itself. I took the online test. I had apps and RDBMS. Looking at the aptitude questions i thought i could attempt RDBMS as i had prepared that better. But once i saw the paper, i knew that the questions were nothing of sorts of what i had prepared. I dint know the answer, so i went the other way..I started eliminating the wrong answers and completed my RDBMS. It was time for the good old aptitude. I scrolled down and saw a couple of missing numbers. I found myself then. I knew that i wouldn't clear by any chance. But for a difference when i came down they declared me cleared. I was happy as they had mentioned about only one round. I thought there would be perhaps a HR round and am probably in. But it was not to be..They said they will call me in a couple of days and so they did and asked me to come for the group discussion in the next week. I was confident that i could clear the gd and so i did. Wow!!! the next is HR round, i thought to myself. But it was not to be. They called me after another 3 or 4 days and said that i had to attend the Technical round in a couple of days.
When i heard Technical round, i knew i had no chance of making it through. But i prepared. Vetri sir did help me a lot in the preparation. The day came and i had to face the panel of two. It was pouring down heavily. No no.. not from my eyes but from the skies.But i managed to reach the spot covering myself. Thanks to my mom for her efforts. My friend who attended the interview just before me said that the interview lasted for 40 min and they asked just about everything, even about the college project. Now the little hope that i had flew in the air and joined the heavy pour.I was trying to recollect atleast the name of my college project, but sadly i couldnt. How would you rate a guy who goes to a technical without even knowing the name of the project. But i decided to face it the way i had dreamt of since there was no chance of me making it through....Asking questions to the people in front of me rather than taking them.
The panel introduced me and i introduced myself and it started pouring down. This time it was not the rain but questions. When one guy was asking the other was preparing. And i managed to answer all the RDBMS questions. It was a pleasant surprise for me too. Then the panel asked me a puzzle. I was very bad at it. But with a vague confidence gave them a reply they never expected. They bursted into laughs. It was a silly answer but correct one. They had a better answer and asked me to try another time and i got it. Now it was my turn i started questions. Questions that were least expected by them like " Are you a systech employee, Is systech a company?? Why do you expect a candidate to be this strong in technical when you are giving him training" I had valid reasons to ask the queries. They replied with ease. The panel gave me a scenario and i solved that. My suggestions made them bit surprised. I knew they were happy with me. I left the hall shaking hands and they said they will call me back if cleared, when i saw the time was surprised to know that i was there for more than an hour. 1hr and 30 min to be exact.
I returned home with great satisfaction. I didn't receive their call so in an anxious mood, i called them myself. Shaan(HR) mam told me that i was cleared. I was very happy. Just a round more to go. The final HR,One on One with their Managing Director, Sudha Gopal. I was a bit tensed but knew that I had to clear cause this was my last option… The day came 18th Dec 09. I was asked to come at 11.00 but as usual I went 35 min earlier. Shaan came n said “be confident,I said yes” but Shaan was not convincing in me. She said “Your yes doesn seem u r confident” I replied “Sudha will see a different me”. I went inside. She started askin about me and then asked what do u know about Systech. I had prepared well enough to face this question. I said what I had prepared . Then came the next question “What is BI”. When I said I had little knowledge about that she started firing. She expected me to know. Then she gave a scenario, where again I dint give the answer she expected. Then finally she asked if I read newspapers. For which I said yes and then she asked the headlines, which I expected the least. I thought I was caught cause I dint read the newspaper that day. But I knew that India-Lanka match was gonna start that day. So I managed with that. Then came the question “You read the newspaper from the last, don’t you” . I left the hall after that and I knew I had absolutely no chance of getting through. They said if cleared they would give me a call on Monday. I was really frustrated as I had missed a golden opportunity ,that too at the last round.
Monday came and I couldn bear the wait and I called the HR. Shan attended and she said “Didn’t I give u a call” For which I replied “No”. Then came the moment I was waiting for ‘Congratulations. You have cleared Rijeesh” I couldn believe and I asked if it was me n then she said “Yes the one who came with a French beard”. Was really excited .I thought to myself “Atlast something good is happening to me too”. And I got a job before 2010 for which I was trying too hard. Looking forward for a successful 2010. Signing off happily for the first time..This is RB.
