One of the best IT interviews!!!.

> ......... .IT 4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.. ......!!! !!!!!!!!

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> 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

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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

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> in German, French, Russian and

> many other languages.

> Interviewer:

> Why VC is better than VB?

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> 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 th!

> e

> 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 *******.

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> The

> fellow was appointed in a newly created section 'Stress

> Management' in the HRD of *******.