Are you wondering if LYING is my profession??Well may be if success touches n licks n sucks my feet.
Now coming to the point, generally in campus recruitment in technical institutes, there are two types of interviews:
1)Technical:where the candidate is asked questions on his subjects.Most of the times he/she is asked questions on the individual's favorite subject, but beware its not like this always.
2)HR:During this interview, the attitude of the candidate is analysed.
Talking about the technical interview, either you know the answer or you don't.It all depends on the hard work during the semesters.
What I am going to talk about here is strictly my HR interview experience.
To start with, after the written exam I was given a questionare to fill in '' specific'' details about myself, mind the word specific!
And these specific details consisted of name, address, blah..SKILLS, EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
Well the ones in caps. are the major areas of concern in the interviewers mind.So be careful in filling them up.And it is a sincere request, though I lied to a large extent in the interview, but please do not bluff anything in these fields.Write only hard-core facts and better would be if supported with certificates or stuff like that.
Here begins the lying session:
There were two interviewers:
1)Technical
2)HR.
Now onwards everything in square brackets[] are a part of my review and the rest, the interview.
The HR devil broke the ice.
INT:What is it that you would like to say about yourself that you haven't mentioned in the questionare:
ME:[I'll make it brief] Sir, my hobbies and those include horse-riding, trekking, moun..
INT:Wow, where did you learn horse-riding?Tell me soem of the breeds.
ME:Well Sir, horses are generally categorised as blood type(not group), bree..
INT:I asked you to name some breeds not their categorisation.
ME:Yes.Sir, Paso Fino, Peruvian Fino, Saritana, Chorawali, Dinomo[only the 1st two exist, Sarita is my friend's name so came saritana, chorawali is a famous oriya serial, dinomo has come from Dino Moreo].
INT:Wokay[that is how it sounded to me].What are your fav subjects?
ME:Analog Communication Engg., Digital Communication Engg.[my department is Electronics and Telecommunication] and Digital Signal Proce...
[he never let me complete any sentence]
INT:Difference between GSM and CDMA?
ME:[told the answer and as usual ended up in an incomplete sentence.Remember this is a very common question if you have such subjects as your favs.]
INT:You don't like any computer subject?
ME:Yes, Sir I like CSA(computer structure architecture).
INT:Wow, one of my favz also.How much did you score in that?
ME:Sir, the 5th semester results are not out yet.
INT:So you must be very happy about that.
ME:[I smiled]No Sir, I did well in the paper[somehow managed to skip a C-grade]
INT:Wogay tell me why should I take you with me?
ME:Because I am innovative, confident, believe in team wor...[gone...]
INT:What innovative work have you done?
ME:Sir, in our annual function we were a troop of twenty people performing a silhouette dance and I had given the idea and was the lead acto..[''r'' is gone perhaps cuz I wasn't the lead actor]
INT:Well, that is in the cultural section , how would that help my company?
ME:Sir, in our annual function there is a science exhibition called Kosmorama held every year, so while working under my seniors I had decided the colour combination and painted the models[hehe...when did I do that?.well, that was innovative enough...i did imaginary painting and decided on colour combinations.Science Models=academic field, Painting and deciding colour combinations=innovation].
INT:[Drew a circle on a piece of paper]
Please gimme an innovative answer to this.
ME:Ocean of knowledge.
INT:Whyy?
ME:Sir, knowledge has no boundaries but the capacity of a human's brain is definite and bounded and so he cannot retain everything that he learns through life and an oncean's water constantly keeps vapourising and it is also definite and bounded.So in my opinion its an ocean of knowledge[main intention was to tell him indirectly that I hardly do remember anything in my subjects]
INT:What would you like to change about yourself?
ME:Sir, I tend to get too engrossed in whatever I do so at it happens that I forget to take my meals[b u l l s h I t ...I live to eat] and even forget about the time[I remove my watch only while doing the ablutions]
INT:And?? [what??you want a defective piece in your company?....my privilege..hehe]
ME:Sir, I am a bit short-tempered but I am working hard on keeping my cool.
INT:yea I thought you were only short?How are you doing that?[ am dead sure he too must be one angry old man]
ME:Sir, my father[don't use terms like dad and mom and bro and sis and unc etc etc]suggested me to read the book ''interpretation of dreams'' by Sigmund Freud.I followed the instructions given there and perform the yoga steps every morning at 5am along with my angry friends on the hostel terrace [I haven't seen the sun rise since ages.There has always been a direct contact with harmful rays of the sun at around 10:00.I doubt my father reads anything other than the newspaper.Beware, never bluff about a book about which you have absolutely no idea]
INT:It generally happens so that the lady-emplyees tend to leave the company say after about 2 years due to marriage and family pressures etc.What guarantee do I have of you?
ME:Sir, I've been studying in residential schools for more than half of my life so there wouldn't be any problem from my family regarding staying away from home and as far as marriage is concerned I don't see myself married in the next ten years.
INT:HaHaHa...Nobody will marry you after that.
ME:HaHaHa...Well, sir many of my relatives who are working and are females have got married after the age of 30[who is it WOman??] so my parents wouldn't disagree with my decision[My mom has already started nagging me to grow waist-length hair so that I look presentable on the wedding day].
INT:Any questions?
ME:Sir, what would be our work- profile in the company?[we were given this sample question during out pre-placement training but unfortunately I could think of no better question but this]
INT:Aww...not again the same question.Either you were sleeping during the ppt(thats pre-placement talk in which they brief us about the company's past, future plans and most important of all, the compensation) or my talk was very boring or you don't follow simple English.
ME:Sir, I wasn't sleeping during the ppt[wish I had two tooth-picks so that at least would be left on their support] and your talk was very interesting[god darn boring, a baby would have slept for ages] and I am quite comfortable with English but Sir, what I wanted to know is that there are numerous programming languages in the market now, so how is it that our profile going to be same under different PLs?
INT:[pointting to the Techy]Sir, please explain...
TECHY:as per the requirement of the customers, you may be put under any PL so the basics of the languages in demand like C, C++, ORACLE, JAVA, DOT.NET, [blah..blah..when would this list end?one PL itself appears to be an epic] must be known to you.Don't worry, you will be taught everything in your training period[training period is of 3 months and goshhh!!! so many epics in just 3 months???]
INT:Wokay..it was nice meeting you, wish you all the best.
ME:Thank You Sir[to the left].Thank You Sir[to the right].
Well, you can guess the result of the interview from this review's heading itself.But one important suggestion, INVENT LIES ONLY IF YOU ARE CONFIDENT THAT YOU WON'T GET CAUGHT.
ALL THE BEST.
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