Placements

Phew, finally some break!

The last few days have been very tiring.. going for PPTs, writing tests (for 4 companies till now - Wipro, Infy, CTS and Satyam), getting shortlisted in two (Infy and Cognizant), and then finally getting selected in none (am pretty good at splooshing interviews, got an inborn talent for it)!

BTW, I was really not expecting to get shortlisted in Infosys, the reason being, my Wipro Apt had gone far better than the infy one (Infy mein, i'd left 'round 9 questions out of i don't remember how many in the verbal section). It was a bit disheartening initially to not see my name in the wipro list but then i was not even expecting it, given to the preparation that I'd made (didn't bother to pick up R S Agarwal, even before the tests, was reading C you see). Since I'd done okay in the logical and technical parts on the wipro paper and still dint make through, i felt that my verbal section went pathetically bad (i somehow knew that from the start, even before giving the test). And since I'd left 9 questions (Infy paper)that too in the verbal section (which am already weak in), i was almost sure that Infy is also gone. But miraculously, i was shortlisted! Maybe the non-verbal part crossed the cutoff (no sectional cutoff then?), and yeah, anyways, I'd almost completed that part, left 2 or 3, i guess (and anyways, if apts don't have the verbal part, they wont be this painful)!
Interview, oh interview! If someone would like to know, how could one sploosh an HR interview, that too Infy's HR interview. Ask me! All you have to do is, fumble while searching for your pen or you can even make a screeching sound while opening your folder to hand out your CV and further more when asked "tell me something about yourself", think a lot and speak less so as to make the interviewer feel that there is nothing special in you or you are bad at communication. See, so easy to lose such an easy opportunity!
CTS interview had not gone bad (at least i thought so, because, i had talked this time and he seemed to be listening, shot a few informal questions in between and ended the 30 minutes interview with a "I hope to see you again!"), but then, why would they select a non-techie for a tech job, when they have ME and BE people to recruit.
Yeah, this had left me shattered and i had become so morose at home, behaved as if i have committed a huge crime by not getting placed and even blamed the companies for being so partial (okay, Infy excluded, that toh i only had splooshed real bad). But now, its okay. All the anger has gone and things seem to make sense. That's cuz, firstly, MSc single degree students HAVE got placed in good companies, so can not blame them; and secondly, people have worked really hard for placements (unlike me, i should start picking up books now! Seriously, till now I've been lucky to get bad but okay grades, enough to make me eligible to sit for the companies; and though i have a bad CG, it's not extremely bad. Just around average).

Met Subhash sir today (regarding the project plan thing, deadline tomorrow), really has been ages since i lifted up the cosmology book. Like sir said when i told him about my splooshed interviews, "talk more and sound confident, this is what sells", am gonna do that only now onwards! Anyways, IBM is coming at 4! Dont know if they'll allow MSc students to sit for it. Whatever, now i am at peace, and wont get affected even if by chance, they dont allow MSc students. Afterall, they also have preset requirements.

Signing off (with an aching head --> lack of proper sleep)
Shruti