Finally I got something big to type a post about. Yes, yes... I finally landed a job (and not in a soup)! The weirdest part is, till last Saturday I had no inkling that I will get a job by Wednesday. :D Funny, eh?
On Saturday, people suddenly started talking about Tech Mahindra campus drive on Monday. That was like oh my gosh, how am I gonna get time for that?! Bigger issue was me and some of my friends were to go for Syntel pool campusing at Heritage Institute of Technology, that also on Sunday and Monday! We had decided that if Tech Mahindra comes on Monday we are going to ditch Syntel. :| Hence, off we went to Heritage and hell lot of other stuff happened. Mostly it was bad for me. I got ousted in GD. In GD! Of all things! Christ! x-( I was mad at myself! I was in a lousy mood till I saw Solanki again. :(
When I got home, all I had on my mind was Tech Mahindra. By then the news was confirmed that its coming for a campus drive the next day. And its online test is humongous! Its 70 aptitude questions in 40 minutes and 100 English questions in another 40 minutes (though English can be finished in much less than that, still it doesn't help 'cause there's no carrying forward of time)! I was freaked. Totally. :'(
Anyway, I gathered my guts and went headlong into the preparation with whatever time I had. Practiced online test from a site and studied my subjects a little. Finally, Monday arrived. What I was afraid of didn't happen (I got through online test) but something else did. Had a little fiasco when my computer suddenly went poof! But I could give the test after that when it restarted. :) One hurdle crossed. After that, technical interview. On the same day... :| *sighs* Didn't want to look at the books. They made me nervous. Plus I was ill. Imagine my state ...the interviewer (nice fellow) asked me my last semester subjects and my mind went blank. Couldn't tell him more than two! :'( But I somehow didn't freak out then and there and I guess that got me through (answered the rest of the questions properly)... Phew!
Last hurdle... HR. That was a lot easier. Firstly, it was about myself. Secondly, I had already faced one interview so I was not that nervous. I guess my performance was pretty assertive. :) But we all went into panic mode when we got to hear that they are gonna screen people after HR. They didn't give us the results on Tuesday night. We waited, and waited, and waited till around 3 pm today... I couldn't take it anymore. I was just getting ready to leave for college when a friend called me up and told me "You are in!" I couldn't rest easy till I had verified it from 2 other people... and then I went Yay! :D
And the best part? All four of us (me, Sola, Shubha and Mona) bagged it! :D Last but not the least, the real credit goes to my parents who made me what I really am today... I wouldn't have got through otherwise... Love them! :)
Till the next time I write... See you all! :D
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