After reading blogs of so many of my friends, at last I decided to start blogging... what a time to start --- compre begins in less than 48 hours..!!!
This is about my first interview of the professional career - DreamWorks. After thinking for a long time whether to be 4-1 on/ off i finally decided to give a shot, take risky chances and challenge my luck and took 4-1 off (not a preferred choice by many of 'high CG' Bitsians). Many things happened after that-- parents were worried whether their son had lost it all... peers were certain that i'm a fool... and even i was convinced that they were right...!!! cut the crap, i come directly to the interview stuff...
I was to have a telephonic interview from 8.30 -9.30 pm, 2 interviews one after the other of 30 mins each. 1st one was majorly H.R. and some what technical, but the fact that a Bits senior was takin it, i felt at ease... It went well, though had a few hiccups in between. Somehow i told her that i liked 'Shrek-2' very much (but remebered nothing about it!!) and she was excited as i guess it was her first work or smthin... n there I was 'BLANK'.. i have seen over 400 hollywood movies after comin to BITS... i dunno how on earth I left that out!!! It got extended for about 10 minutes.. and in the meantime the second interviewer called at my home-- as it was my second no. I called her back at her no in U.S. but, I can tell you one thing---American Accent is not my cup of tea... I had to literally say like this---- 'S' for Sunrise, 'U' for Umbrella et al. and the guy sitting at PBX just couldn't get it... I was thinkin that we were conversing in different languages!!! and even after 10 minutes of perseverance I could not get past him to the interviewer and then finally frustrated he put me on hold.... 13 mins gone, I finally hung up.Advice -- Never ever call your interviewer, as she'll be herself calling you during that time.
As soon as i hung up, i got an incoming call...and as i picked up, she was like--- 'I'm trying to get a hang of you for the last 20 minutes... where are you..!!!'. I was frustrated and speechless...I was like WTF!!! Then she asked me questions I had never thought about in life....one was -- 100 floors in a building and an elevator---what would you optimize and how..? and you dont get thinkin time...!!! I blabbed something or the other, totally confident that it wasnt the right answer..!!!! Then suddenly she asked a weird question--- i had no answer, though i tried anwering... she disconnected the phone right after my first statement.. It was 9.29 p.m. I was still in shock about what all had happened...and couldn't believe i screwed it all up so easily...
Dejected, frustrated I came back to my room.., downloaded 'Shrek-1,2,3' from dc++ and started doing what i do the best--- watch movies..!!!!
Suddenly at night 1 a.m. i had a new message from DreamWorks on gmail--- we would like to talk to you once more.I cant right my feelings at that point of time in words..! By that time I knew there was no use opening books and reading stuff.. as that doesnt help at all... so i just had a good night sleep.. watched roadies, splitsvilla, and all other sitcoms-- 2.5 men, himym, big bang theory et al... The next day when the call came-- she asked just one question...
U have a dinosaur, sheep and grass on an island. sheep eat grass, dinosaur eats sheep. estiamte the size of island so tht dino doesnt die of starvation..!!! Again clean Bowled.... I was like a tail ender facing Glenn McGrath at his very best form...!!! I knew it wasnt as simple as 1 sheep and dino will die anyway...!!!!(If u were thinkin of that as an obvious answer!!!!) I said something... and that was all...
I was pretty much sure I have to look for Indian Interns...I was so depressed at having lost it all.. I didnt attend classes for next 2 weeks/... but after around a week at night 10 p.m. i got a call and was offered an offer... Now I'm looking forward to an experience of a lifetime... (and in the mean time screwing Compres...!!!)
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The blog bug bit u too it seems. So lemme take the opportunity of being the first one to post a comment.
ReplyDeleteCongrats once again for ur awesome achievement. We could not have been happier for for u and i believe i speak fr all ur frens.
But comments are not all sugarcoated, at least not those which r genuine. U could certainly do a lot better in terms of the language. The content was great, but it would have been a much more pleasurable read had u nt used phrases like "risky chances" (all chances are risky) , "got an incoming call" (how do u get an outgoing call? ) , "thinking time" (its "time to think")
etc.
But hey lemme nt spoil the party. Congrats man. N keep rocking (nd blogging)
lol...dinosaur question was awesome!
ReplyDeleteWhat did u answer?
If i was a dreamworks story guy, i would have made up a nice little story >
Dinosaur was lonely and he had no other friends except the sheep. So he never ate the sheep, and the dinosaur started eating fish instead and they lived happily ever after in far far away.
:P
@Aman.... u'll definitely see a better use of english language in the times to come... and yeahh abt blogging--- tht'll continue fr sm tym nw... gt nothing to do.. i hate the courses we r dng this sem... so blogging is the single good thing i hv gotten into...!
ReplyDelete@ Great Chinu... haha.. ur answer was interesting..bt it was a technical interview dude... I gave a different answer though!
ReplyDeletebut the 'far far away' would have got them interested...!
My answer was i need to know the rate at which the grass grows, rate at which sheep consume grass, rate at which sheep reproduce, rate at which dinosaur eats sheep, rate at which dinosaur dies of natural death (not starvation), no. of sheep per sq km of island.i.e. density of population... et al to calculate the area of island...!!!!
ReplyDeletehaha... much different frm ur answer ryt..!?
wow!! for ur answer........for the question......and for ur achievement......way to go man...just keep it coming!! high time to proove the world wrong and you seem to have started on the right foot
ReplyDelete1st blog !!! i culdnt beleive dat ... congrates bro .. ur hard worked finally paid ( m not talking abt study but ur 400plus movies ) lol :)) u deserve it ..
ReplyDeletenow coming back 2 blog .. its amazing & hilaorious and i just loved d dinosaur story .. what was d answer?? i m looking forward for more of good stuff to read and do write a blog on our crazy kota life ... n bro again u inspired me now .. even m thinking 2 start blogging .. let c how many of my peers can bare it .. haha ... DREAMWORKS = ur DREAM :)))
@ VINAY--- I hope u r prateek... wht happemned to ur blog name...? or u posted it frm some1 else's acccnt? I already posted the answer a few comments up , check it out. thnx fr a great comment...Life in kota blog will surely come up, thnx fr an interesting topic....
ReplyDelete@ ashutosh-- thnx buddy...
waiting for a 2nd post
ReplyDeletego go go!!!
this is cool...keep it up
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