The Tale of TCS Campus Recruitment

A month before 11th october 2011 -

We had a formal announcement that Tata consultancy Services will be coming to our college on 11th October 2011. There was a huge excitement about it. First company visiting campus for placements. There was some kind of a positive energy everywhere in college. Everyone preparing for the campus selections; solving quant, data interpretation, english,  logical reasoning and having group discussions. The environment was truly awesome. Also , it was our last year in college so everyone was happily sad. :P. Everyone was gearing up for the TCS recruitment battle by learning obscure word which would act as a deterrence from being rejected. 

The Aptitude Exam -

The  preparations for the exam had begun as soon as the last semester began. Everyone had a QUANTS/LR book in hand every time. I guess they took it in the toilets as well. :D :P . Everyone was gearing up for it. We got study material from various placement websites and solved aptitude questions which were asked in other colleges of India when TCS visited their colleges. What everyone found out was the pattern of questions were the same.Every college got the same pattern questions. Only the values were changed. And in some cases, the values matched too. It was a joyous moment for everyone. Everyone started MEMORIZING answers. Many of them even admitted that they had memorized them coz they were unable to solve the same question with different set of values :D

The day of exam ( 11th October 2011) -

I reached college at 7:30. I was really tensed with the exam coz i knew this was the only chance i have. I had a BACK (KT) in a subject known as Digital Logic Design. TCS somehow allowed 2 backs. I knew that no other company would do it so i had to go for it with a full throttle. My turn for the exam came up at 3 pm. Till then , i just revised and revised the stuff i had studied. When the exam began, everyone had the same set of questions we had already studied. Only the data was changed. It was an easy job to solve those questions but the competition was tough as everyone knew these questions and many of us had to be eliminated through this exam.

Finally, in the evening, while i was returning after a game of cricket, i received a call from my friend Ashish Kashyap. He informed me that i have been selected in the Aptitude exam and my HR and technical interview were scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 3 pm. 137 people were selected for the next round out of 300.It was a joyous moment. I went to a nearby hanuman temple (saat peepli as ajmer ppl call it) and offered my prayers and begged for a job with tcs.

I then rushed to a nearby ATM, took out cash and went straight to a stationary shop; bought all the necessary stuff for the interviews lined up for the next day. I rushed to my room and started preparing for the PI.

HR Interview and Technical Interview - 12th October 2011

I was not confident that i would clear the aptitude exam, so i had studied nothing for the HR and technical interviews. I concentrated on the Aptitude part  so as to at least clear the first hurdle. I was confident with the HR/Managerial part as i had participated in many group discussions and was no longer an introvert/shy person as i used to be when i had joined college. The only problem was the technical interview. I knew and i still know that i am not that good at technical stuff. But somehow i had to clear it. Read all the technical books one by one and somehow managed to read the basics of everything . It was 2 pm by then. Went for a shave. It was my first Shave :P  . Had a nice warm bath and dressed for the interviews. As soon i reached college, the tcs management was already there. They informed us about the life and benefits of TCS and told us about our pay package. Then began the interviews. After a 10 hour long wait; Yes, a 10 HOUR LONG WAIT, i was called for my technical interview. What did i do in these 10 hours????? I just sang for myself. For 10 hours i just sang. Roaming in the college corridor, and whenever a friend used to come out of the interview room, we inquired about the questions being asked by the panelist and who was forwarding and who was rejecting the applications. 

There was a panelist (nicknamed SARDAR as he was a Sikh)  who was rejecting almost all the applications. He had interview about 20-25 people and forwarded applications of only 3-4 people. We named it as REJECTION ROOM. Thankfully, my interview was scheduled in another room with a different panelist.

10 minutes prior to my tech. interview - 

Sardar came into the room where i was supposed to give my interview and took out 4 application forms and asked the coordinator to announce that these guys had to go to him for their interviews. I was among those 4 guys. As soon as i heard my name in the sardar panelist room, I GAVE UP. I gave up because 2 of my best friends went to the same room and gave their interviews but they were rejected despite their technical knowledge being far more widespread than me. I had totally lost all hopes of selection. Phushp Jadoun and Mohit Sharma asked me not to worry and gave me confidence by saying that "Yaar jo hona hai hoga, tu apna best de, tera selection pakka hai". I just went up into the room with full confidence and started my technical interview. I introduced myself and chit chatted with the panelist for sometime before the technical part came up.

First question -  Draw a flow chart of Bubble sort algorithm. Oh My God.... So Easy!!! i did it quickly and drew the flow chart with an example to explain him. Then came some other tough questions. All required to draw flow charts and i did them with ease. But the last question which i don't remember was wrong. I had missed an important step in an algorithm and that was it. My interview was over. I was asked to go to the HR interview room. I dint believe i was called for the next round. I had cleared the technical round and that too SARDAR took the interview. OMG, it was like i had won the world war :D :D :D 

HR interview -

  A nice middle aged man was waiting for me. He took a look at my CV and commented "Oh you play badminton, cricket, table tennis. Thats good. Tell me the names of 5 Indian badminton players :D :D"....... somehow, my TV Viewing habit helped me. I named 7 badminton players playing for India :D :D. Then came the question "What is DRS!!!" I was like, oh it has to be something from the CV. Then i told him everything about the Decision Referral System used in cricket. Then came the toughest part . He asked me to ACT and Perform. YUP.... He gave me a situation "Suppose you have spent 10 years in TCS and you have to sell a product by TCS to a customer, how would you do that. Imagine me as a customer and you as a TCS project manager". I was convincing him and he was not getting convinced at all. It took me 20 minutes to convince him and that was the end of the interview.

It was 1 am by then. I was one of the last people to get interviewed. I took my bike and drove to a nearby dhaba with friends and had aloo parantha and reached my room at 3AM. How to sleep :D, it was the results day. Somehow, i managed to sleep for 2 hours and woke up at 5 am. Chit chatted with my landlord and prayed to god that please help me get this job. I reached college at 8 and tried to get the results out but the result was with the TPO and was to be disclosed at 1 pm. It was a long wait. At 1 pm, a list came up with students that were selected in TCS. I asked someone to checkup my name. He quickly browsed the list and informed my that i have not been selected. I was depressed :( .... felt like crying. But before doing that i thought of checking the list on my own to be double sure about it. When i saw the list, my name was there, placed at 8th position. I was really Jumping off my feet now. A quick call to everyone in the family made it an icing on the cake. It was truly a special moment. Every thing seemed so good. Next day, all the selected students offered sweets to our faculty and hope to those not selected. 

Cant forget this day- 13th October 2011....

Musical Me

I am very fond of Music.Its everywhere around me.or in other words i can say that i cant exist without music.A minute of it can make me feel fresh again.I play the keyboard,mandolian,Guitar,Harmonium.I think its a VERY VERY GOOD thing if one is into music.Lemme now drive u back into my childhood



I was in class 2nd and my bro aditya was in K.G that time when my parents got a casio SA-41 for us.Aditya wanted to play casio and my parents got one.I clearly remember the day wen we went to Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh to purchase the casio.We had Chole Bhature at Kishan's and purchased the casio from a sardarji's shops(Gaffar is full of refugee Sardars).We went back to home and discovered that the adapter was faulty.We went back to the shop n got a new adapter for it.My brother started playing the keyboard and all he could do was to play the different sounds the casio produced like that of the ambulance and the airplane etc. he did learn a bit of the leads part but was no longer interested in it.The casio was a waste of money untill i started playing it.I dint know that i had something for music in me until i played the casio.I played it for the first time and my parents were amused to know that i could play the casio without even learning it.i dont know how it happened but the tones and beats were in me from my birth(thanx mom for listening to kishor kumar and all before my birth :P).I started playing the casio at home.I was in 3rd standard now and had to select an S.U.P.W subject.i took Instrumental music in it and gradually i was included in the school orchestra.i was in 4th then.the same old SA-41 was doing its job.i was then selected as the head of the orchestra fo our annual day celebrations at SIRI fort Audi and we were to perform before the vice president of India.Now the SA-41 was outdated and i needed a nice pro keyboard.The school arranged for it somehow and we performed.We received a great round of applause from the audience.it was a job well done.i was gaining recognition in school.I m a fairly good actor too...though i dont mention it anywhere but i am.Done many plays and skits and won awards and certificated for it.i was in 8th by now.we had to shift to a new place in Delhi and that meant i had to change my School.I was going to miss my school now.I took admission in The Air Force School,Delhi.As i was new to it,i was not kind of open there.it took time.again,as a new student,i had to choose an S.U.P.W subject.there was just a single vacancy in the Dance section and i hate to dance.i went up to the head of the dept. and made my request for granting me instrumental music as my supw subject.the head was our instrumental teacher only.She asked me to play different tunes on the harmonium and i played them with ease.bingo!!I was in.I played harmonium in this school as there was no casio in the school.I participated in all the annual day fests of the school and was in the orchestra.But after 10th,wen i was in 11th,i wanted to concentrate more on studies.I dint want to go for the practice for annual day and i dint want to participate.But there was something else in store for me.I received a call from the head and my teacher at my home to come for practice.She spoke to my Dad about it and i had to go there for practicing.I participated in the event and it was the most memorable one.There was an inter school jugalbandi competition in our school which was won by me and my partner on tabla ,Momin Mishra.It was great.Then Again came a turn in my musical life.My bro got a mandolian for him has it was being taught to them.he used it just 7 times and again it was left to rust out.I took it up,cleaned it and started playing it.From that day i gathered an intrest in string instruments.I played the mandolian for an year or so but then i had to my hostel.i was in college now.I wanted to learn to play guitar.i wanted to play gutar as it was in fashion and i loved its sound and the thing that one can sing along while playing it.i wanted to get a guitar as soon as possible.it was 4th march 2010 when i first got my guitar.it was my birthday and that was the reason i was able to get a guitar.i am in the learning phases and have performed at a couple of places in ajmer itself.i have an acoustic guitar but i have a feel for rock and metal music so i want an electric guitar as soon as possible.Also,i want to try out something new in metal.that is to play classical indian ragas in metal effect.i think it will be a great thing for music and for our youngsters to know indian classical music in the genre they like the most.i however dont know when i will be getting my electric guitar.Probabily after my graduation when i would have no time to play it :P but i will be getting it for sure.



Note : i have not taken any professional coaching in my life in the music field.


Thanks for bearing it ;)\have fun.Take care

TechFests!!!

Guys,i am back....I had my 5th Sem exams so i was not able to post anything here.
Hope u guys will keep reading my stuff.

In this post,i will be writing about the techfests i attended.

1. PANACHE 2008,Vivekanand Institute Of Engineering and Technology,Jaipur 21st Dec 08 to 24th Dec 08

My first every techfest was Panache 2008 which was held at VIT,jaipur.it felt good to be outside campus in another college representing my college....a sense of pride was there in me as ECA is a reputed college.....we had to take part in the Paper presentation.We presented a paper on wind turbine but failed to win any prize.and we had plans to take part in dance too.....we won a 2nd prize in group dance n 1st in solo.it was all great.we called our proctor sir n told him that his prediction of us not winning anything was not correct.We were jumping all  around,pouring cold drinks on each other and were as wild as 1 could not think of.my first tractor ride was frm the vit campus to skit campus here as we were accomodated in another college's hostel.the trip was highly successful and this raised our confidence level.I along with Ujjwal Singh,Vijay Soni,Vipul agarwal,Dilip meena and Amar mudgal went there.it was great fun at VIT though many things following it were not good.I fell ill and Ujjwal met wid a serious accident.He had stiched on his forehead,scalp,n fractures in the wrist but he played counter strike wid us wid his fractured wrist :P.

2. TARANGINI 2009,Engineering College,Ajmer

it was april,i dont exactly remember the dates.My college was organising a techfest.its was all fun this time too.i think ppl who miss these kinds of events are jerks.i took part in counter strike event and we won 1st prize in it.during tarangini,ratings for each girl had doubled :P.those who got a 4 on 10 now got an 8 by boys ;).Well,tarangini 09 was great.

3. Eureka 2009,MBM Engg. College,jodhpur

Our basic aim here was to participate in a robotics workshop by EFY,but we took part in other events as well.i won 1st prize in need for speed most wanted and an year's subscription of EFY mag. for the best innovative idea.we stayed in a youth hostel and it was the best techfest i had ever visited.Ajmer sucks at facilities and food,so we were loving every moment of it.My band performed "Socha hai" from rock on but we were not able to woo the audience coz we were not ready and not experienced.It was definately a stage for us to perform and bind our band togeather.i think this was the moment our band was formed and i think its one of the best bands in ajmer compared to the quality of instruments we hav got. We went to McD n CCD and njoyed a lot.

4. Tarangini 2010

Our college organised this from 27th march 10 to 29th march 10.It was full of events from both technical and cultural fields.I took part in GD as i think it is the best possible was to express ur things n to improv ur language skills.I reached the finals for the event but was not able to make it to the top.Counter strike was definately the edge within us and we won it again for the second time.I had decided earlier that i wud take part in many events in tarangini but i had a sore throat and i had just bought my guitar on 4th march so,i was not able to perform andthing though we made it to the finals of the ad mania but luck did not favour us.My aim was just to participate.Tarangini was gr8 as it was in our own college

5. Neuron 2010,MNIT,Jaipur

How can i forget this fest.My 3rd Sem result was declared in the middle of it.I remember i was at my bua's place on day to of the fest and then at 11 pm at night yash called me and told me about the result that has been declared.I checked but the site was jammed and failed to load.I then called back yash and enquired about the result of other friends and i was shocked to knw that many ppl had failed in the exam.i just prayed to god about my result and at dat very moment,i got a call back from yash.The conversation was as follows

Yash : "Haan yaar,tera result mil gaya,....Tension naa le,TU PAAS HAI";

Vishal : Sahi bata yaar,Mazaak mat karna.Tere muh me Ghee Shakkar yaar.Back toh nahi hai naa kisi me??

Yash : nahi hai bhai

Vishal : sahi hai yar,chal,percentage ko mar goli.60 ke upar hai naa.....

yash : haan re 60 ke upar hai.

Vishal : chal badhiya hai.


It was the best moments to knw that i had passed despite the result being very very bad.I however did not win any prizes here but it was special indeed.Being at MNIT was a nice experience and i came to knw how a techfest of such a large scale is managed...We will be organising Tarangini this year and we needed ideas for it which i think we there wud have been no one better than mnit in providing it.

Will post more stuff here later as we have our practicals tomorrow.hope u stay in the best of health.

Bye,
-Vishal

PS : ignore any grammatical or spelling mistakes plz. i am not checking this before posting as i hav to prepare for my viva tomorrow

EXTREMELY SORRY

Guys........i will be writing down here after my exams.......
Will not be expressing anything on facebook from now on......
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What i think

I dont know why people interfere in each other's thinking and life.I have been meeting many people in my college life who think that what they think is right and everyone else is just fooling around knowing nothing.
Let me tell u,I am very much fond of POLITICS.I think its very important for each one of us to know what is happening in our country,how the government is functioning.Who is doing what for the country.I think its kind of necessary to be updated about this section of knowledge too.
We had many debates in our hostel about all this political stuff and about various incidences in that time that happened.Most of them were initiated by me as i wanted to know what other people thought about it.Let me clearly tell you,i am a very secular person.I think people are of two types,one GOOD and the other BAD.A person's religion has NO PLACE in my heart.
But my thoughts did not match up with some of my hostel mates.They thought that hindus were the best lot of people and muslims were bad and they should not be included in our society.They thought that all the terrorist attacks in the world are carries out by muslims which i think many of u also think the same.No my friends,the ajmer blasts were carries out by a section of hindu extremists.RSS,Bajrang Dal,VHP etc are all Hindu extreamist groups though they dont clearly disclose this unlike those groups of muslims.
I sometimes like Ajmer a lot.I have not seen such a secular place in my life before.There are Hindus,Christians,sikhs,sindhis,muslims,jews in ajmer and each religion is duly respected by everyone.

So,what all happens in a college life????People think that they are mature enough to do anything they like.I too think the same but there are both a positive side and a negative side to it.Some people in my hostel started smoking and drinking liquor.Gradually it spread in the whole hostel.I was also called sometimes for this but i clearly asked them not to do so again.I have a resolution in place for me that i will never smoke and drink liquor in my life.whatever happens,i will not do it unless it is completely necessary.
Some guys in my college think that smoking makes a guy a dude.They think that if you smoke,u are more stylish and are therefore studs.I think if u think urself as a dude or a stud then u are one.Smoking cant make u a stud.It is the "KARMA" that u do,that KARMA makes u a stud.

SOME CHANGES IN ME (effects of the college life)

-  i have started caring about my life.i dont take any unwanted risks more that can endanger my life.
   Like ,i drive slow.People often say "Saala Fattu Hai Tu Toh", but it doesnt matter to me.Whenever,i am a pillion to someone,i make sure that the rider is moving slow.I am not afraid of speed but i think that my life is at risk.Having faced an accident in my college life made myself overprotective.Also,seeing many youngsters being killed in road accidents in ajmer made me like this.

-  i earlier used to tell my friends to read english newspapers everyday in order to improve their language skills.I asked them not to smoke and drink.I changed the thinking of some of the guys in the hostel regarding dowry.Many of them used to say that "BAS EK BAAR SHADI HO GAI NAA,FIR DEKHNA,GHAR KE AAGE SCORPIO HOGI AUR BAHUT SAARA CASH MILEGA".Once i heard this,i thought that someone must be joking about it but then i realised that they were serious about it.I gave a lecture to all of them regarding the dowry thing.Some people understood it some dint.I have made myself clear that i will not accept any kind of dowry or anything in my marriage.So,now the change is that i have stopped tell all my friends about what they shud do and what they shud not do.I think i was making a fool of myself asking them to do things which i felt were right.





Well,its enough for today,

P.S : Dear readers,i am absolutely frank at this blog space.

Thanks for reading the post.
Urs
-VRS

How My College Life Began

8th SEPT. 2008 , 7:30 am
My train was about to arrive at ajmer junction.i looked out through the window and what i saw was heaven and hell together for the first time.
One one side was a leaking sewage line wid all rubble there.pigs playing in the dirtiest of waters and plastic lying everywhere.And on the other side were aravali ridges.It was raining and the clouds covered the ridge tops.
I really feel that ajmer is no less than Shimla in this kind of weather.
For the first time in my life,I was visiting “Khwaja Ki Nagri”.My “Karma Bhumi”.We took an auto to the CPWD guest house,got ready and were on our way to my college.My father (also one of my idols) inquired about every mode of PUBLIC TRANSPORT available in ajmer so that I could not face any problem commuting alone in ajmer.Finally,we were at my college.i registered myself at the counter and took the admission slip.Took a round of the college.Visited labs,lecture halls,tutorial rooms and of course the CANTEEN(I am fond of food).Had our lunch there and went back to the guest house and departed for delhi in the night.

16th Sept 2008, 7:30 am
With all my stuff and a sorrow heart,I along wid my mom n dad were at ajmer station again.We went to the same guest house again and were at college by noon.I chose “Sharma Hostel” and we all went there.i chose a room and kept all my stuff there.Went back to the guest house and next day,17th Sept,I had my first day of college.my parents accompanied me to college and I went for my classes and they left to explore the city.
It was the saddest of the evenings in my life till now.Parents were leaving for delhi and I stayed behind for my studies.The weather was bad (though it was the same weather when ajmer==shimla) but it was bad.Rain,lightning,wind etc. Also,there was water logging outside my hostel and it was difficult for each one of us to go out.I saw my parents to the last point I could.Eyes were full of tears though I dint cry.i was about to cry but the presence of Lokesh,Satish,Digambar,Anuj (my room mate in hostel) made me hold my tears from coming out.i don’t know if they would have not been there,what would have happened to me dat day.
The first day was over and I had met only a few ppl from my batch.’F’ batch.There were very less students in the lectures and teachers told us that regular classes will be held after 5 days as student strength was less.i ran to my hostel,packed my stuff and was on board a bus to delhi.i was full of joy that time.thinking about delhi and home made my heart feel awesome.i again was full of life,started singing songs,jumping,dancing,muttering continuously.
Those 5 days in delhi were full of fun but after that,again,Ajmer was calling me.But it was different for me this time.i felt independent,responsible,mature for the first time.And I had made my heart stronger in those 5 days that I am in ajmer for myself and because of me. So I had to adjust to the place.My hostel was full of ppl by the time I went back again.All the guys were nice.We all played cricket togeather and enjoyed our life together.I somehow  adjusted in ajmer.I chatted wid my hostel mates,played games,talked about our college girls [I was in a boys hostel ;)] etc.In short we all made efforts to be occupied so that we could not think about our homes.we did not study for 3 months ( I admit).It was all fun in our 1st sem at college.we played cricket for a minimum of 6 hours a day and weekends were just full of it.We did not stop playing.It was a burning weather.playing cricket in 44 degrees of temperature may make you ill but it was all we did as it made us happy.There was no relation between exams and cricket.We had to play means we had to play.We even played cricket before every theory exam.We saw India’s cricket matches on the tv sets at the tea stalls.went to our college campus in the night just to fill our water bottles coz unhygenic was being used for drinking in the hostel.We sometimes got a tv on rent and dvd’s of latest bollywood and hollywood movies.We often were on hunger strike on Sundays because the authorities had to make a special menu and they did not make it.Finally they had to listen to our demands and we had food late on Sundays.The nights were fun.All the hostellites on the roof wid their mattresses and pillow as the rooms turned Tandoor in the summers.We all chatted,played games,used to call our respective telecom operators’ customer care and used to play pranks on them.In this while,I had met many ppl,many friends who still are one of my best friends.I usually went to home once in a month or if there was a continuous 2-3 days of holiday.1st Sem theory exams were about to begin when my parents and my grandparents gave me the nicest of surprises.They were in ajmer to meet me.My dad,mom,nanaji,naniji,adi(bro),nikhil (bro).No exam pressure was on me.Seeing them,I felt ecstatic.We all went to explore ajmer.Everyone visited my hostel and received a very warm welcome by my hostel mates.
1st sem theory exams were over.I did gud in some subjects but I had a doubt in 2 subjects as I dint like them.Physics and Electronics have always been my weakness.however,we were done wid the exams and were at our homes after it

P.S : I know its too lenghty and a lil bit boring but it is just a beginning.More stuff to follow esp. TARANGINI 2009(our college’s annual fest)….from where it all began

Its time guys,hope u continue reading my blogs.Take care .
Bye : )

My First Blog

So,Hello People....
This is my first blog...as i am new to the blogging world,i wud like to make my first blog simple...
its 18th Dec 2010....time 9:26 PM........5th sem theory exams from 29th Dec....in short,"Apni Toh Lagi Padi Hai"....
But still,i am relaxing a bit...i think college has completely changed my way of taking things....i take some things seriously and some lightly....
to be absolutely frank,"Ab Mujhe Gussa Nahi Aata Hai"
i was really a short tempered guy before i joined my college,but after that,i have learned a lot of things.....how to convince people,how to maintain relations,how to keep in touch wid all the college mates...
i mean its really tuf to keep in touch of each any every guy in college but i have made it somewhat easier for me...
i am one of the very active students of my college and i am really proud of it coz most of the ppl complete there graduation doing nothing in their college life...
i did not want to be one such of a person......i wanted that ppl shud know who i am and what i am.....people gradually came up and we came in touch....

My first day in college
i exactly remember the date
17th Sept 2008,
Place : ECA (old campus),ajmer / PR bhawan
My first class and my first graduation teacher
workshop techniques and my teacher on the very first day of the first class was Anurag sir...
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Oopps,i m late for my studies
catch u all later
keep reading the blog
.....More interesting stuff to follow,
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