Well if anyone has been chatting with me for the last few days & he/she has a good observation then I am sure this is bound to have occurred 2 him that only three words are written in caps...well anyone of a more discerning nature must have noticed the letters are TCS...now I don’t need to tell you guys what this blog is about...this company was important & inconsequential for me...
Well guys don’t think my vocab's gone all awry...its just that des 2 words really describe what TCS was for me....It was important because it enabled me 2 concentrate on CAT...get my dad's green light...because without dad's consent I feel myself very very weak...
Well 15 th of July & probably Prabhat & Arni are two people I will never b less indebted 4 calling me to give the TCS apti & what happened after that will be written in BIT's history with golden
letters...I with a half reluctant but a rapidly pulsating heart started the aptitude test...i finished it with some 45 minutes left...& with a even faster beating heart i clicked on finish...& yes I was selected...But then started the most incredible story ever heard of...had 2 get my photos in those 45 minutes....& guess what...i dint even hav them printed...well running like mad man i ran towards the gate...And then i got a bike...i drove like crazy 2wards B.I.T more...& well w8 else...the studio was closed...another 25 minutes of crazy driving saw me reach booti more...i got it clicked...& another 30 minutes I was where I was supposed 2 b in d R&D building...well guess what!!!!...everyone else had submitted their forms by then...appeasing my sincerest pleas the guys @ TCS & my future bosses agreed to let me submit the form...but the story was far far from over...I had to get my resume printed something i had forgotten...the TNP officer said let this be a elimination round....& so it was decided...so I ran again...'its my life' all over again...I came back in another 30 minutes...another round of requests followed & again they acceded...surprised!!!!...don’t be...it’s just the starting of something much more incredible...
Well 16th of July & it was the big day...My interview was scheduled at 8.45 am & i reached there by 9 with goose bumps all over me but i knew nerves was something i could not be allowed to be dominated by...Interviews started at 9 o clock at a very slow pace and they called out people whose interview were to happen last night...With a anxious appetite I waited but then there was no one to really quench my insatiable curiosity...But then there was our cool gang who can make any situation lite...& me, Prabhat, Maheshwari, Arnie, Bidu, Adi & Abhishek started skylarking...Though we discussed some questions the thing got all the more frustrating because Bidu & Abhishek seem to know everything…Well anyways time passed in a way that will make someone reminisce Einstein’s theory of Relativity’s public explanation…the one about time passing by unnoticed when a girl is sitting by…And after an hour of waiting he first two guys came out & there was a flurry of excitement amongst us…There was a crowd surrounding them and the questions they were asked did not really give encouraging signs…However that’s what the BITians are all about to stay cool even when is your ass is burning & stayed cool we did…Well one after another guys came up with stories about exactly how they were fucked and things were not really looking up…And then finally Maheshwari was called and the I felt my heart would escape its socket & go fly higher…Maheshwari went & Manas came in & d vacant gap left was instantly filled up by Manas’s ‘believe it or not’ jokes…Maheshwari came out within 20 minutes with a smiling face & surely luck has smiled on him again as it so often does…Indeed usko darkar thaa luck kaa aur usko laabh huaa….now wo jaa ke plane uraa saktaa hai…Anyways back to the serious stuff.. Anyways as one after the other guys started coming in me & Arnie were the only ones left…Well at last my call came & I have given some excerpts from the interview
Q:-Tell me about yourself.
A:-I am Souptik born in kolkata on 23 rd February, 1987(I knew they were Bengalis).I passed my class 10 from St John D.L.W. Varanasi, & 12th from Sri Aurobindo Instt of Education, Salt Lake. I practiced pool in SAI for two years and am the university captain lawn tennis. I am in the table tennis hostel team. & speed is in my blood & I love racing be it on the streets of Rajarhat or on the roads of NFS.
(1st blow delivered successfully. They seemingly have developed a soft corner for me. Rajarhat is working wonders. Three cheers to the bong connection!!!!)
Q:-What are your strengths & weaknesses?
A:-My strength is I am very competitive & my weakness is that I am overtly competitive & I become too morose after losing.
(They were getting more & more impressed. A job was round the corner for sure & I had rounded up the HR guy for sure)
Q: - You play pool, you are the tennis captain, you even play table tennis. Where do you see yourself?
A: - I see myself sitting in you chair asking questions to the latest hot shots.
HR: - Don’t give me mugged up answers.
(Oops I had overdone it, & the guys expression hardened. Me & my big mouth!!!)
Me:- Sir I am not giving mugged up answers, you ask me any question and the answer will be as apt.
(Did he like my confidence????)
Tech:- I am giving you a loose ball. What is your favourite subject??
Me:- Sir this is not really a loose ball it’s a googly for some one with my GPA.
Tech: - Answer my question.
(His voice was stern. Things were getting messy.)
Me:- Data Structures sir.
(A hint of fear in my voice)
Tech: - What is a tree?
I answered that appropriately and that was where my luck deserted me. He kept on asking one question after the other and I kept on nodding my head & all I could utter was I don’t know sir.
Tech: - What is DFS??
Me: - I don’t know.
(My voice thoroughly trembling now. I had lost my chance. & I stay unemployed to fight another day.)
HR: - Are you ready to sign a five year bond?
Me: - No.
(Now I was getting frustrated with d blatant way he was trying to humiliate me.)
HR: - Do you have any problems with a relocatable job?
(Hold on what was this going on. Maybe they were not humiliating me)
Me: - No sir. By virtue of my dad being a bank manager I have been a traveler since I was a kid.
Tech: - Do you have any questions for us?
Me: - You have been constantly mentioning my GPA. Do you think I should curb my natural instincts & my passions just 2 get a better GPA?
Tech: - Know your priorities & you may leave.
(That was it. TCS gone & I wished myself luck for Wipro.)