After a long time I have got something to share. Although this could be posted a week earlier but as usual “Mera mann nahi tha”. But someone remind me that I should write something on my blog no matter whatever the case may be, so here it is…..
The day was 20th September, 2010 just a normal day in Delhi, was raining pretty hard, cars and traffic jams were everywhere. I was sophisticatedly dressing myself in formals (although forgot the tie). After dressing I looked at my wrist watch it was 8:15 hrs. And then my Buaji called me “Cherry have your breakfast first” I had no appetite but don’t even want to deny the home cooked meal (as mostly miss it). So after having my breakfast I was all set for the mission for which I undergone lots of phases of mental tension and dilemma. The mission of getting rejected in a company’s interview…….
Yes that was primarily my aim, but not from the day 1 when I gave my name for this company. At that time the aim was definitely to get selection, but as time passes something happened and I started thinking that I should rather leave this company. Well, the reason being somehow someone leaked the information regarding a company which is not just better than this one but is BEST in its field, and that field is one of my area of interests. And as per our college’s placement policy if I get selected in any company I have to wait till 80% of my classmates didn’t get the job. Well the company which has the sobriquet as “Daddy Company” and for which I was trying to avoid my first decision: Telcon (TATA – Hitachi) was NTPC. Big name isn’t it.
So, I with my uncle was going to the Telcon’s office for the selection proceedings (which included a technical + aptitude written test, a group discussion and a technical interview). Well, I have to reach the office at 9:30 a.m. but due to traffic jams I got half an hour late. And that was something which I really don’t want to do, obviously I was going for rejection but like this is something after which I can’t even say “yaar maine to poori koshish kari thi, unhe knowledge pasand nahi ayi to kya kar sakte hai?”. Well, as I move out of the car I was thinking about my 9 other friends who were also there for the interviews as they had called me twice during my way to the office. But to my surprise I saw a bunch of guys who were not from our college…. I hurriedly went inside the office and on the sofa I found my 9 MANITians, I asked “kitne aye hai be?” as I realized that we were not alone who were called for the placements on the same day. Avinash answered “60 hai bhai, poora north aya hai haq mangne”. Well it was a good thing for me as now it would be pretty easy to get rejected in first round itself, but suddenly my inner voice said “Buddy if you are not gonna compete among these 6 NITs how you can even think of Off Campus competition which have whole nation ,FYI NTPC is awesome but… you to know that during On Campus interviews it always call for Top 3 in general for the interviews, sorry to say dude but you are 8th in the class where you gonna throw remaining 5, PLUS if you are going to avoid this job your next company will going to avoid you – Nature’s Rule laddie.” Sort of lecture hmmm…..
Well the presentation of the company begins and as the HR. brought attention towards the salary and perks I realized that I should get selected in this company. As the income is handsome PLUS after 1 year of training the hike in it is awesome also I will get a chance to visit the head office of Hitachi for training in Hydraulics (also one of my favorite), which is in Japan, it has a brand of TATA and most important a perk which no other company gives this company Telcon is giving it twice, yes they are giving a Honeymoon Package…
So thank god before the start of the written test I had made up my mind that I want to get in this company, although I wasn’t tensed as you know NTPC was yet to come.
So the written test began and what I saw is the paper was of really good quality but without negative marking and we have to solve 80(60 technical and 20 aptitude) questions in 1 hour. I give my best with whatever I had from my few days preparations, and left everything else for fate. Well I got selected in written and then group discussion but the interview panel made me to wait quite long for the interviews as I was the second last guy to face the interview. Well, nothing serious happened in the interview as the guy was asking me question from my favorite subjects but was just trying to trap me. Some questions were really awesome and I tried my best to answer them correctly but couldn’t get the perfect.
Unlike other companies I don’t had to wait much for the results as they were announced within half an hour after my interview. And as the HR. called my name, with a smile I congratulate myself that now I have a Job…
(P.S.: Although still waiting for the joining letter, hope to receive soon. And ya I had a medical test also the next day and that was really a fantastic experience as the receptionist was pretty interesting and…….)
