Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.





Candidate: I am SAMEER GUPTA. I did my Tele Communication engineering from

BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.





Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had never heard

Of this college before!





Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an admission

Into it . What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! In 12th.I

Was getting a paid seat in a good college. But my father said (I prefer to

Call him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much of money".(The baap actually said

- "I will never waste so much of money on you"). So I had to join this

College. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most be

Related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya.







Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete your

Engineering.





Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But you

Know, these cricket matches and football world cup, and tennis

Tournaments. It is difficult to concentrate. So I flunked in 2nd and

3rd year. So in all I took 4 2 = 7 years.





Interviewer: But 4 2 is 6.





Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I will try

To keep this in mind. 4 2 is 6, good, thanks. These cricket matches

Really affect exams a lot. I think they should ban it.





Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.





Candidate: No, no... I am talking about Exams!!





Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?





Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never thought I

Would complete it. In fact, when I flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for a job

For me in BEST (Bus corporation in Maharashtra) through some relative.





Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?





Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing 'lower' education

Itself was so much of pain!!





Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms have

You worked?





Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my current

Platform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform then. As you can

See I have experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are the

Places in Mumbai)





Interviewer: And which languages have you used?





Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet in

German, French, Russian and many other languages.





Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?





Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a higher

Version than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a new

Language VD!





Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?





Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the

Language our ministers and MPs use in assembly.





Interviewer: What is your general project experience?





Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of the times

They are in pipeline!





Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?





Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech Ltd. Since

Joining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used to think that

Bench was another software like Windows.





Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?





Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult. I know Word and

Excel. I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for International phone call

And use speaker facility. And very important - I know few words like -

'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes',

'SEI-CMM','quality' ,'versioncontrol ','deadlines' , 'Customer

Satisfaction' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!





Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?







Candidate: Not much.



1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.



2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not have

Deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.



3. I believe in flexi-timings.



4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I

Would like to wear t-shirt and jeans.



5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so as to

Avoid breakdown due to overwork.



6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term

preferably 2-4 months) assignments. Personally I prefer US, Australia and

Europe. But considering the fact that there is a world cup in West Indies in

2007, I don't mind going there in that period. As you can see I am modest and

don't have many expectations. So can I assume my selection?







Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our

organization. In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome to

INFOSYS .. :-))





No intention to offend anybody..



Cheers :o)

Mansi