I am about to enter an engineering college next month, and I have some good three or four years before I attend an interview for a job. But as for now I have heard from my brother, his friends and few other people about various things that have happened during an interview and I felt that it would be nice to share it with you all.
=ONE=====
My uncle, a professor in Tapmi while interviewing those who aspired to get an admission in the college, had asked a few seemingly simple questions like ’’Who are your favourite novelists?’’, ’’What are your favourite novels?’’ and so on. Then after hearing to their answers he had asked them to summarise the story of the novel which they had mentioned. After that it was just an easy job for him to eliminate the candidate! Guess how? Those questions which he had asked were just to test if the candidate had actually read the novel or was just reciting what he had read in the ’coaching materials’.
So, the lesson is simple. One needs to be himself and telling the truth about him in the interviews, because the interviewers usually spot the lies pretty easily.
=TWO======
My brother’s friend an NIT pass out, attended an interview in the infosys. He was doing pretty well. There was one hard question asked to him and unfortunately he didn’t have the answer. One of the interviewers, rose with anger, shouted at him, accused him for being ignorant of a very basic concept, and finally ordered him to get out. My brother’s friend was speechless, and not uttering one word, he started leaving. After a few seconds, the interviewer apologised to him and explained to him that they were just testing his temper. The interviewer continued that his temper was tested because they didn’t want programmers who would quit the job in the middle of a project and put the company in some trouble, when a senior staff shouted at him. After this apology and explanation, to convince him and relax him, he was offered apple juice . You know what he did? He turned down the offer and said ’’I don’t drink fruit juices. Can I have coke? ’’ hmm.... He was then given coke. Then the interview went on and he got selected.
Thank goodness, if my brother’s friend had shouted back at the interviewer, he might not be in infosys now.
===Three======
My brother is now working in Ramco systems, Chennai. A few months before when he attended the interview there, he was asked questions from ’C’. He answered it all well, he told me. Then he wasn’t asked one more question from ’C’ but only from ’Java’ and then from ’SQL’- the platform in which Ramco systems works.
My brother told me that the interviewers generally make a conscious effort to avoid asking questions in the candidate’s favourite area but keep asking questions from the areas in which the he struggles.
Maybe this is all done to see how well the candidate manages the stress.
=== Nothing like lessons in the following text, but just read.===
=== Four =======
I heard from my brother that one of his friends was asked this question, ’’What would you do, if a girl whom you’ve never seen before comes to you and says that she loves you?’’
I found this question very interesting and have my own answer for this. Think, my dear friend. I assure you, it would be interesting to think of an answer for this question.
===Five: The last one====
Two of my classmates went to the PSG college, Coimbatore aspiring to get an admission for the MsIT, a five year course. After attending three interviews, there came the final interview with the principal. See, questions were asked from Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Comp-sci and also from Biology - even though we in our comp-sci group do not have the subject ’’biology’’. Susheendhar, the one who attended the interview told me the questions he was asked. It goes like this--
What is your favourite subject?
C-sci sir.
Then explain about the USB port and PCI slot ((certainly out of syllabus))
Sorry sir, I don’t know.
Atleast tell me the no of pins a standard pc bus has...((tougher))
No, I don’t know sir.
Ok. It’s alright. how many weeks is the tv series ’’Metti Oli’’ old?
72?
Very good, you’re right.
After a while the principal asked him some very simple questions and started being funny. Then the interview ended. Susheendhar went out and told the other classmate that the principal might ask some very difficult questions at the start but then he would turn out to be funny.
The other classmate entered the hall when his chance came.
What’s the capital of Java?
Thinking that the principal was joking he said, ’’Visual Basic’’
The principal wasn’t actually funny this time. He had meant the island Java really. He shouted at him for being very irresponsible and for being disrespectful. Then the questions asked were like this...
How did you reach this college?
’’I came to Coimbatore by train and reached PSG by bus.’’
What’s the bus no?
’’72C’’
Do you know the bus to catch to get back to railway station?
’’Yes sir.’’
Then very well, leave this place, catch the bus, and go back to your native town.
=== I don’t have any comments on this last one====
===>by your friend, Vishwanath.
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