Interview...

Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. 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 th! e 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 gues! s 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 1-2
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
***** .. :-)) We look forward to working with
you..:-))