- Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.
- Candidate: I am Kondesh Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication
- engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Interviewer : Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.
- Candidate: No, no.. I am talking about Exams!!
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- 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...
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- 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!!
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- 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)
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- Interviewer: And which languages have you used?
- Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet in German,
- French, Russian and ma! ny other languages.
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- 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!
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- 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 ..
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- Interviewer: What is your general project experience?
- Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of th! e times
- they are in pipeline!
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- 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.
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- 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 wo! uld 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?
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Funny Interview
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