The First real Interview Experience ..on 13th September,(after mock interviews with familiar persons in college)With all enthu...Susi got ready wearing a new pink chudi (Thank u mom for making it for me :) )...and a huge bag ...thinking that there are loads to review before I go ...Being one of the top five scorers of the class(unfortunately or fortunately?!!) ...Susi had direct interview without the Aptitude round...
Pre-Placement Talk
It was a tiny mini talk and a video show...The video was attractive...depicting TATA Group's various products from the start of the day....Tea , Titan Watch, Salt, Hotels, Tata Indica Car,Water purifier, companies .....etc.It was like revisiting an idea...it seemed to coincide what susi made the previous night :)
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The Interview
Interview for toppers was started once the Pre-Placement talk got over,We rushed to our department ....to refresh and 'make up' :) (hi hi !! ) I carefully placed that paper in front of all the leaves in the file...
People were waiting in the main hall in the placement cell new building around which there were 7 panels.. People who came out after the encounter 'leaked' some questions....In spite of knowing that same questions might not be asked people hurriedly made attempts to think of suitable answers for those HR questions.And one such person said they never check file...they only see resume..This came like a thunder for me.
Now it was my moment ...a volunteer indicated a sign that i should go next into the 5th panel... Susi got in with a broad smile and shook hands and said my name ..the two panel members also did the same..but one man said that I should have told my name before shaking hands and stared and Susi smiled back...(eeeeee!)
When one person got my resume, application form and marksheet, the other person got the file...Thank God! he got it...yeeeeess!! :)
First question was the usual cliche ...tell about urself...I started telling my name with meaning ...some 'adjectives' and 'punches' to describe academics and other activities...when the guy was about to see the paper...i started talking about art....good timing indeed ! Both of them saw the quick art about Tata's ventures and the two snaps ( velammal paati and college day dance photo) and asked in general about art and dance.
They asked questions from digital electronics (why do u have bubble in NOR gate?! multiplexer , syntax for while loop?! I would have bursted into laughter but ...Control...don't laugh susi..) Never expected such questions as i had been flipping every page of DE book and building analogy and stories for the past two days.There was another question to say the digital logic behind buzzers in quiz program ....I just tried to explain that when one buzzer gets pressed others get disabled and accepted that I do not know the name of the logic...
The person then asked generally about outside participations and reason for not having learnt other languages like java etc...i managed and they seemed quiet satisfied.They then asked some HR questions...one person asked what I would do if I don't get selected and the other man said I would cry and laughed for his own 'joke'...and Susi 'laughed' , said a bigg No and tried to convince that I was confident and that I would come back with bigger bang (eeeee another smile ), the other person then asked about weakness.They finally spoke about the bond and adaptability to any work location...I said yes for everything and gave instances of staying away from home.
DONE
The results were out ....at night ...delighted when the name 'Susithra' was read out...TATA recruited Susi
Susi chose TATA ''for today'' .
