Fwd: superb interview

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*One of the best interviews!!!* *

Interviewer: *Tell me about yourself. *

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. ly

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 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.

--

Dr. Gursharan Singh

M.D. (medicine)

Gee Ess Heart and

General Hospital,

Baba Than Singh

Chowk, Ludhiana.

Chairman Disciplinary Committee,

Punjab Medical Council (2003-06)

Vice President, National IMA (2005)

Hony. Secy., IMA Punjab (2005-06)

President, IMA, Ludhiana (2001-07)

Member, Governing Council, IMA College Of General Practitioners, New Delhi

(2007

National Advisor IMA AKN Sinha Institute (2007-2008)

Member Editorial Board

Journal Of Family Medicine, Official journal of IMA College Of General

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