Testing times

Placements

the only actually testing time for any engineer ....cause once u get into engineering exams are not testing any more as you manage to get past them
campus placements bring out mixed feelings ...of nervousness, of apprehension and of course expectation
with a great session of mock placements from the final yearites..we were all raring to have a go at the companies
each of us battling our own problems ..each of us having a core competency and core deficiency :)
mine was definitely the terror of the TECHNICAL interview ..being a mechanical engineer and wanting to switch to software i asnt expected to be great at technical knowldge

I skipped TCS but the feedback from the others was an eyeopener .... all candidates had an hour long technical interview intheir respective fields which was too much by software compny standards ..so out of the fear of me flunking badly at interviwes i started brushing up my technical knowledge
which proved out to be a herculean task

then happened the cogni disaster ..which will come later
then the more personal IBM disaster
which had all the elements of a hindi masala movie
..uff if i could get hold of the HR/tech guy i would shoot him .reaching to the IBM interview was a surprise in itself a sthe company had strictly put a cutoff of 7.0 cgpa so initilly i was not eligible .but then the cutoff was dropped down to 6 and we were all elated and praising IBM .i sat at the test and the results were surprising ..i got through(ok that was not the surprising part ) but most fundoo janta of the college didnt .the screeinig process was hapazard and i doubt wether the papers had been evaluated at all.it seemed that people were randomly shortlisted

whatever that was.. i reached the interview and the wait began
finally i got the call and went in and what happened then was a complete disaster
he began asking me the general stuff and he asked me why i wanted to go in software ..i gave him the standard answers.but then suddenly he asked about the computer magazines i read ..to which i politely replied no .and then on hearing that he started talking like a man who had been possesed .he insited that i must go for a core job being a mechanical enginer despite the fact i making it clear at the start i was interseted in software..he didnt ask me any C questions and kept on stressing that i am not fit for software ..i came out with mixed feelings and the result was expected .i got kicked out
it was a very low point but like any engineer would tell you
life is a sine wave!!!