A week and two days back the final year students of HICET gather to get the information of INFOSYS' combined campus drive for HICET, SRIT and CIET. Then on every day was placement training at college, training us in Quantitative aptitude and HR interview. Literally a huge amount of stuffs were incorporated every single day getting closer to 22 Dec 2010 (Interview Day).
I prepared quantitative aptitude, Verbal and Non-verbal, logical reasoning in a fast phase as days are short when you start working.
Finally 22 Dec 2010 dawned!!!
Ground: SRIT
Scene 1:
Every eligible candidate from three colleges turned up in huge number and so do I.
First was a excellent Presentation by Infoscion detailing the past, present and future of the Giant (infy). Then all of us were allocated halls to take up Written Test. It was 10 30, I was in the hall, applications were distributed, and filled it as instructions guided well. Be very careful while filling this application because at the end of the day in HR round you will find this in the hands of the Interviewer.
Scene 2:
Then written test started, it had 2 sections. One was logical and analytical reasoning having a pattern, 5 questions of visual sequence, then a paragraph thats requires logical thinking and little bit of Math carrying 5 questions, followed by data sufficiency and data interpretation questions each accounts for 5 marks, then was another paragraph testing your reasoning skills and last was like first sentence is a consequence of second sentence. Totally first section weighs 30 marks to be completed in 40 minutes. The time was ample and easy kind of questions were asked.
Second section tests English skills, with sentence completion, choosing the grammatically correct sentence, then a series of simple paragraphs carrying one question each appeared, last part was a very very very one page long reading comprehension, skimming and scamming will do, ending with a half page long comprehension. English part amounts for 40 marks with a duration of 35 minutes.
Right after you get your question start finding answers stead-fast as towards the end of the questionnaire requires a lot lot of time.
Scene 3:
Well then, written test was done, it was 1 o'clock all of us patiently and impatiently awaited the results. A few preliminary instructions came in. Here it goes " The results will be arriving shortly. I have a few requests. Please do not clap or get over excited. In case of any confusions in the details of selected candidates Please do not barge in between, come back to me once I'm done with announcing the results. "
After that, like an hour passed. Finally results came in " Lets start with Hindusthan.. S... " I clapped out of excitement, the one with mic said " I said dont clap". second name was called out '' Dharini Venkataraman of IT". God!!! thats me!! then I walked out to head to HR interview. There were 8 students from my class and it was a record as fellow dept from my college had a low strength.
Scene 4:
We were to sit on the queue to make all requisites ready in hand. I was ready and called in as the first candidate to start this HR interview. Here goes the questions that were shot at me.
1) Dharini Venkataraman, you are from Hindusthan college of engineering and technology, right? Tell about your life as student at Hindusthan.
2) So you were the Students' Joint Secretary? What was your role being so?
3) Did you face any problems being the Secretary? if so, how did you solve it?
4) Have done any mini project?
5) What problems did you face while doing it? How did you solve it?
6) What is you role in Main project?
7) What are your interests?
8) I said Blogging and music, so he asked.. So you dont read?
Thats it HR interview was done. I was waiting for like 3 hours for the results.
And yes, the results came, "Dharini Venkataraman of Dept of IT " was called out.
Thus I became an INFOSCION :)
