SAP is to conduct a walk in for referalls ......so i guess this weekend will be spent in the "garden city" aslong with prasanna.I guess this will be limited to only both of us as most of the other guys have got jobs ....and the ones that havent got jobs....seem busy seraching here or are on the verge of getting one.

I 've first gotto book myself a bus ticket......by going to koyambedu.....

so i am off.............ANYBODY WHO WANTS DETAILS ON THIS TEST PLS SMS ME ON 044-32695453....

R E C R U I T M E N T .........M E L A ......... D O W N L O A D IN G.....................

Preparation for the Infy  test has started in great earnest, but I guess Polaris would soon be sending it's offer letter (aug 9th ...i guess is the joining date at the navalur office ) and that would mean "curtains" for all the other companies such as ISOFT ,HCL and SAP. TUX..(anand) has got into HCL T (amabtur estate)  and is enjoying life out there , as it's close to his home and has a host of other extra goodies like a Gym and other indoor games facilities..........and to add to that HCL T has also said that in about 6 months , these guys may be required to go abroad....... W A Y   2  G O  T U X !  !!

meanwhile achut has got polaris .....but he'd be put up in shakthi towers if he were to take up the offer.....

I guess by the end of august most of my friend's circle would be employed.......and that's cool news...........considering the fact that during the 9/11 period during 2nd year ....we all were bleakly staring at a future that was promising but uncertain and ...........yo  IT has emerged like a phoenix .........from the ashes of 9/11 to emerge much stronger...

The recruitment scene currently for freshers seems mind boggling......every second company is holding tests and is recruiting enmasse.......and this weekend there is SAP,ORACLE,Larson and toubro,ramco sysytems,HCL,ISOFT,APP LABS recruiting all over the south (chennai,bang and hyd).........well now we freshers face the problem of plenty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Well i am presently off to sleep as i had an overdose of george summers and shakuntala devi.....whole of today.........just hope the mathematical haze generated by these 2 authors clears up well b4 my infy test  D-day............august 8th  at kodambakkam.(MEENAKSHI COLL).

 

MERA JEEVAN KORA KAGAZ.........KORA HEE .........REH GAYA

These days  life seems so lonely sitting empty at home. It feels really dull ..............and i see myself losing interest in my life.........just bcoz there arent enough people who think like me...and who can talk to me...and compounding my misery is POLARIS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS who havent yet sent me the offer letter........and have left me waiting like a dog for a bone whenever a postman chugs his way thru amidst the sandy half baked roads of my street.

Failure when it comes , it tends to pour heavily.........and thats one phase i am going through presently......I have not qualified in the last 4 IT companies test that i wrote and the one that i wrote last saturday at loyola was bad to the extent that even though i finished 7th out of 500 in the 1st stage prelims , the interview lest a lot to be desired .......my interview was just a little above being mediocre.......but still whatever chances the younger interviewer gave me  while asking the questions , the older guy who interviewed me ...seemed certain that he was'nt , in his wildest dreams thinking of handing me over a plush 15 k job........for coding c and unix for his company HCL technologies...

Whatever ..........laziness if it were metaphorically a cobra...., it has fully surrounded me ...and crushed me to sleep ........and  has dug it's fangs deep (donno whether a cobra had any !!!) to make me a lackadaisical pig.........

All i do at home is check my mail once every 2-3 hrs applying for all and sundry jobs that i find splashed over the internet and my mailboxes like an insane idiot. then get into  FREE TO AIR mode by watching self made movies (Also known as dreams ...) for about 4-5 hrs a day..........
then chat with some classmate or previous schoolmate of mine who invariably logs on when i am online.... then get down to popping a few medicenes........eat and pop a few tabs again after eating .....then a small siesta follows..........get up and .......search lazily for my spectacles that would lie crushed by the pillow that was below 2 other pillows on my right.........and finally heave a sigh of relief when i actually find it..........read ET and theHINDU for a while before some unheard word puts me off to slumber once again..........and after i wake up i do a CTRL-ALT-DEL by having my bath.........and playing cricket 2002 on my PC...........check my mail ....then sleep ...................

so thats quite a lot that  i have crushed into my schedule in a day...........and here's  my brief resume that cud be of interest to any recruiter who's hunting for fershers

FRESHER 2004 (key skills- testing....using foam pillow 1.1 and bedding 2.0    21 yrs experience)
CEO's of companies ...that manufacture quilt and bedding mattresses......pls take notice of my skills........i have good anlytical ability to judge which pillow provides maximum sleep and which mattress can induce better sleep....

OPERATING SYSTEM USED: kattil   (9x series )  and    pai  (freeware)

TOOLS USED :thalagani --(pillow), PORVAI--(rarely in chennai....as it induces error while compilation........ERROR : PORVAI.....CAUSES........FATAL ERROR.........SWEATING

OBJECTIVE:to test the best of pillows to find the length of sleep on a normal day using automated tools to manipulate the dream's induced by sleeping on a variety of pillows...

MOTTO: i dont get paid unless i get laid ................

 

I AM SELECTED IN POLARIS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
 
Well , A lament is always worth it ....thats how it seems......I  was lamenting on my last post that I still havent found myself a job......and lo out of the blue.....POLARIS confirms my selection in the final list.. I  shud get the offer letter in a day or two....and then the details will be published online.
 
i am on cloud nine right now  !!!!!  

I havent been blogging for roughly a week now...I had been slightly busy attending IT companies recruitment tests at HCL...in ambattur and Velankani at bangalore. hard luck in both the companies as my weakest link seemed to get the better of me .....and yes.....it's C programming...I guess I must fully utilise this week to prepare better for the programming part of these tests.
 
Achut has got thru the infy test....and has his interview today ...jaffer has got placed at HCL and so have a couple of other guys from my class........well when am i going to get employed...?
 
I guess once my programming and technical fundae are updated i too shall be a force to reckon with....
 
I still havent heard anything from POLARIS software solutions regarding their final list... 

I came back from bangalore this morning ....since the POLARIS results may be out anytime this week ...and besides the roaming in Bangalore...I need to spruce up my tech knowledge ...so I decided to do a CTRL-ALT-DEL and come back home to prepare for the weekend tests at Bangalore.

The weather in Bangalore is fantastic ...reminds me of Ooty and Shimla ...the temperature in the early 20's ........was so refreshing , a definete respite from the 35+ and 80% + humidity of chennai...

So I have gotta decide where do i stay ..in Chennai or Bangalore..It wud be Chennai in case I get thru the final list of POLARIS...(in a couple of days time , maximum the results shud be out ) ,but if no then i've gotta look at getting a job in bangalore....since the recruitment's are heavy ....there.

But there's something about Chennai that I get patriotic about whenever I am too long away from home ..

eg: When I went for my symbiosis interview earlier this year..speaking Hindi for 48 hrs with the people in pune ....got the better of me to such an extent that I leapt at excitement knowing that a Tamil movie was running in a nearby theatre ..

(PUDUKOTTAILERUNDHU SARAVAVNAN....) .Normally If i was in Chennai , I wudn't care a damn ...about such movies....but hearing the "mama...machan" slang .....after 48 hours of captivity ...in "amchi Pune " ....it seemed like the perfect tonic ...after a so-so interview ....

I am currently in Bangalore, hunting for jobs...as i hear that lots of jobs are given away thru internal reference ...More than that they pay very well with fresher salary levels touching 40k ...( but they do extract the hell out of u ) .

So i guess it shall b a week b4 i hit chennai...

Spirituality Reloaded

This evening I had been forced by mother to attend a bhagwad geeta workshop at kamaraj hall by a lady called sunanda.I initially was a little aprehensive about attending it , but later found it pretty interesting...........but my good 'ol habit of dozing away interefered and i lost track of what she was saying ......all of a sudden all i heard was tapas,renunciation...sattvika.....err ......that was enough to for me to wake up from my slumber and i came out of the hall ..

Earlier in the day Achut and were working out quants and in the evening Sid and I roamed around nungambakkam to get some news on joining an institute for CAT 2004 (mock cats ), we tried out ascent and TIME ...

EQUATION FUNDAE FOR THE DAY

well the topic this time around is the cost effect of using AC

buying a new GENERAL AC at home + current bill for the AC = 20k + 500 rs extra every month + solid sleep ......when the AC is on

ALTERNATIVE

come to the british council library (u see i am vetti right now )and enjoy the AC from 11 to 5 pm = 700rs per year + free internet+ perfect environment for studies + loads of books and magazines to read .........

well just as i was coming back from my friend aanand's house in ambattur to mount road.......the heat was slowly taking it's toll on me ....and lo I spotted BCL ..my long time summer retreat..

I have just entered here to get some relevant material just to prepare for all the IT companies entrance tests that are to follow.Though I am hardly an engineer , my degree suggests so !!.

I realize that my technical knowledge is the 'weakest link in my knowledge array' and if i could spruce up my technical knowledge, i could do better at the tests , since my general aptitude in maths and verbal is gud enough , thanks to my so called preparation for CAT.

All this preparation will go on i guess for a week , by which hopefully the POLARIS results should be out.I will then get to know whether i have got thru the 3rd round. If I do get thru , it should be great, but I would love getting a job outside Chennai...for resons best known ( CAS )...

The cricket season is yet to show itself up and I am praying I get a job in Bangalore or hyderabad.....I guess there would be some recruitment in bangalore this week .......so gotta go and book the tickets with my friends for our weekend getaway ( I've already been to bangalore 2wice and hyderabad once to attend IT tests ....and that too only of ORACLE )

INTERVIEW

My interview at polaris software solutions for the post of graduate trainee enginer went of peacefuly , thanx to the minimal use of questioning in the technical domain. THey tried scrutinizing my resume on my project ..but i guess defending my proj and a few techies in software engineering were afterall a better bargain than having a long face ....if i were to be questioned on something like"what reference does this argument pass if it were pointer....blah blah blah ...

and after a long time it rained in chennai...must be due to the fact that even i am ready to face a barrage of tech realted trivia ...

I am leaving for bangalore by this evenings mail at 11 (rather late night ) to attend the fresher test for oracle at bannerghata road.In the garb of attending tests and interviews and in touring I have roamed lot in the last 6 months or so to pune,hyderabad,bangalore,delhi etc etc ....... wow looks like post BE is an extended holiday .....

The 8th quarter results are out of a company called KARTIK INC in the city of MADRAS UNIVERSITY . . Finally I am now a BE .......well even though the current semester (8th ) semester marks were low compared to last time ......I 've had a drop of 10.25% from the 80's club last time .......but suprisingly I havent' reacted in anyway to this minor debacle as I have realized that the ultimate goal of doing BE is to somehow land one's self into a good job rather than pore over lost marks....

I guess this kind of a feeling started it's roots in early february when my symbiosis interview call for MBA came . I hardly cared a damn about preparation for the urrent sem and knowing Madras university's vagaries in correction , the final result is a function of one's luck,neatness and mood of the examiner (other than ur peparation ) .

Well ,the marks this semester being not so high , it's like a small dent to a car , while driving in a F1 race .......but now the dent seems insignificant as long as u drive ur way to the podium spaying chapagne....finishing 2nd or 3rd ........the 80+ 85+ schumachers are always there........but nothing bad in being a barrichello,montoya or ralf..........(hey that's only as far as my engineering is concerned ) ...

I have got my interview call from POLARIS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS after waiting a month for their results..I also plan to attend the fresher 2004 batch test at ORACLE this sunday.......well I guess writing an oracle test ........has become a hobby for me .....as this wud be test no 3 .....at oracle in a months span

Kishore,achut,prasanna,hari,ananth and anand are writing ORACLE this sunday too and lets hope at least one of us lands up with a job offer at ORACLE bangalore. The pay packet is excellent at Oracle , these guys pay freshers 33k .....compared to the 15-16 k paid by most companies......

Hey.......but who's complaining about the money.......it's only experience that we need before we start to get a foothold in the IT industry........