Hey ... Hi ....
kuch likha nai bahut dino se ...
But m still here .. kinda busy in .. work!! Last few days .. have been really good, good in the sense .. have taught me somethng new .. n m talking of work here ! :-)
Am in Bangalore and i m into Software as i guess maximum people of Bangalore would be! (that's not true actually)
Am into testing .. and recently learned so many things .. about this profession! Its really a job which should be done in laboratories and every tester should get with him few very important skills
- Observation!
- Dedication!
- Eagerness to give out the best!
Its almost the time to release our product and every single member of the team is excited, anxious to get the product into the market and get feedback from customers! But then .. the BIG question now is ... WHEN TO STOP TESTING!!! (any answers!) thats the question we are trying to answer in next few days/weeks. Hope we pick the right moment and give u all the Best product we could deliver. :-)
These are the few lines i have been thinking lately .. or listening from people around me ..
"Let this product be the Best product ever"
"Efforts / thoughts put for last 15 months will be out to the customers which hopefully they will enjoy working with"
"I am excited about my product release"
"When to STOP testing??"
"Desperation should never be the reason to deliver a product"
"Excitement should never be the reason to announce a product release"
"I want to hear back from the customers"
"Keep it cool, keep it going .. we are there, almost there"
Everything boils down to one thing .. which m sure every team member would be saying .. "Lets be patient and send out a rocking ___________" :-)
Good Luck My Team! :)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Train Travel - matrubhumi to karmabhumi, an experience!!
Hi All,
Am back to my karmbhumi, had a nice time @ home and enjoyed the function back home. Train journey was pretty hectic but then looking at the other people who travelled the way they did ... it was much easier for me, i must say!
And not at all surprising, train was full .. with people travelling with tickets confirmed, waiting list, RAC ( i belonged here) and ticketless! One thing i saw was ticket checkers actually charging penalties to illegal travellers, damn strict they were, i agree people would have bribed them for sure .. but overall .. they way TCs behaved was a welcome change.
I could get my ticket confirmed (legally) and moved to my new place. Chained my luggage and went to my friend's seat in AC compartment. Had to cross around 10 bogies to reach his A1 coach. kya batao ... full bheed, people everywhere, i even saw people running in toilets seeing the TC penalizing people and not bending his rules.
Retuned to my seat at around 9:30pm but it was not so easy. As i tried to cross AC coach to Sleeper compartment, i found the door locked and hence connection lost. Doors were closed and i had to plead to the police at the station to allow me opening the door and swiftly move to the Sleeper compartment.
Funniest part was .. as i was crossing bogies to reach my coach, i had to stop at the end of AC coach as the next connection was closed (connecting door locked), now i had to find the attender and request him to open the door for me. Now a general question came to my mind ... "where does the AC coach attender sleep?" - My Ans: "The cupboard in which he keeps all pillows, blankets which is just besides the coach door" (hope u have seen this earlier). So i thought and i turned to see if anyone is in the cupboard sleeping and i saw two people sleeping in two cabinets. (k. gr8! my thinking was right) ... so i asked one person who was awake ... "Saheb, jara connecting door open kar doge, mera sleeper ka confirm ticket hai, mujhe cross karna hai!!!" ..... and he replied ..... "Saheb, i m not the coach attender, am a waiting list traveller, ticket not confirmed, so i paid the penalty and me and the person sleeping in other cabinet, both are travelleing"
I was shockedddddd!! ;-)
That summed it up all ... this was yesetrday's pathetic condition ... !!
Luckily i got the berth and i didnt have to search for any such cabinets!
Am back to my karmbhumi, had a nice time @ home and enjoyed the function back home. Train journey was pretty hectic but then looking at the other people who travelled the way they did ... it was much easier for me, i must say!
And not at all surprising, train was full .. with people travelling with tickets confirmed, waiting list, RAC ( i belonged here) and ticketless! One thing i saw was ticket checkers actually charging penalties to illegal travellers, damn strict they were, i agree people would have bribed them for sure .. but overall .. they way TCs behaved was a welcome change.
I could get my ticket confirmed (legally) and moved to my new place. Chained my luggage and went to my friend's seat in AC compartment. Had to cross around 10 bogies to reach his A1 coach. kya batao ... full bheed, people everywhere, i even saw people running in toilets seeing the TC penalizing people and not bending his rules.
Retuned to my seat at around 9:30pm but it was not so easy. As i tried to cross AC coach to Sleeper compartment, i found the door locked and hence connection lost. Doors were closed and i had to plead to the police at the station to allow me opening the door and swiftly move to the Sleeper compartment.
Funniest part was .. as i was crossing bogies to reach my coach, i had to stop at the end of AC coach as the next connection was closed (connecting door locked), now i had to find the attender and request him to open the door for me. Now a general question came to my mind ... "where does the AC coach attender sleep?" - My Ans: "The cupboard in which he keeps all pillows, blankets which is just besides the coach door" (hope u have seen this earlier). So i thought and i turned to see if anyone is in the cupboard sleeping and i saw two people sleeping in two cabinets. (k. gr8! my thinking was right) ... so i asked one person who was awake ... "Saheb, jara connecting door open kar doge, mera sleeper ka confirm ticket hai, mujhe cross karna hai!!!" ..... and he replied ..... "Saheb, i m not the coach attender, am a waiting list traveller, ticket not confirmed, so i paid the penalty and me and the person sleeping in other cabinet, both are travelleing"
I was shockedddddd!! ;-)
That summed it up all ... this was yesetrday's pathetic condition ... !!
Luckily i got the berth and i didnt have to search for any such cabinets!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A dream Week !! ;-)
Hi once again!
What does one think of these awards which are held by so many organisations everyday at national and international level?? Many would be thinking them to fixed, pre-decided Winners, everything settled before things come to the Jury Panel, something like that … atleast I used to think something similar. I used to think the same till last week just when something happened and everything changed and I was in for a big surprise.
October 1st Week:
Siting pretty in office, cant say ‘relaxing’ as I was in office ;-) working as usual and suddenly got a call, identified it as Delhi number and I picked up the call … and someone on the other side said .. .”Hello” …
Flash Back – 8 months back
Ok. Lets go into flash back … some 10 months back to January-February days … when I used to come to work everyday in the morning and see people working at a construction site just besides my office, it was everyday that we colleagues used to discuss about the construction that was happening, people working there and the kind of job they do …
Once, as usual I was coming to office and saw a person working on top of a crane, height of around 8-9 floors and strangely so … not wearing any safety belts, jackets nothing at all … guess he was doing some maintanence work … not that I was seeing him for the first time, taking such risky moves .. but something struck me … and I took out my Nokia 6300 mobile phone (with 2mp camera), not that its great a feature, but soon you would realise how good it has proved to me! :-) I captured that person working on crane in my mobile, a regular thing I do actually, whenever I see “kuch alag” (I have a folder in my comp ‘kuch alag’)
That’s it .. regular days work, had lunch and we all again saw the same person working, and discussion started between us!
I did something more, which you all would realise when I come out of my flash back and take the story forward! :-)
[Now imagine I forget all this episode which happened 8 months ago and we ‘ll come to last week]
October 1st Week:
Siting pretty in office, cant say ‘relaxing’ as I was in office ;-) working as usual and suddenly got a call, identified it as Delhi number and I picked up the call … and someone on the other side said .. .”Hello” …
Me: Hello!!
Caller: “Hello, Am I talking to Mr. Mukul Lele?”
Me: “Yes, who’s this?”
Caller: “Sir, am calling from CNN-IBN and this is to inform you that you have won the Citizen Journalist Award for this year”
Me: “Ok” ??????????? (and I have no idea .. what she just said)
Caller: “Sir, you have one one of the awards of the Citizen journalists this year”
Me: “Mam, Can you please confirm you are talking to the right person?”
Caller: “Sir your email address as per our records is ********@***.com?” (correct)
Me: “Yes” [My god .. she is speaking to the correct person]
Caller: “Sir, you had uploaded a picture of a person working on a crane without safety equipments, that picture has been selected as the image of the year by a Citizen journalist”
Me: “Oh is it? [Hell …. How did this happen .. never even thought about this!!]
Caller: “Yes Sir, you have won the Citizen journalist Award under Best Image Category for this year. Heartiest Congratulations Sir. We wanted to know if you could come to the Award ceremony which will held next week in Delhi?”
Me: Not sure, Will inform you in a day! [hahahaha!!! Who ‘ll miss such an opportunity but Cooolllllll .. don’t jump on conclusions, lets think over this]
Caller: “ok Sir, Please tell me by tomorrow so that we can make arrangements. Congratulations once again Sir, I will call you tomorrow”
Me: Thanks a Lot Miss ****
That’s it … 5 mins of call and it confused me to the core … just cant tell you .. how confused I was .. I can list so many things which went through my mind at that moment, the biggest one … ‘I doubted the originality of that call itself’
Spoke to my brother, dad and at once called CNN back (had to search their numbers) to confirm the news. YES, THEY CONFIRMED IT!!! :-) :-)
[Sorry my manager, I didn’t work that day!, I was in a different world!]
16th October 2008 –
Function day .. needless to mention so many VVIPs invited!!! CM of Delhi, Sheila Dixit being the Chief Guest for the occasion.
My Car enters The Taj mahal, New Delhi and I am stunned to see the cameras, people, nice people :-) all around (wait, am not even inside the function hall .. this is outside the hall). Btw must confess one thing .. just as I stepped out from my car, I saw a big glass door, which ofcourse will take me inside the building (not inside the hall) and I had no clue how to open it. PUSH – PULL – HANDLE – ENTER – EXIT, what all I thought and suddenly the attender said “This way Sir ..” … lehhh .. usne to koi aur hi door khol diya .. mai to kahi aur hi khada ho gaya tha :-)
So .. finally we entered the function hall and I wont say much here .. See the video for yourself, to know how things unfolded”
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/76805/10_2008/cj_awards2510_4a/cj-awards-step-forward-in-inclusive-journalism.html
Sach bolta hoon .. forget me taking the award but for me .. being around with people who have experienced a lot, and have done so much for the society for years and years, I felt so nice and I was just enjoying the moment … I literally did! May it be a lady struggling for 2 years to get a public toilet at her Delhi residentail locality, person who constructs bridges in villages to connect them to towns / other villages, or a disabled person fighting against the govt and finally getting Delhi buses enabled with a footover step for the disbaled! These people are really special!
Now the question is .. With people doing so much for this society, working hard they deserve to be @ the center stage but why me (or few other people) who comparatively have done nothing at all but yet sharing the same space w
ith these honored citizens!
And I feel .. There are few people who experienced, who fought and who conquered but there should be few more to bring in front such an experience, for people to think, decide and take the right steps towards their bright and safe future!!!
[EVERYTHING MENTIONED ABOVE IS JUST MY THOUGHT / MY OPINION AND AM NOT MAKING ANY STATEMENTS .. Suggestions / comments welcome!]
What does one think of these awards which are held by so many organisations everyday at national and international level?? Many would be thinking them to fixed, pre-decided Winners, everything settled before things come to the Jury Panel, something like that … atleast I used to think something similar. I used to think the same till last week just when something happened and everything changed and I was in for a big surprise.
October 1st Week:
Siting pretty in office, cant say ‘relaxing’ as I was in office ;-) working as usual and suddenly got a call, identified it as Delhi number and I picked up the call … and someone on the other side said .. .”Hello” …
Flash Back – 8 months back
Ok. Lets go into flash back … some 10 months back to January-February days … when I used to come to work everyday in the morning and see people working at a construction site just besides my office, it was everyday that we colleagues used to discuss about the construction that was happening, people working there and the kind of job they do …
Once, as usual I was coming to office and saw a person working on top of a crane, height of around 8-9 floors and strangely so … not wearing any safety belts, jackets nothing at all … guess he was doing some maintanence work … not that I was seeing him for the first time, taking such risky moves .. but something struck me … and I took out my Nokia 6300 mobile phone (with 2mp camera), not that its great a feature, but soon you would realise how good it has proved to me! :-) I captured that person working on crane in my mobile, a regular thing I do actually, whenever I see “kuch alag” (I have a folder in my comp ‘kuch alag’)
That’s it .. regular days work, had lunch and we all again saw the same person working, and discussion started between us!
I did something more, which you all would realise when I come out of my flash back and take the story forward! :-)
[Now imagine I forget all this episode which happened 8 months ago and we ‘ll come to last week]
October 1st Week:
Siting pretty in office, cant say ‘relaxing’ as I was in office ;-) working as usual and suddenly got a call, identified it as Delhi number and I picked up the call … and someone on the other side said .. .”Hello” …
Me: Hello!!
Caller: “Hello, Am I talking to Mr. Mukul Lele?”
Me: “Yes, who’s this?”
Caller: “Sir, am calling from CNN-IBN and this is to inform you that you have won the Citizen Journalist Award for this year”
Me: “Ok” ??????????? (and I have no idea .. what she just said)
Caller: “Sir, you have one one of the awards of the Citizen journalists this year”
Me: “Mam, Can you please confirm you are talking to the right person?”
Caller: “Sir your email address as per our records is ********@***.com?” (correct)
Me: “Yes” [My god .. she is speaking to the correct person]
Caller: “Sir, you had uploaded a picture of a person working on a crane without safety equipments, that picture has been selected as the image of the year by a Citizen journalist”
Me: “Oh is it? [Hell …. How did this happen .. never even thought about this!!]
Caller: “Yes Sir, you have won the Citizen journalist Award under Best Image Category for this year. Heartiest Congratulations Sir. We wanted to know if you could come to the Award ceremony which will held next week in Delhi?”
Me: Not sure, Will inform you in a day! [hahahaha!!! Who ‘ll miss such an opportunity but Cooolllllll .. don’t jump on conclusions, lets think over this]
Caller: “ok Sir, Please tell me by tomorrow so that we can make arrangements. Congratulations once again Sir, I will call you tomorrow”
Me: Thanks a Lot Miss ****
That’s it … 5 mins of call and it confused me to the core … just cant tell you .. how confused I was .. I can list so many things which went through my mind at that moment, the biggest one … ‘I doubted the originality of that call itself’
Spoke to my brother, dad and at once called CNN back (had to search their numbers) to confirm the news. YES, THEY CONFIRMED IT!!! :-) :-)
[Sorry my manager, I didn’t work that day!, I was in a different world!]
16th October 2008 –
Function day .. needless to mention so many VVIPs invited!!! CM of Delhi, Sheila Dixit being the Chief Guest for the occasion.
My Car enters The Taj mahal, New Delhi and I am stunned to see the cameras, people, nice people :-) all around (wait, am not even inside the function hall .. this is outside the hall). Btw must confess one thing .. just as I stepped out from my car, I saw a big glass door, which ofcourse will take me inside the building (not inside the hall) and I had no clue how to open it. PUSH – PULL – HANDLE – ENTER – EXIT, what all I thought and suddenly the attender said “This way Sir ..” … lehhh .. usne to koi aur hi door khol diya .. mai to kahi aur hi khada ho gaya tha :-)
So .. finally we entered the function hall and I wont say much here .. See the video for yourself, to know how things unfolded”
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/76805/10_2008/cj_awards2510_4a/cj-awards-step-forward-in-inclusive-journalism.html
Sach bolta hoon .. forget me taking the award but for me .. being around with people who have experienced a lot, and have done so much for the society for years and years, I felt so nice and I was just enjoying the moment … I literally did! May it be a lady struggling for 2 years to get a public toilet at her Delhi residentail locality, person who constructs bridges in villages to connect them to towns / other villages, or a disabled person fighting against the govt and finally getting Delhi buses enabled with a footover step for the disbaled! These people are really special!
Now the question is .. With people doing so much for this society, working hard they deserve to be @ the center stage but why me (or few other people) who comparatively have done nothing at all but yet sharing the same space w
ith these honored citizens!
And I feel .. There are few people who experienced, who fought and who conquered but there should be few more to bring in front such an experience, for people to think, decide and take the right steps towards their bright and safe future!!!
[EVERYTHING MENTIONED ABOVE IS JUST MY THOUGHT / MY OPINION AND AM NOT MAKING ANY STATEMENTS .. Suggestions / comments welcome!]
Friday, October 3, 2008
My sweet little niece ...
Hiiiiiii ..
I am home finally to c my sweet little niece .. and she's such a cutieee! I m here just for 2 days and then 'll be back for diwali .. m sure by the time i come again .. she 'll undergo lots of change.. so i was eager to c my babyyyyy ;-)
It was so nice to take her in hands .. kya kahuuuu .. dil khush ho gaya .. and then she slept ..
One more day and i will be back to work, away frm home .. next travel home @ diwali!!
I am home finally to c my sweet little niece .. and she's such a cutieee! I m here just for 2 days and then 'll be back for diwali .. m sure by the time i come again .. she 'll undergo lots of change.. so i was eager to c my babyyyyy ;-)
It was so nice to take her in hands .. kya kahuuuu .. dil khush ho gaya .. and then she slept ..
One more day and i will be back to work, away frm home .. next travel home @ diwali!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Mai to Chacha Ban Gaya!!
Its a great news at my home and everyone is so happy!! My brother called me and his words ... i guess i will never forget ... "Mukul .. itka masta vatata ahe naaa!!" .. and yes .. its really a masta news. So, now am waiting eagerly to go home and see my sweet little niece. But a real gr8 news and what .. and nothing thats it.. really happy today! :-)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Mukul Cooks .. !! ;-)
Writing after a long time .. Although its not like i was very consistent in my blogging but in last few months .. i was completely out of touch! But then .. something was missing, always used to think I should write again.
So here am I .. after so many days of "break" ( I will say :-) )
So .. whats new in my life now a days .. well nothing much .. but .. some change .. naya roomie aya hai .. I call him "Chinnaswamy" .. now dont ask me why .. cos even i donno the reason! ;-) just like that .. So .. here i am ... WELCOME MR CHINNASWAMY !!! :-) .. hopefully he will read this blog.
Surprise Surprise ... we have started cooking .. and believe me .. it comes out quite well everytime (touchwood!). So right from Veg Raita (raitha as called here) to Tomato Soup, bhendi ki sabji to 35 chapatis at a time .. we have done quite a bit .. and really .. it has been a good experience. really think why didnt we do it earlier ..
Cooking at home .. with friends is real fun yaar . .must say .. didnt experience it for last 3 years but aajkal maja aa raha hai .. Atleast we can hope for some productive output after 3 hrs of preparations .. aur rahi baat taste ki .. to .. 3 ghanta cook karne ke baad .. kachha khana diya to vo bhi swaadisht lagega !! :-)
Vaise we have nice experts at our place .. one, expert in Pulao, Chinnaswamy an expert in overall cooking .. and me .. ok .. now dont expect anything here !! .. oh yes .. as many of u would guess .. I am expert in eating!!
So .. hoping my cooking continues for days to come .. weekend achha gujarta hai .. and ya .. Pls do come .. ALL ARE INVITED!! But once u r here .. Be rest assured, i will do what i can do the best. TESTING! yup .. u cook and i will have it .. :-)
So here am I .. after so many days of "break" ( I will say :-) )
So .. whats new in my life now a days .. well nothing much .. but .. some change .. naya roomie aya hai .. I call him "Chinnaswamy" .. now dont ask me why .. cos even i donno the reason! ;-) just like that .. So .. here i am ... WELCOME MR CHINNASWAMY !!! :-) .. hopefully he will read this blog.
Surprise Surprise ... we have started cooking .. and believe me .. it comes out quite well everytime (touchwood!). So right from Veg Raita (raitha as called here) to Tomato Soup, bhendi ki sabji to 35 chapatis at a time .. we have done quite a bit .. and really .. it has been a good experience. really think why didnt we do it earlier ..
Cooking at home .. with friends is real fun yaar . .must say .. didnt experience it for last 3 years but aajkal maja aa raha hai .. Atleast we can hope for some productive output after 3 hrs of preparations .. aur rahi baat taste ki .. to .. 3 ghanta cook karne ke baad .. kachha khana diya to vo bhi swaadisht lagega !! :-)
Vaise we have nice experts at our place .. one, expert in Pulao, Chinnaswamy an expert in overall cooking .. and me .. ok .. now dont expect anything here !! .. oh yes .. as many of u would guess .. I am expert in eating!!
So .. hoping my cooking continues for days to come .. weekend achha gujarta hai .. and ya .. Pls do come .. ALL ARE INVITED!! But once u r here .. Be rest assured, i will do what i can do the best. TESTING! yup .. u cook and i will have it .. :-)
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Eating Habits ... Cant copy u!!
It was night 9:30 and I was hungry, so much so .. that i could have had anything in front of me. A friend of mine suggested if we could go to "The Pongal", an authentic TamilNadu, unhygenic mess serving idlis and dosas who u would have never heard of.
Lungis and white shirts, the typical south wear we could see .. may b being frm mumbai .. i m used to it .. but the way i called the waiter there .. "Hey Bossss, order lena" .. and the waiter realised ... that we are the customers .. who can be easily neglected. ;-) But i quickly learnt a few tricks and called "annaaa" and he came running .. haha!! "Dose me kya hai", i asked .. and what happened was really filmy style .. my anna was uttering words like a "without brakes Indrayani express" :-) and i could understand nothing .. thought a bit abt the order .. and i continued .. what generally happens in films, i said .. "vo last me bola vo leke aa na" :-)
Then came the order for idlis .. and i could make out atleast one dish out of the whole list .. "Tanjore Idli" ... goshhhhhhhh .. if thats a real Tanjore Idli .. i wont go to Tanjore in my lifetime!
Looking at others enjoying their dishes .. i thought of copying their eating style .. and i put my hand in the bowl of sambar idli :-) maja aya ... but it doesnt come naturally to us .. and hence i wont like to copy it again! Nice heavy food .. whose names i dont know :-) Returned home at around 11pm and needless to say .. had a severe stomachache for next two days!
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Life is changing!
Life changes and I think the first change we see is when we come out of our college life and enter the real world of competition, industries, job, job satisfaction and god knows what else. But finally everything boils down to the pay-check which we get at the end of the month. That really shows if u r satisfied and has ur life changed. Or does it, really?
I still remember my first travel from my hometown to my place where i earn my bread, we four in group, guess it was my first/second travel in AC coach. Was so excited to start a new beginning, was sad to be away from my family but used to consolidate myself saying "its a matter of 3 months and i will go and meet them" and yes .. still whenever i go home .. my excitement is seen, eager to meet my family, friends, my place and my home.
I still remember my first month in a lodge. 5 friends staying in a small room, travelling 1hr one way in the traffic to reach office, looking for houses on rent after working hours and coming back to the lodge. Those are the days, difficult to forget, 5 people, 1 room, lodge manager shouting to vacate the room, our 1 month stay, looking for houses .. it was all great
I still remember my first day in office, new place, new work and new faces. The day i felt, "this is my karmbhumi" and the day when whatever people said, was falling on my deaf years because i was in the mood of my own. It all felt wonderful, when unexpectedly my friends joined me and the work became lot easier, lot of fun and time spent was friendship earned. As my Boss would put it, "wherever u go, u will always be attached with the people here" and its true! Apart from work what i recieved is gr8 friendship and m realy lucky to have found few very good friends.
I still remember the day when one of my roomie left us to go back hometown. There was time when we shared a small 2bhk, actually a 1bhk with the way we maintain it ;-) among 7 of us. All together, adjusting, enjoying, fighting but all very much bonded with each other. Then how does it feel, when one says "I am getting transferred, going back hometown". I felt happy, happy bcos it was a gr8 news for him but that was the first time it struck me ... that we all r here together, to leave one day .. and sooner or later thats going to happen
I still remember those days, when we use to give b'day treats at a place where less price was the priority and food came next. Good restaurants, expensive resorts was to be experienced only when the company pays for it. But now .. we go to these places on our own, earlier treat included only food and no drinks but now, drinks are mandatory. :-) (should mention, i dont drink) .. but as i said, somethings are bound to change .. and so now a days treats are not to celebrate b'day parties but to bid farewell to roommates.
I still wish to remember so many moments as i know, these moments are temporary .. because .. life changes!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
My first experience at "I interview U"
Once we are out of college and start attending interviews our aim is to get selected and get into a company .. get settled!! While doing so ... one such thought passes by everyone's mind ... what if i can exchange the seats on an intervew table!!!!! ... but we also know ... that its not possible so soon and we just laugh at it ...
I recently had that experience when I was asked to interview a person for the first time. One fine day ... manager came to me and said .. "mukul, you ar in the interview panel" ... and i was stunned! I, with an experience of 2 yrs and bit in this industry was not at all ready to hear this from my manager. As he said ... i went completely blank and asked him for few days to prepare myself. He just smiled at went away ... I just couldnt guess why he smiled at me ... but the answer to it was immediately in my Outlook inbox when an email popped up from HR. Email said .."Candidate Interview, tomorrow morning" and to add to it .. I was the first one .. to take his interview..It was not my day ... or may be He wanted me to prepare all alone, every person whom i approached for tips was not found at his seat and i was left with no choice but to think and think hard .. it was a case of thinking so hard to outsmart the candidate tomorrow. Now that was a tough one for me .. At 8pm i started preparing, collecting information ... but what should i ask ...At such times ... you get a very logical question ... "what do i know, to ask the candidate??" ... even i thought of the same .. and ... started tickling my somewhat rusted brains :-)
Unix, programing, puzzles, job profile, attitude ... so much to look for .. and have no time .. Googled around to get some info .. thought of new questions ... my approach towards the candidate, kind of questions, pace of questions .. so much to think .. and no one to help .. Went home at around 11pm. Found my roomie and explained him everything .. The moment i told him one of my decided interview questions, he started laughing on the complexity of questions ; for him it was level-1 question. I was confused for a moment but was determined not to change my strategy and i was waiting for the day with my preparations.
The next day, i reached office at 8:30am. Generally i wake up at 8:30 :-) I was a bit nervous .. but was sure i would be as confident as i should be as i approach the candidate. It was 10am and the girl came. Its natural right that i looked at her face .. she was so nervous which gave me the required strength and i was back to normal. Interview went on for 50 mins and i was not at all satisfied. I left the room and discussed with my manager the interview details. I was just not satisfied. One more round of interview was taken by my colleague and he thought the same. The candidate was rejected. Selection or rejection was not in my hands, i feel it was in the candidate's hand. It was all over, my first interview as an interviewer :-) and my manager couldnt stop laughing at me .. after looking at my reactions ;)
It was an experience to remember. My roomie should definately remember bcos this was the only day where i didnt bathromm sing, didnt shout, scream, laugh at night the day before, didnt chit-chat, woke up at 7 and reached office at 8:30am (my wake up time). All was unusual ... and what it says is ... I was thinking abt the interview for the whole night and the next morning. It has never happened to me that I have been so silent ... and thats the difference i could note the next day ... when i was recollecting my preparations for the day ..
Its not just that the candidate has to prepare but its the interviewer who has to prepare too which i never realised before. It was a good opportunity for me to refresh my other technical knowledge which we dont use in current work but also is as important as any other. The moment i realised all this ... i just thought that i dont care if i take any other interviews anytime .. but my first experience with it was pretty awsum and the one to remember. :-)
I recently had that experience when I was asked to interview a person for the first time. One fine day ... manager came to me and said .. "mukul, you ar in the interview panel" ... and i was stunned! I, with an experience of 2 yrs and bit in this industry was not at all ready to hear this from my manager. As he said ... i went completely blank and asked him for few days to prepare myself. He just smiled at went away ... I just couldnt guess why he smiled at me ... but the answer to it was immediately in my Outlook inbox when an email popped up from HR. Email said .."Candidate Interview, tomorrow morning" and to add to it .. I was the first one .. to take his interview..It was not my day ... or may be He wanted me to prepare all alone, every person whom i approached for tips was not found at his seat and i was left with no choice but to think and think hard .. it was a case of thinking so hard to outsmart the candidate tomorrow. Now that was a tough one for me .. At 8pm i started preparing, collecting information ... but what should i ask ...At such times ... you get a very logical question ... "what do i know, to ask the candidate??" ... even i thought of the same .. and ... started tickling my somewhat rusted brains :-)
Unix, programing, puzzles, job profile, attitude ... so much to look for .. and have no time .. Googled around to get some info .. thought of new questions ... my approach towards the candidate, kind of questions, pace of questions .. so much to think .. and no one to help .. Went home at around 11pm. Found my roomie and explained him everything .. The moment i told him one of my decided interview questions, he started laughing on the complexity of questions ; for him it was level-1 question. I was confused for a moment but was determined not to change my strategy and i was waiting for the day with my preparations.
The next day, i reached office at 8:30am. Generally i wake up at 8:30 :-) I was a bit nervous .. but was sure i would be as confident as i should be as i approach the candidate. It was 10am and the girl came. Its natural right that i looked at her face .. she was so nervous which gave me the required strength and i was back to normal. Interview went on for 50 mins and i was not at all satisfied. I left the room and discussed with my manager the interview details. I was just not satisfied. One more round of interview was taken by my colleague and he thought the same. The candidate was rejected. Selection or rejection was not in my hands, i feel it was in the candidate's hand. It was all over, my first interview as an interviewer :-) and my manager couldnt stop laughing at me .. after looking at my reactions ;)
It was an experience to remember. My roomie should definately remember bcos this was the only day where i didnt bathromm sing, didnt shout, scream, laugh at night the day before, didnt chit-chat, woke up at 7 and reached office at 8:30am (my wake up time). All was unusual ... and what it says is ... I was thinking abt the interview for the whole night and the next morning. It has never happened to me that I have been so silent ... and thats the difference i could note the next day ... when i was recollecting my preparations for the day ..
Its not just that the candidate has to prepare but its the interviewer who has to prepare too which i never realised before. It was a good opportunity for me to refresh my other technical knowledge which we dont use in current work but also is as important as any other. The moment i realised all this ... i just thought that i dont care if i take any other interviews anytime .. but my first experience with it was pretty awsum and the one to remember. :-)
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