Hello All,
Please go through the following interrview and let me know how you'll rate the same:
College: SIBM Pune
Candidate: EXTC graduate working in TCS for 27 months
Interviewer1: HR Faculty from SIBM
Interviewer2: An Industry expert (Laywer by profession)
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Interviewer1: Tell us something about yourself.
Candidate: I am ... from Mumbai. Born and brought up in the city, i live with my parents. My father is an Estate agent and my mom is a homemaker. My sibling is currently pursuing his CA course. he has completed his Company Secretarial Course. I completed my graduation from K J Somaiya COE and have been working with TCS since the past 27 months.
Is there something specific you are looking for?
I1: Tell us something about your hobbies(Smiles).
C: I like reading novels and also playing chess.
I2: So you play chess regularly?
C: I used to play chess regularly till my junior college. But after getting into Engineering, i was unable to devote adequate time to the same.
I2: Have you played in any tournaments?
C: In my junior college, i did represent my institute in a college level competition.
I1: How would you rate yourself on a scale of 10 when it comes to academics?
C: I would rate myself somewhere between 7 - 7.5
I1: And what about extra curricular activities?
C: I would say, it would be around 8.5-9
I1: Any reason why you would rate yourself higher in extra curriculars?
C: I had been actively involved in the extra curricular activities during my college. I was the Cultural Secretary in the students cuncil in Junior College.
I was also the PRO for IETE council and had also acted as the Comparer/Host for several college events besides participating in the Chess competition.
I1: Tell us something about your job.
C: I am working in TCS for the past 27 months and am currently working as a Module Leader. I lead a Team size of around 5 members.
I1: When you are already in such a good designation, why would you want to leave the firm and join a full time 2 yrs course. You would need to resign from your organisation for this right?
C: Its not the case. TCS encourages its employees to go for an MBA and are willing to retain the employees as a part of the organisation during the tenure of their academic course. The employees are on Leave wihout pay but still a part of the organisation. The motive behind me to go for an MBA is to learn the various aspects of an organisation. Currently I concentrate only on the technical aspects. I would like to learn a great deal of the various other activities like how the Marketing team functions. What are the dyanamics on which the project costings is decided and so on so that i have a better insight and i can manage things better given the opportunity.
I2: Can you give us an example of failure in your life? And also how you tackled the same.
C: (Thinking) I would say it came at the onset of our project when we were just being allocated our modules. I was very keen to be a part of the main module of our Project say Module1. However when the team segregation happened i was assigned to Module2 which was relatively a simpler module compared to the Module1. I was very dejected due to this and considered this as a personal failure as i was unable to ramp up my skills in the Java coding set so as to be considered for being a part of the Module1 team.
I2: And how did you tackle the situation?
C: As i told you i was dejected at the beginning and took a few days to get back to normal. But then i considered this as a blessing in disguise and concentrated my energy on ramping up my Jave skills and also at the same time being an active part of the module2. The efforts paid off and i was recognised for the same when the project went into support. I was promoted as the Module Leader for both support of the entire project and was able to tackle the issues arriving in the Module1 as well.
Now when i look back i feel it was for the better that i was not assigned to the Module1 as it required a lot of knowledge and deep understanding of the Java coding, which at that point of time i lacked. I very much made up for the same in the coming months while working on the second module.
I2: Why would you feel your coding skills were relatively weaker compared to your contemporary?
C: It may be primarily because i came from EXTC engg. while my colleagues were from Comp. Engg. stream. This gave them an edge when it came to coding.
I2: Then Why did you opt for joining the IT industry after completing your graduation in EXTC?
C: It was due to several factors primary amongst them being that i completed my graduation in the year 2008 when there was a huge crisis in the market and the jobs were hard to come by. During that time when i got the offer from TCS i was more than willing to take up the challenge. Plus there was the Brand TATA associated with the company which made the offer even more lucrative.
I2: So was it because of an absence of Jobs in market of for Brand TATA that you joined TCS?
C: I would say it was a combination of several factors, but these two were the primary.
I2: If you were given a choice between TCS and TATA Telecom during that time, Which one would you have opted for?
C: I would have opted for the TATA Telecom offer.
I2: Have you been to your native place?
C: Not in the recent past. We have our entire family settled in Mumbai and do not have any relatives in our native place. Also the property there has been sold off years ago and hence have not visited the same since ages.
I2: But have you visited any rural areas?
C: I most certainly have. We visit a village in Gujarat for a yearly occasion when we go for a Pooja at one of the temple's.
I1: That should be it. It was a pleasure talking with you.
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