Let’s continue from where we left in the previous post. Just
a week after day zero, I was to appear in the CMAT examination but I couldn’t
because of some health issues and which effectively halted my MBA preparation.
Although I did appear in other 3 exams, I appeared in all MBA entrance on my
instinct, got very miserable score in CAT which might be because of my own
inability or as some people say because of CAT 2013 discrepancy and the
normalization problem, failed to clear IIFT entrance by 1 mark, but finally
ended on a good note by scoring 96.56 percentile in XAT. I didn’t apply for any
colleges though because by then I was pretty tired of all these and had no
motivation left for any kind of new preparation specially travelling throughout
the country for interviews, also I find something missing or lacking, don’t
know what it was still it didn’t seem like a perfect time.
I had a really nice time in January and February, January
was Accenture training so it was a bit hectic still it was enjoyable and February
I focused on things I always wanted to do. I did freelancing projects, read
many novels, wrote many poems, and most of all what I always wanted to do , I
did nothing, just rested, watched FRIENDS again and let the thoughts ran freely
in my mind but took no action. Taking rest once a while is really good, really
recharges you.
So now let us come back to our topic. The dream companies,
dream company is one where you are allowed to sit despite having other
placement offers. Generally, if you are placed in any company then you won’t be
allowed to sit in any other company as it would be unfair for both the company
and for those students who are yet to be placed but still dream companies give
a comparatively higher package and take significantly lesser number of people
based on very rigorous process, hence everyone prepares for dream companies
properly.
I had the privilege to appear in 2 companies, adobe and
Amdocs. I cleared the latter one, but failed in the former one. Let’s start
with Adobe, though you might only be using only the free products of Adobe like
flash player, shockwave, reader etc but yes Adobe had a significantly large
number of licensed products and as such is a very nice company to start your
career with, it gives significantly high package and other perks and also life
and work culture at adobe is different from mass recruiters. Adobe generally
used to come around September in my college, but after lots of confusion
whether it will be coming or not it finally came in the last week of March.
ADOBE:
Adobe gave us lots of shock. The written test kept on preopening
and in fact there were few people who failed to come back in the town and
weren’t able to sit in test. It happened much early then the original date and
most of us weren’t done with their preparation by then so it’s always better to
take some uncertainty factor into account for tests date, things may get pre-pone
or postpone. The test contained 4 sections, 2 were of analytical ability and quantitative
ability, third one was technical, these 3 were objective the final section was
subjective with 4 c/c++ question where you are suppose to do coding.
The questions weren’t tough, aptitude question were more of
paragraph type question rather than being single question type. Technical
questions were usual, finding the error or determining the output or whether
the program will execute or give compilation error. The 4 theoretical questions
were also very basic like generating a random number between a specific range,
program for matrix multiplication, conversion of binary into decimal etc. Due
to some reason Adobe didn’t change the question for the next batch and all the
questions were same. People say only 2 people were selected from 1st
batch and 18th from the second, I was in the first batch.
Anyway, so my journey ended in the first round but I was
there throughout the interview processes of other candidates just to support
some friends and as I have already said that even if you don’t get selected you
should be there in the other rounds just to get the experience. Anyway, the
interviews are much more rigorous and far tougher than any other company.
Interview last for more than 1 hour, there are three or four rounds. Some
people were rejected after 2 rounds (1 tech and 1 HR) and rest few had an extra
or 2 extra technical rounds. Adobe asks different type of questions like how
much total memory MS word consumes while running, difference between 32 bit and
64 bit system, difference between FAT and NTFS, logical puzzles, pattern
generation program, questions related to JVM etc various programs of which you
have to give an efficient answer so better brush up your C/C++ skills and
coding skills if you are appearing for adobe interview. Adobe selected only 3 candidates from our
college and at the same day GATE results were announced too which further
enhanced the gloomy atmosphere, I tried to cheer my friends up by this poem.
AMDOCS:
Anyway, in less than a week we were supposed to sit for
AMDOCS written test. Not much people has the strength and well power left to
prepare for it, many didn’t appear and those who did just come without any
preparation like me. Amdocs written has 5 sections, quant + some passage round
+ technical language + programming round + SQL and Unix. Written is followed by
2 interviews, technical and HR and all the 3 rounds are elimination rounds.
First round was easy, I attempted initial 3 sections nicely
but the 2 programs that I had to solve were very tough, I had no idea and I
wasn’t able to write anything productive at all. Both, SQL and UNIX were never
my favorite subject, I had zilch knowledge of Unix and very basic knowledge of
SQL, so I attempted this round mostly by common sense and elimination method. As
I knew both my programs were wrong so I wasn’t expecting to clear written but I
did, guess there weren’t sectional cut off here so it’s always a nice feeling
to clear a test when you are not at all expecting to clear it. Even if you are
not knowing anything about question still instead of random guesses, look for
some hits and apply a little common sense, you would definitely be able to
solve few questions.
The interview were postponed again and happened almost 2
weeks after written test between our final exams just a day after control
system paper. Barring some few very studious highly sincere no life people every
CS guy has screwed the paper so again tired by the exam studies we don’t have
much stamina to prepare for interview. As Unix and SQL plays an important part
in Amdocs and I wasn’t having much time to prepare them I downloaded lots of
videos and PPT, watch them throughout the night and made a word document to revise
all the commands and theoretical concepts so that I can revise it on the
interview day. Transiting to PPTs and videos is always a good option if you don’t
have enough time for preparation and it’s actually a nice way to learn.
The technical interview started with programming only. I was
asked to make 3 programs, to find length of a string, to reverse a string and
to check whether a string is palindrome or not. Rest followed by simple SQL
questions like JOINs and all and lastly a few basic UNIX commands. The HR round
mostly focused on whether you would be flexible enough to work on a 24*7
schedule ( Yes I am facing that now :P ) and she was quite impressed by my role
in the college level startup I was part of, so yes having a diversified profile
indeed helps, rest it was just normal question. Others follow the same league,
simple programs + basic HR questions. A few people who were the high scorer in
the written test, their interviews were taken by a director, rest of us have
our interviews by managers. My interview ended around 1 PM, we waited around 11
PM before the results were announced. I got in along with 26 other candidates,
my joining was on 26th May, and since then I am having my new life
at Amdocs. Quite different work culture here with lots of free and subsidized
food which is very nice. Free snacks, sandwiches and fruits twice a day.
Flexible working hours, no formals, access to all the social networking sites.
So new life, new adventures, new experiments, new challenges, it’s a new world
it’s a new start.
That was it from the placement side; I hope you enjoyed all
the posts. All the best to everyone who is appearing for recruitment processes.
Always remember, no recruitment process can tell your potential or judge you
correctly so never be down because of few failures, it’s a big world , just
look for the perfect place you will fit in, keep trying and you will definitely
make it to somewhere really nice in your life.
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