After writing Infy's first round (Apps + Logical Reasoning + Verbal), my friends and I were waiting for the results very anxiously. I bit the confident enough of being selected in the written since I usually solved 75 apps questions rightly in my 4 days training session by FACE institute. But still I was anxious about the results due to the fact that I always used to collapse in my final exams in all my semesters. While everyone was chatting with their neighbor chair-mates, suddenly our auditorium door was opened, and that moments all rose to their feet as usual except few to show our respect towards the Infy's recruiting team.
Wow! (With heart racing at its extreme) All my college administration & departmental heads are standing in a single stage. This remembered me the aftermath of our unit tests and semester's result viewing moments in Anna university's portal. After few seconds of silence, we took our seats, and then few college giants gave some speech. As I am anxious about the results my only concentration was on the few sheets present in the hands of a recruiter. That moment came, they said that out of around 200 candidates 90 got selected, It was a shocking fact for us and me since we expected more numbers to be recruited by them and I am going to my many friends as I know at least 20 in each department.
They started to utter the names that were written in their sheets, after uttering few names, one of the college giant stopped it..., and once again my heart touched its extreme speed, hell!!! I respect him but to stop the rhythm is annoying. Thank god he remembered the humanity and greatness hidden inside us by asking us to congratulate the fellow mates who have cleared the written. After that clapping sound cautiously echoed after every name for few moments. I was cautiously clapping for every name expecting that my will be next. After seeing that near to 70 were cornered by the Infy team as they tagged with "selected" candidate, I was disappointed, still I kept my hopes alive by consoling myself by saying "First will be announced last". After few names they called it as their last name, from the moment after hearing the word "last", the room was conquered by the silence.
After the recruiters left the room and our friends (selected friends) also left, at that time we only had "selected" and "not selected" students. At that moment few gave fake smile of being happy for not selected, few showed the confidence of getting selected into other MNC, few were consoled themselves that small companies will respect them, few just moved on like nothing has happened for the last one month, few got sunken into dumb silence, few started to explain why they have not selected by saying that few questions were unexpected, management has not given enough money to recruiters, and so on.
After that day, I peddled my cycles to home with a buddy consoling me that we are meant for core engineering. He also consoled me that he was not even able to attend the interview process at least I was able to see how MNC interview. Still I could not digest the fact that I was dejected for not doing in basic math and verbal. As soon as we reached my home, my mom saw my face and asked us whether we took our lunch or not, I replied “Ya, We had enough” and I continued to tell that “I am not selected in interview and my fellows got selected”. She just handed us with a jug of water. After few gallops, she asked, “Why is it that much tough?” I just replied “No, Easy only but I don’t know…” She asked us “Leave it. What is the next company? Will there be anything for the on-campus?”
As I galloped few gulps of water my buddy replied “We don’t know ma. Probably off campus only. In that also I can’t attend”.
She replied back “You suffer due to the fact you don’t have good marks in school. But see him, he got good marks still he is doing at his worst. I don’t how he will reply his brother. Yesterday itself his brother explained about his sufferings and asked him to prepare well.” I popped in “I don’t know…” She asked “What about your project mates?” I replied firmly “They both got selected” She started console “His brother also like this only. God only has to save your friend. Ok, you go to the terrace and I will call you for tea.” Then I went on to hear my buddy with deaf ears and doing post-mortem of the questions, and faces I saw on that day.
After that interview, I never got dejected from any interview due to aptitude and logical reasoning. Only in one or two interviews I am not able to crack verbal and grammar. And I took AMCAT tests to get off campus which has given 4 or 5 companies. I went on to work on my basic grammar by going through sites like www.ego4u.com and other 9th, 10th Standard English Text Books. One week before on every interview I brushed up the basic Math. Simply I cracked around more than 16 interviews.
Where I am from: I did my engineering degree at Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering situated near to Tambaram. And I did my schooling in Padappai Government School and Jaigopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School. Just like other so called top scorers I was also the one of them in my school.
