It took me 2 hours to get back this blog from Hibernation. Whenever I come back from failure, I come with a Bang on everyone’s Back. That’s called “Back with a Bang on Back !”
Why I took Infy ?
Atleast a dozen of my friends (Including a girl) told me “We were expecting you to get placed in I-Flex very easily, but you failed to do that”
I strongly believe in two things 1.Talent 2.HardWork
There cant be a single person in this world, who could succeed without hard work. I am no way an exception for that. I never prepared for that I-Flex and that’s why I dint get placed.
Right from my childhood, I use to experiment many things on myself. This time it was for Infy. I learnt two things from I-Flex : My analytical reasoning skills were Ok and I need to concentrate more on Verbal. So, I decided not to touch my RS Agarwal book for the whole process. I gave my book to Jegan so that He could read and I started reading my V std English Grammar book !
And ultimately that paid Off !
Immedately after seeing my paper, I thought Ravi should clear this paper very much with ease. And I never thought I would clear Aps so easily, but once I cleared that, I knew I should walk through the interview.
Before interview I had only 2 things in mind,
- I should expose that I am state 8th rank in chess (that’s the only point I had with me)
- I should never expose that I am a GATE qualified candidate
And luckily I did both these things. comfortably.
With my Own Slang “Excuse Mam”, I Entered the room.
It was a lady HR wearing Chudi with “no Make-up”.
She: So, How do you feel Gopalakrishnan ?
Me : Yes Mam Fine !
She : You have got a very big list in Co-Curricular Activities, Talk something about that. Other than academics
She never knows that I am poor in Academics. I started all over from my VI std and ended up till my IIIyr of Engineering stating all the National level Competitions that I have won, Maths Olympiads, Culturals and of course My state rank in Chess. And this took me around 4 minutes.
Me: Mam ! Should I add anything more ?
She: Yes ! Of Course Gopalakrishnan (Smiling !)
I thought She was making fun out of me, And I again told the same things with a Smile !
She: So, Gopalakrishnan why do you go and participate and win all the Competitions ?
Me : I dont go and win all the competitions that I participate. My life is completely composed of 3 things Adventure, Thrills, Humour. I am basically a humorous person. (She laughs). More than 90% of my participations end up with great failure. But in that 10% that I win, I stand Distinctly Ahead of others, which Others have never ever dreamt of. And that’s how I won many great things in my life.
She was completely convinced with this answer.
She: What is your favourite subject Gopalakrishnan ?
Me: Thoery of Computation (I know many would have difficulty in studying this subject)
She: Why ? Any specific reason ?
Me: A computer’s most basic things are discussed here mam !
She: Any other subject ?
Me: Data Structures (Gave her a chance, to make me tongue tied, but she never utilized that)
She: If you fail in 90% of events that you participate, then Why do you go and attend all those ?
Me: If I am successful today, then It is because of my failures. My failures have shown me the best path. Pain is my teacher. More than everything I gain a lot of experience which I can share with guys like me who are unsuccessful.
She: Are there anyone, who have become successful with your guidance ?
Me: I take immense care when I guide someone. I have made many of those whom I guide into a successful person.
She: Ok Gopalakrishnan ! All the Best ! ! !
Some 2 and half hours later, they came and announced the results. And My name was there along with Ravi’s name.
What went wrong for others ?
Most of the Big guns in my class have flunked in the Aps round itself. The whole Department was expecting a lot from them. This should really hurt them. “They have let their Department Down ! ”
“Everyone is equal before Law ! ”
You may have 83% aggregate, You may have excellent communication skills, you may be very good in Programming, You may speak a hifi English, You may be having a Distinction Degree, but your “Problem Solving Skills” only matters in these type of Examinations.
It is not that, you prepare well go and write your exams and get 80-82 % percent come back and again be an “Academic Punk”, with no use to anyone.
Luck favours only the Brave !
Everyone of us, did our interview well, but luck favoured only 8 of us. And fortunately or unfortunately I was one of that Eight from my class.
So, the moral of the story is:
“Infy has selected Gopal as their Employee, but Gopal has not yet selected Infy as his WorkPlace !”
July 7th, 2008 at 8:51 am
You fuck
July 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Congratulations and glad to see that you still hold on to your goal of studying in IIT. I was thinking whether it was IIT Gopal or INFY Gopal. Now I’m clear.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I never prepared for that I-Flex and that’s why I dint get placed.
This is the answer every guys gives as a reason for not getting placed that too after getting placed.
. I gave my book to Jegan so that He could read and I started reading my V std English Grammar book !
And ultimately that paid Off !
Do you really think if you read 5th std grammer you can clear any interview easily?
She: So, Gopalakrishnan why do you go and participate and win all the Competitions ?
Me : I dont go and win all the competitions that I participate. My life is completely composed of 3 things Adventure, Thrills, Humour. I am basically a humorous person. (She laughs). More than 90% of my participations end up with great failure. But in that 10% that I win, I stand Distinctly Ahead of others, which Others have never ever dreamt of. And that’s how I won many great things in my life.
Excellent answer.
You may have 83% aggregate, You may have excellent communication skills, you may be very good in Programming, You may speak a hifi English, You may be having a Distinction Degree, but your “Problem Solving Skills” only matters in these type of Examinations.
Obsolutely wrong. Only in Infy they don’t ask you technical questions, but in other companies you need excellent communication , very good in Programming,speak a hifi English, Distinction Degree ( u cant have 59% and attend infy) Only problem solving skill wont help you da.. you need others too.
“Infy has selected Gopal as their Employee, but Gopal has not yet selected Infy as his WorkPlace !”
My suggestion not to go there, cos Infosys is worst place to work. You have a good score and talent so better finish your higher studies, i know anytime you can get a job. As you said luck favours brave and you are brave enough and have talent too
Infosys has the most easiest recruiting process and others has failed to utilize it and you good man.
Getting placed in some other companies which has many tougher rounds(aps, HR) and technical questions, GD is a big deal. Hope u do it also.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I never felt bad about not getting placed in I-Flex. Even If I had prepared for I-Flex, I dont even know whether I would have placed or not (after all I am also a Human Being Right !)
And regarding that V std Grammar book, it could have worked only for me. I never mentioned that “It is enough to get into Infy”. My reasoning skills were Ok at that time and so I never bothered about that. It was a Gamble played by me(on me). You dont need even a V std English Grammar book to clear the Interview. I just had a glance at it so that I could recall things like Prepositions, and some other related stuffs.
Note that in this post I was mentioning mainly about the “Aps round”. You need not have a Distinction Degree to directly enter the Interview (except in some colleges). You could speak hifi English but it wont help you to get into the Interview round directly. And atleast now I came to know that even Technical Questions are asked in Aps round. I never know that nor anyone told me about that.
Getting a job after clearing Aps is not at all a big thing. I never mentioned the interview was tough. I just mentioned where others “could” have went wrong.
And this time the minimum percentage was little bit high, you cant attend even if your aggregate is less than 63%.
Infy has the most easiest recruiting process. I totally agree with that.
And Infy did ask some technical questions in interview and I am lucky to get a HR who never bothered asking one to me.
I am really happy to hear two things from you : 1.You read every line of my blog and 2. You rock in PPP and make a handful out of it. I saw your spirit of using PPP in college. Congrats and All the Best ! ! !
July 14th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Thanks man. One thing i make you clear. I meant that in some company first round they ask technical questions. Aptitude itself cannot contain technical question. Like virtusa, Mphasis, EDS, and i know at least 8 more companies like that. Alright leave that.