Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.


Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele
Communication
engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of
Technology.


Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of
Technology? I had never
heard of this college before!

Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before
getting an
admission into it . What happened is - due to cricket
world cup I scored badly
in
12th.I was getting a paid seat in a good college. But
my father said (I
prefer to call him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much
of money".(The
baap actually said - "I will never waste so much of
money on you"). So I
had to join this college. Frankly
speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the
most be related
to a
Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years
to complete your
engineering.

Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4
years. But you
know ,
these cricket matches and football world cup, and
tennis
tournaments..It is
difficult to concentrate. So I flunked in 2nd and 3rd
year. So in all I
took
4 + 2 = 7 years.

Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6.

Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in
maths. But I will try
to
keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good, thanks. These
cricket matches really
affect exams a lot. I think they ! should ban it.

Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket
matches to be banned.

Candidate: No, no.. I am talking about Exams!!

Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in
life?

Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My
mom never thought I
would complete it. In fact, when i flunked in 3rd
year, she was looking
for
a job for me in BEST(Bus corporation in Maharashtra)
through some
relative .


Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?

Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing
\'lower\' education
itself
was so much of pain!!

Interviewer: Let\'s talk about technical stuff. On
which platforms have
you
worked?

Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say
Andheri is my current
platform . Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was
my platform
then. As
you can see I have experience of different platforms !
(Vashi and
Andheri
are the places in Mumbai)

Interviewer: And which languages have you used?

Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can
keep quiet in
German,
French, Russian and many other languages.

Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?

Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So
VC is a higher
version
than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a
new language VD!
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Interviewer: What are your expectations from our
company?

Candidate: Not much.

1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.

2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it
should not have
deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects
natural talent.

3. I believe in flexi-timings.

4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would
like to wear t-shirt
and
jeans.

5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest wednesday
off also, so as
to
avoid breakdown due to overwork.

6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short
term preferably
1-2
months) assignments. Personally I prefer US,Australia
and Europe. But
considering the fact that there is a world cup in West
Indies in 2007,I
don\'t mind going there in that period . As you can
see I am modest and
don\'t
have many expectations. So can I assume my selection?
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Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly
Language?

Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess,
this is the
language our ministers and MPs use in assembly .

Interviewer: What is your general project experience?

Candidate: My general experience about projects is -
most of th! e
times they are in pipeline!

Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?

Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata
InfoTech ltd. Since
joining BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used
to think that
Bench was another software like Windows.

Interviewer: Do you have any project management
experience?

Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult.
I know Word and
Excel.I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for
International phone call
and use speaker facility. And very important - I know
few words like -
'Showstoppers ' , 'hotfixes',
'SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' ,
'Customer
Satisfaction' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!