PERSISTENT INTERVIEW

================================================uddalak banerjee(UBJ)

The most memorable of interview experiences that I had was in case of persistent company.The
experience was unforgettable not just because it was perhaps the most technical oriented company
that had visited in NIT RAIPUR CAMPUS after DRDO.ALTHOUGH comparisons between a Psu of the
order of DRDO and a private small Nagpur based company like persistent would be rather farfetched
but if you consider the amount of grilling that they did in the two technical interviews back to back
which they did I think it would be very wise to say that the comparison was all the more substantial.

FIRST THERE WAS A SUPER TECHNICAL WRITTEN ROUND WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY LISTING OF ALL
THE NAMES OF SELECTED STUDENTS .AFTER WHICH ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THE TECHNICAL
INTERVIEWS BEGAN.I was in a spot of bother .This spot was created by the fact that it was offering a
very low salary in and around 2.8 lakh and the HRs of persistent during slide presentation of the
company quite blatantly was saying that there was a very little scope of immediate growth .And
added to that the fact that I had my SNAP paper the very next day put me somewhat in a dilemma as
to what is to be done.

Anyways after QUALIFYING in the written round and because I had a train to catch to Nagpur which
was my SNAP centre I was the first person to walk in to the technical interview room which was in our
IT lab.And the moment I was entering the lab ,my two juniors ankita and rupal who were diligently
performing all their duties wished me “all the best “ and with bated breath I entered the room.

FIRST TECHNICAL INTERVIEW

Technical interviewer was a man in his thirties ,he understood my tentative ness and smiled as soon as
I entered the room.

Technical interviewer,”take your seat”

UBJ DRAGGED THE SEAT BACK AND SAT.

Technical interviewer,”tumhara technical ka score to acha hai.Tum batao tumhe kaunsa subject acha
lagta hai?”

UBJ ,”C ,C++,JAVA,HTML…THAT IS IT”

Technical interviewer,”hmm what do you like in C?’

UBj,” it is a middle level language…it can interact with hardware more efficient ly than any other
language.”
Technical interviewer,”and C++?”

Ubj,”in c++ we get added functionality like INLINE FUNCTIONS,OPERATOR OVERLOADING ,VIRTUAL
FUNCTIONS,CLASS STRUCTURE..”

Technical interviewer,”WRITE A SIMPLE PROGRAM USING STRUCTURE”

UBJ,”struct ubj{

Int c;

Int d;

Float a;

Char c;

Main (){

Ubj uddalak;

Technical interviewer,” how can you perform the mobile post function in C?”

Ubj,”I have never done mobile coding in C but I believe that we can use either the fetch system or the
post system in case of message delivery.Every message has a destination and a source address.Then the
message moves from one station to the next until the receiver s nearest station is reached.The station
which is nearest to the receiver is calculated by intermediate stations by dynamic algorithm.Like
shortest path first or distance vector routing”

Technical interviewer,” can you try to write the code for post in C.just use your logic and write whatever
that comes to your mind…….”

Ubj,”

Post( String message)

.string x= message;

Int M,N,K,L;

INT NEARESTTOWER,DESTINATION TOWER;

M=Destination(x);
N=Source(x);

K=DISTANCE (M,N)

L=RELDISTANCE(M,NEARESTTOWER)

IF (K<L) SYSTEM.OUT.PRINTLN(“BOTH IN THE SAME ZONE SO CONNECT TO THE SIGNAL TRANSMITTING

TOWER COMMON TO BOTH”);

ELSE

SYSTEM.OUT.PRINTLN(“THE USERS ARE IN DIFFERENT ZONES SO WE USE AN ALGORITHM TO FIND THE

LEAST DISTANCE BETWEEN NEAREST TOWER TO DESTINATION TOWER”);

ALGORITHM(NEARESTTOWER,DESTINATIONTOWER)

SYSTEM.GC()

Technical interviewer,”GOOD,NOW TELL ME WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VB AND VB.NET?”

UBJ,”VB.NET PROVIDES CLR WHICH SUPPORTS A LARGE NUMBER OF LANGUAGES.in VB all procedure
parameters are passed by reference and in VB.net they are passed by value.CURRENCY datatype is
present in VB but not present in vb.net”

Technical interviewer,”what about declaration statements and string handling? Is there any difference?”

Ubj,”yes , in VB THERE are Fixed length strings and in VB.net there is no concept of fixed length
strings.IN CASE OF DECLARATION

In VB, DIM X,Y AS INTEGER MEANS Y IS INTEGER AND X IS VARIANT

IN VB.NET ,DIM X,Y AS INTEGER MEANS X AND Y ARE BOTH INTEGER

Technical interviewer,”WHAT is characterestics of UNION?”

UBJ,”it is data structure in which memory space is allocated equal to maximum space needed to store
one member.All members use this same space.”

Technical interviewer,”write the syntax of union”

UBJ,” union bar

{
Char c;

Long l;

Char*p;

};

Technical interviewer,”write a code to create property in VB?”

Ubj,”

Public property UBJ() to INTEGER

GET()

Person=PERSONQUOTIENT

End get

Set (by val VALUE AS INTEGER)

PERSONQUOTIENT=100

END SET

END PROPERTY”

Technical interviewer”explain?”

Ubj,”get function gets the value of the property and set function sets the value
.person=PERSONQUOTIENT IS RETURN STATEMENT .”

Technical interviewer,”what are the two ways of handling error in VB?”

Ubj,”on error resume statement and USING LOCAL HANDLER.”

Technical interviewer,”IN LOCAL handler what are the commands used to take the control to the local
handler?”

Ubj,”on error goto …”

Technical interviewer,”CREATE A NODE STRUCTURE BY EITHER OF THE METHODS”

UBJ,”sorry sir could not understand the question.”

Technical interviewer,”What are the two ways of creation of nodes?”

UBJ,”Array implementation ,dynamic implementation”

Technical interviewer,”what is difference between them?”

Ubj,”in dynamic implementation we use pointers.”

Technical interviewer,”ok create a node and then perform the link list traversal.”

Ubj,” struct node p{

Int data;

Struct node* link;

Technical interviewer,”now perform the link list traversal given three nodes are there in a list a,b and c”

Ubj,”a->link=b

b->link=c

c->link=null

Technical interviewer,”now make the link list circular”

Ubj,”everything remains same just in the last statement c-link>a”

Technical interviewer,”now add a node d after b”

Ubj,”traverse the link list to b then b->link =d

d->link=c

Technical interviewer,”NO WRITE THE ENTIRE CODE FOR TRAVERSAL”

UBJ,” start=a

Temp=a->link

While(temp->link!=0)

If temp->link==c then next=temp->link

Temp->link=d
Next->link=c

Exit(0);

Technical interviewer,”what are the type of inheritances in C++?”

UBJ,”simple,multiple,hybrid,hierarchical and multiple”

Technical interviewer,”explain multiple inheritance with a code”

UBJ,”say there are two classes A AND B AND THERE IS A CHILD CLASS C

Then

CLASS A

INT A ;

CHAR B;

CLASS B

INT C ;

CHAR D;

Class c:public a,public b

{}

CLASS C WOULD CONTAIN A,B,C,D APART FROM ITS OWN VARIABLES WHAT EVER IT MAY BE.

Technical interviewer,”WHAT IS NEED OF SERIALIZATION IN DATA?”

UBJ,”SERIALIZATION Is needed because in case of multiple execution sequences implemented through

threads the resources should be used by one process at a time.”

Technical interviewer,”what is thrashing?”

UBJ,”IT IS CAUSED BY UNDERALLOCATION OF MINIMUM NUMBER OF PAGES REQUIRED BY A PROCESS”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT are pages and frames?”

UBJ,”pages are fragments of virtual memory and frames are fragments of virtual memory.”

Technical interviewer,”what are the variables used in peterson’s solution?”

UBJ,”turn and flag”

Technical interviewer,”what are methods of recovery of deadlock?”

UBJ,” Process termination ,resource preemption,abort one process at a time until deadlock cycle is
eliminated.”

Technical interviewer,”what are 3 issues for resource preemption?”

UBJ,”1.Selecting the victim,2.rollback and 3.starvation.”

Technical interviewer,”what are data models?”

UBJ,”semistructed ,objectoriented ,object relational and ER DATA MODELS ARE THERE.”

Technical interviewer,”no I am asking what is a data model?”

UBJ,”DATA model is the concept of structuring of data “

Technical interviewer,”what are techniques used to remove noise?”

UBJ,”1.BINNING 2.REGRESSION 3.CLUSTERING.”

Technical interviewer,”what are properties of Database?”

UBJ,”ACID”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT is a heterogeneous database?”

Ubj,”IT IS A GROUP of autonomous databases interconnected to each other.”

Technical interviewer,”what are group of heterogeneous databases called?”

Ubj,”legacy”

Technical interviewer,”what are different types of testing?”

UBJ,”recovery,security and stress”

Technical interviewer,”what is integration testing?”

UBJ,”it deals with interfacing .it uncovers errors in interfacing.”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT is the difference between VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION?”

UBJ,”verification is ensuring software correctly implements a specific function or not and in case of
validation we check we are building the right procedure or not”

Technical interviewer,”HAVE YOU READ SOFTWARE DESIGN?”

UBJ,”YES”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT ARE THE MODELS OF SOFTWARE DESIGN?”

UBJ,”waterfall model,EVOLUTIONARY MODEL,INCREMENTAL MODEL.”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT ABOUT RAD AND SPIRAL MODEL?”

UBJ,”RAD COMES UNDER INCREMENTAL MODEL AND SPIRAL MODEL COMES UNDER EVOLUTIONARY
MODEL.”

Technical interviewer,”IN PRACTICE WHICH MODEL IS USED MOST?”

UBJ,”I THINK SPIRAL MODEL.”

Technical interviewer,”HMM ..WHAT ARE THE PAGE REPLACEMENT TECHNIQUES USED?”

UBJ,”1.FIFO 2.LRU 3.OPTIMAL”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT IS NETWORK TIME SYNCHRONISATION?”

UBJ,”IT IS USED TO CONNECT SEVERAL PRIMARY REFERENCE SOURCES TO WIDELY AVAILABLE

LOCATIONS ON THE INTERNET.”

Technical interviewer,”WHICH PROTOCOL IS USED FOR THIS?”

UBJ,”NTP”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT ARE SYSTEM CALLS?”

UBJ,”SYSTEM CALLS ARE ACTUALLY FUNCTION CALLS BY KERNAL INORDER TO EXECUTE SYSTEM
PROCESSES.”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT IS ERROR CODE FOR PAGENOT FOUND?”

UBJ,”404”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT ABOUT 403?”

UBJ,”FORBIDDEN PAGE”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT WORK HAVE YOU DONE IN COMPUTERS ?”

UBJ,”NOTHING MUCH TO REPORT..”

Technical interviewer,”WHICH SUBJECT DO YOU FIND MOST INTERESTING?”

UBJ,”OS AND JAVA”

Technical interviewer,”WHY NOT NETWORKING ?”

UBJ,”I GUESS NETWORKING PROTOCOLS ARE HARD TO COMPREHEND ..AND ARE MORE LIKE
STANDARDS..I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW THEY ARE IMPLEMENTED.THEY APPEAR TO BE AS JUST A
SET OF RULES.”

Technical interviewer,”HA HA HA .WHAT ARE OSI LAYERS?”

UBJ,”starting from the bottom, PHYSICAL LAYER ,DATALINK LAYER,NETWORK

LAYER,TRANSPORTLAYER,SESSIONLAYER,PRESENTATION LAYER AND FINALLY APPLICATION LAYER.

Technical interviewer,”DO YOU WANT TO IMPLEMENT COMPILERS.U HAVE USED LINUX SO WHAT IS
THE COMMAND USED IN THIS CONTEXT?”

UBJ,”YACC”

Technical interviewer,”HMM WHAT ARE STAGES OF A COMPILER?”

UBJ,”LEXICAN ANALYSIS,SYNTAX ANALYSIS,SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ,CODE GENERATION,CODE

OPTIMISATION..ETC”

Technical interviewer,”DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU TO CREATE YOUR OWN COMPILER”

UBJ,”UBJ C”

Technical interviewer,”HA HA HA ..SO WHAT WILL YOUR COMPILER HAVE ?”

UBJ,”IT WILL CONVERT UBJL ,WHICH WILL BE MY LANGUAGE FROM SOURCECODE TO OBJECT CODE
WHICH WILL BE NAMED AS UBJML”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT ARE PROPERTIES OF RDMS?”

UBJ,”VALUES ARE ATOMIC.ROWS ARE UNIQUE.OTHER S I CAN T RECOLLECT.THERE ARE 5-6

PROPERTIES.”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT IS DATA INDEPENDENCE?”

UBJ,”IT IS CAPACITY TO CHANGE SCHEMA AT ONE LEVEL WITHOUT CHANGING SCHEMAS AT HIGHER
LEVELS”

Technical interviewer,”WHAT IS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA AND EXTERNAL

SCHEMA?”
UBJ,”INTEGRATION OF EXTERNAL SCHEMA IS CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA”

INTERVIEWER,”OK..GO OUTSIDE AND WAIT.”

I WENT OUTSIDE AND WAITED.RUPAL CAME TO ME AND SAID,”SIR AAPKA SECOND INTERVIEW SIDE
WALE ROOM ME HOGA..”

I SAID,”AB SECOND INTERVIEW?????PICHLE 1 GHANTE SE GRILLING KE BAAD BHI KHATAM NAHI

HUA??????”

RUPAL SMILED ALONG WITH ANKITA .

A CS JUNIOR WAS ALSO PRESENT ,HE CAME FORWARD AND SAID,”SIR APKA PAHLA SELECTION HAI
SECOND ROUND KE LIYE FIRST 15 CANDIDATES ME SE..ALL THE BEST”

SECOND ROUND TECHNICAL INTERVIEW

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”come in”

UBJ,”good afternoon sir”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”well then u managed to qualify in the first round very
well.You got a score of 19/20 in the first interview which is pretty high.You done very well in
written test too.So then which language are u comfortable in?”

Ubj,” C,C++,java,.net,HTML”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”which OS DO YOU WORK IN ?”

Ubj”windows “

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”why not linux?”

UBJ,”windows is more userfriendly and provides most functions through simple mouseclick
events .”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”but linux too provides good interface.!”

UBJ ,”YES IT DOES but the fact is that in linux we cannot run .exe files directly like windows .And
most applications that we use mostly is .exe based.”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”what if we ask you to work in LINUX ?”

UBJ,”I HAVE EXPERIENCE OF WORKING IN UBUNTU 9.0”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”HOW DO YOU CREATE FILES IN LINUX?”

UBJ,”BY USING EDITORS LIKE VI “

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT IS COMMAND TO RUN A SHELL SCRIPT?”

UBJ,”SH FILENAME”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SHELL AND A

EDITOR?”

UBJ,”EDITORS PROVIDE AN EASIER WAY TO WRITE COMPLEX COMMANDS .IN CASE OF SHELL IT
BECOMES TEDIOUS TO WRITE MULTIPLE COMMANDS SEPARATED BY ; EACH TIME”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT COMMAND DO YOU USE IN UBUNTU TO ADD

USERS?”

UBJ,”useradd –u 501 uddalak”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”what command do you use to install a software from the
net?”

UBJ,”APTGET INSTALL SOFTWARENAME”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT ARE LOOP STRUCTURES AVAILABLE FOR LINUX?”

UBJ,”WHILE ,FOR ,DOWHILE ETC”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT IS COMMAND USED FOR CHANGING USER ACCESS

RIGHTS?’

UBJ,”CHMOD 000 OR 777”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”CAN U PERFORM NETWORKING OF A LINUX AND A

WINDOW SYSTEM?”

UBJ,”YES BY USING SAMBA SERVICE”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”HOW ,GIVE A BRIEF OUTLINE?”

UBJ,”INSTALL .SMB FILE FIRST AND THEN INSTALL IT ON THE SYSTEM.THEN USING SAMBA PUT
CERTAIN FILES IN SHARABLE MODE AND THEN FROM THE WINDOWS SYSTEM GIVE
COMMAND //LINUXSYSNAME FROM RUN .OR ELSE WHEN ACCESSING FROM LINUX SYSTEM WE
USE SAMBA TO VIEW THE WINDOWS SYSTEMS CONNECTED TO IT AND THEN SIMPLY CLICK ON
THE SHARED FOLDERS TO ACCESS IT.”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”GOOD .HAVE YOU DONE NETWORKING OF TWO WINDOWS

SYSTEMS?”

UBJ,”YES ,WHEN WE PLAY LANGAMES WE DO NETWORKING OF COMPUTERS …”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”HA HA ..SO HOW DO YOU DO NETWORKING”

UBJ,”WE GO TO NETWORKCONNECTIONS AND CLICK ON THE LANCONNECTION AND WE GO TO

TCP/IP AND THEN IN ITS PROPERTIES WE PROVIDE THE IP ADDRESS AND DEFAULT GATEWAY
SUCH THAT THE IP ADDRESS OF THE TWO SYSTEMS ARE IN THE SAME WORKGROUP .”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT SUBNET MASK DO YOU USE?”

UBJ”255.255.255.0”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT IS IP ADDRESS YOUR PC?”

UBJ,”192.168.1.8”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”IN LINUX HOW WOULD U CONFIGURE A NETWORK?”

UBJ,”BY GOING TO NETWORK AND BY ROOT PRIVILEDGE ENABLE THE DEFAULT NETWORK
ETHERNET DEVICE AND DOUBLE CLICK ON IT AND ADD THE REQUIRED IPADDRESSES.”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHICH SOFTWARE WOULD U USE TO GAIN ACCESS TO A

LINUX SYSTEM FROM WINDOWS ?”

UBJ,”PUTTY”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WRITE A PROGRAM TO COMPUTE COMPUTE INTEREST

WITHOUT USING A FORMULA.?”

UBJ”IN WHICH LANGUAGE?”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”JUST WRITE THE CENTRAL CODE ONLY IN PSEUDOCODE

FORM…”

UBJ,”

INPUT P,R,T

WHILE T>0
DO

I=P*R*T/100;

P=P+I;

T=T-1;

ENDWHILE

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”OK.NOW TELL ME WHAT SHOULD BE A PROGRAMMERS

ERSPECTIVE ON PROGRAMMING WHEN HE JOINS A COMPANY?”

UBJ,”I THINK HE SHOULD TRY TO FOLLOW WHAT THE USER WANTS ..STRICTLY AND TRY TO
PROVIDE A GOOD INTERFACE TO WORK IN”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”IF I GIVE YOU A CHOICE TO MAKE A LANGUAGE..WHAT

WILL BE THE FEATURE YOU WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE IN IT?”

UBJ,”I THINK I WOULD FIRST PROVIDE A FEATURE SUCH THAT ALL CODES WOULD BE
INTERCONVERTIBLE.THAT IS IF ONE WRITES A CODE IN JAVA THEN HE CAN GET THE
EQUIVALENT CODE IN C /C++ OR IN VB AS OUTPUT.IT WOULD ACT AS A CODE CONVERTER.I
WOULD LIKE TO INTEGRATE THE BEST FEATURES OF C JAVA VB .I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE A
DRAG AND DROP FEATURE AS IN VB .AND PROVIDE HARDWARE HANDLING FEATURES DIRECTLY
VIA INBUILT FUNCTIONS AS IN C AND LIKE JAVA I WOULD PROVIDE A STRONG LIBRARY
FEATURE AND NETWORKING SUPPORT.”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT DO YOU THINK PROPERTIES ARE STORED IN LINUX

SYSTEM?”

UBJ,”MOSTPROBABLY IN I386 FOLDER “

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”IF YOU ARE A HACKER WHICH FILE IN LINUX SYSTEM
WOULD YOU TRY TO ACCESS OF OTHER USERS”

UBJ”ETC/PASSWORD”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”SO YOU ARE A HACKER THEN?”

UBJ,”HA HA HA NO NO ..IT IS NOTHING LIKE THAT..I WOULD DREAM OF BEING ONE ..BUT IT IS
NOT EASY TO BE A HACKER ..YOU NEED TO HAVE FULL KNOWLEDGE OF A SYSTEM WHICH
UNFORTUNATELY I DON’T BELIEVE I HAVE YET.”
SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”WHAT DO YOU DO APART FROM PROGRAMMING?”

UBJ,”I WRITE SHORTSTORIES,POEMS AND PAINT IN MY SPARE TIME”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVIE MATRIX?”

UBJ,”YES”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER”WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO BE IN THE FILM?”

UBJ,”RACHAITA…”

SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”HA HA .WHY NOT NEO?”

UBJ,”NEO IS THE HERO ..BUT THE THING IS PRACTICALLY THINKING RACHAITA WAS THE
PROGRAMMER ..WHO HAD PROGRAMMED THE WHOLE THING AND GIVEN ADMINISTRATOR
RIGHTS TO NEO..”
SECOND TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”HA HA HA ..OK GO OUTSIDE AND WAIT..I THINK HR
INTERVIEW WOULD BEGIN SHORTLY”

THE MOMENT I WENT OUT OF THE ROOM I WAS GIVEN A BIG FORM IN WHICH I HAD TO FILL
MY NAME ,ROLL NO ,ID .HOD MAMS NUMBER AND MY PARENTS PHONE NUMBER AND
ADDRESS.IT WAS A TEDIOUS TASK BUT BY THE HELP OF COORDINATORS THE FORM WAS
FINALLY FILLED.BY THIS TIME THERE WERE A WHOLE FLOCK OF PEOPLE ALREADY
ACCUMULATED WHO WERE PRESENT TO CONGRATULATE ME AND ASK WHAT WERE THE
QUESTIONS ASKED.I WAS NERVOUSLY LOOKING AT THE CLOCK EVERY NOW AND THEN
BECAUSE I HAD A TRAIN AT 4 O CLOCK AND IT WAS ALREADY 3 O CLOCK.I HAD TOLD MY
FRIENDS AT PT TO GET MY TICKET FOR I WOULD BE LATE IN REACHING THE STATION.

ANYWAYS SOON THE HR INTERVIEW STARTED.

HR INTERVIEW
HR,”COME IN”

UBJ,”GOODAFTERNOON SIR”

HR,”HAVE YOUR SEAT”

Ubj,”thank you”
HR,”THEY SAY THAT YOU ARE THE FIRST SURVIVOR OF THE 20 PEOPLE INTERVIEWED SO FAR
AND YOU HAD DONE QUITE WELL ACTUALLY YOU GOT 19/20 IN THE FIRST AND 9/10 IN THE
SECOND ONE…THAT IS GOOD INFACT VERY GOOD.”

UBJ,”THANK YOU’

HR,”SO THEN TELLME ABOUT YOURSELF?”

UBJ,”WELL I AM UDDALAK BANERJEE,MY PARENTS ARE SNEHAMOY BANERJEE AND SIPRA

BANERJEE ,BOTH ARE OFFICERS AT UNION BANK OF INDIA.MY HOBBIES ARE TO WRITE SHORT
STORIES AND POEMS”

HR,”WHAT WAS THE ESSAY TOPIC GIVEN TO YOU AT THE END OF TECHNICAL TEST?”

UBJ,”I THINK IT WAS REGARDING IT INDUSTRY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE PERIOD OF
RECESSION”

HR ,”TELL ME THE EXACT TOPIC.”

UBJ,”SORRY I CANT REMEMBER EXACTLY”

HR,”ANYWAYS SO WHAT DID YOU WRITE IN THAT ?”

UBJ,”I WROTE THAT ABOUT 10 MILLION PEOPLE OF INDIA WORK IN IT SECTOR.RECESSION IS A

RUTINE THING AND A CYCLICAL PROCESS.I TOLD THAT FIRMS LIKE TCS AND WIPRO ALONE
EMPLOY MORE THAN 1 LAKH PEOPLE AND THEY ARE CONSTANTLY GROWING.DURING
RECESSION TOO THERE WERE MASSIVE JOB CUTS BUT THAT HAD ONLY MADE THINGS BETTER
FOR INDIAN IT FIRMS.”

HR,”WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF PERSISTENT?’

UBJ,”IT IS A COMPANY BASED ON NAGPUR.”

HR “WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NAGPUR?’

UBJ,”IT IS ABOUT 6 HOURS IN TRAIN FROM RAIPUR .IT IS IN MAHARASTRA.IT IS MORE URBAN
AND DEVELOPED THAN RAIPUR”

HR,”HMM WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE TEMP IN SUMMER IN NAGPUR”

UBJ”40 APPROX”

HR,”NO IT IS 47.AND THERE IS QUITE SOME DIFFERENCE”

UBJ.”SORRY I DID NOT HAVE MUCH IDEA ON THIS”

HR,”DID YOU AIM FOR MBA ENTRANCES?’

UBJ,”NO”

HR,”ARE U SURE? TOMORROW THERE IS SOME PAPER I HEARD.”

UBJ,”WELL I WANT TO JOIN UR COMPANY.IN MBA TOO THEY ASK FOR WORK EX SO IT IS OUT
OF QUESTION. YES TOMORROW THERE IS A PAPER BUT I WANT TO GO SOME PLACE ELSE.”

HR,”ARE U HAPPY WITH 2.8 LAKH ?”

UBJ,”WELL IT IS LESS…”

HR,”WHY ARE U LOOKING AT YOUR CLOCK AGAIN AND AGAIN? DO YOU WANT TO GO
SOMEWHERE?”

UBJ,”NO..JUST I HAVE AN HABIT OF DOING THIS”

HR SMILES AND SAID ,”STRANGE HABIT !!”

UBJ,”YA SOMEWHAT”

HR,”YOU HAVE GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS I THINK YOU SHOULD GO FOR MBA”

UBJ,”NO SIR I DON’T WANT TO GO MBA I WANT TO BE A PART OF PERSISTENT”

HR SMILES AND SAYS”HMM ..BUT I THINK SALARY OFFERED IN MBA IS WAY MORE ..WITH
GOOD CARRIER OPPERTUNITIES”

UBJ,”WELL STILL I WANT TO JOIN YOUR COMPANY”

HR,”DON’T YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE EXTRAPOLATING THIS THING.TELL ME WHY DO YOU
NEED TO DO A JOB NOW?”

UBJ,”MY MOM AND DAD HAVE HARDLY 5 YEARS OF WORK LEFT NOW.SO BEFORE THEY RETIRE
I WANT TO GET EMPLOYED”

HR,”BUT YOU CAN OPT FOR MBA NOW ..WHY JOIN NOW?”

UBJ,”SIR I TOLD YOU I AM NOT INTERESTED IN MBA..”

HR,”WHAT IS EXTRAPOLATION?”

UBJ,”TO FIND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN FROM A GIVEN SET OF DATA BY USING A STANDARD SET
OF FORMULA BY ESTABLISHING INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DATA POINTS.”
HR,”SUPPOSE THERE ARE TWO CANDLES WITH ME EACH CAN BURN FOR ONE HOUR .TELL ME
HOW WILL I BE ABLE TO MEASURE HALF AN HOUR IF I DON’T HAVE ANY CLOCK?’

UBJ”BY BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS”

HR,”EXPLAIN”

UBJ,”IF THE CANDLE IS BURNED IN BOTH ENDS ,THE POINT AT WHICH IT WILL BE COMPLETELY
BURNED WILL BE HALF AN HOUR”

HR,”YOU ARE INTELLIGENT”

UBJ,”THANKYOU”

HR,”TELL ME 3 GROUP OF 3 SINGLEDIGIT NUMBERS SUCH THAT THEY GIVE THE SAME
PRODUCT ?”

UBJ,”CAN THERE BE ANY REPETATION ?”

HR,”CAN YOU DO IT WITHOUT REPETATION?”

UBJ,”I THINK NO …THERE HAS TO BE A REPETATION.IT WOULD BE 9 8 1 ,4 3 6 IN CASE OF

WITHOUT REPETATION AND THAT’S ALL.

HR,”HMM OK.”

HR,”ARE U HONEST?”

UBJ,”WHY?”

HR,”JUST TELL ME “

UBJ,”IT IS HARD TO TELL.”

HR,”IT IS HARD TO TELL!!!”

UBJ,” I MEAN I DON’T KNOW”

HR BECOMES SILENT FOR A WHILE…

UBJ,”CAN I GO PLEASE ..I HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE..IT IS ALREADY 3:30”

HR LAUGHS AND SAID,”GO.”