INTERVIEW AT BIRLA SOFT

===============================================UDDALAK BANERJEE(UBJ)

AFTER THE TECHNICAL WRITTEN TEST AND GD ELIMINATION ROUNDS THE INTERVIEW ROUND
BEGAN .

THE INTERVIEW WAS BEING CONDUCTED IN TWO SEPARATE ROOMS .IN EACH ROOM THERE WERE 2
INTERVIEWER’S ONE TECHNICAL AND THE OTHER HR.I HAD MY INTERVIEW IN THE FIRST ROOM.We
were given a page in which there were 4 questions written and we had to fill in the answers.The
questions basically were as follows:

1 Describe yourself?

Ubj answer:I am creative ,determined and hardworking person.I have a learning attitude which is
exhibited in 99.6 percentile in MAT and qualifications in NACTECH AND GATE.At the same time I have
3 international publications in LITERATURE and 2 research papers in MATHEMATICS .

2.why do you want to join the company?

Ubj answer:because it provides me with adequate opportunity (1 yr training)to develop as a

programmer and conducive learning opportunity in both india and abroad.(90% of your centres are
abroad).

3.what are your skills ?

Ubj answer:good communication skills ,writing skills and programming skills along with analytical
skills which are amply demonstrated by the vissitudes of my humble exploits described in ans1.

4.what are your strength and weaknesses?

UBJanswer:My strength is vivid imagination,fundamental and selfconfident approach

MY weakness:at times I seek results very fast and lose patience and fell sad at these times.

On filling up the form I went and sat at a bench just outside the two interview rooms where the NIT
BHOPAL placement cell authorities asked me to be seated .

TECHNICAL INTERVIEWER,”COME IN AND HAVE YOUR SEAT”.

UBJ CAME IN AND TOOK HIS SEAT.

HR INTERVIEWER infuriatedly said ,”WHY HAVE NOT SHAVED ?IS THIS THE WAY YOU COME IN AN
INTERVIEW???????”

UBJ ,”Sorry sir extremely sorry ..actually I did not get an ounce of time to get it done ..because we were
initially told to come on 6th but at the last time we were told that campus recruitment dates were shifted
by a day to 5th.So all the plans went awry and we had to cancel our tickets at the last moment and we
did not get any reservation in train for 5th so we took the train and gave fine to the T.T and somehow
made it here.”

HR( a little soft),”HMM..TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF”

UBJ,”Sir ,I am uddalak banerjee and mother Sipra Banerjee and father Snehamoy Banerjee are branch
managers in UNION bank of India and my hobby is to write shortstories and poems .At my spare type I
play chess “

HR ,”TELL US A POEM THAT U HAD WROTE?”

UBJ,”Sorry Sir can’t recall any at this moment.But I can write one on you at this very moment.”

HR became angry again and said ,”No I want to hear your older compositions ..no need for latest and on
the spot compositions.”

UBJ,”Sorry Sir cant think of any.I write poems for my hobby and that is it .I don’t memorize them.”

HR,”when was the last poem u had written?”

UBJ,”last month”

HR,”have you published anything?”

UBJ,”Yes ..I am the youngest ever writer to publish my shortstory named “PANTOMIME” At international
story publisher bewildering stories (www.bewilderingstories.com) and also at ROSE and thorn
jeornals .I have also published my poetry at BOXCARPOETRY OF AFRICA and received acclaims for it .My
shortstory “13,GLASSGLOW STREET “ was nominated for the best shortstory written in the may-nov
period for EVERYDAYSTORIES.COM .”

Hr,”so if I give you a choice between writing and technical work which one will u choose?”

Ubj ,”sir to find success in writing field you need atleast 10-20 years of continuous work.During which
period u can hardly earn your bread and butter from it.Writing is my hobby and I love it . But by
profession I am an engineer .”

Hr,”hmm..so you will leave writing if you are selected?”

UBJ,”no …I will write because it is something I love to do.it enhances my skills which will help in creating
softwares too.Be it a writer or a painter or actor creativity remains the same.”

Technical Interviewer,”which are the languages you know?”

Ubj,”C,C++,JAVA,VB.NET,HTML..”

Technical Interviewer,”in which one are you comfortable in?”

UBJ,”java”

Technical Interviewer,”what is the difference between j2se and j2me?”

UBJ,”J2SE IS standard edition and j2me is the mobile edition.IN the standard edition you get limited
features .in case of mobile edition you get more features which makes mobile functionalities easier.”

Technical Interviewer,”what do you mean by features?”

UBJ,”features means functionalities which are present prewritten in the lib files.”

Technical Interviewer,”what is the difference between C AND C++”?

UBJ,”C++ employs bottom up approach ,C employs topdown approach .C++ uses new keyword for
memory allocation at runtime.C employs malloc,calloc function for memory allocation.In the same way
for deallocation C++ uses delete keyword while C uses free .”

Technical Interviewer,”anything more?”

UBJ,”yes , operator overloading is supported in C++ BUT NOT IN C. if you write a function as fun() in C it
means there can be any number of arguments for fun but in case of C++ it means no arguments”

Technical Interviewer,”what is difference between C++ AND JAVA?GIVE THE CONCEPTUAL DIFFERENCES
ONLY”

UBJ,”IN C++ there is multiple inheritance but in java there is multiple inheritance only through
interfaces.In C+ + there is no support for database connection but in case of Java there is support for
database connection.Support for template clas is there in C++ but in JAVA IT IS ABSENT.The goto
keyword is used in C++ BUT NOT IN JAVA.operator overloading is supported in C++ but in java it is
not.Enum ,union ,struct is supported in C++ BUT NOT IN JAVA.”

Technical Interviewer,”how do you prevent serialization of a field in java?”

Ubj,”by using the transient keyword”

Technical Interviewer,”convert arraylist to array in java “

Ubj,”

ARRAYLIST ARR=NEW ARRAYLIST();

ARR.ADD(“ABC”)

ARR.ADD(“BCD”)

OBJECT OBJ=ARR.TOARRAY();

“
Technical Interviewer,”hmm how can you do it for integers?”

Ubj,”by typecasting in the time of declaration”

Technical Interviewer,”what are type of inheritances in java?”

Ubj,”SINGLE ,MULTIPLE,MULTILEVEL,HIERARCHICAL,HYBRID”

Technical Interviewer,”WHAT IS THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OLTP AND OLAP.JUST
ONE POINT”

UBJ,”OLTP IS operational processing and OLAP is informational processing”

Technical Interviewer,”what is dispatcher?”

Ubj,”it gives control of CPU TO process selected by short term scheduler.”

Technical Interviewer,”what is difference between http and https? In short just one point.”

Ubj,”http+tls=https”

Technical Interviewer,”what is fundamental difference between trigger and stored procedure?”

Ubj,”TRIGGER IS IMPLICIT AND STORED PROCEDURE IS EXPLICIT.IT CAN BE CALLED BY CALL”

Technical Interviewer,”WHAT IS VIEW?”

UBJ,”IT IS A SUBSET OF A TABLE”

Technical Interviewer “WHAT IS RECOVERY TESTING?”

UBJ,”IT TEST THE TYPE OF WAYS A FAILURE CAN OCCUR AND THE REACTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO
EACH OF THEM.”

Technical Interviewer “What are different types of back up?”

UBJ,”INCREMENTAL AND FULL BACKUP.”

Technical Interviewer “How to backup data in a disk?”

Ubj,”in case of sql it is done by backup x to disk=”c:/location” “

Technical Interviewer “What is difference between innerjoin and outerjoin?”

Ubj,”in innerjoin there are no null values ..but in outerjoin there are null values.”

Technical Interviewer,”IN YOUR RESUME YOU HAVE LISTED LINUX ..OK TELL ME WHAT ARE THE
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SAMBA AND NFS”
UBJ,”Sir SAMBA IS USED FOR CONNECTING LINUX SYSTEM WITH WINDOWS SYSTEM.AND NFS IS USED
FOR LINUX –LINUX CONNECTION.”

Technical Interviewer,”where does oracle store data?”

Ubj,”SORTING AREA,PRIVATE SQLAREA,STACKSPACE,SESSION INFORMATION.”

Technical Interviewer,”WHICH FILE IS NEEDED FOR SAMBA?”

UBJ,”SMB FILE ….”

HR,”WHAT ARE YOUR BLOGS?”

UBJ,”1.ubjpoemsandshortstories.blogspot.com

2.ubjliteratureassays.blogspot.com

3.ubjscienceinventions.blogspot.com

HR,”WHY 3 WHEN U COULD HAVE DONE IT IN ONE?”

UBJ,”because they are all separate and disparate ..in first one I write poems and shortstories… they are
short and need less time to read.. in the second I write dramas and large compositions ..which need a lot
of time to read. In the last one I write about my science inventions.”

HR,”hmm what are your science inventions?”

UBJ,”just a soap experiment and 2 values of pi”

HR,”two values of pi?????????????”

Ubj,”yes one value by rotational mechanics and the other by circle measurement .”

Technical Interviewer,”WHAT WAS YOUR SOAP EXPERIMENT?”

UBJ,”locus of soap in the water when exposed to sunlight which provides energy of light.”

Technical Interviewer,”what was the final formula you arrived at ?”

UBJ,”X POWER 3 +Y POWER 3 +98 XY POWER 2+7 XPOWER 2 WHERE Y IS DEPENDENT ON X BY CEILING
FUNCTION”

Technical Interviewer,”hmm suppose I give you a link system with 5 links each supporting variable
weights..1 5 3 7 9.Tell me what would be the maximum weight that the link system can support?”

UBJ,”1 because it is the minimum weight.”

Technical Interviewer suddenly agitated says,”think and tell …ok..tell me how did you compute it?”
Ubj,”sorry actually attimes I am very impulsive ..i wrote it in my weakness column.just a second…(waits
and writes the constraints on paper) yes 1 is still my answer because anything more than 1 the system
will crash as the first link will break all the constraints say so..but I am sorry for the impulsive answer I
gave in the beginning.”

Hr and technical interview smile and look at each other.

Technical Interviewer,”what will be minimum weight?”

Ubj,”zero.theoritically .negligilbe amount in the order of 1-6 grams practically”

Technical Interviewer smiles and says,”count 1 to 100 without using a formula”

Ubj,”1-10 is 55 all other are recursive ..11-20 is 155 21-30 255 and so on..add them all up..”

Technical Interviewer,”ok..call the next person.and submit your photo with resume.”

Ubj,”sir here is the write up I wrote for NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE COMMISSION ..i think you can take it
too..and sorry that I did’t remember my last poem.”

HR smiles ,”don’t worry ..but here u have filled only data mostly which are available in the internet ..so
how does this show your writing skill?”

UBJ,”SIR IT IS A NATIONAL LEVEL ESSAY so ..you need facts to back up your conclusion..without data
there is no scope to arrive to any conclusion.The data substantiates my point and presses my point
forward ahead of others.”

HR,”suppose I collect data from internet and write a essay myself then wont I be as efficient?”

UBJ,”sir everybody can draw lines on paper .but it is the task of the painter to make those lines into
figures.Everybody is gifted by god to write but writers are gifted to make those writing talk and create a
life on its own.There are trillions of books published so far but only 0.0001 percent of them are used by
the 99% of lay users in the course of their lives.data is everywhere but it takes a computer to mine that
data.”

HR smiles ,”ha ha ..how many layers are there in database architecture?.”

Ubj ans.”three..but we use only the final product of the uppermost one..in the form of mined data .”

Hr smiles again,”ok ..call the next person.”

Ubj,”thankyou..It was nice to meet you.”