Sunday, October 11, 2009

Typical cycle of Summer placements for Engineer's

I am sure all the engineer's would have guessed what the cycle contains.. I will try to make it as interesting as possible..

Life of an engineer is like a joke in the MBA college, specially during summer placements (i don't know whether it is the same for finals also) and specifically if u have work-ex.. Below I have described a set of events in a particular day (also just before and after the process) that an engg faces while he is preparing for a summer process.. There are 2 cases, when he/she is kept in dark whether that person is shortlisted or not.. and the other extremely rare case is when he/she is shortlisted..

Scenario 1: No idea whether shortlisted or not
Day before
1] Go all out and bang your head to try and find out the history and recent news about the company coming on campus the next day, even if u don't know whether u r going to shortlisted or not.
2] Googling is a common thing. also open up gmail and chat around the world asking others,
"tera kidhar aur hua kya"?
3] Another response from all of them to you: "all d best" "dont worry tera shortlist ho jayega".. :) :)
The day
4] Go all dressed up, catch the earliest train so that u r not strangled later on.
5] Collect ur blazer from the locker and wait in the waiting room. The feeling at this moment is "Suit boot mein aaya kanahaiya band bajane ko"
6] 2 ghante wait karne ke baad, the person comes and announces that u r not selected.. koi different cheez to bola kar.
The feeling at that moment: "Suit boot mein aaya tha kanahaiya band bajane ko, lekin saala khud ka band baj gaya"
After the day
7] Saala ham engg's ki galti kya hai.. They don't even give a chance to prove our worth.. Saala apna kuch nahi hoga..

Scenario 2: You know that you are one among the few engg's shortlisted for the company
Day before
1] Go all out and bang your head to try and find out the history and recent news about the company coming on campus the next day.
2] Googling is a common thing. also open up gmail and chat around the world asking others,
"tera kya hua"?
3] Another response from all of them to you: "all d best, phod ke aa ja" "Kal tera din hai yaar, ho jayega dont worry".. :) :)
The day
4] Go all dressed up, catch the earliest train so that u r not strangled later on.
5] Collect ur blazer from the locker and wait in the waiting room. The feeling at this moment is "Suit boot mein aaya kanahaiya band bajane ko"

6] U go all out to prepare, ask other about the firm, some sample GD topics, read economic times and get to know the news of the day.. Also ask the prev batch (if any) about the GD topic and their inputs.
7] Go throuhg the Gd and say about 2-3 points, many a times its like fish market..
8] Wait for the result just to announce that u r not selected for interview.. Damn.. On doing further research u find out that the selected person's are all from finance backgroup (of course for finance profile) or have less then 2 yrs work-ex.. U again think WTH, hamne kya gunha kiya hai.. :(
After the Day
9] Reach home and think
Saala ham engg's ki galti kya hai.. They don't even give a chance to prove our worth.. Saala apna kuch nahi hoga..
Chance dete hai to sirf GD mein, uske baad saala work-ex hai bolke bhaga dete hai..

P.S: The above examples are only based on person who is an engg and has 2 or more yrs of work-ex
P.P.S: Most of the incidents are experienced by the writer.

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