General - Interview

INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st FEBRUARY 2008

WELL FRIENDS,
THIS IS SOURAV FROM TECHNO INDIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLGY,NEW TOWN,KOLKATA...THE TECHNO INDIA GROUP ORGANIZED THE CAMPUSSING OF INFY ON 21ST FEBRUARY IN OUR COLLEGE PREMISES...THE REPORTING TIME WAS AROUND 8AM IN THE MORNING....FOUR COLLEGES OF TECHNO INDIA GROUP PARTICIPATED IN THE COLLEGE SILIGURI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,TECHNO INDIA,ASANSOL ENGINEERING COLLEGE AND OURS...WHEN WE REACHED THE VENUE AT 7.30 IN THE MORNING THE FIRST VIEW OF SO MANY STUDENTS APPROX OVER 1000 MADE US A BIT NERVOUS...AT 9.45 THEY GAVE THE PPT....WE GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION BOUT THE COMPANY FROM THE PPT.THEN WE WERE TAKEN TO OUR ROOM AND ASKED TO FILL UP A FORM OF INFY..MIND IT FRIENDS DNT MAKE A MISTAKE WHILE FILLING UP THE FORM.....THEN THE TEST STARTED FIRST SECTION QUANTI 30 QUESTIONS ON:

1.SYLLOGISM
2.DATA INTERPRETATION
3.DATA SUFFICIENCY
4.QUESTION ON NXT FIGURE IN THE SERIES
5.ONE PUZZLE(RS AGARWAL TYPE)
6. A SIMPLE SUM

NEXT THE BERBAL PORTION 40 QUESTIONS....GRAMMAR..SENTENCE COMPLETION..DETECTION OF ERROR ..TWO LARGE PASSAGES..THE TME FACTOR IS THE MAIN THING IN THIS SECTION...
AFTER 4HRS OUR RESULTS WERE DECLARED OUT OF OVER 1000 CANDIDATES 206 CLEARED THE APTI....NEXT WE WERE TAKEN FOR THE PI ROUND..THE PI ROUND FOR OUR COLLEGE STARTED AT 7.30PM...THERE WERE 25 PANELS AND 1:1NTERVIEW...IT WAS A COOL INTERVIEW THE INTERVIEWER WAS TOO GOOD....AT FIRST I GREETED HIM AND WITH A FIRM HANDSHAKE ..THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT ..HE ASKED ME WHETHER I WAS NERVOUS OR NOT..I TOLD HIM IM A BIT...HE TOLD ME TO BE ABOSLUTELY COMFORTABLE..HE ALWAYS HAD A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND SO DID I.....HE ASKED ME BOUT MY HOBBIES ..I TOLD ACTING,ANCHORING AND CREATIVE WRITING..HE AWS IMPRESSED AFETR HEARING ACTING ...HE TOLD ME DAT UR INTO TEAM WORK...

HR:SO R U ONLY A TEAM WORKER NOT A TEAM LEADER
I:NO SIR I AM ALSO A TEAM LEADER I WAS SELECTED AS THE SECRETARY OF THE FEST COMMITTE OF OUR COLLEGE
HR:(IMPRESSED)DO U READ NEWSPAPER
I:YES SIR BUT NOT IN DETAIS..
HR:TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON RECENTLY
I:SINCE I HAD READ ALL THE LAST DAYS NEWS FROM THE NET LAST DAY I WAS ABLE TO TELL ALL THE NEWS...
HR:GOOD..DO U HAVE ANY CERTIFICATES
I:YES SIR SHOWED HIM ALL
HE WAS IMPRESSED SEEING DAT I WAS THT TOPPER OF MY DEPARTMENT IN THE PREVIOUS SEM...HE SAW ALL MY CERTIFICATES...
HR:HE ASKED ME TEEL ME FROM WHERE I WILL ASK U QUESTIONS...
I TOLD HIM FROM ANYWHERE SIR U LIKE
HR:SO U SMOKE
I:NO SIR
HR:SUPPOSE U FRIENDS SMOKE AND ASKS U TO BUY A CIGARETTE WHAT WILL U DO
I:SIR FIRST I WILL MAKE HIM AWARE OF WHAT IS WRONG IN HAVING CIGGARETTS..BUT I KNOW IT WILL BE LIKE A LECTURE TO HIM..BUT I WILL TRY TO SHOW HIM BY SETTING AN EXAMPLE OF ME .Y SAYING DAT SEE I DNT SMOKE...SO WHY CANT U ..AND WENT ON ..HE AWS SATISFIED WITH MY ANSWER BUT ADDED A BIT HE TOLD DAT U COULD HAVE ALSO TOLD IT IN A WAY LIKE THIS DAT IM NOT UR ENEMY SO I CNT GIVE U A POSION...LIKE DAT WAY...I TOLD ABSOLUTELY SIR....
THEN HE ASKED ME SUPPOSE UR A PROJECT MANAGER HW WILL U EXECUTE A PROJECT..TOLD HIM

HE THEN ASKED ME WHAT ELSE DO U DO..I TOLD HIM SIR I DO HAE ANOTHER HOBBY OF CREATIVE WRITING,..AND IM ALSO THE MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF TE COLLEGE MAGAZINE...HE TOLD GREAT....

THEN HE TOLD ME SOURAV U HAVE IT IN U AND U CAN DO IT...U DONT HAVE TO WORRY..THOSE WORDS...DATS IT I KNEW DAT I HAD DONE IT;...THE RESULTS CAME OUT AFTER ONE HOUR AND I AWS THRU...HOPING TO JOIN INFOSYS IN 2009....FRIENDS I MUST TELL HAVE FAITH IN GOD CROSSING THE APTI IS HARD WORK FROM UR SIDE PLUS UR LUCK...AND IF UR THRU IN APTI THERE ARE VERY LESS CHANCES OF U BEING CANCELLED IN THE HR ROUND U JST HAVE TO TALK WITH THE HR KEEP EYE CONTACT..AND SPEAK ON FREELY...

BEST OF LUCK TO ALL OF U ..GOD BLESS