Manish’s Scribble Board

So Folks! Interview results are out! Kicked out in the first round itself, though am not surprised ( had performed badly). Well leave it, no point discussing the same thing. I was told that am “Not Upto the Mark” as per Microsoft standards.

I was supposed to give a demo at 2PM today in Conference Room about my work which I did for the last two months. The presentation was for around forty minutes out of which I presented for around half an hour and last ten minutes were left discussing about the various design issues. I had made a small power point presentation to make the show a bit lively hoping that it can add interest. I had thought of many things which I would be telling only to find my mentor picking up the questions and answering them.

When I came back to my machine, I tried writing a funky but proper “Last Day at Work” mail. This is what I had written.

Hi everybody,

I would like to inform all that today is my last day of work at MSIDC. I was working as an intern in this group.

I would like to thank each and every person for the love and affection which they have shown during all the eight weeks which made my stay a really memorable one. I am very excited to return back to college with a tag of being a MS Intern. This really counts.

I would like to wish all of you best of luck for your future and would surely love to be in contact even after this internship.

Briefly describing myself: Am a student at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal , Karanataka. Well what more to say of academics? I have decent grades and good reputation, but what I felt was that grades don’t matter in life (personal experiences).

My personal e-mail ID is manishsinha27 {at} gmail  {dot} com .

Regards,

Manish Sinha

My mentor called me up in his chamber to brief about the review and say some parting words As he thinks my strength is that am Committed and Hard Working. These two words gave me a great shock! I never came to office before 12:30-1:00 in the afternoon and never reported him on time after completion of work. Another strength was that I “never crashed in the work which has been assigned and somehow finished it howsoever unusual it ought to be”. This I can agree to some extent, though its the thing which made me work patiently for last two months.

Now coming to weakness… “I don’t have communication skills!”. Okay! “I don’t test my code for all test cases and half of the time its not running even though the algorithm is quite good”.

I would be leaving for college tomorrow night. Its actualy a break journey from Hyderabad to Banaglore and from there to Mangalore. There is also a 10 hrs gap between both the trains, which time is quite difficult to pass. Going back to college, I would be sitting for most of the companies including Sungard which is coming on 28th-Monday, Cisco on 30th-Wednesday, Yahoo on 4th-Monday, Toshiba on 7th-Thursday and Philips Innovation on 11th-Monday. No! I have no intention to take all, this list is only for those which I have registered.

See you in Manipal soon. Now wish me a Happy Journey!

This post is going to be quite short. Yesterday, Bill Gates worked last day as a full time employee at Microsoft. Bill,52 who is a Harvard dropout gave an hour departing speech. The speech was telecasted on screen here at office. People gathered in large numbers to watch, to listen how Gates built this kingdom.

Bill disclosed that one of the biggest turning points was defeating OS/2 which helped them push their own OS with full force in the market. Now windows has a mammoth share in OS market, followed by MACs and Linux. He even told how the worked at the earlier days. There are lots of videos floating out on the net, hope I don’t have to point you all to one of them. The purpose of blogging was to tell how it feels when a person of a company is leaving, especially when he had the Chairman post, more important when you work in that company even as a part time.

Coming to a bit off-topic, we have booked a cab for tomorrow. For what? Sight seeing. I know there is not too much to see in Hyderabad, but still some places like Golkonda Fort, Charminar, Ramoji Film City etc should not be missed out. We had enough of spicy food here, so nothing more to tell about food. If you still want to know what are the fooding habits of people at Hyderabad, check the equation on my last post.

It has been four weeks since I started my work here at MSF, Hyderabad. It has been quite interesting and altogether new experience. Out of 9 weeks, only 5 more are remaining and am expected to complete a major portion of the work which am alloted.

Well, apart from doing normal work, I learnt something new stuffs

Hyderabad Food = S. Indian Food - Simplicity + Spices + Chicken - Sambhar

C# = Java - JVM - ClassLoader + MSIL + JIT + CLR - Platform Independence

.NET = RoR - MVC + Horrible Documentation

I was supposed to have a code review today,but as usual I didnt submit my prepared code timely. While submitting today evening, I missed out 2 more rules as I busy cleaning,organizing and documenting my code right from the beginning to the end.

And lastly a bad news. My domain of my Tech Blog www.manishtech.info expired today. I forgot to renew it. Hopefully I wont be extending it. Its too much, since I dont get much time to blog.

Succumbing to the global oil prices pressure, the central government announced a steep hike of Rs 5 for petrol, Rs 3 for diesel and Rs 50 for LPG. What next? protests and strikes and bound to follow, the only sufferers are the common people. For me the increase was inevitable, the global crude oil prices are more than $110 per gallon and the oil companies are facing loss of more than Rs 25 per litre of petrol. Petroleum Minister Deora wanted a Rs 10 hike but this steep hike was too risky.

Now what are the after-affects? Here at Hyderabad the autorickshaws went on strike, on that same day, the cabs were also in the same state. This situation hit the IT sector hardest as more than 80% of cabs are used for IT companies ( according to The Hindu ). We missed our office on Friday as our guest house was too far off. I had thought of staying till late night but had to leave before midnight. The cab owners have called off their strike ( they were on strike for VAT issue, not fuels ) . Autos are going on complete strike from sunday as the newspaper says. Hard time next, as we out flat is 7 kms from office after shifting.

Instead of protesting against the fuel hike, we should try to save it as much as we can, use public transport as much as possible, use fuel sensibly. If the price is not hiked, the oil companies will run out of cash to import and then we will face power crisis which will be too disastrous for this developing nation. Even this growing crude oil demand should go down since demand-supply equation is responsible for such sky-rocketing prices.

Sorry for the Bad English! I cant help

Ask this question to a full time employee of any company? Where does he want spend most of his time, the answer can be at home due to obvious fact- they have gone tired of work. Well! The situation is different here, we interns like the office very much. Want to know the reasons? AC, Cokes, Beverages, Free Supper, Free Lunch (using Food allowance), hope drop by cab at night, no reporting time etc etc etc. What more we want?

Now lets discuss on work, I learnt C#.NET using Visual Studio.NET with .NET Framework 4.0. These two products as far as I know are still not released but Microsoft has issued a press release for the same. I developed a widget type of application for getting myself familiar with this new language, which surely cant be used for daily work. Now I have been given the main project about which I cant disclose because I signed the NDA at the time of joining. The work is going to be tedious but the environmnt at office is very relaxing (at least for now).

There is a strike by the cabs and auto rickshaws here in Hyderabad due to which were not able to report at work. Cabs are off the roads due to some VAT issues and autos due to increased fuel prices. Worst is still to come, all the drivers are expected to move to strike from Sunday. That too this strike is indefinite!!!

After a long wait, finally campus placements starts off with TCS first to enter this mighty campus.

Its a three day programme, one day written test, one and a half day interviews and then results. I never saw people preparing more seriously than this event, not even for the semester papers. Aptitude,English and Maths were the three sections for the written test and interview covered Technical, HR and MR rounds. Some people faced only the first two and managed to escape the third.

Short approximate statistics reveal the following (as published by placement dept). Total students eligible for the written test were 720 which included people like me who registered but didnt give the exam. Out of this 470 people got shortlisted, who faced interviews today. Just heard that some 60 HR people came from TCS to interview which included technical and non-technical members. Students of Computer Science and Electronics were the main target and they took rigorous rounds asking deep questions about DBMS, Web Technology and other unexpected stuff.

The HR round consisted of two common questions- “Tell me about yourself” and “Why you want to work for TCS?“. Guess these two questions are not so simple, even simple looking questions become tough sometimes. I just hope that they select some 300 students out of this huge number of 470.

P.S: Sorry for my bad english, am half asleep now