Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.

Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication
engineering
from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.

Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had never
heard
of this college before!

Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an
admission
into it . What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly in
12th.I was getting a paid seat in a good college. But my father said (I
prefer to call him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much of money".(The
baap
actually said - "I will never waste so much of money on you"). So I had
to
join this college. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil,
can at
the most be related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya he he he...

Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you have taken 6 years to complete your
engineering.

Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But you
know ,
these cricket matches and football world cup, and tennis
tournaments..It
is
difficult to concentrate. So I flunked  in 2nd and 3rd year. So in all
I
took 4 + 2 = 7 years.

Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6.

Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I will try
to
keep this in mind. 4+2 is  6, good, thanks. These cricket matches
really
affect exams a lot. I think they should ban it.

Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.

Candidate: No, no.. I am talking about Exams!!

Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?

Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never thought I
would complete it. In fact,  when i flunked in 3rd year, she was
looking
for
a job for me in BEST(Bus corporation in Maharashtra) through some
relative .

Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?

Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing 'lower' education
itself
was so much of pain!!

Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms have
you
worked?

Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my current
platform . Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform
then.
As
you can see I have experience of different platforms ! (Vashi and
Andheri
are the places in Mumbai)

Interviewer: And which languages have you used?

Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet in
German,
French, Russian and many other languages he he he...

Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?

Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a higher
version
than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a new language VD!

Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?

Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the
language
our ministers and MPs use in assembly .

Interviewer: What is your general project experience?

Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of the times
they
are in pipeline!

Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?

Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech ltd. Since
joining
BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used to think that Bench was
another software like Windows he he he..

Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?

Candidate: No, but I guess it shouldn't be difficult. I know Word and
Excel.
I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for International phone call and
use
speaker facility. And very important - I know few words like -
'Showstoppers
' , 'hotfixes', 'SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' ,
'Customer
Satisfaction'
etc. Also I can blame others for my
mistakes!

Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?

Candidate: Not much.
1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.
2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not have
deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.
3. I believe in flexi-timings.
4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would like to wear t-shirt
and
jeans.
5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest wednesday off also, so as
to
avoid breakdown due to overwork.
6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term preferably
1-2
months) assignments. Personally I prefer US,Australia and Europe. But
considering the fact that  there is a world cup  in West Indies in
2007,I
don't mind going there in that period . As you  can see I am modest and
don't have many expectations. So can I assume my  selection?

Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our
organization.  In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome
to
INFOSYS..:-))  We look forward to working with you..:-))