Finally.. the sun is beating down...

Yup..in the midst of night.. after a long gap of 3 months and 11 days.. I am trying to come out of a writers' block (a new term which I have learnt few days ago) and writing a new post... and again.. this is not on any MBA topic..(my wish of writing on MBA topic is not again granted by circumstances around me..) and ya..I am writing this blog in half sleep at 1:30 AM in the night.. with the topic "Sun is beating down.."(seems quite ironical..).. don't worry I had not any dream..where I saw sun or something flashy.. its just the series of events which happened in last month or so.. are the positive events coming over negativity of life... :).. like the rays of sun getting rid of darkness of night.. :) .. and all these events had been a learning experience in one way or other... like the reconcilliation with old friends...getting 7 point CG first time in life of DoMS..(though difficult for me to believe this.. :P).. and finally getting placed in $5.5 billion company called HCL... and more over.. in the chilly and foggy season of December..and half of january... Sun started beating down on earth to get over those unbearable conditions...


journey to HCL is one of the greatest odyssey of my life.. ya I call it an odyssey only after getting kicked out of 4 companies in series... (or rather I say.. all companies were in great loss for not taking me.. though I reached to every interview after clearing first round of GDs etc.. :).... I sat for fifth one as well.. the HCL.. with all hope shattered.. HCL gave another shock of holding a GD as a selection process. as original me.. I am unaware of any current affairs... and this time GD was among 15 students of class... with all the surmas of communication skills in class was in my group...

The topic of GD add to the difficulty.. when the facilitator asked to choose the topic among us only... and one of my friends asked for current affairs.... all eyes in the GD room was just pointing to that one person only... well everything is fair in love and war.. and this was war at that time...


so the topic was.............."oh.. i forgot the topic".. well it was something related to 600 million insurance done by ESPN star sports for the Cricket world cup 2011... I was even not aware of any such news.. the one minute which was given to think on the topic.. i was thinking why the hell on this earth someone choose current affair topic rather than any abstract topic.. which is much easier to express in ur words.. well... one minute passed away... and to my luck the first person who spoke set the base perfectly....and another person.. adding honey to the bread...making it more delicious... and one more person and so on..... everyone was in favor of topic...I went against the topic...the only point I raised was against the tide of the group... (ya..i know people curse me for this bad habit..but it is me..original me.. going against the tide...projects at DoMS tried hard but even they can't help this out completely though :P and I never regret this fact..)..

well the point raised did its work once again...and was selected for interview round...once again...another company...another pre-selection criteria..satisfied...another first round...all things were on the same line...as the last 4 companies were...(another worst part of an odyssey... when one step shows u the way another step pulls u back..).. well..considering the past experiences...I did not prepare anything for this interview..I was already pre occupied with the thoughts of last 4 companies...and considering myself unlucky...I was just chilling out there with all other friends sitting for the company...and once again I am in the last 4 of the interviewees..i knew..its gonna be difficult for me...but I paid no heed to the process....and try to flow with the process.... interview happened..and there I was true and fair to myself...to the interviewers...and to the moment.... :)...I know as a general rule..you have to lie at one place or other...but here truthfulness comes handy... :)

well another shock was waiting...results were not declared the same day... rather postponed for a day...(odyssey..sighsss)..well with no hope...and no chances..I was selected but with another shock..."HCL gonna have HR interview round".." bas lag gayi watt apni toh...HR round..and that too with me..."...jitne bhi interviews barbaad huye the isse pehle..woh sab majorly HR ki wajeh se hi huye the..ab ek aur HR... chalo this time I moved little forward...cleared 2nd round as well.... after this shock..another sweet news came in the morning when..one of the friends said.."Mayank..its gonna formality round only..where u will be asked few basic questions.."..


at that point.. i thought its all over now...but no..it wasn't..when I landed in Noida for HR interview...the complete formal HR round was waiting for us...or rather I should say we were waiting for that HR round to happen...ya..its HCL..who made us wait for 3 hrs before the first HR personnel came and see us...(I sometimes wonder..how 2 minutes can turn out to be 20 minutes for a person...and that too in $5.5 billion company....
)..the thing I hated the most...they were making me doing that.."the wait"...naukri ke liye insaan ko kya kya nahi karna padta.... khair..with the positivity that its gonna 10 mins job for 3 of us...(3 were selected for final HR..).. it all shattered..when first interview took 25 mins....

and the voice came..."Mayank Jain"...it was my turn...with all the wishes I was carrying...I entered the room...another shock.. I detest giving interviews to lady HR...and there were two of them. (though..none of them is worth looking at but still they are HR you have to look at them.. :P )..the perfect odyssey..well..I settled down..and questions started firing over me...one after another...stress testing was there...karlo..ek mechanical engineer ke saath stress testing..woh bhi karlo...as I said earlier..I was truthful there in the first interview.. i was truthful in the second interview as well... "jo hoga dekha jayega..".. was my attitude...and spoke what came to my mind..without even thinking for a single second on any questions but one...that was a trick question and I had to think for that...somewhat that was technical question...from a HR person...


well another annoying fact...after all interviews were happened we are asked to wait for 5 minutes..and that 5 minutes were turning out to be 50 mins before we cut short and asked the receptionist to call "Saloni" ,the HR which were taking care of our campus hiring procedure, and let us know the status...she came with answer..."ur result will be declared later in the day to ur placement coordinator"... wah wah...after 4 days and 5 hrs. since the results were declared..we came out of the building..looking like fool...cursing HCL...thought..chalo ok its gonna over in next few hrs only..but it didn't happen until next evening...

the other ironical event happened when most of my class mates knew in afternoon only..that i was selected...but to me it came in evening...chalo ji..after 2 months since the first company came to our department..I was finally through..finally there is sun beating down after the dark night.. this event is followed by another event when surprisingly a old time friend called me...the next day..which is followed by sun rays taking away chilly foggy season of the year..

This experience at HCL for me was a good learning..that nothing in life can be easily achieved... u have to work harder to overcome the difficulty one after another.. anyways..I thank to all those who prayed for me..who wished me luck..and who were with me through out this odyssey :)

post thoda sa lamba ho gaya...lekin ab itne time baad likhoonga.. toh thoda sa lamba banta hai.. :P