Just 4 months back, towards the Brand Factory, me and my sidie.. were plying in an auto, we talked of few things... which meant the least to us then..... but irony...... is wat makes small things big enough to be accomodated in a blog....(at least).
My sidie said.... " Look... I will ask my manager to consider this six months internship as part of experience and pay me atleast 5.5lakhs per year...and then probably I will consider getting into the firm else the world is full of options. I replied: "Actually, even i think you must get good work also, See my company.. it will pay me 8 lkh.. but how does that work out when you have to do the same thing day in day out."
So that was just one part... To continue with the day in day out... the only thing we did was to find fault in the present job.........(ok ok ...internship it was..). But both of us were lucky to have the best teams. And that was the only consideration why my firm was such a place to be visited every day.
4 months down the line, we stand at the starting of febraury... to be very very honest... to both of us, our firms in all way.. are the best places to be into.. Irony is.. we are in our campus.. with our internships over... and struggling...
We again go back some 20 days.. 19th january. Well that was the day our campus placements began. A list of about 33 companies.. we estimated that on an average each company will take 6-7 ppl, enough to accomodate all computer science and information systems students. Ok... now from 8lkh i had compromised to 5-6 lakhs... and I dont know about prashant.. my sidie.. but he would have been very happy with the same package. Companies came ... went... took 1 by 5th of what we expected.
Everything was worth sitting for. Its consultany...no issues.. if it pays.. and pays well... its a very very good firm. Then came THE company. Paying 2.9lkh per year.... That time I thought I was very clever and used to go for every aptitude test, for the sake of practice. Anyways not a big deal. We all learn from our mistakes..
That time I went with all flukes.. and came back slept. Night 1 am sidie calls... tells I got selected and have to come over for GD.
We compromised on it.. decided not to blabber.. and once thrown out.. we will come back ..to sleep.
In GD, I was cracking jokes and prashant was only entertaining those.Another wingie, rahul was telling stories we never heard of. Destiny.... he went back and we both got selected.
Next morning there were already 3 interviews scheduled for me. From morning 7:30am.. I went into for THE company's interview. Good explanations about salary being low were only good, but not sufficient.. and plus the bonus of few (hardly)technical questions... made it a serious issue when there was only HR round left.
prashant.. got a chance to inaugarate his suit.. came happy after the interview saying that he talked for 5 min. and the interview lasted 30 min. And we both got selected for the final HR interview.
Good thing .. we got 2 days for the HR interview... There was a compromise made. I got out of THE company. and prashant got into.. a 2.9 firm.
Its almost 1 week now .. after that event. Now, we have very few companies in hand... and hardly any paying more than 2.9. and the journey from 5.5 to 2.9 and from 8 to 2.9 has left just few words in hand.... but still with the hope...
... In BITS we believe.....
But, the element of surprise of course to all.... have given ppl (in this campus), inspiration to write better GTalk status messages. Of course... i came out of the routine... Faith typo things... not because... that has gone out of my life.. but because that has become such an ingredient in daily living.. that it doesnt need a status message to be conveyed....
The positive part is.. we still have 3 months in campus.. and somehow... everyone feels not everyone will be placed this semester.. but everyone feels he will get placed....
with the wish that the second notion comes true.... the senti sem continues.................................
