I got my masters degree on 13th July ‘08. Today its 22. I have no job till date. I dont even have any interviews lined up.. Just sitting at home, eating, sleeping, smoking.
Its not like i did not try, i gave a number of attempts, lets see, starting with IBM, Infosys Setlabs, Huawei, HSBC, HP, CSC, Lucent, GE healthcare, among others. The rejections that hurt the most were IBM, and HP. Life would be just perfect if i had the IBM job, work was a 10 minute ride from my home, job being very close to wha i desire, and the company being probably the biggest research organisations in the world.
I had 3 shots at HP, one from the campus visit, and 2 interviews from a referencefrom my pal Vinay. To this day, I have no idea why I didnt make it during the campus visit. The written test had a c++ section, which i dont have a very good hold on, but to reject a guy for not knowng a prorammin language is a bit nuts i feel. anyway the other phone interview went rather well, i answered pretty much all the answers, but i was told the position was filled up by some other means. NO clue. The third interview apparently the guy told im thro, but the manager it seems is lookin to interview ony one guy for the position. so its between me and 3 other guys. again i dont understand the process. if ur gonna make up ur mind for anjob by interviewing only one guy, then what choice do u have??
The infosys setlabs interview was a bigger mystery. to this day i dont know on what basis they accepted or rejected ppl. one of my pals gingi, has 2 yrs of work exp, i have 1, now gingi was not even shortlisted. i got rejected after the written test, a test where i thought i did very very well. and all my pals who said they did well, were not selected. very weird.. they call themselves a research organisation ,but the guy they finalised had neither work exp, or research exp..
I tried at lucent, gave an interview and test, answered all the questions in the interview, but still dint make it.. GE was different, the interviewr was a txtbook junkie, asking only fact based questions, nothing to test a candidate’s understanding or problem solving. again, got rejected.
so here i am, more that a week after graduating, no job, no interview, sittng and writing a sad blog.
Life is truly fucked up..
