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.

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 ma! ny other
languages.

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 th! e 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.

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 wo! uld 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. .. :-)) We look forward to
working with you .. welcome to Infosys ;-)