CISCO : Interview

After clearing written test it was the time of CISO interview.
I must say HR was cool man :).

I waited long from morning till evening and around 5 pm I got my turn.
Interviewer first asked some formal questions like
I : From where you belongs to?
I : Where you took your lunch?
I : Field of Interest?  I answered real time operating systems and then he asked some of the question on Operating systems an asked what is the difference b/w genreal OS and RTOS. It was simple as i explained it.
I :Then he asked are you interested in CISCO? I said obviously yes then he asked Why ?

I : Then one or two questions on Computer Architecture.
I : Paging and Virtual memory?
I : Now how about your programming skills?  I said i am good in C language.
I : C programs
He asked me to write program to reverse the linked list.

I : Without using sizeof operator find sizeof the structure having several data types within the structure and you don't know how many data elements are there in the structure.
I was unable to answer this question at that time
although it is simple but it did not strike in my mind.
  Answer is
Declare a null pointer to the structure suppose structure is

struct list 

            {

..

.

.

.

}

struct list *a=0;

a++;

printf("%d",a);

In this way it will print sizeof the structure.

Although Interview was good but i guess the reason of failure is he was not satisfied with my programming skills and more or less they want coder and a very good programmer also the post was of Software Engineer So.

Even i do have good programming skills but something went wrong.

God has something better for me so that is why CISCO did not take me.
Only What i can say is Unlucky CISCO :)

Finally an Advice: Do polish your programming skills all the simple programs on Linked Lists, Binary Search Trees, Sorting techniques, Simple programs like reverse the string, reverse the sentence, Simple programs on implementing Standard library functions in your own way.
"I am talking about the post of Software Engineer". CISCO also recruit on the post of Network Engineer where they need some core Computer Networks knowledge. But We were interviewed on the post of Software Engineer and they strictly require good programmer.
Polish your data structures and Algorithms and I guess you are in. Almost no stress on the core areas Like computer networks, operating systems.
So the keyword is Programming.    

It is not first failure of my life so be cool.


--Will contribute. 
 

Infosys : Interview tale

It was telephonic interview The way it was started is like.
Interviewer: Saurabh I will take your 20-30 minutes. Are you comfortable?
I said yes. I am fine sir.

Interviewer was asking more about my M.Tech project so it was easy for me to handle that.
Two questions on C language, then he asked me about JAVA. He asked are you comfortable with JAVA?  I said no and i stated that i have read this subject when i was in my B.Tech and it is long back and said although i am good on OOPS concepts and can pick up this language easily.

Then there were two pet questions
1. one was Why do you want to join Infosys?

2. Do you have any question for me about infosys?

 I prepared both of these questions so that was not that much difficult. 
I asked three questions to him and he was quite impressed and replied answers to my questions very patiently.
My first question.

Infosys is very famous for their mentoring concept where each employee get mentored and coached by his predecessor. So How do you assign mentors to the employees Is it on the basis of some test or purely based on the interest of the employee?

Second Question
What is this Infosys 3.0 and what is logic behind 3.0 why not 2.0 or something else?

Third Question
Recently infosys shifted their listing from US index to European Index Why?


Finally interview lasted 25:07 (As my mobile was saying this call duration). It was nice obviously when you do have good interview then always it feels nice :)





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Unpredictable season of Placements !

It's long ago, posting after lots of days. Actually busy with placements and the period was very stressful by the way that is the different story. Got job in Infosys, so now i do have some time for fun and that is why i thought why not write new post on my blog.
Although I know my blog does not have huge audience but i do feel great satisfaction when i write something. I am significantly inspired by many authors, writers ha ha :).
So the next target is to fix your goals those i have to complete in next 4-5 months and then see where i land up.

Going to prepare To Do list for me. Now i am more enthusiastic, thinking about the things those I want to accomplish in next few months.
Thesis work is pending from last month  i have done nothing new, have to revamp everything.

So i was talking about unpredictable placement season. All probability and statistics fails, more unpredictable than the rainy season. And here one thing again pushes me to believe on god. I really agree with the fact that it is not important how much talented you are it is all about your belief. And I once again can say i do believe on god as well as on myself.

In the mean time a great thing happened, my flat partner also get placed in a company i am very happy about him because he was the most pessimistic among us. I guess now his perception towards the life would change :)

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