It was 9:00 pm and still there were no signs of results soon. Now frustration started to creep in many of us waiting there but nothing much we could do about that. Wait continues and it was 10:00 pm by now (“we had spent an hour which I felt was really a long 1”) we didn’t have our dinner that too was building our frustration. Finally after waiting for a long time at about 10:30 pm, the results were out and five names were announced (Priyanka Garg, Gagan Anand, Rohit Goyal (me), Amit Kumar Dey and Amit Aggarwal) “the list in order” and we were asked to go to the SENATE to collect our offer letters. We were really very happy that time and also got the bumps by our friends “a tradition in college…. ;)” we went to the SENATE and were even congratulated by the members of RECRUITMENT PANEL on our way to the SENATE. We were waiting for the formalities there to get completed. As we thought we had a job in our hands, we were told there is one more interview round……and we thought the DRAMA is not yet over……
It was around 11:00 pm that time and we were really tired by that time…..they called five of us one by one for final interview…….. I kept on waiting for my turn and at about 12:10 am, I was called in….( i was the third one to go in ). I went in there and this time a complete panel of 12 members was waiting for me….”yes….for the first time I was a little nervous” I wished them “good evening” (not sure that should I wish them good morning :P ) and they offered me a seat “A centre seat for you Rohit” and I said, ”thanks for this honor sir….really appreciate that…. ” they smiled at it. Now it was kind of RAPID FIRE round of questions and answers….”one from this end, one from that….” Some of them I don’t even remember now. One of them asked, “Compare yourself with other candidates…” and I replied, “…………can’t write that here…….. :P ” and then they asked about DELLOITE again (same old questions that I was used to answer after my earlier interviews….) then they asked me to compare FREESCALE with other semiconductor companies. I hesitated a little but still kept companies like INTEL above FREEESCALE. I thought they were a little shocked and upset is well….and asked me to explain….i explained them convincingly with best of my knowledge about both of these…. Then one of them asked, “do you believe in ethics, integrity, commitment like principles ?” and I answered, ”Yes sir, I do…” Then he added, ”then why are u sitting here when you had already made a commitment to DELLOITE” and I said, “sir, I told them that I will definitely try for my core companies…..” then after listening this he asked, “If tomorrow, u get a offer from a better company than this, will you go for that ?” I took a moment and replied, ”Sir, if I am not satisfied working with FREESCALE and having a better offer than that, then I will take that…..because satisfaction in mind is the main thing for me…..” (the moment I completed my answer, I knew he didn’t like my answer….) he asked, “according to u…..tomorrow after your marriage if you will be getting a better girl, then you will leave your wife ?......then where is your commitment….” And I was surprised by his question and answered, ”Sir, I guess you are comparing two different things…..i consider this question irrelevant….and I can answer only if you compare two things on same grounds….” He still insisted me to answer that twice but I didn’t…….then one of them changed the topic and asked, “we have a bond of 7 years which you have to sign right now…..will you sign that….be careful with your answer….”. I thought and replied, “no sir, I can’t……7 years is a much longer period….i won’t be signing a bond for such a longer period)” and everybody was looking at me just like I had committed a crime……then they asked some questions like “work or money”, “job or family” etc…. and finally asked me to ask anything if I want to…..i said, “No sir….” And they asked me to leave. I was little upset coming out of that room,,,,,and it was around 12:40 am. I thought now my chances are a little blink over others….
I kept on waiting for final results “eagerly” (so were my friends). They called other two candidates after me and we thought results were just around the corner. But the drama was not over yet and they recalled two candidates (Vijay Tayal and Ditesh Kumar). Then by the time they interviewed these two, we all were half dead looking our watch again and again and we found it was 1:30 am and still no results…..they kept on coming out in a group of two and three but without results every time…..finally, at 2:30 am…results were announced……and five of us (7 now) were selected (Priyanka Garg, Rohit Goyal (me), Gagan Anand, Amit Kumat Dey, Vijay Tayal) “list in order”. We were more relieved than happy by that……and were asked to go in to collect our offer letters. We went in there and were congratulated by all the panel members and they gave us our offer letters and some goodies….Then they asked us about our experiences about the day and then one of them asked me to say few lines (in my poetry style)…I was not in a situation to create some at that time, so I denied that….but he still insisted so I had to make some and I said, “aap aaye humare college humein khushi bahut hai, aate rahein har saal rakhte aashayen bahut hain, select karke aapne humein khushaal kar diya, hath mein offer letter dekar maalamal kar diya” (I thought they might not like those as even I wasn’t quite satisfied with those). But they appreciated that…..then they asked Amit to sing a song and he sang a song. (I don’t know in which language it was….). After that they took a group photograph (FREESCALERS…..name given to that photograph by one of my friends and future colleague) and there were handshakes all around…..and God knows…..we were really very happy……and then we (me and some freinds) went to KHOKHA at 3:15 am to celebrate and I found the day long and even the longer night…….(but a beautiful 1…. :) )
Well….!! I would love to thank some of my friends who were there with me whole day and night and supported me….(Deepak Kumar, Gaurav Bhatia, Nitin, Rajinder, Rahul Singla, Parbhat and many more…) without their support I might not be able to face their exhaustive recruitment process…..thanks a lot my friends…..
And before I end this story, I would also like to mention special thanks to a friend who was in continuous touch with me with her wishes…..and had confidence in me even more than what I had in myself. Finally I was also happy because I didn’t let her down and I know she was happy as much as I was………..
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well depicted my friend...though i dnt belong to ur college...but it felt so real..like i was one of u...keep going..:)