15 .. this is the number of interviews I've taken till date .. since it's an ongoing phenomenon, it's only apt that i start my blogs with the subject that'll never have an end.I'll start off with my campus days, the ppl who endured the torture with me (ranjith for one) will identify with those emotions. Six big-shots - Cisco, Oracle, ANZ, Tektronix, Delphi and SLK .. in that order .. got thru the tests and preliminary rounds for the former 5. When u r still studying and u are one step away from a job at a high profile company, u start to imagine many things, u can see no reason why u cant land that job in your laps.
But ... I was proved wrong five times over, somehow this 'jinx of the penultimate' hung over my head. I tried to reason why this was happening, could not find any convincing answers, wasn't I doing something right, I didnt know !! , it's terrible to have self-doubt creep in, it was simply the most terrible phase of my academic career. I had some guys for company all along, vipul hung around for a short time .. supreeth was around till tektronix .. ranijth and GC till the end (both of them are better off than me now :) .. finally it was SLK where the wheel stopped, 'twas a simple affair with a test-interview sequence.
An obvious whiff of disappointment loomed, I knew i deserved better than this, but this was enough to spend the next year at college in peace.Post BE, the story continues, but this time around, the fortunes had changed, I seemed to have the midas-touch. I got offers wherever I went ... after 6 months at SLK, got offers from TCS and Oracle (2nd time lucky) ,joined Oracle, got home sick at Hyderabad, started to look out again .. got offers from Delphi (2nd time lucky), Accenture, EFI, Novell, HP, AOL, NetApp..they were spread out in time though .. finally settled for HP
Look through my eyes
