It was all like a joke or a dream but the company invited us for an interview. We got a mail on 1st April about it. what a day to be serious. But then w had had a talk earlier and then had an interview on 5th. It was a tough long day as the second time in two years i was out of station, the Sunday before my second mid sems in the month of April. Last time had been a successful IIT paper and this time it was an interview. I'll be really looking for something the next time around as well. Mayank and Abhishek had done some preparation and it was really up for the time to tell whether hat would fruit. We were there on time. The college had been helpful.

But it seemed that we were pulled as a part of the regular interviews. And indeed we were. Truly, now it was tough. There were seniors I don't care but they had prepared for it and were ta say formally dressed, prepared and all. And we were simple. The day had long waits as we were called. We were given two questions to do which I came here and came to know that were among the standard questions. I don't even remember as well what the questions were but we were to interact with the examiner to get in and that I should say was the main point. People from all the places were there, but indeed I felt that good. The question was basic and I gave two possible solutions to the examiner. Maybe that was watch they were judging, the number of parallel solutions that we could find out.

So in the end of it i qualified to the second round while both of them were out. They went leaving me alone. This was I think the real test- to pass out 6-8 hours a that silly place with nothing to do alone. People had friends to talk to and I was a junior to them. More so they were strange and too formal to talk to. Finally I got a chance to get the interview. This was the best part of the set. I had long one but indeed it was good, after a little struggle, I figured out almost everything. The questions for me were new but people say they were standard. One was to check out rows and column that had a zero in a binary matrix. One was a discussion of my previous problem (the written round). One was a logical one where the word phrasing was the key. There were numbered doors and serially they were toggled as the tables of one, two, three till hundred were read. Basically initially all were open. Then all multiples of 1 were toggled. Then 2 and so on. There were 100 doors and I had to figure out how many will be open. I figured that out and after that started to feel i was through this round. The answer was simple. for say 16, 8x2 and 2x8 so the toggling cancelled. But 4x4 it doesn't the perfect squares don't toggle twice to cancel.

I had a paper and so was allowed to after that and my third round was left for that time. I did not whether that was to take place. I went through the midsems, the news as started to spread. The third round then came. A sudden telephonic round.

It was a Saturday and luckily I was in my room, alone with no classes. i knew there was an interview to come but did not know when. But got that good enough. The people did consider the second year and asked me only data-structures and OS. A few logical questions and then a test whether I knew OOPs was enough and he hung up. Of the non bookish questions, one was to design an algo for the lift system, maybe because when i came here, I saw that this was the one they wanted to changed all the time.

All right this was in short how I was through. Details summary personally hi milegi, some day if I feel like to.