Back from Bangalore

As I had mentioned earlier I had to go to Bangalore for Subex's interview. I landed at Bangalore day before yesterday after a sleepless bus ride. Me and Sujit stayed at Sharat's place. That day was spent roaming Bangalore. We went to Forum, Commercial market, Amoeba and then Spinn in the night. We reached back at Sharat's place at 2:30 am (because we got lost). The interview was supposed to be the next day (yesterday i.e) at 9:30 am. I woke up at 7:30 am and left for the interview at 8:30 am.
The Subex office, although small, was pretty nice. The people working there also seemed nice. We were supposed to have 3 technical interviews then 1 HR interview. The interviews chugged along slowly because their Q4 results were going to be announced. Finally I came to know that I had been selected at 6:30 pm. Me and Bhalla were the only ones to get selected that day.
It was a nice trip :)

Project demo

I had my project demo today. I was given the first slot and had to be there at 9:30 am alongwith my P.C. Sujit dropped me there in his car. The presentation went of pretty smoothly and lasted about 45 Minutes.
I leave for Bangalore today evening, hope to have some fun there :-)

Having fun

Life is going on pretty smoothly, we went to F1 yesterday and had a blast. Finished my project report today and went to meet grandma at my uncle's place. We went out and had dinner, I had a nice time chatting with Neethu (my cousin). I have to submit my report tomorrow and my project demo will be the next day. I will be leaving for Bangalore the same day (for the Subex interview) hope to have some fun there. Cheers

6th Semester last class

Today was the last day of my 6th semester. Had systems programming lab in the morning. Then Sujit got his car from Delhi today (yep, good days are to follow soon) and yes I cleared the written exam for Subex systems, so I guess I will be off to Banglore in a few days for the interview. Anyway , in the afternoon there was a small scare that I had lost my phone, when it was actually safe with Sujit. We had a nice cricket match in the evening with more than twenty people coming to play, it was great fun. Still rolling around .. ;-)

Subex

We had Subex systems visiting our campus yesterday. It is one of the major telecom companies in India. Although the organization's workforce is not too huge, it has handsome profits. It doesn't deal with services, but rather product development.
It was given dream status, so I could write the exam. The exam consisted of one objective round of C questions. The standard was pretty nice and I could answer a few of them. The second round was a written programming test. I got a question where I was required to split a text file into other files of a fixed number of bytes and care needed to be taken that the file wasn't split between words.
The interview will be held in Bangalore (if I clear the written rounds). The company has a reputation of hiring very less individuals, so I don't know where I stand. Lets see what happens. Results will be announced the coming week.

Farewell

We had our senior's farewell party today at hotel seagate. It began at 4 pm. We had some contests for our seniors , food and cold drinks. Dance was to follow next and I was able to dance for the next two hours non stop. All in all it was nice.. reminded me of my school days, where parties like these kept on happening. :-)

Dirty cricket

It had been a long time since we had played cricket. Anshul somehow managed to find a bat and it was decided that we were going to play in the muddy ground at the back of our house. Sticks took the place of wickets. The only problems (except from the ground being soggy) was that: the ground was surrounded by houses with fragile windows and that there was a well in the middle of the ground. We played two matches. One of 6 overs and another of 3 overs. Our team lost both matches, but it was great fun. Addy managed to get his pants dirty and torn once more. I guess he is a compulsive diver.
Among other things, India managed to lose to Pakistan once again in spite of making a huge total of 315.

Offshore outsourcing: A view from both sides

Wired 12.02: The New Face of the Silicon Age, this wired article talks about outsourcing from the perspective of both an Indian programmer and her American counterpart. The article is a bit old and a bit long, but worth the read.

5th Semester results

I got my 5th semester results (10230062) today. I got 81% and am second in Computer Science. Shivendu is the topper with 851/1050. Sunita is 3rd with 847/1050.. Second again, I am getting tired of this.

India Vs Pakistan

India and Pakistan had a match today, here, at our very own Cochin. I could have gotten the tickets but me and Rahul decided that we will go to Park Inn and have a blast (they had a large screen T.V and A.C)... ;-) We went there at around 10:30 am when Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid were batting. Shortly we were joined by Sujit, who came after giving the written exam of Satyam Computers. At around 2pm Anshul was also a part of the party. We blasted off till India won.. it was great fun. We were ther for around 7 hours ;-D

Automating downloads

I had spare time so I wrote an article about automating downloads using Perl. Nothing great, short and sweet like perl :-)