tHe Yahoo! Encounter

This blog dedicated to placements examinations. We were told that our placements will start from 26th of June '08 and the opening company will be Yahoo!
It wont be abnormality to dream myself in Yahoo as everyone has freedom for that, i also dreamed same to get into yahoo .. being involved with so many extra activities in the Campus i have ruined my CGPA, yes although i was good in all things but i was unable to maintain my CGPA level above 7. days were coming near and i was assured that Yahoo wont allow me to write their preliminary test. in all the passed years yahoo keeps that cut off but this time they haven't said anything about the CGPA in the first paper pasted on the Temple's notice. Don't get surprised Temple i mentioned above in the PLACEMENT & TRAINING CELL of our campus, all our Khalbali batch call it as Temple with Pujari ji our Placement Officer Dr. Suresh Babu. and GODs liek Yahoo! Oracle comes and gives prasad. i thing you got the thing. now let me introduce our messenger Mr Bharath Raj, (The placement representative for MCA).
Now the situation was Yahoo! interview is coming near and all my hopes were going down as i was assure that i wont be allowed to write basic test. although few days back the fixed date yahoo has send 7 CGPA cutoff criteria but Bharath was regularly promoting me that i will be allowed but i always felt that he is saying normally.

Finally the day came with somethings prepared i went to the pre-placement talk of Yahoo! and after the talk we went Mr Cheetan, and Bharath made me allowed to sit in the exam by showing my career profile. Then comes the written exam. i haven't done any kind of research job for the Y! test. some people can say this as carelessness not doing my homework but opinion for exams is different i learn in constant way and always write exams straightaway, i feel exams are to check what we have learned in the past time its not that few days before exam start mugging up al the books and put all that onto the papers.

Yahoo! has offered two job profiles as per the paper on temple's notice board and i was interested in "System Administrator" one. i was expecting some linux, shell, perl, little bit of C,C++ etc in the exam. but exam started with postfix, prefix conversion of expression and moved into finding complexity of the algorithms, i was bad at the subject and not at all studied something related in the near passed time. The second section was totally from my interest area, and i was happy doing that except the theory concepts. finally it ended up nicely within timings as there was no -ive marks for wrong ones i have attempted complexity questions also randomly selecting the keywords "LOG" "N" square O etc.

Within an hour results were out only two of the MCAs were shortlisted and my name wasn't there in the list, this was the only time when i felt little depressed because i knew it that if i would have studied some more i could have attempted those complexity question, but soon that thing has gone as there were 2 MCAs selected and we had good hope on them. later on interview rounds started and one of MCAs was out , now the only roll no one was inside Y! recruitment process next to be conducted was programming round next morning. as i am administrator of our MCA lab i with bharath were the first people in the lab. later all Y! team and the 6 under process candidates entered to lab and programming started.

These days i am working on a server project in the lab so i started doing my work, one of the Y! team Mr. Narayan came to me and talked to me, when he got to know about me he was confused why i am not in the 6 students coding there. and i said all stuff i had with me the correct and accurate reasons. i got introduced with another Y! team member Mr Dheeraj and he also asked some basic commands which wa an easy job to answer because these commands are like toys to play in lab. He also said same why you haven't cleared the written, i opened the truth of not preparing properly,he advised me to try offcampus after a good preparation and moved to the other end. i started doing my lab work but in about 3 minutes Mr Dheeraj came back to me and said "you have 10 minutes, you will be interviewed ". i was stunned with those words, i went out of the lab and had a talk with Bharath. He supported me and then i moved into the separate cabin inside lab to face the interview. They started firing question targeting networks, i was answering when it was upto my practiced praticle concepts but after crossing asking commands, troubleshooting problems finally they moved to the OSI layers and i got struck at this stage as i haven't studied any network material in the last past months. When i said some thing in front of that interview panel they asked me try try some thing. i started writing and i have written 6 out of 7 OSI layers, forgot the name of one. Now they started asking some more questions and these questions were hint for me to get the name of that last forgotten layer finally i got the name but coming upto this stage i as bit confused with what all things i was saying. this has made my answering frequency a little slow. any how interview ended up happily. later one of them said me that the girl in their team will do HR round for me. and i was in answering "about me " and my personal interest how i got attached with open source technology and linux. she made me stop at question . she asked lets say there is another company paying same as we will, what all things will make you work with Y!, i replied definitely the brand name , she moved on to next depth of question , if you have microsoft and google on the other side , for this i replied and showed my interest to work with open source now the Microsoft got filtered and my situation was to choose among Yahoo and Google. Now this was the situation i was thinking i must have studied some interview blogs etc so that i can answer this type of questions. i was thinking if i say google is better she might take it against yahoo but if i think of answering yahoo, all newspaper cuttings and the e-news saying google bidding for yahoo flashes to my mind. After thinking a while i replied that i feel yahoo in india is at higher position than google india. Even now also i dont know how she have ranked me for that answer but that was difficult one for me. After that there were some question related to location of work as i was already in bangalore for my graduation that wasn't a problem for me ... finally i was out of the cabin.

Getting out of cabin i was thinking whether my interview will be considered as part of actual process or an extra live real experience for me. Later on they announced the results and Fahad from our batch was selected along with another MTech student. and they have offered me internship@Yahoo ! they took some pics with us and moved to airport.

If there exists any miracles yes this is one in my life !

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