The INFOSYS day :)

Morning of august 26^th, woke up at 9 am, was excited coz it was the much awaited day. Infosys was visiting our campus. The anticipation was building up, as whole of the last week me, Deepak and shobhit kept speculating the number of people they are gonna pick. Would it be higher than last year or lesser, there was still sometime for these questions to be answered but we all expected it to be around 70-80. Well, I got ready and reached auditorium where the process of filling up of forms was going on. It was good to see around 250 plus batch-mates along with 50-60 seniors from M.Tech sitting there. There I met my two companions for the day: Jitesh and Shobhit who gave me company in this day full of roller-coaster rides. Then began the process for aptitude/English test. It was a relaxed moment for me having a job under my belt but the view reminded me of AIEEE exam. The nervousness was visible of few faces. Then came the most defining moment of the day: the call from the guest house that panelists for interview have arrived and waiting there for half an hour. Me, shobhit and jitesh rushed towards guest house. There me saw the senior most panelist standing on the door. We expected a handshake with a smile but all we got was scolding. Actually the number of recruiters was thrice than what we were intimated. We had booked 5 rooms for them 3 of which were already occupied by the people who came for conducting the test. And to add to our misery, all panelists were demanding a separate room. We decided to vacate 3 rooms for them by collecting the luggage of others in one room. Then came the most defining moment of the day, while moving the luggage to other room, we saw a wet underwear hanging in the bathroom that belonged to some test conductor from Infosys. It was fun to see shobhit carrying that chaddi in his hand and placing it in other room. It formed the reason for our laughter for rest of the day. Later shobhit identified whom the underwear belonged to :p. Well, to arrange more rooms for them , we had to beg in director’s office for opening the VIP room which required lots of effort. Anyways, the things settled down, test was conducted. Then began the speculation on how many would be shortlisted for interviews. We had to wait in audi’s lobby for hours and hours. Then joined Himanshu, who missed the chaddi incident but still had a lot of thrills in store for him too. With chips, kurkure and fruit cake being breakfast and lunch, we were starving for food. But excitement for test’s result kept us away from ICH. The wait continued and continued, then came the moment.. 150 candidates were shortlisted on basis of test. It required lots of effort for us to make a branchwise list and to inform all the interviewees. It always felt good to answer the calls of successful students but those who could not make it through, the heart pained for them. All the students were informed and then began the process for interviews. Vipul had also joined us by this time. Once again the panelists scolded shobhit and jitesh as they were not happy with interview rooms, which other companies found to be world-class. Anyways the process began at around 5pm. And we knew its gonna be a long night for each one of us. We had to rush to chief warden sir’s residence for girls’ timings extension which he gave easily, thank you rajesh sir for all the cooperation. We returned to audi, it was full with some well dressed gentlemen and girls with a hope and desire of not returning jobless tonight. The process continued endlessly. The clock kept ticking and our excitement kept increasing, so did the body-ache and tiredness. At around 2 am, the interviews ended and process for compilation of results began. As one of my friends in Kota was here representing Infy, he told the number should be around 125-130. Later on of the HR person told its gonna be atleast 90 percent, that meant around 135. What a feeling it was to hear this, but the brain still kept telling, wait for the final list. Then came the list and the moment we got to know that number is 141…Whole pain vanished. There were smiles all around. The result was also declared, all shortlisted girls made it through. All my EEE mates made it through. Some were ecstatic, some were happy while others were saying “just Infosys hai yaar” to whom I kept telling that a first job is always special. But happiest of them were me, Himanshu, jitesh and shobhit coz the hard work involved had paid. We returned to room with a feeling of achievement. Dunno when I asleep but I am sure I must be smiling while asleep. My 141 friends were now employed! J