Software Engineers LifeCycle

As I am now software engineer. I would like to explain my life in Calvin's style.

The Infosys OffCampus

 

Just attained Infosys offcampus...... I got call letter for written test PI on 21st November, 10 days before the scheduled written test on Kamothe Navi Mumbai.

There was a aptitide  and verbal test ,

For aptitude you can refer simple IQ questions from any competitive exam book plus there are mathematical puzzles you can refer

1) Puzzles to puzzle you - Shakuntla Devi

2) More Puzzles - Shakuntla Devi

3) R S Aggrawal For some mathematical aptitude

The paper on aptitude was fairly tough and has low time limit 40 minutes

Here are some questions

1) Something like finding 11 prime numbers whose  average is also a prime number where each number is smaller than 45. There were questions based on the findings like

Which is largest prime number etc etc

Never attempt the puzzles first attemp all objectives first

2)There were all objective questions half of which are easy IQ questions some were base on graphs of liabilities and industrial terms and 5-7 of them were base on conditional things like odd thing out

3) Verbal test consist of reading passage as well as detecting grammatical errors in the sentences was fairly easy but has strict time limit of 35 minutes

 

Interview: I was shortlisted for intervview on the following day. at Raheja chambers Nariman point

Interview started at 10 AM next day

There were usual dialogues abt by experience . Academic achievements and Hobbies

Be prepared abt your hobbies they always asks abt it

Why you have applied for infosys?

Tell me something abt infoys?

They asked me two puzzles

1)

a=sqrt(12+(sqrt(12)+sqrt(12+.......upto infinity))))

Simplify to a*a=a+12

The answer was A=4 Simple quadratic equation

2) What was significance of number 1729

=1 cube+ 12 cube =10 cube +9 cube

It is ramanujan number

Other puzzles are:

3) How many square are there in 8X 8 chess board

Ans 204

=8cube+7cube+......+1cube

 

4) How will you form 4 point equidistance from one another

5) tell me creative use of pen? of a pen cap

6) Arrange 12 candles in to form 6 rows of 4 candles

Ans make a star

There was another HR session in ext round of the interview and there werer simple questions , They just check for the Communication skills

Laws redefined

Newtons laws redefined :

Luckily there is no apple tree near my house but my cousin had thrown the apple on my head since then strange laws came into my mind

1) Under absence of external couching toppers tops and duffers fails
That’s is students have huge inertia to move.

2) In presence of couching the progress of student is propotional
to rate of change of subject.
Rate of change subject ,r = mv

m=inertia of student
v=speed of studies

P=dr/dt

ultimately,
P=ma

a=accelaration in studies

3) To every action of lecturer there is equal and opposite response
by students

Law of conservation of notes:

Notes can neither be created nor destroyed but can only be transformed (xeroxed)from one form to another
Total amount of notes in college always remains constant.

Relativity:
Whethere the girl gives you kiss or you give kiss to girl that depends on position of observer

Negative Feedback:
When you do something positive like proposig a girl and got a slam that’s negative feedback that will keep you stable.

Hard disk deleted

Recently I lost all data of my Hard disk it remind of this poem from ifaq.org

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.
Carefully, I weighed my options.
These three seemed to be the top ones.
Clearly, I must now adopt one -
Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

With my fingers pale and trembling,
Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee
Finally I pressed a key --
But on the screen what did I see?
Again: "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

I tried to catch the chips off guard --
I pressed again, but twice as hard.
Luck was just not in the cards,
I saw what I had seen before.
Now I typed in desperation,
Trying random combinations.
Still there came the incantation -
Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted;
Getting up, I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw an awful sight,
A bold and blinding flash of light,
A lightning bolt that cut the night and shook me to my very core.
The PC screen collapsed and died,
"Oh no -- my database", I cried.
I thought I heard a voice reply,
"You’ll see your data-- Nevermore!"

To this day I do not know
The place to which our data goes
Perhaps it goes to Heaven where the angels have it stored.
But as for productivity - well,
I fear it has gone straight to Hell.
And that’s the tale I have to tell -
Your choice: "Abort, Retry, Ignore"