Thanks,
Aditya

cheers

wat happened to clsoe encounters ?? wat thoughtful gift did u turn up wid ??

i was joking earlier and i do have stuff to do.. but till would like to know..

i dunno man.. i think most of the questions can be answered by a very abstract answer… : it depends.. it depends on the type of person in front of you.. it depends on the type of company. it depends on the company culture that the guy is coming from.. it depends on the mood that the guy is in.. it depends on a truck load of points..

what is the most important thing a guy needs.. Confidence..nothing else. if u r confident about the stuff on ur resume. the rest is smooth sailing. in my perspective an interview is a selling process. if u can convince the interviewer in the first 1 min of the interview the rest of the interview will be a cake walk. unless you dont screw it up.. and u will when u r not confident about what u r saying.. so if one is lying. one must lie convincingly

in my opinion.. some people actually may take offence to the rakhi sawant thing ..

some good hobbies.. listening to music. travelling to new places.. meeting new people.. playing instruments. reading.. blogging.. long drives.. researching on bikes and sports cars…

these actually lead to some other productive questions. instead of offering the interviewer a chance to screw u up totally.

nd yeah buddies.. its important to have some hobbies.. if u dont have a hobby except watching TV.. Get a life losers

no need for high fundoo words… Candor.. is what is important..

nd please man there is no right or wrong answer… so i may be wrong for some ppl..

Other day, I asked a candidate who said he was interested in graph theory to make up an original puzzle based on something he liked about graphs. And what did he do? He “concocts” the Koenigsburg bridges problem! (For those who don’t understand, it is one of the problems which is thought to have created graph theory as a discipline in its own right).

And then there was this case when I told a candidate, “Do you have any questions? Yes? Well, then give me an answer as well.” I’ll leave it to you to imagine what happened. I’ve found this to be much more effective in understanding how people think; having them answer their own questions.. :p

And when candidates indulge in posturing or name dropping, I start dropping names myself.

C: In our project we implemented the Robertson algorithm for finding the Bayesian approximation to… blah blah and blah including blah.
I: Oh.. You should have implemented the Wilkinson algorithm, which goes way beyond the Bayesian approximation and does a kernel density estimation. Why did you take up such an outdated technique?
C: No Sir, it was from a 2007 paper!
I: Well, Wilkinson himself told me last week that this technique was inefficient.

Of course, most of the times I get plain irritated when it is apparent that the candidate doesn’t know what s/he is talking about; and send them off with a curt goodbye.