This was my first personal interview. It was for my summer intern, '08. I'm providing only snippets of non-CS questions, let me be left with some dignity!
Disclaimer: This is a true incident. All similarities with real-life characters are totally intended and inevitable. But names have not been disclosed for obvious reasons. And I was nervous.
Interviewer: It's alright, Jyothsni. You seem very nervous. Stay calm. Let's have an informal discussion here.
Me: Okay.
Interviewer: Your grades were good until the last sem. What happened suddenly?
Me: Well, I did badly in just one course and my CGPA went down.
Interviewer: Why?
Me: We had a bad rapport with the prof.
Interviewer: Which lab assignment, do you think, was best learning experience you had till now?
Me: Compilers
Interviewer: I'm sure you had some problems in it and were stuck at times. Who among your teammates was instrumental in getting past these obstacles?
Me: We used to discuss and figure out what to do. Cannot say who in specific.
Interviewer: No? It was never you?
Me: No.
Interviewer: What do you like to do, apart from acads?
Me: I love shopping! (And a million dollar smile)
I seriously hope they thought I was trying to screw up the interview! And ya, they're coming for placements too, with an irresistible (unreachable?) package.
she entered every doorway where there was something for sale, and everywhere she found something that increased her desire to live
Monday, December 1, 2008
How to Screw up an Interview
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