Trip to Kalyani (Koloni as in Bengali).

Morning 7.30 AM I was told to be ready, which I was able to make it up. Had a nice breakfast at sojourn hotel, we checked out as we were supposed to stay at “Future College” Guest house on that night. Trip was a bit enjoyable with the driver taking us into inner rural Kolkata. The narrow roads, where only one vehicle would be able to pass old buildings… cool view of traditional kolkatta, nice way to enjoy the morning. Hot and humid weather was making us boring; meanwhile my Zune got switched off due to battery drain. So no music. Passed time by talking to Vidya and Krithika. Finally reached kalyani at 11 AM, JIS group was the first visit , where we dumped all our luggage and took the test kit to Govt engg college , the test started at the Govt college at 12 noon with one single batch which we completed by 2PM. Again volunteers were good for us with very helpful natured guys. Then I and Vidya were supposed to return to JIS where we had to do the short listing and finally at 4 PM the results were declared with only 12 getting short listed for the next round. Instead of sending the students to JIS the kalyani govt college PO asked any one of us to come to his college to conduct the GD round, after heavy negotiations I went to Govt Engg College to do the GD.

Again communication problem for the candidates. Had to reject 8 people with one guy being rejected due to his stammering, it was very painful for me to reject that guy, he was technically good, after his interview he told me that CTS had rejected him for this stammering (I wish I had that guy in our organization, unfortunately some good offer will be awaiting for that guy). After the selection process I had to rush back to JIS for one more GD session, I was very frustrated with the way the people made me to come back to JIS, I was taken all around kalyani with the university staff and I was finally dropped to the JIS, all along the way, the hammering talk of the PO for so many rejections in his college. God IT industry can’t take people who are just dumb.

After doing GD at JIS and final offers we wanted to move to Kolkatta with the Future college’s PO , but Vidya wanted to shop for sarees , we were taken to Kalyani’s market for the shopping , I was not able to purchase anything cse we were supposed to leave kolkatta on Thursday . So I dropped the idea of shopping. What a tragedy there was a shocking message that was waiting for all of us; it was the return journey back to Bangalore.

And after shopping went back to kolkatta with future college’s placement officer. Reached and had a nice dinner. Rest in the next post. Still more to go, will continue….