I thought I would write down something about the Atos Origin Interview I had today or rather yesterday which was another stop for me in ongoing job search which has been going on for quite some time now. It feels long enough nowadays to start to feel embarrassing but probably I can pass the buck to the slowdown in IT industry all over and companies shying away from recruitments. Well, a little more should be attributed to my failure to make good of some of the early chances I had but thats a story for another day.
I got a call the day before from a Jupiter Recruitments for a contractual position with Atos Origin and like I do these days I promptly agreed. The first round was short and mostly sweet. I was quizzed about Java, Struts and JSP and for a change I was able to answer most of the questions to the interviewers satisfaction. Some of the questions which I am able to remember are like:
- Tell me about yourself
- Why software after a degree in chemistry
- Details about the current project
- How does Struts work
- How do we use lookupdispatchaction
- Difference between Vector and ArrayList, Set and List
- Impact of isThreadSafe=”false” on jsp
- Things about try, catch and finally and when would finally block not execute
- Implicit Objects available in jsp page
I will add more questions if and when I do remember them but that was it mostly and viola I got through.
The next round was with the Manager and this was more of a general inquiry session rather than technical starting with tell about yourself, how do you rate yourself, some thing about being a quick learner as I said I was a quick learner, things which made me happy in my career, about willingness to work in Pune, what I knew about the company and lastly what were my salary expectations. I was then offered a chance to ask questions and I asked a couple about what my role will be if hired and why the position was contractual.
This last thing about expectations is something I have never been able to get to in my previous 5-6 interviews mainly because of my inability to clear the technical rounds so I guess this should make me happy. I was happy but now a lot depends upon when and how they get back to me. Right now I am in a position where I will accept any decent offer they make me.
So thats that then it seems.
And yes, this marks the first decent length blog I have written after a long time.
I intend to keep writing now on this website which is publicly available but mostly unknown. Right now I think I am the only person who knows about its existence and I think that will help me write a little frankly. I plan to take this public, at least make some friends aware of it so that I can have some comments, feedback and probably some content too. I also plan to write about how I got to the position I am in right now. Maybe that will help me have a laugh at my expense someday.
PS: I wrote this the next day of the interview but is published about a month later on this blog due to some unknown reasons.
