My First Interview experience at SAP Labs- Second Technical Round

When I went for Zummah prayer,I thought it is a golden opportunity for me that today is Zumma.I can beg to my Allah that if this company is good for me then placed me today itself.I begged again and again that please my Allah you help me.I know I am not the best but if you want to give me no one can take it from me and if you don't wanna give me than no one can give me.After I came from Zumma prayer I went directly to TnP department where I met with our PR Vineeth.He told me that they have selected you for second round you fill this form.I filled the form and he asked me "Do you have photo with you?"

I nodded "yeah".

he told you just give me photo and form after filling this I will staple it.

 He again asked "Had your lunch.?"

I said "No."

He told that go and have your lunch and come back before 2 o'clock.
I nodded "OK".

When I was going for my lunch what were the feelings in my heart you can't even imagine.I was selected for second round.I was so happy.I went directly to my mess and had lunch.After that I went to TnP department again.Then we had to wait in GD room.I sat in GD room and were discussing about second round.

              Now my turn came. I went for second round.Sir who has taken our PPT yesterday he was sitting on a chair.I entered in interviewer's room after asking "May I come in sir?"

 He nodded "Yeah, Please come in".

"Can I sit sir?" I added.

"Yeah sure" he replied.
"So how was  your written test and first interview?" He continued.
I answered "More than average Sir."

Now he asked next question which was common for me "Tell me something interesting about yourself? 

I prepared yesterday night only this question when I was checking their website where I found one project "Lakshya".which currently targeting 1,00,000 students to give them free computer education. 

So I started "Sir your interest and my interest is almost same.I mean I also have the same idea in my mind.You told in PPT that you are having one project lakshya where you want to give computer basic education to 1,00,000 students.

                  I also want to do this work in my village.I am from village.During Summer Vacation this time I am going to start Free Computer Education in my village.where I can teach Website development, Software Development using Programming Languages like C,C++. So those students who has passed 10th and 12th and having laptop or PC and wasting their useful time just watching movies or doing Facebook.So why should not I spread free education in my village to students who has caliber can get benefit from this and may be will do something good for my village. "

Then he asked "If after that they will waste their time then?"

I replied "Sir,I will give them some home work.So they will be doing their homework rather than watching movies. If after that they are not doing it and wasting their time then it is not my fault.I tried my best."

Then he started asking question from my resume.

He asked "Why did you write basic of C++ here?"

I replied "Sir if I would write I am efficient in C++ then you will be asking some question but I am not efficient in C++."

He interrupted in between "efficient means?"

I replied "Sir,actually I didn't solve so many problems in real life.I read some basic concepts.But I am not much confident on it."

He nodded "OK".

I was surprised that how I am so confident.I was so fluent in English too.I was surprised but something was happening very nice.I made eye contact every time when I spoke.

He asked next question "Why do we use CSS?"

I replied "Sir,in CSS we can style our webpage.we can do coloring."

He interrupted "That I can do in HTML too.Why CSS?" 
I replied “Sir in HTML we have to write a long code for doing this. In CSS we can write it in a short manner. “

Sir again denied my effort saying “But I have enough time I can write long code. Even if I will learn CSS in 2-3 days that I can use in HTML so I can complete it in same time or even faster.” 

“Sir In CSS we can make separate file. So if we want to change in code separately we can do in a file.” I tried a new alternative.

“But I have search and replace. I can use search to find out the exact code and I can replace directly.Why CSS?” again he denied my answer to check how many alternative I have.

“Sir, then I don’t know” I surrendered.

“Think a little.”  He wanted to get at least one more alternative.

I lowered my gaze and tried to get one more alternative but couldn’t get it.

I told “Sir, I don’t know”. But I was confident to saying even I don't know. Because if we don’t know then we should directly accept it.

That I learned a day before from my friends.

Now he scanned my resume once again and asked "What was your contribution in your mini project?"

I started explaining about my mini project which I by hearten last night only. 

he interrupted me and again gave stress on his question.    "What was your contribution?" 

"Sir,we all were sitting together and did coding." I tried to save myself.

But he again stressed on same question."What was your contribution?"

Sir,I was not leader.Leader was Syed meraj.

He asked "who?" I said " Sir,Syed meraj Ashraf. He was leader."
"So what was your contribution?"

I thought now he want some specific answer.So I replied with full confident.

"Sir,In project sometimes we got stuck at some point.We also got stuck in next button.(I remembered the scene when our project leader meraj was saying that yar it took 15-20 days to implement next button. We were not getting idea how to implement next button.)

I used that point here and told with full confidence "Sir I solved that problem."

He asked with surprise "You solved that problem? What was the solution?"

I read code.So I knew this thing.I told "Sir,If we want next song then we can do song = song+1;

if we want to repeat the song then there is one class repeat() we have to put song name in to it.It will repeat the song."

Now he was satisfied with my answer or may be with my confidence. He said  "OK".

Now he asked "What do you think about DBMS?"

"Sir,Actually I did 2 out of my 3 projects in DBMS itself.But recently I didn't study." I replied.

He again asked a very nice question whose answer was not with me. "But you have written DBMS in your area of interest? If you have interest than you should keep in touch with this.right?"

I started giving excuse.He stopped me in between and asked "just say Yes or No?"

I replied "Yes sir. sure"(I don't know why I added this "sure" in last but I remember I added )

"what about this ShareFile.com?" He continued.

"Sir,I was leader in this project."

"Is this hosted?"

"Yeah sir but on our NITC server not on internet.Actually sir we have athena server in NITC where we can host." He didn't ask more question from this may be because he has asked questions related to HTML and CSS.

He asked "Have you heard about stored procedure."

I forbade directly "NO,Sir." 

Now he again scanned my resume.He started this time with Postgres SQL.

"Who founded Postgres SQL.?" He added.

"Sir,I don't know.Actually in our college we are using Postgres SQL." 

"So you never checked license or terms ?"

"NO, Sir.I don't know.But if you will give me chance to guess.Then It's Oracle." I replied.

May be one or 2 question I forgot but then in last he said. 

"Do you have any question?" 

now I was confident and repeated same question.

 "Sir tell me what are the areas which I can improve?"

"That I won't tell you.Just ask your faculties and colleagues. Any Other question?"

"Sir,I don't want to ask any question I want to say you some thing that your PPT was nice.May be it was because our interest matches that's why." I appreciated his work.

"OK,Thanks and best of luck." He ended with these words.
 When I heard these words I thought that I am going to next round.

Then I left the interviewer's room. But I was so happy at that time.

My First Interview experience at SAP Labs-First Technical Round

Yesterday it was memorable day for me.I had my first interview of my life and got placed at SAP LABS. When I cleared the written I don't know why I was confident that I will be shortlisted but I was. You can say it was my faith on my Allah (s.w.t.) that I will be shortlisted. I was at no. 12 out of 16 who were selected for interview round. In starting they told that they will be having only 2 interview rounds technical round followed by HR.But after that they told there are 3 rounds 2 technical followed by HR round.
         I thought even it was also difficult to get in 2 rounds how can I will be able to clear 3 rounds. First round was little bit difficult and I was also thinking that I will be thrown out from this round itself.Second technical and HR round were ultimate.I was much confident after HR round that I will be selected and I got selected. But it was surprise but expected because of my faith on Allah s.w.t. that I cleared 1st round and got into 2nd round.I went for JUMMA Prayer after 1st round and asked or I should say I begged from my Allah that if this company is good for me than place me today itself. because I have concept "Never wait till tomorrow which you can do today itself".So if I can get it today than why should I wait till tomorrow for any other company.

when I entered in the room I asked permission "May I come in Sir". He told "Yeah come in". Then normally surprised for students but truth that I take one more step and shook hand with interviewer saying "Sir,I am Arif." He replied" myself N****". Usually in college's interview this thing doesn't happen with students.It was my first interview so I shook hand even I didn't know that it was right or wrong but I did.

In first round he asked me first question" Introduce yourself".I was ready for this kind of question. I prepared my brief intro from "indiabix.com". Then I replied "first of all thanks to you sir giving me such a nice opportunity to introduce myself. I am Arif from Jhunjhunu Rajasthan.I did my schooling from village itself.Actually I am from village.After that I went to city jhunjhunu and upto 12th I studied there.After that I went to Kota. I was in Resonance coaching.After that I got selected for AIEEE and I went to NIT Jamshedpur.Then I got upgraded to NIT Calicut and I came here.Now I am pursuing My B.tech. degree in NIT Calicut.Currently I am in forth year.My father is a crane operator.My mother is a house wife.I have one brother and one sister.She is studying in 7th class and my bro is studying in Nursery."
He said "ok."
 2nd question he asked "tell me something interesting about yourself? "
"Don't relate to studies" he added.
I said" usually I make people to laugh".(my English was wrong but he understood what I meant)
He said in hindi "ohh to logo ki tang khinchte ho?"
I said in mix language "It's not tang khinchna sir."
but whenever I am there people usually laughing or if I am silent then they will ask why are you so silent today? may be I make some joke or kind of comment which make them laugh"
he said "ok"
then he started asking some technical questions.some question I remembered are he gave me one scenario between  colleges and companies and asked me to draw an ER diagram.
    Next question he asked related to two tables he gave me two tables and asked now make primary key and foreign key between these tables. Next one as I remember he asked me what is 2nd normal form? then 3rd normal form.actually I by hearten all  normal forms but only definition.
          Now he gave me one question that you have attributes A,B,C,D,E. A is dependent on B,C,D,E. Now B is dependent on C and D. which normal form will you use? I told 3rd one because Transitive dependency is there.He asked me to remove transitive dependency.I tried again and again and told him something but he was not satisfied with me.
In between he asked me in hindi "kuch padh ke aaye ho ya nai?"
 I replied "yes sir I studied but only definitions I read".
He again added " we don't want definition.you should have basic knowledge so you can apply it".
 I told "sir actually DBMS we had in S4 (fourth semester ). recently I didn't study."
Then he asked "what did you study recently?"
I replied "sir OS and DS."
Then he started asking me question related to Data Structure.
first question he asked "reverse the linked list".
I knew the complete code actually. I did this question in my room itself before 2 or 3 days.So I started writing the code even if could write code without making diagrams of linked list.but I made some rough diagrams to showing him that this question is new for me and replied correctly.
        Now he asked 2nd question. check if there is any loop in linked list. I told and then he asked 2 more coding questions.He asked me to find nth  element from last end in linked list. I did with taking total no. of nodes as N. now he again asked now do without using total no. of nodes in linked list.then I tried but couldn't satisfy him.
 Now he told that use two simultaneous pointers and increment simultaneously both. Those who know programming very well got the cleared Idea.
After that he asked me  "Do you wanna solve puzzle?"
I replied "Sir,If you will give me I  will try my best."
He gave me one puzzle.There are 16 rooms in a jail.He draw a square and divide it into 16 parts.On one corner one jailer is standing on door and the opposite corner one made person is there.whenever he see a prisoner he kills him and if he see a killed man then he kills himself.All other room having one prisoner each.Now he has to cross the all rooms and want to go out but he can go out only after killing all prisoner and jailer. just try it out. After that he went out from room.
After  about 5 mins he came and asked" Have you solved?".
I nodded " Sir, I am solving."
After that he told me one hint that I will not share here.Because I want to give this puzzle to all my readers.Solve it if you are not able to solve than ask me.
In last he asked me "Do you have any question?"
"Yes sir" I nodded.
It was the moment when I thought that I will be thrown out from this round.But expecting good from my Allah.Because in starting in DBMS I couldn't answer properly any question but I told coding question almost right.But that was also not enough.
Then I asked that Sir tell me what are the areas which I can improve?
He started giving my feedback " You are week in practical knowledge.We don't want definition you should have basic knowledge so you can apply it.You were telling that you are from Hindi medium but your English is ok.I don't think that there is any problem in communication skills.I felt proud first time and nodded my head saying  "Thanks sir" .
 Then he continued "and your confidence level is also good."
I again said "Thank you sir". 

Edit:- This interview has so many grammatical mistakes as I was not good at English. Some of them now I can easily correct but I don't want to correct them now. I love it,  the way I wrote just after my interview. So please pardon me for my english and try to understand the feelings. Lol 

My Dream Sharefile.com

http://andromeda.nitc.ac.in/~dilshad/sharefile/
  description will be put up soon.

Today also I started continuously reading same book to acquire good concepts to create a positive attitude. Today is  third day when I am reading this book.Now it's like my habit to read it in morning around 1 hour.I am grasping it's concept and trying to implement in my life.I grasped some of it's concept which are following:
1."If we have a positive experience towards a person than our attitude towards him/her will be positive too."
2."Start looking for what is right in a person instead of looking for what is wrong."
3."We have to dig deep for gold .if we found gold we don't care even if we have to remove a lot of dust from it."
4."Negative people will always criticize.They will stop sleeping in their bed after hearing that more people die in bed than anywhere else.They can not enjoy their health because they think that tomorrow they may be sick."
5."Count your blessings rather than trouble."
6."Make your friends feel that you appreciate their strengths and good qualities."
7."People who procrastinate  they will say "I am getting ready"  and for next 1 month they will be getting ready and after 6 months they will be getting ready only.They are having a disease called "EXCUSITIS".they  always keep making excuses ."
                 I loved this book and loved most the quote "never leave it till tomorrow which you can do today". I appreciated  each and every concept of book.It is also said in book that "we hear what we want to hear,we don't hear what is being said."
        After today's lesson or you say whatever i have learnt till today basis on that I want to give a piece of advice to my readers  that
1."Try to find positives in your friends rather than finding mistakes in them."
2."May be I am repeating this but seriously listen leave procrastination and make a habit of "DO IT NOW".
3.Most important thing one can learn is "learn to learn".Knowledge is not power.It is only information.It will becomes power when it is acted upon.

YOU CAN WIN

Yesterday I started reading a book which is my favorite "YOU CAN WIN".It's first sentence also make an impression which is "Winners don't do different things they do things differently."  This book is written by "SHIV KHERA".Some points I really like in this book are:

1. "Success  means winning the war,not every battle. "

2."Opportunity is always under our feet,we don't have to go anywhere.we have to just recognize it."

3."While we are eyeing the grass on other side there are people who are eyeing on your grass."

4."People who don't recognize their opportunity will always made complain of noise when it knocks."

            It is a step by step tool to create a positive attitude.Mostly people are criticizing about others.Winner always is a part of solution where loser will always be a part of problem.Loser will always complain about conditions and past.If he utilize time of criticizing others or complaining about conditions he can also be a winner.Everyone wants to win but no one wants to take an effort to win. I will suggest two advises to all my readers that  

1.make things to do list and follow a time table to achieve it.

2.leave procrastination ( habit of  doing thing's later) and make a habit of "DO IT NOW."

FREE COMPUTER EDUCATION IN MY VILLAGE BHARU

      As we all know necessity of Computer knowledge in Today's world.

During Summer Vacation this time I am going to start Free Computer Education in our village...where i can teach Website development, Software Development using Programming Languages like C,C++ and English Spoken session can be added as requirement of students. so those students who has passed 10th n 12th and having laptop or PC and wasting their useful time just watching movies or doing Facebook...People are paying around 2000/- for any of these course even for English spoken too...So why should not we spread free education in our village to students who has caliber can get benefit from this and may be will do something good for our village...:) please give some suggestions to me which will help me to start this program...

SHAYARI

mai qabil-e-nafrat hu to chor de mujhko,, tu mujhse dikhawe ki mohabbat na kya kar....