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Radio Active CR 90.4 – Show 1

Series B.1

My first and new show as RJ ☺️Listen to Sachin Kodagali at Bengaluru first Community Radio talking about Careers in IT and experience of an author. He has over decade experience working at Microsoft and Yahoo! Stay Active and listen to Radio Active CR 90.4 🤗

Santa Santosh Avvannavar, CCO, QtPi Robotics I Author I TEDx Organiser and 7 time TEDx Speaker I Softskills Trainer I RJ at Radio Active CR 90.4

Kaar Technologies Interview Experience : Savitha

Dear Readers, Today we have silent & smiling Savitha Babu, a campus recruited candidate. She is here to share her experience on Kaar Technologies campus drive.

(Interviewer is the CEO of QtSTEAM – http://www.youtube.com/QtSTEAM ; Mentor QtPi Robotics & author of She: Ekla Cholo Re ; BUGman ; He Who Dreams)

Interviewer: Good evening Ms. Savitha, tell us about yourself!

Savitha: I’m from Ooty studying final year Information Technology. My strengths are – I’m a self-motivated person, adaptable, and friendly in nature. My short-term goal was to get placed in a reputed organisation where I have an opportunity to perform and improve skills sets. The long term goal is to set a benchmark to excel in the chosen area. I believe in , ‘never neglect any right opportunity that would hone the skills for a better tomorrow.’

Interviewer: Some interesting beliefs and goals. Let’s move to our next question, why did you choose to apply for Kaar Technologies?

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Savitha

Savitha:  Kaar Technologies is a one of global consulting firm which is purely a SAP solution provider. SAP helps several businesses to manage and its promising scope has lead me to apply for the position.

Interviewer: Seems a good roadmap. What were the different rounds conducted?

Savitha: The process was spread over several weeks-

Round 1 was an online test that consisted of Logical reasoning and Business English aptitude questions.

Round 2 was a group discussion on a general topic

Round 3 was technical/ HR round. It was a stress interview round similar like rapid fire round. (smiles)

Round 4 was a discussion with delivery head. Though the round seemed general but I think they were projecting the candidates prospectus for future.

Some of the questions are asked were –

Why should I hire you? ; What do you know about SAP? ; Write a program to swap two numbers without using temporary variable. ; If your posting is in Iraq, how do you planning to cope up with the environment conditions? ; We don’t provide cab facilities, how would you manage to commute? ; How long will you work for the company? ; Do you have any plan for higher education?  ; Which is favourite subject? ; What are routing algorithms? ; What is routing? ; What are your hobbies?

Interviewer: What is/are your take away from the process?

Savitha: It was a good experience. Regular aptitude practice actually helped me as the questions were lengthy that would require at least two minutes to read/understand throughly. Assessor for GD were in opinion to provide a topic that everyone agrees to see a discussion taking forward. There were two topics given one after the other. The topics were, ‘Whether social network is a boon or bane.’ and ‘Clean India is individual aspect or a government aspect.’ Both the times I initiated the discussion and I think its seen positive while marking.

Stress interview seemed to stress because one of the interviewee tried to bring the moral low by axing the views/answers.

Interviewer: What are your suggestions for future aspirants?

Savitha: Stay clam and composed in each round. Treat each person as potential interviewer.

Interviewer: Thank you Savitha for sharing your insights. I hope it will help the readers and aspirants. Wishing you a great life and career with Kaar Technologies.

Savitha: (smiles) Thank you and it was pleasure answering the questions.

Kaar Technologies: Tharun T

picsart_1474285641622Dear Readers, Today we have ever smiling Tharun T, a campus recruited candidate. He is here to share his experience on Kaar Technologies campus drive, how patience helped him to succeeded.

(Interviewer is the CEO of QtSTEAM – http://www.youtube.com/QtSTEAM ; Mentor QtPi Robotics & author of She: Ekla Cholo Re ; BUGman ; He Who Dreams)

Interviewer: Good evening Mr. Tharun, tell us about yourself!

Tharun: I’m presently pursuing final year B.Tech IT with passion towards education and sports. The passion has strengthen me to be bold, confident and easily adaptable. My area of interest is Object Orientated programming language. I’m also interested in doing some social activities which led me to be a member of NCC. Cricket as a sport has kept me energetic. This energy has allowed to me play for districts and state teams. Regular play has helped to bring Leadership skills that has made me one of the leading U 16 Erode district cricket team.

Interviewer: Good to hear that your passion has helped in nurturing skills. Let’s move to our next question, why did you choose to apply for Kaar Technologies?

Tharun: (smiles) Kaar Technologies is one of the biggest SAP service provider in the world. I have read several reviews that look promising to apply. Reviews reflected that growth is not limited for high performers. I believe that the company provides work-life balance.

Interviewer: Glad to know that you did some ground work. What were the different rounds conducted?

Tharun: There were four rounds spread over few weeks –

Aptitude : 60 minutes

Group Discussion : There were two discussion ; one on general topic and another on SAP.

Technical/ HR : 30 – 35 minutes

Delivery Head Round : 20 – 25 minutes

Some of the questions are asked were –

There were several questions related to cricket (smiles) like : How many years you’re playing Erode district cricket team? ; Highest score? ; How would you manage sports and work? etc

There were questions that were related to technical aspects like : Tell about SAP ; What do you know about us? ; Give us some real time example for SAP? ; What do you know about Cloud? ; Give real time example for Message Binding/ Data Abstraction ;

There were general questions like: What are two types of turmeric is available at Erode? ; If you’re team leader and you have team how will you handle it? ; Where all you have travelled? ; Which is your famous tourist place?

img_20160101_130254_563Interviewer: What is/are your take away from the process?

Tharun: My group discussion actually improved because of the two rounds. I believe that skills like leadership, time management, body language, communication skills etc. HR round was a stress round and it was a good! I had a very good experience going through all the rounds. These rounds gave me a feeling that Kaar Technologies is a good brand to associate/work.

Interviewer: What are your suggestions for future aspirants?

Tharun: General news update (G.K) would be very helpful for Group Discussion. Regular practice of aptitude and technical skills. Working on identifying uniqueness would be a great asset in an interview.

Interviewer: Thank you Tharun for sharing your insights. I hope it will help the readers and aspirants. Wishing you a great life and career with Kaar Technologies.

Tharun: (smiles) Thank you too!

BUGman Book Launch

BUGman book launched by Suresh Narasimha, CoCreator, Entrepreneur along with Narasimhan Iyengar, Co-founder of Socialmedia Nascor and Praveen Praveen Desai Ex-Yahoo!

 

Ebook: click here

Paperback: click here

Book blurb: 

“Knowing the unknown is better than not knowing at all”. Sa & Sa journey of ‘Testers’ & challenges.

Sa and Sa unveils the journey of software professionals.

Sa and Sa Unveil this journey, they show how the software industry works, people, organization, expectations, behaviours etc.

Key thing we are trying to convey is to learn everyday, develop your skills and help share the knowledge.

Curtain Raiser: How did bug happen?

IMG_1149Writing a book is a great responsibility. When you write a blog or article you aim to reach a certain audience, however book intends to reach a wide variety of audience.

Even though Bug is aimed for IT Professionals and Software Testing Community, anybody can read this book as the Daily lives of people working in organizations is unfolded here.

Lets think about the following:

  1. We read a lot of technical books, articles and that helps us a lot in our work
  2. We hear or feel a lot of things between our friends and peers at work, one that impacts our work and also decisions we take

Bug explains the point 1 with a little bit of technical jargon mixed.

Not clear ? – Please wait for the book to get launched.

In this article, we like to share with you what ideas we had and which went into the book in a nutshell,

  1. Many IT professionals / freshers / college students now a days know what to read, how to crack interviews. Do they know enough of organizations, people, expectations and so on?
  2. What happens behind the scenes during interview process? If candidate knows such things will it help him succeed in the interview and appreciate the process. 
  3. Many a times after finishing an interview,the candidate might feel  ‘it was a cakewalk’, but still gets rejected – how does one find answers for such rejections?
  4. Answers given by candidates may be the best but does it resonate to the questions the interviewer asks.
  5. What are various parameters that factor in for selecting the right candidates – Is it just technical skills or anything more?

Book talks about all this and also nice stories of how employees work / talk in an organization. It has drama, action, suspense and a lot of learning.

Updates on the happening: click here

~BUG: Since 2014~

Entrepreneur & Beyond!

with Co-Founder of Nascor Technologies Pvt Ltd
with Co-Founder of Nascor Technologies Pvt Ltd

Interested to explore a career as an Entrepreneur? Today we bring to you second interview with N K Narasimhan, one of the founder’s of Nascor Technologies (http://www.nascorgroup.com). Ex-employee of L & T, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo! who has over two decades of work experience under our unique section ‘Test it’! For more information keep a tab at this page (https://www.facebook.com/Without.interview). You may feel free to post your question in message box or comment and the interviewee would answer over the next few days from 03 Jan 2015 till 07 Jan 2015. We hope you have a great career ahead!

Narasimhan, welcome to ‘Test IT’ section and congratulation for being in Top 5 of  Infosys ‘+91 Start Up Challenge’ Photo : Infosys – Facebook Page 

Author: Tell us about your background and education.

Narasimhan: I completed my engineering in Industrial & Production from SJCE, Mysore, finishing as a College Topper throughout and with rank 7 for the University of Mysore.

Author: How did you land in an IT job?

Narasimhan: I started programming with widely known as BASIC (an acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) while studying PUC (1985-86) using Casio PB 100 which supported a condensed BASIC version for programming. My brother was a great influencers who was pursuing engineering. I eventually joined engineering at SJCE, Mysore and FORTRAN was the language that existed as first year course. I took to learn ‘C’ in my second year. There used to be one hour slot given for each one to book to do Unix & C programming in Computer Science Lab. Lot of times, used to get midnight slots. Our final year project was a software cross assembler & a post processor for CNC machine with a graphics editor which caught the attention of the examiner. The complexity, effort & contribution was highly appreciated which was a big milestone for a graduate student. Through campus interview, I was placed in L & T and worked on rotational initially but one of manager put me into Test automation involving mechatronics. With help from seniors, contributed in various projects using machine language, Turbo C, C++ and Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2. After six years of working with L&T moved to Yokogawa that was in and out into software product development – worked on system software, server development etc., rising up the ranks, this further continued at Sun Microsystems and Yahoo!.

Author: You have worked as a tester and developer role. How is your overall years of experience?

Narasimhan: Sun Microsystems was the place of transition from development to testing. I started looking into quality. This also waved a path from individual contributor to manager (engineering) and this continued at Yahoo! Both companies had different view on testing and i believed that development & testing as two sides of the same coin, hand in glove, spearheading to brand as ‘Quality Engineering’, ( always question ‘how to engineer quality into software products’ ) and engineer’s as QE. (Quality Engineer). This helped me to be versatile, (able to wear different hats) critique my deliverables too. Perhaps this gave birth to duality. Also, this allowed me to hire the best candidates from institutions such as IISc, Bengaluru. Me & my QE team at Sun developed SIFT (Sun one integrated frame-work for testing ) that helped to simulate failures and emulate complex, real world user scenarios. Over time, adoption among different teams increased, emerging as a versatile Test automation development platform of choice within the Sun community.

Author: What are your views on being a tester or a developer? 

Narasimhan: (Thinks) The demarcation is unhealthy. If one need to be a good tester, then the aspirant has to be a good developer. It’s vice-versa as well. One who could be critic of his own work and welcome feedback from others. Preferably to start as a developer for some years because, it is maturity that is needed to become a tester. Testing skills are better honed while being a developer. This makes a best tester and evolves to ‘engineer’ Quality. Sometimes, Creativity & Innovation needed to test a product is more complex & interesting than development of a product itself. There is an ‘I‘ in QUAL’I’TY and Creative bend of mind is equally needed for a tester. I feel, both cannot be differentiated in a physical way and every organisation adopts their own approach to bring in distinction & differentiation.

Author: Could you give insights on being an entrepreneur?

Narasimhan: Survival, sustain and beyond is something that one need to look forward. Can you translate an idea to a business? In other terms do you have a business case? If the answer is yes, then its worth a risk. Business case need not have an innovation but can satisfy a need. There could be micro level changes in terms of innovation for the requirement or even create a need. If an idea is really unique or has a business case, then its Google for you! Even timing, being in the right place & right time matters. Good examples like Flipkart, RedBus, Xiaomi etc.

Author: What are your hobbies?

Narasimhan: One thing I always have been doing is – ‘give life, extend the life of any object’. This means I repair things (reduce wastage, resource utilisation) and it has been a natural activity right from my childhood days. This has immensely helped me acquire newer skills, like delve on – how it works, why, how, design intent, perspective, understand the thought process of the innovator etc. Apart from that reading technical and philosophical books is something that keeps me glued.

Author: How did you find ‘Get a Job WITHOUT an Interview’ book helpful to aspiring software engineers and IT professionals?

Narasimhan: This is a must read for every grad aspiring to work for renowned product company biggies. Easy reading, gives a lot of insight about big companies, concise, covering all perspectives in 80+ pages. When i was going through “Impression” (section 9), I was recollecting, an article stating based on studies & surveys, an interviewer makes a +ve or -ve impression in the first few seconds and the rest of the interview will be to self validate/justify his opinions about the aspiring candidate. As an age old saying goes, making the ‘best’ first impression is important. In my experience, I have come across such interviewers. In this context, I liked the coverage under “impressions” which candidates tend to ignore or overlook.

Also, change is a constant and candidates should iterate on Annexure 1 & 2 – ways to learn & how to learn, to achieve & sustain a positive career trajectory.

Author: Thank you Narasimhan for your valuable time and inspiring our aspiring engineer’s to become a test engineers, in your terminology ‘QE’

Narasimhan: Thanks (smiles)

To know more about Narasimhan’s organisation: 

Nascor Technologies, Bangalore, (http://www.nascorgroup.com) is a Software product Start-up, in pursuit of Transforming email platforms to deliver email users VALUE beyond ‘just’ Communication.

Email usage & overload is on the rise. A working individual spends an average 28% time on emails. Nascor with its vision, aims to touch every emailer on the globe, alleviate their pain points by providing products & solutions, by making emailing easy with intuitive, innovative, productivity tools to manage ones work and emails too.

Nascor’s tZirrTM (pronounced as teaser ) has five high impactful productivity features, downloadable for emailers to experience on Microsoft Outlook. Nascor’s  U@Work (patent pending) is a top line product, currently under development designed to offers a light weight solution for any business operation, to manage ones work and as a group collaboratively ‘manage work’ covering projects, activities, resources, meetings, tasks etc.

Readers – aspiring software engineer’s , IT professionals and entrepreneur’s are free to leave your message for Narasimhan to answer on or before 07 Jan, 2015. We hope you are enjoying this section, feel free to leave your message for us to improve. Next week we shall bring to you another personality of a Top company. We wish you a great new year 2015. Till then, ‘Test IT’!  

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