Minor spoiler:
This is not a success story. Still its worth an experience and a good read!
Someone may have very different experience in their interview and they may agree to disagree. But this is what I experienced, deduced and felt.
I was amazed and thrilled about getting an interview call(Personality Test) for Engineering Services-2016. Of course I would be, its UPSC!!!!!! Those exclamation marks are purely for exaggeration.
I started preparing for it from the available source I have, 'the internet'. Every interview story elevated the Interviewer to a super human, who can read you in length, breadth and width, in a matter of minutes. I was really excited to have an opportunity to meet them, I mean chat with them, I actually mean face an interview with them.
As I am at NIT Trichy(recently joined M.tech, I too still doubt how I wandered off to here), I have to travel to Delhi for it. So I have to spend ₹10,000 in the least possible time by travelling in a flight. Time literally flew like minutes by the time I reached back Trichy.
I know my written test scores couldn't be so great, so I have to earn maximum marks in the interview for the few posts that are available for Electrical Engineers. The interview was over. I relived those 12-15 minutes over and over in my head till the result was out. These are what I realised after the outcome.
The hype about ESE is way too much. All the coaching institutes do is hype them, thereby taking credit for their result. But for the sake of those who are preparing for it, they are the ones who should say it is not really a superhuman task, when it not really is. So it would be encouraging to study.
A little background here, my GATE-2016 didn't go as expected and I couldn't stay at home, out of guilt, not that someone threw me out of house. I ran off to take coaching at a Hyderabad institute for ESE. Yes, I belong to Andhra Pradesh. Those are very depressing days, I couldn't study at all to begin with, all I did was attend the classes. I started to study somehow, but only to a smaller extent. But I sincerely wrote the Test series, it became a good practise for time management and getting familiar with this exam.
Hope it helps someone to not make the same mistakes I did.
This is not a success story. Still its worth an experience and a good read!
Someone may have very different experience in their interview and they may agree to disagree. But this is what I experienced, deduced and felt.
I was amazed and thrilled about getting an interview call(Personality Test) for Engineering Services-2016. Of course I would be, its UPSC!!!!!! Those exclamation marks are purely for exaggeration.
I started preparing for it from the available source I have, 'the internet'. Every interview story elevated the Interviewer to a super human, who can read you in length, breadth and width, in a matter of minutes. I was really excited to have an opportunity to meet them, I mean chat with them, I actually mean face an interview with them.
As I am at NIT Trichy(recently joined M.tech, I too still doubt how I wandered off to here), I have to travel to Delhi for it. So I have to spend ₹10,000 in the least possible time by travelling in a flight. Time literally flew like minutes by the time I reached back Trichy.
I know my written test scores couldn't be so great, so I have to earn maximum marks in the interview for the few posts that are available for Electrical Engineers. The interview was over. I relived those 12-15 minutes over and over in my head till the result was out. These are what I realised after the outcome.
- It didn't feel like a personality test. They were trying to use what I spoke against me. From what all I read and heard, they would evaluate my personality basically, not solely on technical knowledge basis. I quoted an example(a number) and they took it as if I meant it as a generic number for every case. I recollected it from his subtle reaction. I am not that stupid to have such a misconception and clear the written examinations. If not, they are accepting their exams are a failure for an effective evaluation.
It is no way different from an interview, why name it personality test. The whole interview was technical other than just 1 question.
- Conventional mentality. While I entered, I didn't properly (or specially) wish the lady member of the interview panel. She was busy scribbling something and not even made an eye contact with me. She barely asked me a question. After a day I recollected, that I read we are supposed to wish the lady member first and foremost(I forgot it very soon, as it seemed illogical). I wished the chairman of the panel first, based on the heirarchy. May be I was illogical to think so.
- They are not super humans. No doubt they are highly skilled and knowledgeable. As any other human being, they readily make a first impression on the first look they see. I thought they would be searching for the positives in me, but they have just equally looked for reasons to reject.
- Work experience gives freebie marks. If they really want candidates with work experience, they should state it explicitly in their notification. That would have spared me 10k rupees, raised hopes and crushed hopes. I have confirmed sources that say a 2 or 3 year experienced candidate was also surprised to see his interview marks so high, as compared to his interview performance. He deserved it though, his preparation was both extensive and intensive. But the double standards are unfair.
I accept that I under-performed in the interview, but some things about the interviewer expectations from the candidate seemed very new and weird to me. It is life, I have to accept my shortcomings, unexpected things and move forward with it. Big things doesn't happen on luck, atleast not for the majority.
A little background here, my GATE-2016 didn't go as expected and I couldn't stay at home, out of guilt, not that someone threw me out of house. I ran off to take coaching at a Hyderabad institute for ESE. Yes, I belong to Andhra Pradesh. Those are very depressing days, I couldn't study at all to begin with, all I did was attend the classes. I started to study somehow, but only to a smaller extent. But I sincerely wrote the Test series, it became a good practise for time management and getting familiar with this exam.
Hope it helps someone to not make the same mistakes I did.
