Clasificación de espacialidades

Sorry for posting my experience so late; it was such an arduous one that didn’t feel like doing it....but maybe it'll prove useful to someone; at least for laughs

Hotel Kenilworth, Kolkata, 22/3/10, 9 AM X: 93.3% ICSE

XII: 96.4% ISC

B.Tech (Chemical Engg), IIT Kharagpur; CGPA: 8.86/10 (Ranked 3/55 at time of CAT) Percentile:

QA 99.24 DI 99.72 VA 98.7 OA 99.92

Extra-acads: Nothing much. Few quizzes at school and some inter hostel events

Any other special thing abt u: 1 of 4 people recruited by HUL from all over India for its supply chain division this year.

Essay topic: Business houses should take greater social responsibility.

Time: 10 min

Performance: Decent...mentioned about Birlas, Tatas, Jamshedpur, CSR Interview: My interview was the first of the day

2 profs (P1 and P2)

P1: So how are you feeling? Me: A bit nervous

P1: Kyu bhai...khaa thodi jaayenge hum log tumhe Me: <just smiled>

P1: So tell me about yourself Me: Blah blah

P1: So have you been placed? Me: Yes sir, in HUL

<next 15 min discussion was on this, even though i am yet to join>

P2: So tell me why is your salary so high...how do you justify that

Me: <hadd hai company de rahi hai,aapka kya jata hai> gave some arbit gyaan P2: So what will your work be exactly?

Me: After training, I’ll be joining supply chain division P2: What’s supply chain?

Me: 4 basic principles-source, plan, make, deliver....explained about them

P2: So what will your role be in all this....doesn’t HUL already know where to buy raw materials from Me: You are right sir, but if a new supplier comes up deciding whether to choose him

P2: <not convinced> Hmmm....so tell me what’s the probability of a new supplier coming up in a year Me: < thought question was rhetorical> Very low sir

P2: You’re an engineer...don’t talk in such vague terms. I want an exact figure!

Me<totally flabbergasted> But sir....ill require a lot of data for that; no. of supplier presently used etc etc P2: So that’s your problem, not mine...

Me: <what the hell, who says IIMA interviews are feel good> Tried making some guesses and calculating

P2: No leave it....I wanted the value; procedure mein kya hai

so....how many factories does HUL have in India

Me: 39 <finally something i knew, but not for long> P2: So describe the operations of an HUL factory...

Me: <arey 0 work ex nahi dekha kya form mein> Sir i don’t have much knowledge about the internal

working of a factory

P2: But you’re a chemical engineer right....you should know. Describe how soap is manufactured. Me: Told him the raw material and reaction involved

P2: No that’s not enough...describe the entire process involved Me: Don't know

P2: Khair chodo...tell me how will your salary be linked to factory's production Me: <phir se salary!> sir i think it would be a %age of the factory's profit P2: And how would that profit be calculated?

Me: Total Sales value of final good produced minus cost incurred in production

P2: But wouldn't your salary be a component of the cost incurred....the equation you’re stating would

become implicit, impossible to solve

Me<kuch crack mara hai sir, ab kya bolu main> yes sir...what you’re saying is right...some other relation

must exist between salary and factory production.

P1: So why do you think HUL hired you?

Me: Sir I feel that i have a good knowledge of chemical engineering P1: Is that so...okay tell me what is a reaction?

Me: Defined a chemical reaction

P1: NO...when did I talk about chemicals, tell me about a general reaction

Me: <hesitating> Anything which happens as consequence of coming together of certain causes is a reaction P1: So this conversation we're having is a reaction

Me: Yes sir...our meeting for this interview was the cause and effect is our conversation P2: Okay tell me about a chemical reaction

Me: Sir for example hydrogen and oxygen...

P1: <cuts me short> No, no oxygen that’s too simple...one of the components is nitrogen P2: and the other is cadmium...now explain the reaction

Me: <kya bigaada hai mainen aapka, nitrogen cadmium reaction kaun karwata hai> confused cadmium

with palladium....said adsorption will occur

P2: Okay....so how does it occur?

Me: Nitrogen molecules get trapped between cadmium molecules on surface P1: Why do they get trapped....what’s the reason?

Me: Sir the resulting product is more stable....tendency of nature to favor lower energy states...

P2: Okay so you’re talking about chemical adsorption, do u know on increasing temperature adsorption will

increase

Me: yes sir

P2: But the cadmium molecules will get heated up, shouldn’t they vibrate faster and force nitrogen molecules

out from surface

Me: Sir, you’re raising temp of nitrogen, not cadmium

P2: But you aren’t cooling cadmium either are you...when heated nitrogen comes in contact with cadmium

won't its temp will rise as well?

Me:<Again, kuch crack mara hai sir> Blabbered something random

certificates for these

Me: No sir...no certificates are given for these P1: I can't believe what you’ve written is correct then Me: Sir u can see my %age and GPA are very high P1: No no...that won’t do

Me: <theek hai bhai, mat maano...just let me go>

P2: <gives me a graph and asks what it is - It was a langmuir isotherm from catalysis, but i didn’t

remember>

Me: Sir I'm not sure...

P2: <tells me what the graph is> okay i want you to give me a mathematical representation for the graph

<by now my brain had stopped working, made some feeble attempts, but was told that they're

incorrect....actually the graph was (A*x)/(1 + B*x)>

P2: Okay what do you like in chemical engineering Me: Sir fluid flow

P2: So what all have you learnt in the course

Me: talked about losses in pipes, laminar/ turbulent flow etc

P2: Okay i have a question which has long bothered me...maybe u can help me out? Me:<very unlikely, but i can't say no can I>

P2: When u travel by local train...you must have felt that the air always seems to be coming in, near all the

doors and windows. So my question is if air is continuously entering the compartment why doesn’t it explode

Me:<kaise aadmi hai bhai ye prof> Sir u don’t feel the air leaving but it must go out as well through

windows and doors

P2: No, I'm a smoker...I’ve smoked near the doors and windows...the smoke never goes out; it always

appears to come in; there must be some other explanation

Me:<now how to counter that> said nothing

P2: And even if you consider pressure difference, air inside train is at higher velocity than outside air, so its

pressure would be lower. Hence gradient would always exist for air to come inside

Me:<jahapanah, tussi great ho; i don’t think itna funda mere department profs ko bhi hoga> P1: You don't have many extra acads, generally people from kharagpur are very good in extra currics Me: No sir I’ve participated in quite a few inter hostel events

P1: Hmmm...and what else do you like...reading books?

Me: < hoping that i can score some brownie points finally> Yes sir I’m a voracious reader P1: Favourite book?

Me: Atlas shrugged

P2: When did you read that...in class 12? Me: <surprised> No sir in my 2nd year...

P2: That late...see when you say your hobby is reading books i expect something better than Atlas Shrugged Me: <hadd hai isme bhi maar li> Started defending the book...

P1: <cuts me short> No no the interview has gone quite long, i think we're done. take a toffee and leave Me: <formality hai isliye bol raha hu> thank u sir

Phew what an ordeal...later i found that the interview had gone on for 40 min! The only good thing that came of it was i knew things would only go uphill from here...isse bura kya hoga interview