Telephonic Interveiw for sun CA

After the HP CA prank, I thought of not applying for the Sun CA but Anurag insisted and I sent my CV to Nandi. After a month when I and Anurag almost forgot about it, we got a mail from Anuradha Sen(Sun MicroSystems) asking for our contact nos. And then we realized that we are the only two who actually applied for the CA. Both of us went crazy at the whole idea that "chalo ghar ki baat ghar mein he reh jaayegi ;)". 

So We scheduled the interview after the OS exam. As I had already given a telephonic interview with Harpreet for which I was not at all prepared(at that time I din even know what a telephonic interview means), I started preparing for the most important, easy and usually asked question.."Tell Me about yourself".. I spent 2 hours preparing for it. Then I started to wait for the call and as I waited, my nervousness started to gain heights. 

and then, Tring Tring ...Tring Tring...

Me: Hello,

Anu: Hi nitin, I am anu from sun. How are you doing..?

Me: Absolutely fine Ma'm!!(I thought of asking "how are you" here but ....)

Anu: So how was your OS exam?

Me: It was good, rather very good (really guys.....for the first time..)

Anu: That's great, So why don't you tell me something about critical region.

(I thought "is she serious"... I just gave the OS exam ma'm )

Me: (And then I came to know how bad I am in creating definitions) Ma'm critical region is important in the multithreaded environment where a lot of threads or processes share common data, so access to it is kept in critical region which is executed by a single thread at a time so that the data is not corrupted. ( and blah blah blah....)

Anu: So nitin, is it all about data..( I tried to say something, but she immediately said:), I think you mean any shared resources..

Me: Yes Ma'm

Anu: So nitin, tell me what do you know about openSolarisis?

Me: I  hardly use Solarisis. I mostly use windows and linux.

Anu: So which one do you prefer.

Me: Most of the time I prefer windows only(I think she wanted to hear linux, but i wanted to be true)

Anu: okie...thats for the GUI but you must be doing your course work on Linux. 

Me: Yes,

Anu: So nitin , Do you use java..?

Me: yes ma'm, java is my fav. language.

Anu: and NetBeans?

(What the heck, din you read my CV, I cleary mentioned all these things)

Me: yes, for coding in java I always use NetBeans.

Anu: So nitin, have you given any technical presentations?

(For a moment I was lost but when I came back to my senses I had already answered and I think i lied a bit )

Anu : How do you plan to work as a CA?

Me: Ma'm , As a CA I want to be a bit more active than my seniors in conducting a few more session on new technologies. Also I am planning to conduct a purely java programming contest sponsored by Sun during my term. Also if possible, some lectures on JAVA, algo and something related from your side.

Anu: But what will you do to insrease the participation?

Me: (What to say!! I will shout from the roof top) Ma'm I will make sure people understand the concept of java and its need as well as simplicity and power. 

Anu: Thank you nitin, it was nice talking to you. We will soon get back to you.

Me : Thank you. good day

You might be completely illusioned that it went well but you really don't know how many times my voice shaked and How nervous I was during the interview.

Anyways, It was my first official (HP was unofficial) telephonic interview so It was meant to go like that. The only regrets I have is that she din ask me the most difficult question "Tell me about yourself" or "why should we select you" as I had prepared for these well.

Thanks to Harpreet....You rock...