the exaaaaaaaaaaamm!!

No matter how old you are, no matter what u r doing, exam time is always horrible, Always! Specially if it’s an exam u’ve been dreading for over an year.

IBM is a great company to work for, but it kinda scores low on job guarantee. And since we were placed in our 3rd yr of engineering, we’d spent over an yr hearing horrible rumours and advice from all over the world “ start looking for another job!” ;) . this paranoia reached gigantic proportions when a 1000 or so IBMERs were kicked out last yr after an exam!!
so we were worried about being kicked out even before we joined .. lolz doesn’t make sense, but that’s how it was…

Funny part is, we were tensed and all that but never actually did anything about it. No preparation whatsoever.. spent the 2 months of training completely loafing around. At least Neha and Gouse would agree with me. The AT&T batch would claim that they’ve been working hard..blah blah blah..

Nyways, whatever, the D-Day was 8th of September, which came after a week of cramming, guessing who set the paper, catching hold of every scrap available with us about Java, stupid jokes and hell a lot of rumours.. coz failing the exam meant being chucked out of IBM!! The exam was at our beloved Manyata. 60 minutes of brilliant guesswork (the paper was of the multiple choice type) and it was all over!

That’s how life at ibm-b almost came to an end, but did not

Everything amounted to the one sentence which came in an e-mail a week later …

“Congratulations! You have Successfully Completed the Evaluation!!”