The unfamiliar environment
- 1st 3 interviews were miserable failures
- 1st full time job interview was DSO
- 2nd was DSTA, and I stammered my way through (How sad I sounded eh?)
- 3rd was OCBC, a walk-in interview
- Began to understand the idea of selling yourself and also have a slightly more detailed idea of what I want to accomplish as a Software Engineer.
- From the OCBC walk-in interview for Technology Associate, it appears that OCBC prefers business-oriented people which unfortunately I am not. I want to be appreciated as one who can use technical skills to contribute directly to the core business of the company. UPDATE 19th May 2011: OCBC finally called for a second interview (The first interview was more of a briefing) after more than a month of silence, but I decided to decline the interview as the position does not match my goals.
- Did my best to sell myself during CSIT interview on 20th April
- Still not qualified - CSIT sent me a rejection e-mail today!
- School grades was supposed to be a stepping stone for the start of my career.
- I missed the 2nd stepping stone: Passion and the knowledge that comes from it.
- Gives me the final wake-up to the reality that despite my good grades and all my attempts at learning, I am doomed to be equals with the unremarkable and underwhelming people out there at the workforce, and hence that makes me a greater loser than them (See Blog Title).
- Oh well, at least for now. *Shrugs*
- Or not.
- CSIT technical test for System Analyst...
- 1st part: Writing an essay
- Essay-writing wasn't that difficult but I guess I might be a little vague in many of my arguments.
- 2nd part: Technical test, all MCQs with some True/False questions.
- Again, the basic programming questions wasn't that difficult but I do not know how to answer many of the questions that are directly testing about the specific job title I applied for
- So much for passion eh?
- Then from IBM...
- 1st aptitude test was Maths (A timer for each question, I was too slow)
- 2nd aptitude test was on programming language syntax for Java and C++
- Apparently testing programming language syntax is the ultimate test of one's familiarity with programming.
- Guess what? I am certainly not expecting any call from IBM after that aptitude test.
Current Job Search Status at the time of this writing
Companies applied to:
- DSO
- IHIS
- DSTA
- ST Electronics
- ASM
- CSIT
- OCBC
- NUS Computer Centre
- IBM
2nd Interview attended: ST Electronics
Technical/Aptitude tests taken: CSIT, IBM
Job offers: -
I am only waiting for a reply from ST Electronics, if any.
Whatever.
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