Placements Uhh lala....

Whats the most facinating part of doing an Engineering in GCET? You virtually pay nothing( 2000 rs per Semester) and still end up in one good IT company or Public Sector Company. According to official sources (Mrs.. Thusoo) Gcet has had 100% placement in 2008 and well actually most of those elligible did get placed but the story is quite different. Stayam is bankrupt and almost 30 studnets are already jobless. Tcs kept the promise and called its 15 odd candidates and Tts also called its 5 candidates. Anyways first company to visit the campus was TCS

TCS:- Tcs is coming Tcs is coming My friend called up at 9 am and thinking it as a joke cut off the phone saying I already know that since they are coming for the senior batch. He called again with more intensity. I was still apprehensive to notice any seriuosness but got up and went to the college to fing every thing in chaos. Why? Coz TCS after taking 16 of seniors was going to take us !!!!!
Surprised.. everyone was. It doesnt happen often that a company places two batches in a couple of days. Anyways frantic phone calls made and finally we managed to get hold of a particular verison of GRE Barons. This was one occasion when newer versions were crap and valued zero. Anywas we knew the paper pattern and after preparing for 3 hours we were well prepared. All we knew was : Rose aaeb, professor bbced.. and similar patterns. The TCS question paper was completely copied from that edition of Baron. I was scheduled to take my exam in the evening when I had to leave the premises to geta motor bike of a teacher from some other place and also to pick up a person who was playing Cricket 04 on his pc while we were preparing our Rose aaeb. Anywyas when we reached back my name had been called and I was rescheduled to take the test next morning. I had all night to keep repeating the aaeb codes and by morning I was knowing all the answers of critical reasoning even though I never used any reasoning. Anywyas I sat for the exam and with a big grin on my face left 15 minutes before time. In 2 hourse the results were out. All the big guns of my branch hadnt cleared the TCS Aptitude. The interview was more of a chit chat with most of people getting selected rather than rejected unless you really screw yourself up. I screwed up. But still got through why?? because the person who took the interview was aso a kashmiri pandit. Things like that do happen.

Next there were a series of companies placing students like Perot Systems which has deferred joining till April09, Impetus which has cancelled the offers altogether, Canon those selected on campus were not allowed to sit( only 3 got through) mahindra and mahindra again placed but joining didnt come, Maytas got into trouble along with satyam combining the two these placed about 50 students from our college alone. Then there was TTS and HCC which which did give joinings to its handful of candidates. Then there were also some students who got placed here and there and made up the so called 100% placement of GCET Jammu. Out of a batch of 155 about 120 elligible students got placed in one or the other but only 30 have got joinigns and joined. Thats not even one third of the total students.