“
Winners don’t give excuses when other side plays the game” quoted by Harvey Specter (Fictional character from
Suits)
23
rd February 2019 was the day when my interview was scheduled for XIMB at Hyderabad. Before this, I had given 4 interviews where I failed miserably, and I had my XIMB interview scheduled after 4 days. I was feeling down and demotivated. To bring up my morale, my friend took me out for a walk and then we went shopping in
Pantaloons as he had to buy a suit for his interview which was scheduled a week after. He suggested me to have a glance at the suits to help him with his selection. One black color
Louis Phillipe suit caught my attention and I was blown away by the design of that suit. It was a perfect Harvey Specter suit (I am a big fan of Harvey Specter by the way). I made up my mind to buy the suit for XIMB interview. Out of the blue, a sudden change in confidence arose within me and I said to myself “
This is my moment to shine”.
I was confident on the D-Day. Normally I am not that good with GDs but that day I spoke only once and the whole conversation revolved around that statement. I felt I did well in the GD but Interviews were my Achilles heel. Somehow, I gathered some confidence and confidently gave my answers. I was even complimented by the interviewers for my apparel (which was a brownie point for me). I did well in the interview and on 29
th March 2019, I got the news which my ears were waiting to hear. Although I think I am exaggerating on this point, I think that the black color Louis Phillipe suit had a contribution to my success story. This is the impact Aditya Birla Group has brought in my life.
“
When our backs are against the wall, break the goddamn wall down” quoted by Harvey Specter (Fictional character from
Suits).
We all aspire to do something big. We all make our plans accordingly to reach our goals. But sometimes, we lose our way and then we start to get a weird feeling that we might never reach our target. And then we take up a random path and contemplate after few years about the blunder we did. Were we expecting a smooth sail to the island? The sea is rough and the weather deteriorates in each passing hour. A winner would have already anticipated this and would have made plans accordingly. I faced a similar situation when I was just out of my engineering college and had joined an IT Company. We had a training session where we were given training about the technology that was assigned to us but I was allotted to a project, I was told I would be trained on another tool for 3 weeks because there was an urgent requirement. After the completion of my training, I along with two other members were asked to draw out a plan to use the tool for project-specific needs. We had to brainstorm because none of us had no idea how to design a framework and all of us were from different technology. This new tool training was again new learning for me, and I was not sure whether I would be able to cope up with the situation of handling two technologies as well as getting an insight of my teammate’s technology to bring all the technologies into one framework. I was completely out of my track and I was clueless. And the pressure from the Client was like the icing on the cake. Still, my Manager, DU Lead and my team lead had faith in me to deliver the deliverables by the end of the week. After spending a week (which also includes a couple of sleepless nights), I engineered a framework that came to be known as Splunk-SharePoint framework which would transfer data to SharePoint database and the data would be analyzed by Splunk to generate client-specific reports and also this analysis would forecast the client about the direction they are heading. Because of my work, I received accolades from the leadership team, and I was then made the subject matter expert on Splunk and Splunk-SharePoint framework
#ABGLP #ABGWOOME #XIMB #ABGWOOMESEASON-2