Tips for placements in UVCE from my experience ...

TIPS FOR PLACEMENT (from my experience) 

1. Practice writing code on white paper - This is a very important point that I am mentioning here. Start developing this habit from the early stage itself. Most interviewers will give you a piece of paper to write down the codes and the ideas that are running through your mind. They cannot provide you with a laptop each and every time you come for getting interviewed. 
2. Know your resume - Technical skills are the must to mention there. Don't bluff and write about something that you merely spent just an hour learning about. Also, mention the projects that you made during your engineering life and be ready to explain it down to the T. 
3. Talk out loud - Interviewers want to understand what is running inside your god damn brain. If you simply sit in front of him for half an hour or so, a direct impression that you are stuck goes into the mind of the interviewer. Which is not a good sign. Instead, if you explain your thought process like - Yes I see an array given to me here since it is sorted it makes my thing easier. You can apply Binary Search and blah blah!
   Sometimes this approach even gives you an edge in thinking about the solution you are targetting and moreover it gives a sign to the interviewer that yes you are doing something. 
4. Come out of the myth that the best person for the job gets the job - Be confident about yourself, and remember one thing - It's not the best person in the room who gets the job always. It's the person who gives the best interview who gets the job. 
5. Don't answer long, answer compact and smart - The answers that you give during the interview should not be so long that it bores the interviewer and he forgets that he is an interviewer. Say your answers such that it shows your intelligence and good communication skills. 
6. Be Honest - If you don't know the answer to any question, say that I am quite unsure about this question. No one is born perfect or prepared perfectly to know all the answers thrown at him/her. Say him about the terms that you haven't ever heard of, or if you are very new to the field the question is coming from. They understand! 
7. Relax and just be yourself - Being yourself doesn't mean leaning back on the chair in front of the interviewer and putting your legs on the table and saying - "Ask! Come on".
   You will be thrown out of the room in seconds. Being yourself means, carrying your personality and not faking about something that you are not. 
8. Build Rapport with the interviewer - It's not always about answering the questions correctly, but it is also about answering as well as carrying the conversation with the interviewer in a positive manner. 
9. Do you have any questions for me? - This is the most common question that the interviewers ask the students they are interviewing. If you have a genuine question, then only ask. Don't ask just for the sake of asking it. 
10. Convince them that you are right for the job - Try to use the words and terminologies and incidents which show that you are the right fit for the job. If you are in software development, show that you take development seriously and don't just do basic stuff but also take initiative in learning stuff to improve more upon it. 

I will update more of them later!

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