6 Amrita students selected by Microsoft at campus
The elated six engineering students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University who have been selected in the campus interview to work with Microsoft, Hyderabad.For the six engineering students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, it is an achievement of sorts. They are the elite lot selected to work for Microsoft at Hyderabad, after their graduation.Dipti Vartakavi, Priyanka Patak and Vignesh V. (from Computer Science), and Jenentra Jain, Paras Kumar and Hari Krishna Menon (from Information Technology) are the lucky six to emerge from the short-listed 90.Ninety students with the Cumulative Grade-Point Average (CGPA) of eight and above were selected to undergo a two hour 20 minute objective type test. The technical test involved logical reasoning and subject knowledge.Sixteen were selected for the three rounds of technical interviews. The final number which emerged was six. The six are a happy lot to have secured places in the company that “created the desktop revolution”. “Microsoft was looking for passionate, technically sound people. It was not simply based on the CGPA. That was only for the initiation. From then on, it was purely application-oriented”, echoes the group.
The test and interview proved to the students that the company wanted technically sound professionals who could give lateral solutions to the same problem.They were open to numbers. It was “not about selecting all the good ones, but, about not selecting an ineligible one”, says the group.They are thankful to their alma mater for the competitive course structure, disciplined teaching and the special classes that prepared them for facing placements.
