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How did I cracked an offer from HARMAN?

X-Cyborg — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:57:52 +0000

I have always dreamt of getting placed in the Top Tech companies, thinking that my career would have an extreme growth along with the salary which is obvious(HAHAHA). So I did computer science engineering.

I was pretty much interested in development side during my first year. I joined few hackathons and bagged up some knowledge and most importantly got introduced to GitHub which really motivated me to learn more about open-source and contribution towards it.

Corona strikes down India where online classes were been introduced to all of the universities and that is where people started utilizing their time doing coding and other stuffs, but I was always lazy throughout the corona period wasting my time.

It was really difficult for the people to get jobs as there was huge financial impact on several companies. Here I wont say that I was serious about placements, until I reached my 3rd year of Engineering. I realized that wasting my precious time isn't gonna get me a job but at least by keeping myself active with my development journey and a bit of coding. I also started finishing up some valuable courses from Udemy, Coursera etc.

Placements started and the first company which arrived to our campus was "COHESITY". It's First round was Technical MCQ (50 questions), here I got rejected as I knew only 30 of them. But I think 40-45 was their passing criteria.

Next company which arrived was a service company "CAPGEMINI" which had basically Pseudocode, English communication, Gaming round, behavioral and one technical round. As every round was an elimination round. Still I was able to clear all the rounds and bag the offer for Analyst role.

Many service companies came to our campus like WIPRO,INFOSYS,COGNIZANT,TECH MAHINDRA and others. I was able to clear them as well.

But I wasn't satisfied with my package as well as the role hence I tried for the next Big Tech companies like Deloitte for SDE role.
I was able to clear the first round which was coding round but couldn't clear the technical interview-I as of nervousness and also not completely brushing up my DSA. As I had almost answered all of the questions except wasn't able to stick with optimal solutions. Interviewer advised me that I performed well but had to learn a bit of DSA to provide optimal solutions. Result : Rejected :(.

One day I saw HARMAN internationals are hiring for Associate Software engineer role. I was excited for this role as it was also my dream company to work for.

I blindly applied without even thinking to their career page. Received a mail from them regarding the rounds and the rounds were like this:

First round : Online Technical MCQ
Talking about this round, the round was of medium level where questions were based on Android, OOPS, DBMS, OS, Networks etc.
I was able to clear this round as I had started brushing up the basic concepts after my rejection from Deloitte.
Second round : Technical Interview
I received a mail from the architect regarding scheduling the date and time for the interview. The interview started and he casually asked me about my day and how I've been doing to make me feel comfortable. I was not nervous this time as I had prepare well enough. So interviewer asked me about OOPS, DBMS based queries, just one Networking based question, 2 OS based questions, 2-3 coding questions which were easy to medium level then he asked me about my projects and he liked my android project so I showed him the demo of my app which I had posted in my YouTube channel then showed him my GitHub profile and he asked me several questions on my android project which I was able to answer him and he was completely satisfied with the answers. Then I asked him some questions about my performance. This time I was happy and was confident because the feedback from his side was positive.
Third round : HR round
I got a call from the HR and he explained me about the role and company etc. He also mentioned that my performance was really good during the interview and told me that he would like to offer me the role. Congratulated me saying that "You been selected for this role".

I was really happy with my Hardwork and efforts as they were finally paid off.

So this is how I cracked a job offer from HARMAN.

MY FIRST HACKTOBER-FEST

X-Cyborg — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 17:15:07 +0000

Before I share my experience on my first hacktober fest. Let me just give a brief detail about what is hacktoberfest ?

EVENT DETAILS :

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.

Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.
You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

RULES :

To earn your Hacktoberfest tee or tree reward, you must register and make four valid pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone). PRs can be made to any public repo on GitHub, not only the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate. This year, the first 70,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will be eligible to receive a prize.

you can also grab one , Do sign in : https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

MY EXPERIENCE :

Actually during my first year, I was not aware about this fest cause no one told me about this amazing fest. But during my second year, an open source community in our college had conducted a event hacknight-2020 that is where i got the brief idea about this amazing fest.

I couldnt attend the hacknight because of personal reasons , So i was really sad about it .But i always wanted myself to be open source contributor cause contributing for major projects can make you gain alot of knowledge and experience.

So i waited for another year, but due to covid reasons even this year we couldnt have the live interaction, but the event went through discord on Oct-3 to Oct-4 and there we had alot of fun . I named my team as XSpark and we pitched about our project idea for 1 min and we got amazing suggestion from the judges then we started working on our project and we successfully designed a website that is mainly useful for engineering students inorder to get H.W, notes ,project ideas, mentorship and we even added a discussion tab for students from different batches. We had completed the project but we couldnt upload it on devfolio cause our time was up !.Our team really felt bad ,but we didnt loose hope and we planned that we would come across more interesting project development for the upcoming year.

I completed my 4 PR successfully and i'm really happy about it.

I had an wonderful experience by learning the importance of open source.
Thank you :)

React JS Environment Setup

X-Cyborg — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 12:36:50 +0000

ReactJS is a javascript library maintained by Facebook and instagram. It is mainly used to create user interfaces in JavaScript for different platforms.You can use ReactDOM for web applications, React Native for mobile app development (sharing the majority of code between Android and iOS), and cross-platform hybrid desktop applications with Electron.

Features of ReactJS :

Speed
Simplicity
Scalability

Points covered here are :

ReactJS Environment Setup

Environment Setup

Tools required for ReactJS Environment

Node.js
VS code(Visual studio code)

Steps to setup React Environment

Install Node.js

Create a directory for React.js App
Open command prompt
Create a directory for React.js App
Open command prompt

Go to Reactjs Directory location

Type command for React Environment
npm install create-react-app -g or
npx create-react-app my-app

Here -g means installation type is global

Second command :
create-react-app AppName

Go to AppName directory and type npm start

After starting your first React Application, You will get default screen on the browser.

Hope you would get basic knowledege on how react is been setup .