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What questions are asked in the ISRO interview for a mechanical engineer?
Result : Selected, All India Rank - 4 (ISRO 2018)I want to give not only a very detailed experience but also some tips from my side. I have tried to write in such a way that you feel as if you are in interview hall. Because of all this you might feel this interview experience is a bit long but it's only for people very serious about ISRO. Going through the full experience will definitely give you a competitive edge. My contact informations including my whatsapp number is given at the end. Feel free to approach me. Now let's begin. It was 17th August 2018, 8:00 am ISRO guest house, Chennai. This year there was no interview center at Bangalore, only Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai and all who had written test centers at Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerela, Andhra Pradesh and maybe Orissa had their interview center at Chennai. I was wearing a white shirt, a black pair of trousers, black belt, black pair of shoes with plain black socks and a plain and sober grey tie. Please put on a tie, this is what candidates don't understand, ISRO is almost like a private firm. Here looks, appearance, proper dressing sense and smartness matters, that is why in interview panel there are members from HR present. Without tie, it is not formal, your top button is not closed and your collars are not properly upright. First 10 minutes are deciding for any interview and for first 10 seconds all they are going to observe is your appearance. Candidates who do not take care of these tiny details will say tomorrow that their luck was bad. Its not about luck, it's about taking care of the tiniest details. My name was first on the list on that day so I signNowed 15 min before the time mentioned in call letter (7:45am).I expected 8:00 to be time for start of verification of documents just like in case of BARC, but ISRO people are not playing around, they do not have classic government job mentality of working 9 to 5 and 5 days a week. So they actually started the interviews 10-15 minutes before 8:00 as few students arrived as early as 7:00 and completed the document verification before me so even though my name was first on the list, 6-7 candidates got interviewed before me (Actually, I liked it... I didn't wanted to be the first but also I didn't wanted to wait for 4-5 hours). So sometime before 10 a.m. I was asked to get into the interview room. Even for me who has already cleared BARC last year, who has already spent days and nights among biggest scientists of this country for the past one year, it was a cereal moment when I slightly opened the door and saw the world on the other side. I got the first glimpse of INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION. That moment I'll never forget for the rest of my life. I know a lot of you folks are confused, if I already was in BARC then why did I go for ISRO? Right? See it has something to do with passion. I know exactly what I want, I know exactly which field of engineering fascinates me. It is aerospace engineering and rocket science. This was never possible in BARC and that is why even after failing twice in ISRO written test(May 2017 & Dec 2017) I went for ICRB exam the third time and this time I made it happen. @ the door Me: May I come in sir? I3: yes please (from now on interviewer 1=I1, interviewer 2=I2 and so on) I went and stood near the only chair on my side. It was a gigantic hall. A completely different setup than BARC interview panel. There was a giant rectangular table between me and all the interviewers, there was atleast 7 feet distance between me and the closest interviewer (12 o'clock),so they had a mic for every person attached to the table. There were around 10 interviewers out of which one was a lady but I think including her, two were from HR, because they were monitoring the way I speak and the way I present. I teach a lot about how to be confident, how to have good speaking skills and body posture on youtube so I had a good idea of how to present myself (so those two were continuously impressed and were smiling). I2: Ashish Ramj... Ranjo... Rajm... Me: Sir, Ashish Ranjan. I2: Ok Ashish, please sit down. I sat down (I had my documents left outside), I only had a pen in my right pant pocket which I had borrowed from a very humble fellow candidate because just in the rarest occasion of you need to wright or sign something you should not be in a position where you do not have a pen. Unfortunately this thought did not came to my mind when I left for interview center but fortunately I found a good person who had an extra pen. I2 : Ok Ashish please introduce yourself. Me : Sir, my full name is Ashish Ranjan (exactly like I introduce myself in my unacademy introduction videos but fortunately I leashed myself from saying the next line I say in my videos, "I cleared BARC 2017....", that would have raised a lot of unnecessary questions and I wanted most of the questions from technical side so that I can show my skills in engineering and not my background because I knew that's what the majority of the marking out of 100 is going to be for) I was born and raised in Ranchi, Jharkhand. From there I did my schooling. In 10th standard I got a CGPA of 9.2 and in 12th I had a percentage of 75.5 percent. Till then I did not had much direction in my life but when I started my btech in Sikkim Manipal Institute of technology something changed. I found engineering very interesting, I started to spend more and more time in learning more about engineering, by the end of 4 years I had a CGPA of 9.57 and a bronze medal from my university (by now they are so interested in my story of how an average student became a topper and so impressed by my high CGPA that it slipped their mind that I hid one very important fact.... I never mentioned which year I passed out or which year I joined b.tech. I was 2016 passout, I didn't wanted to mention that I worked at BARC but then I had a more than 2 years gap and that wouldn't have looked good). Throughout my btech, I never wasted time, I was hungry for knowledge so I utilised all my semester breaks to do internships. By the end of 4 years I had done around 5 internships and also I did classes on some designing softwares.(All along I was making eye contact with each of the interviewer, the "light house effect" and the "spot light effect" which I talk about in my videos, because no interviewer should feel left out, this is something that I learned by giving 8-10 viva sessions in my days at BARC training school. You must understand that interviewers are also humans at the end of the day and wherever there are humans there are emotions and remember this: "humans take decisions emotionally and justify them by logic" so I wanted to make every interviewer feel good because I knew everyone had some percentage of my marks that would get me in. Now I took a look at them and tried to find by their expression if they wanted to know more. Everyone looked interested. I knew if they were bored they would have interrupted me. So I continued with my hobbies) I am also a lot into public speaking so I like to enhance my communication skills and I like to work on it everyday (at this point of time making spotlight eye contact with HR lady. She smiled) and I'm also into sports (making spotlight eye contact with the male HR) like track and field. Male HR: What sports?(with a smile) Me: sir track and field like 100m race, 400m race. He looked at me like he wanted to know more, everyone is looking at me to know more. I knew I had them. Now it's time to play my ace. That's when I dropped the nuke.... Me: I also have been a lot into martial arts. I am a black belt in shotokan karate(with a smile) Done! Now everyone has my attention. Male HR : (smiling) That is great Ashish. Female HR: (smiling) we would have never guessed that. Me : (smiling) I know mam. Remember it is very important to smile. Do not act like a scared student over there, act like a confident and friendly future colleague, because that's who they are looking to hire. I2: Ok Ashish what are your favourite subjects? Me: Sir my favourite subjects are Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Machine design... also I'm comfortable with Theory of machine and material science....and also heat transfer. (I knew that in ISRO interview there is one member from each subject, even theory of machine, material science and manufacturing. So I wanted to involve as much interviewers as possible.There is a probability that there will be 2 difficult (abstract) question out of 10, 8 questions will be easy textbook type. So if everyone is saying 4 favourite subjects and getting 2 difficult questions, you can say 6 favourite subject and get 3 difficult questions. Probability increased as now there is a higher chance that atleast 1 will be from one of your stronger subjects and you'll be able to answer it and that would definitely impress them. Plus on top of that you are getting double the number of easy questions, so for more number of time you'll be playing on your front foot. If you are not able to answer questions from one subject but show smartness and confidence, other interviewer might think let me test him/her with my subject, maybe he/she is good at that. But all of it will work only if you spent time working on all subject for a month. It is a difficult path but it is the only sure shot path to ISRO and the only way to deal with the uncertainty that is associated with every step of ISRO. What all of these will do definitely is that it will make your interview last longer (my interview lasted for over half an hour, which is very unusual for ISRO as most of the isro interviews go upto maximum of 20 minutes). Now what longer interview does is that it reduces the luck factor as longer you are infront of them more is the chances of you being able to show your skill in engineering. Female HR: (giggling) lot of favourite subjects. Me:(with a smile) I like mechanical engineering. (rehearsed line to show them I am an all-rounder and comfortable with inter-disciplinary tasks which is what all core companies want) Till now everything was rehearsed, I rehearsed that I would say these things 5-10 times infront mirror as I knew these two questions they would definitely ask. I knew from this point onwards rest of the interview is all about engineering skills and improvising, but doing this first step perfectly ensures that now they are looking forward to hire you, now all you have to do is not make a blunder. I2: Ok Ashish, please go to the board. I saw a 6ft. by 4 ft. white board behind me with a chair left of me on which two marker pens and an Eraser/duster was kept. As far as what I remember about the surrounding, the lighting of the room was not very bright, not as bright as it could have been, but above the board there was a white light which was making that area very bright. All this was increasing the feel in me that this is it... I worked for it for one and a half year and now I'm here, I'm in control and time to show them what I've got. I took care of how I stand, made sure that I'm standing up straight... Chest out, back straight but just enough to make it look natural. These are things that I practiced infront of mirror few days before the interview and also something that I've always been attentive about. I2: Draw two vertical lines. I did. I2: draw two horizontal lines in between them. I did I2:make vertical lines as fixed supports.and upper horizontal line is steel, lower horizontal line is aluminium bar. Tell me the stresses in them if temperature is increased from 20 C to 100 C Me: (writing all the information he was giving me on board, I wrote delta T=80 C) Sir due to increase in temperature this bar will try to elongate but the rigid support will not let it so there will be compressive reactions applied by the supports so there will be compressive stress. (while writing on board) sir, thermal stain epsilon =delta T*alpha so thermal stress will be alpha *deltaT*E, E being the Young's modules. I2: so what is the value? Which of them will have higher stress? Me: Sir that depends on the values of Young's modulus and thermal expansion coefficient. I2: what are the values? Me: sir Young's modulus of Aluminium is 69Gpa( this number was easiest to remember for obvious reasons ;) ) for mild steel it is 200 GPa. I don't remember the exact values of thermal expansion coefficients for these materials but I know that it's of the order of 10^(-6) and for steel it is around 10.I don't remember for aluminium. I2: take it 3 times the thermal coefficient of steel and take Young's modulus of aluminium as 70 and that for steel as 210. Me: Ok sir now we can compare. Let's first find for aluminium. (writing on board and speaking simultaneously) so stress in aluminium is alphaA*80*210=3*alphaS*80*70=16800*alphaS(on the side I did the calculation very quickly, I wrote 21*8 and directly wrote the answer as 16800 within fraction of seconds) I3: Why did you Wright 21?what is 8? Me: Sir 7*3=21. I2: what is 8? Me: sir I have taken 8 from 80....I'm just doing the calculation. I4: Oh.. Final answer likh dia isne. They were surprised that I did this calculation so fast, they forgot that this is nothing compared to the proficiency in hand and mental calculation we need to clear written exam. HR male : (smiling) Ha ha sahi kr raha hai. You continue. Me: so now the stress in steel bar. Stress =alphaS*80*210=16800alphaS I was a little confused seeing that the value is same. Me:Ok sir so what we have is that Young's modulus of steel is three times...(was interrupted) I2:Which one has more stress? Me: Sir, stresses will be equal. I2: OK. (looking at I3, indicating him to ask his question) I3: Ok, do you know what keys are. Me: Sir, keys are mechanical elements used to have constant velocity rati... (my voice fading) {It was a very easy topic for me because it is the second chapter I teach on unacademy in my course of machine design but for some reason I got tongue tied but I pulled my self back, I gave myself time to breathe and think but at the same time made sure that interviewers don't have to wait, so I started to draw a shaft-hub assembly on board} Me:(while drawing) So if I have a shaft and over it we have a hub like a gear or a bearing then if we add a key then both shaft and hub will have same angular velocity, there will be positive drive which means there will be no slip. I3: How do you design a key? Me: A rotating shaft transmits torque to hub through key. Key will have tangential force. So we consider what we call a "sunk key", that means it is inserted within groves in both shaft and hub (drawing and explaining simultaneously) then let us consider a rectangular key of length l, width b and height t(I drew a fresh isometric view of key alone). Now we can design it by both crushing and shearing. So designing it by crushing first, let us say that sigmaC is the crushing strength of the material then crushing area will be this (showing on diagram) i.e. l*t/2. So cruising strength will be sigmaC*l*t/2,this is the maximum tangential load the key can take based on crushing, if we multiply it with radius of shaft, we will get the maximum torque it can take, if we again multiply it with angular velocity we can find out the maximum power it can transmit. {for this 2-3 minutes, I forgot about the rest of the world, I completely got into my teaching mode, nobody questioned anything, they were all just nodding and smiling, it was an easy question but it doesn't matter what the question is, it matters how well you explain it. I've said this before in my BARC preparation videos, these are top scientists of this country you are dealing with, for them everything is easy like ABCD, for them design of key is easy and so is finite element method, so explain any question you get to the fullest} I3:Ok ok(looked very satisfied) {But I didn't stop, I thought let's finish it perfectly, 18 months of preparation, 6 years of struggle, I'm not taking any chances, I'll present my 100%} Me: We can also design it based on shear, so for that the tangential force will be same but shear area now will be(showing it on diagram) b*l, so we have to know the shear strength of the material and we can again find the maximum tangential load and subsequently maximum torque in similar manner. I3:ok ok. I4:have you studied engineering drawing? {this is the thing about ISRO, they can ask questions even from subjects you didn't mention as favourite subject. I mentioned 6 subjects but still they went for 7th. What they didn't knew is that I was prepared for 11 subjects. I had already prepared engineering drawing along with all of production, refrigeration and air conditioning, engineering mechanics and obviously thermodynamics, in the last 2 months. You see the contrast in BARC & ISRO interviews? In BARC you say 5 subjects and you prepare for 4 according to my strategy that I shared on youtube. In ISRO on the other hand, you say 5-6 subjects and prepare for 11-12 subjects.} Me: Yes sir. I4:Why do we need engineering drawing? Me: Whatever a designer designs, engineering drawing is used to convey it to the manufacturer. I4: Suppose you have to produce this glass (there was a glass on my side of the table) how will you do it? What will be the engineering drawing? Show us on board. Me:Sir should I draw the projections? top view, front view etc.? I4: Yes. Me: (Drawing and explaining) I am going to use Indian standard. In India we use 3rd angl..sorry 1st angle projection so I'm going to draw according to it. I4: What? Me: Sir, we use first angle projection in India. Male HR: Is it so? (with a big smile on his face) Me: Yes sir, Indian companies use first angle projection and American companies use third angle projection. (they looked satisfied so I turned back to the board and continued drawing and explaining) So according to first angle projection, top view will be below front view and right view will be on left hand side of front view. So the front view will be like this (drawing a rectangular shape with its lower edge touching the horizontal plane. I also drew the hidden lines to show that glass has some thickness and that it is a hollow cylinder, drew projection lines towards left hand side plane to draw right view but stopped knowing that it will be same as front view and I didn't want to waste their time as I knew what they wanted to see are the front view and top view) Some Interviewer from back: It would be same right? (talking about the right view) Me: (without turning) yes sir.(continued drawing, drew two concentric circles using projections of front view and stopped). I4: So how will you show concentricity? Me: Like this sir(I drew two mutually perpendicular center lines, those with alternate long and short lines) I5: So how will you show a concentricity tolerance of let us say //some value I do not remember // microns? Me: (thinking for a second) sir it looks like this (drew two small concentric circles. 2 years ago when I was an intern at TATA Cummins, my guide forced me to go through geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, but it was impossible to remember all that now) I do not remember completely, I studied this a long time ago in Geometric dimensioning and Tolerancing (I later found out that the symbol I drew was actually correct, its just that it was a bit incomplete) I4:Ok ok(looked satisfied) {Till now it was perfect and I knew that if you are giving perfect answers to normal questions, they are going to get into more advanced and abstract questions because now they would like to push your limits. Honestly the easy questions lasted longer than I expected. By now I knew I had done more than enough to get in, the interview is over, I am selected, if they continue, it will be only be because they want to have a little fun} I1:You said material science right? Me: Yes sir. I1: In what way do we classify materials? Me: (A little confused about where to start? as this question has infinite number of answers) Sir, we can classify materials as ductile and brittle. I1: and? Me: (Thinking for a second or two) and we also classify it as isotropic and orthotropic. I1: and? Me: There are lot of ways to classify Materia... I1: have you heard of metallic and non metallic materials? Me: yes sir, metallic materials have free electrons in it where as non metallic materials has no free electrons. I1: Can you give me some examples of both? Me: Sir examples of non-metallic materials are plastic, polymers, ceramics. I1: and non metallic? Me: Steel, copper, aluminium etc. (such a silly question, I think by the end of me answering, he also realised it 7 so he said along with me) I1: Cooper, steel etc right? Me: yes sir, copper steel, aluminium etc. I1: can you draw the stress strain curve of mild steel, cast iron and aluminium? Me: yes sir. (turning towards the board and going to the left most part of it) so first I'll draw for mild steel. I1: No no.. In same graph. Me: ok sir (drew x and y axis at center of the board) on x axis we will have stress...Engineering stress (I didn't wanted to play that game of I'll say stress then you'll ask which stress then I'll say engineering stress then you'll ask what is other kind, what is it.... And so on... Because this interview had already gone way longer than I expected. At that point I just wanted to show all the excellence I have. By directly writing engineering stress, I had answered all those 6-8 questions perfectly in fraction of a second in their head, thus my impression improved and their time saved. It's a win win trick you play only when you know you are already on positive side because now they are confident about your skill in engineering, now they won't even ask... They'll just assume that you know it. That is the difference between 9/10 and 10/10. If you are 9/10 people will think there's something else you might not know and if you are 10/10 people will think you know everything. So I continued drawing, without wasting any time I drew three curves. I1: Now where will concrete lie? Me: (I drew a line near cast iron but with a larger slope) I1: will it be stronger than cast iron? Me : No sir, it will depend on young's modulus. Slope of this line is young's modulus. I1: so is it stronger than cast iron? Me: No sir(drawing a line with lesser slope) all I am saying is that concrete is brittle so it will have similar curve... There will be no yielding. I1: So where will it lie? Me: Sir it depends on young's modulus of concrete,I don't remember the value. I1: OK. I6: you said heat transfer right? Me: yes sir. I6: draw a pipe? Me: (drew two parallel lines) I6: no the other side. Me: front view? I6: yes. Me: (drew two concentric circles) I6: there is hot fluid passing. Tell me the modes of heat transfer. Me: convection-conduction-convection. I6: Now put an insulation. Me: (I did) I6: Now tell me the modes of heat transfer. Me: convection-conduction-conduction-convection I6: Now remove the insulation. Now this pipe is buried underground. Soil is maintained at 25 C. Tell me the modes of heat transfer. Me: convection-conduction-conduction I6: No, that pipe wall is maintained at 75 C. Me: There will be conduction taking place as soil is solid. There is no chance of convection. Since the temperature difference is large there might be considerable radiation. (this was an abstract question, these questions have no answers, you have to show your thinking capacity here, that's it) I7: Ok coming to fluid mechanics. (At this time I was surprised by the time they are investing on me) Me: yes sir. I7: have you seen air balloon? Why does it fly? Me: it is because of the buoyancy effect. The weight of the air it displaces is more than the its own weight. I7: So it will keep on going up into the outer space? ( A long time ago I had heard this question when I was still undergraduate, I knew it will stop at a particular height but never gave it a thought on why it will stop) Me: No sir it will stop at a particular height (with full confidence... hoping he doesn't ask why) I7: Why? Me:(thinking for a second, pretending that I'm gathering my words) Sir as we keep on going to higher altitudes the air becomes thinner and thus we have lower density, thus at some point weight of fluid displaced will equate to weight of balloon and it stops. I7: so have you seen that we use heat source placed at the bottom of balloon? Me: yes sir. I7: Why do we use it? Me: To heat the air. Hotter air will have lesser density. I7: That hole is made very small. Why? Why can't we have a larger hole? Me: Sir, so that we don't have to heat a lot lot of air. I7: No we are heating the same amount of air anyways. Me: (paused for few seconds, thinking) Sir I'll have to think about it. I7: Why can't we have it like a parachute? Me: (thinking) I7: why cant we have a big hole? Me: (Drew a semi sphere, convex upwards) like this? I7: Yes, exactly. Me: (Thinking. Somehow I knew I was taking more time than what they have, but they were unexpectedly giving me time to think and kept giving me hints, this was because of the strong base I created and also they were considerate about the fact that I have been standing and explaining for the last 30-40 minutes, I must have gotten tired) It will be difficult to manufacture (just didn't wanted to be dumb so I said something. This is very important, if I stood dumb for 10 more seconds, interview would have ended right there and what's worse? It would have ended at a bad note. So I said something so that they might think that I am trying) I7: We don't care about manufacturing cost. Have you studied about stability of a body? {Now that's all I needed} Me: Yes sir, ok I get it. For stability of submerged body of center of buoyancy should be above center of gravity of the body. I7:why? Me: If we tilt the body in any direction, there will be a restoring couple (showed it with diagram). So this principle is used here. I7:How? Me: Making a spherical shape must ensure the balloon to have G below B. I7:(looking for more) Me:(thinking for a second and then I finally got it, I got the answer. A submerged body can only be unstable if it has a differential density. What a smaller fire hole does is that it decreases the region directly in contact with the fire, i.e. it reduces the volume with sudden drop of density. Thus it helps in maintaining a relatively more uniform density so that the balloon remains stable in case of winds and bad weather. All these were running in my head. I forgot that I was in interview room, I just found the question amazing and was thrilled that I was able to get to the answer. That's when I exclaimed at a voice louder than any they had heard by me in the last 45 min...It was like a 'Eureka!' ) YES (took the marker pen and turned to the board) If I have balloon in the shape of a sphere (Drew a strong circle quickly, as soon as I did this, they knew that I've got it) I7: Ok Ashish you can go. Me:(nodded, kept the pen on chair) thankyou everyone (I exited from the door) I checked the time, it was way past 10:30. A guy (another candidate) followed me, he asked "what are they asking?" I said it all depends on your subjects. He said "your interview lasted very long". I asked, "how long?". "much more than half an hour" he said. I replied "it didn't feel like it, I have to go upstairs to return this pen". I returned the pen and went out thinking time to get some highlights in my hair. The interview lasted crazy long when compared to how long ISRO interviews usually last (10-20 minutes). I didn't see time before getting in but with my experience in previous interviews and taking a look at how much time they spent only on introduction and then the fact that they asked questions from SIX subjects that too lengthy ones, I think it was easily close to an hour. I was very confident I'm getting selected just like the day I was when BARC 2017 interview was over. One thing I'm sure of is that you cannot fool yourself, after the interview you either know you got selected or you know you didn't. There's nothing in between and that day I knew that I did it. Being in BARC for 1 year made me realise one thing... that I'm not a scientist.... I do not shine the brightest when it comes to Engineering. Where I excel is in making a full proof strategy for beating one of the most difficult competitions. That's how I cracked BARC and that's how I cracked ISRO and I want the world to know that anyone can do it if they have a proper strategy, dedication and a little bit of craziness. If you went through my full interview experience then obviously you are very serious about this job. Find more of my guidance videos on my Youtube channel : Torq4712 Feel free to approach me at : Instagram, twitter, unacademy at : ashish_torq Gmail: torque4712@gmail.com Whatsapp: 7042830765 (please don't call without messaging first) All I want to do is help my juniors. I want to bring the most authentic knowledge to all interested aspirants for free. This path is tough and I appreciate everyone who has the courage to travel it. All the best.
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How did Aurangzeb capture and kill his brother Dara Shikoh?
Aurangzeb sent Dara’s chopped off head as a gift to Shahjahan when he was having dinner, after inhumanely mutilating it with his sword.(In the above picture: Dara Shukoh)In Feb 2017, The New Delhi Municipal Council had passed a proposal to change the name of Dalhousie Road to Dara Shikoh Road. And In August 2015, Aurangzeb Road became Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road.Both these changes were repeatedly requested by Delhities for years.But Ignorant citizens fail to understand why the name of a street hurts locals and creates headlines. They ask, ‘What's in a name?’(skip to the answer below, if you know about the background or dislike history)The Mughal empire needs no introduction. 16th century onwards, India was ruled by the Mughals.At its pinnacle around 1690 CE, this empire stretched from Kabul to Bengal and Kashmir to Kaveri.Extent of Mughal Empire. Use the Index below to read the map.Emperor Akbar’s wealth is estimated to have been around ₹1365 Lakh Crores (adjusted to inflation; according to Forbes. India’s current richest individual, Mukesh Ambani’s wealth is around ₹2.5 Lakh Crores).And Mughal empire's GDP was 25% of the then global GDP (India’s current GDP is 2.6% compared to Global GDP).Who wouldn't desire to own such wealth and have such authority?The Mughal princes certainly did.They were infamous for their greed for throne.By the time the race for the crown ended, just one survived.Mutual jealousy and hatred grew to irreparable extent amongst the children of Shahjahan.The fight of son against father, and of brother against brother was a norm among the Mughals.Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb had all fought wars within the family.Most of the Emperors had to face rebellions by their sons as well.Mughal Emperor Shahjahan is best remembered for constructing Lahore Palace, Delhi’s Red Fort, Jama Masjid and the most beautiful structure and wonder of the world: Taj Mahal.Shahjahan and Mumtaz Mahal had 4 sons:Dara ShukohShujaMuhiuddin (later known as Aurangzeb)Murad Baksh.Though this war was fought amongst these 4 brothers, the primary contenders were just 2.(In pic: Mughal Emperor Shahjahan on his throne).Hazy laws of succession made every brother thirsty for their sibling’s blood.Indian customs used to award the father's wealth, belongings and responsibilities to the eldest son. Just the eldest son. But the Mughals followed Central Asian laws. According to these, the throne could not be inherited by the eldest son just because of his seniority. Instead it would belong to the most deserving prince.They believed that merely age does not make one more eligible than others.And a father has the right to decide who succeeds him.Still here, but bored of my history lecture? Allow me to tell you his story in a different way. By taking you on a tour of Medieval India.Let's board our time machine, travel to the 17th century and witness the events as they unfold.As usual with my answers, I shall ask you to assume yourself as the principal character, Dara Shukoh.You are Dara Shukoh.You are the eldest son and fourth child of Prince Khurram (Shahjahan) and Arjumand Banu (Mumtaz Mahal).Before your birth, father had paid a visit to the tomb of the great Sufi mystic, Hazrat Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer and there had prayed for a son to be born to him, since all his earlier children had been daughters.Thus, when you were born, great festivities were held in the imperial capital Delhi, for your father now has a heir to succeed him to the throne.Your grandfather Emperor Jahangir had named you after the invincible Persian Emperor ‘Darius-I’.Persian word ‘Shukoh’ means glory, splendour and grandeur.[1](In pic: Greeting your father in the royal court after his coronation ceremony)(In above picture: With your father (center), maternal grandfather Asaf Jah (right) and your brothers)(You are a disciple of Hazrat Miyan Mir. He is an enormously respected Muslim saint, who was also invited by the Sikhs to lay the foundation-stone of the Harmandir Sahib/Golden Temple in Amritsar)(In pic: Spiritual discussions with the saints of all religions)You are dedicated to finding a common mystical language between Islam and Hinduism.Towards this goal, you study Sanskrit, and with the help of the Pandits of Kashi, you complete the translation of 52 Upanishads from their original Sanskrit into Persian, so that they could be studied and appreciated by Muslims too, all over the world.Vedas, Puranas, Yoga Vasishta and the Geeta were also translated from Sanskrit into Persian.(In pic: Translating the religious texts from Sanskrit to Persian)You are a disciple of religious gurus like Baba Lal (companion of Saint Kabir), Sarmad Kashani, Mullah Shah Badakhshi and Sufi saint Hazrat Mian Mir among others.You are also a friend of 7th Sikh guru Har Rai. You are Sufi natured and peace loving.On the contrary, your younger brother Muhiuddin was cold, staunch and cunning.(In pic: Father with you and Muhiuddin)You both are poles apart, even when you both were brought up in the same atmosphere.One part of the palace comes alive with you playing Veena, reciting shayari and holy books of all religions.And the other part, mainly the training ground, use to tremble with your brother Muhiuddin’s Mace, Swords and Spears.[In the above pic: You and Muhiuddin (on the right)]You are an art lover, your brother is a seasoned warrior.As you both grow up, your differences grow too.Your extremely opposite ideologies keep you apart from each other.Jealously and hatred are germinating amongst the princes.All of them want to prove themselves worthy.All of them wish to see themselves on the throne.But there's just one Peacock throne.(In pic: Father with you and your brothers Muhiuddin and Shah Shuja)(In above pictures: Arriving for your marriage procession).(In pic: Your only wife, Nadira Banu Begum. Your affection for Nadira proved to be even more faithful than that of father Shah Jahan for your mother Mumtaz Mahal — for unlike father, you never contracted any other marriage)Father formally announces you as his heir, granting you the title of ‘Shahzada-e-Buland Iqbal’ (Prince of High Fortune).This infuriates your brothers, especially Muhiuddin.But your brothers refrain from publicly expressing their displeasure.(In pic: Father crowning you as ‘Shahzada-e-Buland Iqbal’)(In above pic: Princess Jahanara, eldest of all siblings)2 years pass by. One night, Jahanara was watching a performance of some dancers at the Agra fort. Suddenly the attire of one of the dancers cathes fire from the nearby lamp. Jahanara selflessly saves the dancer, but sustains severe burns herself. She is critical and is visited by everyone to check upon her. Everyone, except Muhiuddin. He does not return to Agra immediately, even after receiving the Emperor’s message to do so.3 weeks later, he returns to the palace from his campaign. Instead of seeing Jahanara first, he heads straight to father's court in full body armour.It is considered ill-mannered to meet the family in armour. His acts enrage father.Muhiuddin faces father's wrath.Father's affection towards you and coldness towards your brother Muhiuddin, grew with every passing day.The right of a crown prince to stay in a distinguishable Red tent, was also taken away from him by father.He loses his patience, when he was banished from entering the royal court for about 7 months.(In above picture: Muhiuddin Muhammad)Muhiuddin also loses his governorship of Sindh and Multan to you over insignNow issues. Your weakest link is that you seldom stepped out of the safe confines of the palace walls. Father keeps you close to himself.Whereas brother Muhiuddin was frequently sent by father to battlefields.And he returned stronger everytime.Father promotes you to ‘Shah-e-Buland Iqbal’ (King of High Fortune).Your promotion and Muhiuddin’s debarrment from the court, brings you closer to the Peacock throne.When father suddenly got unwell, you spend days and nights in his service.But beyond the palace walls, rumours are propogating that the Emperor is on his death bed. All your brothers have loyal spies in the court.Murad is in Gujarat, Shuja in Bengal and Muhiuddin in Deccan.They are governors of these regions.(Murad Baksh was the governor of Gujarat and Malwa. Shah Shuja of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. And Muhiuddin of Deccan including Ahmednagar, Berar and Khandesh. And you were of Allahabad, Multan, Sindh, Kabul and Lahore)They believe the rumours to be true.They suspect that you are suppressing the news about father's critical health because you want to snatch the throne away from them.This triggers the war of succession.(In above picture: Shuja Muhammad)Your brother Shuja is the first to act.He announces himself as the Emperor of Bengal.He charges with his army towards the capital. This is rebellion.You suggest father to send an army to contain him, and he does.Mughal army led by your eldest son Sulaiman Shukoh and Raja Jai Singh defeat Shuja in the battle of Bahadurpur, Bihar.Using this as a valid reason, Muhiuddin convinces Murad Baksh to consolidate.They have a agreement that they will fight you together.If they win, they would divide the empire into two equal parts.One would be ruled by Murad Baksh and other by Muhiuddin.(In above picture: Murad Baksh) But you have no clue of the pact.Half of your army is engaged against Shuja’s army in Bihar.Raja Jaswant Singh of Marwar (Jodhpur) is sent with the rest of the Mughal army to counter Muhiuddin and Murad.They clash at Dharmat in Malwa. Father's imperial forces, led by Jaswant Singh, lose the battle.Your rebel brothers are now marching towards Agra.This time you step out to lead the remaining royal army.But against their combined forces, you lose the war.(On your war elephant).You are compelled to retreat with your leftover army to Samugarh.But your brothers follow and attack you there.Your army has to face their united forces. Hada Rajputs are loyal to you and are fighting from your side in the war.They step forward to defend you.Murad’s cavalry charges.A fierce battle follows.During this tussle, Murad shoots an arrow through the Rajput general and kills him. Rajputs lose their commander and there is no one to lead them.They were leading your cause and with their fall, your primary pillar of support has collapsed.This discourages your Mughal soldiers too. When you get the news, you step down from your elephant, mount a horse and proceed to command the weaker side. But your sudden disappearance from your current position on the elephant creates chaos within the army and they lose their morale.They think that either you are dead or you have fled from the battlefield.This misconception brings the Peacock throne within Muhiuddin’s signNow.In June, Muhiuddin besieges father Shah Jahan in the Agra Fort forcing him to surrender unconditionally by cutting off the water supply.Jahanara comes to Muhiuddin proposing a partition of the empire.She proposes that you would be given Punjab and adjoining territories;Shuja would get Bengal;Murad would get Gujarat;and the rest of the empire would go to Muhiuddin.But he refuses Jahanara’s proposition on the grounds that you are an infidel.[2]As the war is about to end, Muhiuddin thinks of sidelining Murad.But he is wary that his loyal army might play spoil sport.They need to be taken care of first. Muhiuddin takes advantage of Murad’s alcohol addiction.On one occasion, when Murad is under heavy influence of alcohol, Muhiuddin’s men overpower him and put him in chains. He is held captive in Qila-i-Mubarak in Delhi.One down. Two more remain. Deciet, dishonesty and tsignNowery; Muhiuddin used everything to be victorious.He then shakes hands with another brother, Shuja. He allows him to rule Bengal, just to keep him calm till he kills you first.When Muhiuddin was away from Delhi, chasing you, Shuja tries to take advantage and marches towards Delhi.Muhiuddin sends his eldest son Muhammad Sultan to crush Shuja.But Shuja offers his daughter in marriage to Muhammed Sultan and convinces him to join him. The elder son’s treason enrages Muhiuddin.He arrives and defeats Shuja and Sultan in a battle.Sultan is arrested and sent to Salimgarh fort in Delhi to spent the rest of his life in prison.Shuja flees to Arakan (Burma) and is welcomed there by their king.A few months later, Shuja conspires to take over his host’s kingdom.But this conspiracy is uncovered, and Shuja is executed by the Arakanese king. Two down. You are the only obstacle between him and the Peacock throne.After the devastating defeat in Samugarh, you leave Hindustan to raise an army again and counter Muhiuddin.So you go to Sindh, then Gujarat, then Ajmer and then Lahore.This takes a toll on your wife's health and she dies of Dysentery in Bolan Pass. Her final wish was to be buried in Hindustan. So, her mortal remains are brought back to Lahore and laid to rest near Hazrat Miyan Mir’s tomb.(In picture: Mausoleum of Nadira Banu Begum, Lahore). Muhiuddin orders a formal coronation in Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh.He changes his name to Aurangzeb.And also adopts the title of Alamgir.Persian word Aurangzeb means ‘Ornament of the Throne’ and his regnal title Alamgir means ‘Conqueror of the World’.[3]As an emperor, he orders Murad to be transferred to Gwalior fort’s imperial prison.A few years ago when Murad was Gujarat’s Governor, he had had executed Gujarat’s Diwan.Aurangzeb pushes Diwan’s son to plead justice, which he does.After a pretentious hearing, Murad is convicted of the charge and executed. He is buried in traitor’s cemetery in Gwalior fort.You are enroute to Persia, but midway take a detour to Afghanistan.You halt at your friend Malik Jiwan’s residence.You had had saved Malik Jiwan’s life twice, when he was about to be executed by Shahjahan for his crimes.He owed you his life.(In pic: You and your son Sipihr)(In picture: Malik Jiwan receiving you)Your son Sipihr Shukoh repeatedly warns you that trusting a criminal would be dangerous for them.Since Malik is indebted to you, you believe that he could be trusted. In the middle of the night, Malik Jiwan and his soldiers attack and arrest you and your son.The city of Delhi yet again becomes a centre stage of politics.The Prince who was once supposed to become the Emperor, is now a prisoner in a filthy prison of Qila-i-Mubarak (later named as Red fort. Mubarak=Auspicious, Qila=Fort). Malik Jiwan receives rewards and the title of Nawab Bakhtiyar Khan for this act of tsignNowery.Your fate is being decided in Aurangzeb’s court.Some courtiers want you to be shifted to Gwalior’s prison.Others demand that the city should witness Emperor Aurangzeb’s victory too and you should be paraded in the entire city. What Aurangzeb chooses shocks everyone.He could've pardoned you or give you an honorable death.But he wants to set an example to every rebel, of what could happen to those who challenge him. You are made to sit on a filthy elephant and disgracefully paraded through the streets of Delhi.People are shocked to see their most beloved and respected prince in such a terrible condition.You are not wearing Pearl necklaces, but chains.Your clothes resemble a beggar's, stained with your blood. The people are in sorrow.They are crying, screaming in agony and cursing Aurangzeb.But nobody dares to defend you. Because a commander with a drawn out sword is standing behind you.He was ordered to behead you at the first sign of revolt.(You and your son Sipihr on the 2nd elephant)Aurangzeb was not expecting such enormous public sympathy for you from the citizens of Delhi.He is wary that this sympathy could turn into a revolution, if something is not done soon.So, he decides to erase your existence. A slave named Nazir is given the job.He was once insulted by you and wanted revenge.30th August, 1659. The fateful night.You are busy cooking some lentils for your son in the prison.When all of a sudden, 4 men enter the prison cell and pull your son away.When you are trying to free him, Nazir slayes you with a sword from behind, in the presence of your horrified son.Niccolao Manucci, the Venetian traveler who worked in the Mughal court, has written down the details of Dara Shukoh's death. According to him, upon Dara's capture, Aurangzeb ordered his men to have his head brought up to him and he inspected it thoroughly to ensure that it was Dara indeed.He then further mutilated the head with his sword three times.After which, he ordered the head to be put in a box and presented to his ailing father, Shah Jahan, with clear instructions to be delivered only when the old King sat for his dinner.He was imprisoned at the Agra’s fort. The guards were also instructed to inform Shah Jahan that, “Emperor Aurangzeb, your son, sends this box to let him (Shah Jahan) see that he does not forget him”. Shah Jahan instantly became happy (not knowing what was in the box) and uttered, “Blessed be God that my son still remembers me”. Upon opening the box, Shah Jahan became horrified and fell unconscious.After regaining consciousness, he was deeply anguished, to the point where he began to pull out his beard and blood started coming out profusely.[4](Dara’s head brought to Aurangzeb)Aurangzeb ordered Dara’s mortal remains to be buried in an unmarked place in the complex of Humayun’s tomb in Delhi.On Aurangzeb's ascent to the throne, Jahanara voluntarily joined her father in imprisonment at the Agra Fort, where she devoted herself to Shahjahan's care for 8 more years until his death.[5](In pic: Jahanara with Shahjahan at the moment of his death in 1666. For the 8 long years that Shahjahan was kept in confinement in the Agra fort, Aurangzeb never once visited his father. Not even during his final illness. Even after Shahjahan's death, Aurangzeb did not attend his father's funeral)Somewhere in this grand Mausoleum of Humayun, is buried a forgotten prince named Dara, who wanted the nation to be a peaceful one. Who loved and respected all religions impartially and was equally loved back by the nobles and commoners alike.References:‘The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors’ (by Abraham Eraly. Publisher: Phoenix, London. ISBN: 0753817586)‘The Mughal Empire: The history and culture of Indian people Vol.7’ (by R.C.Majumdar, J.N.Chaudhuri, S.Chaudhuri. Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan).‘History of Aurangzib: Vol.1 & 2 (by Jadunath Sarkar. Publisher: S.C.Sarkar and Co. Ltd.)Footnotes[1] Dara Shukoh - Wikipedia[2] Shah Jahan - Wikipedia[3] Aurangzeb - Wikipedia[4] Dara Shukoh - Wikipedia[5] Jahanara Begum - Wikipedia
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Is life at Goldman Sachs really bad?
Originally answered - Shilpi Roy's answer to Should I choose signNow or Goldman Sachs (India)?The answer is gonna be really long. Grab some snacks as it could take a while.I was the happiest person the day I was selected as a FTE (tech analyst position) at GS - a reputed fin-tech company which mostly hires tier-1 students, a dream for many. I heard from many people that GS offers package as high as 32lpa which was quite a big deal for me - or for anyone who might have been at my place.Then came the HR’s call. She offered me semester long internship in GS! I was glad that I don’t have to spend my last semester in college and will also earn some money. With the stipend as high as 75k and stay at Hilton hotel during intern, anybody is likely to go crazy and say “YES”.And so I did.The beginning (GS-Bengaluru office)Soon came 7th January. Day started off with amazing orientation and office visit. Then came the lunch buddy - GS assigns a buddy from your department to have lunch with you the day you join, let’s say he was Raghav (name changed).Raghav seemed to be a really smart guy. I asked him a few questions about GS being a fin-tech, is it easy to switch and other questions. He seemed to be out of place, not interested. A guy came who was an intern in a team in which Raghav used to work. He kept talking and giggling with him, completely ignoring my presence. Cool, maybe Raghav is a bad guy - who cares?Met with my manager and two other interns who were in the same department - GIR. He seemed like a chilled-out and thoughtful person. Let’s call him Rudra.Our whole department used to sit in a middle sized cabin which accommodated around 32–35 employees of GIR. My happiness knew no bounds! Great team, small cabin and friendly manager - what else could I ask for?Then came the next day. We were introduced to our team and had a lunch together. Oh no! Lunch here was not free - no big deal. Only 80rs/- per plate is affordable when you earn 75k per month, I thought.After having lunch, we began installing softwares required. Wait, you can’t install some softwares without manager’s permission. Fine! I messaged my manager and he granted the permission. He came later in the evening and gave 3 of us an interesting machine learning problem to solve - in a week, till we get our projects.He had three projects in mind, and he left it for us to decide which one we want to take. I took the one which I thought was more impactful and cool, also because we had a member of our team working for the project. My task was to integrate the backend stuff he wrote with the UI I was going to create. Also to help him with some of those backend stuffs later on.“You can take help from Varun, in case you need” said Rudra.So it began!1st MonthI started learning React.js for the UI I was going to implement from various websites. There were tons of tutorial there. After understanding some theory, I clicked on ‘try it on codepen’ - online editor.“You are restricted from using an external website - no permissions”What? I can’t even use some online editor. Okay that’s fine - we have pretty sensitive data in GS. Since it’s a finance based company, we have client data with us and user may copy and paste it online - someone might steal the data! All this made sense. ‘It’s fine, I’ll bring my own laptop tommorow’, I thought before leaving.I could see two teammates standing behind me from my peripheral vision. One who was writing the backend stuff for the project I was working upon, let’s call him Varun.Varun was a silent and sober guy - a hardworking one who speaks only when required. Another guy standing beside him was Raghav.“Hey!” I said in a low tone.“Did I do some crime? Why are these two here?” I wondered.“You brought your personal laptop, is everything fine here?” they asked.I told them about the restrictions. Raghav took my work PC and sent Rudra, my manager a request to approve codepen.I waited. One hour. Two hours. Codepen still not working. Fine for me since I have my own laptop. No worries.After 2 weeks Varun called me and started assigning tasks to do for the UI. I was full of enthusiasm and paid full attention to what he wanted. I started looking out for the cool libraries out there and found - material-ui.‘Perfect!’ I exclaimed.Started with the tasks, and was able to achieve the target next evening. It looked damn good! Varun will be happy. And so, I showed it to him.“Okay, font-size is a bit huge. And please change the app’s name - ELEGANT USER’S APP” (name changed). And so I did.“E-L-E-G-E-N-T U-S-E-R—S A-P-P”What a funny name, I thought. (The real one was funnier than the changed one)So days went, 1..2…3 and I completed 5–6 tasks. The basic UI (20%) was done. Then came Varun -“Shilpi, you did this using which library?”“Material-ui! It’s really good and..”“Okay, but make sure you can use it. Only specific libraries can be used at GS. Search xyz site and ensure if we can use it. If yes, proceed. Else use GS UI library”What did he just say. I worked on the UI for 2 weeks, and he is telling me now that I may not be able to use the material-ui library! No way..With my heart beating fast, I typed..X..Y….Z …..gs..comCtrl+F“M-A——T-E—-R—I—A”Boom! It’s there. I was delighted :)The next day I was late. I saw a message pop up. It was from Raghav.“Hey” it said.“Hey” I replied.“Please try to attend the daily standup. If you don’t, mail Rudra about your update :)” He replied.There hasn’t been a single day I was late. But okay, FINE.Then came the 5th day - friday. I got a message from Varun.‘Hi Shilpi, can you make another UI using GS-UI?’Oh No!. Again?.‘Just for the feel…we’ll show it to Rudra next week, he’ll choose which one we can use’*Slow Claps*Well played Varun. Why did he approve the material-ui one if he wanted it in GS-UI - I wondered.It’s fine, I can do it. I encouraged myself and went to the internal site - gs-ui-library. (name changed)Okay, fine. This looks good. Okay. Cool. Documentation.. documentation….uhmm.I searched for the whole day, no documentation. Just few codes and examples to understand how to display some component.Way uglier than material-ui - I thought. And a minute later, an evil idea came to my mind..“What if I make the UI using gs-ui-library so ugly that Rudra and Varun both reject! That would be great!”The next week on friday, I was done with gs-ui-library. My code was asked to be removed from codesandbox by Varun - it’s illegal to put GS’s internal code there. I could hear Rudra laughing about how he is afraid of the interns bringing personal laptops here, and what will happen if someone names a variable as “GIR” and put it on github.I showed Rudra the material-ui one. He was impressed.“This looks good! But don’t keep the name as ‘ ELEGANT USERS APP’, instead keep it as ‘THE USERS SEARCH APP’ ” (name changed)“But Rudra, Varun has asked me to..”“I will ask him. We will decide and tell you”Fine. Keep the name as ‘The bla-bla app’. I don’t care.Varun was already gone by the time.I smirked. I won’t show the UI I made using gs-ui-library to Rudra!Next day Varun was on my desk. He asked whether I showed both the UI’s.“No, actually I forgot to show the other..”“See, the people above us will probably ask why we didn’t use GS-UI. That’s why I am saying so. I have no problem with material-ui. Just ask Rudra if he is fine with it. Rudra…”“Yes, Varun” replied Rudra.And then he showed both the UI’s to him. The ugly one. The good one.“I think it looks great - the ‘gs-ui-library’ one!” Rudra exclaimed.I shouted in my mind - “How can he..!”“See Shilpi, we don’t have any problem using material-ui one but the people for whom we are making the app will ask why we didn’t use the internal-gs library. Okay, tell me one thing - it does have all the components you require, right?”“Yes, Rudra” I sighed.“Seems like Shilpi wanted to use material-ui, haha” Rudra giggled and looked at Varun. I could hear the giggling from one if the two interns from behind - Tejas (name changed).He was also working on a UI, along with some backend stuff. He was using ‘gs-ui-library’ from day one. And so, he giggled.Rudra -1 .. Shilpi - 0This was the first time I went home feeling sad. Why didn’t they tell me 2 weeks ago? Now I will have to work on the other one. And the library has no documentation.Next week , Varun decided to keep the name as “ELEGENT-USERS-APP”. He refused Rudra.Varun -1.. Rudra- 0So I went back to my desk and began.“g-s-u-i-l-i-b-r-a-r-y” I typed.Gs-ui-library was a really terrible library. No documentation, made by mixture of other available libraries online. It was like an accidental product of some cross-breeding. A scientific failure.Anyways, I somehow learnt basic features which I could implement using the library. On the other hand, my machine was damn slow - for a reason I didn’t know.“Why are you using vs code? How did you get it!” asked Rudra who saw me coding on vscode.“I like it- it’s really good for react. Installed it from the store.”“Haha, use intellij, okay!” Rudra said in a serious tone.Wow. After making me work with the gs-ui-library, now he is snatching away the editor I love. Cool.I still continued with vs code. Varun was totally fine with it.I went to drink a glass of water. Didn’t bring my bottle that day. So took a ‘visitor’s cup’ from inside the drawers.“Ma’am, you can’t drink in that. It’s only for visitors” said a staff guy who saw that I was about to drink water from the visitor’s cup.I looked at him in shock.“Oh, it’s ok for today you can use it..Ma’am” he replied.Great. Block websites - facebook, gmail, codepen. Take my material-ui away. Don’t allow me to use vs-code. And also, don’t let me drink water at peace!I was pissed off. Huh!2nd MonthSo I started working on the integration part. Meanwhile we used to have meetings in which we were told about GIR and it’s functions. Rudra used to tell us about how fun the NAPA training is going to be, and how we will start hiding our id cards after the event.I completed the integration part in a week or so. Gave a weekly demo to Rudra.Next week was going to be a demo with Monica’s team (name changed). The finance guys for whom we were building the ‘ELEGANT USERS APP’. Varun was happy that I had completed the integration part and added 2 more features to implement.- feature1 & feature2Before the demo, we had a meeting with Monica just a week before. Rudra, Varun and I gathered in a room.“So Shilpi, how’s the work going? Are you liking it - the UI stuff? Aren’t you bored?” Rudra asked.“Hehe.. Actually yeah it’s a little boring. I hope backend stuff starts soon!” I honestly replied.“You know UI people make the most money.” Rudra smirked.“No, that’s a lie. Backend people make more money.” I replied.“Shilpi, that’s the case of technical firms. In financial firms like us, UI people earn more bonus.” said Varun.Soon came Monica. Varun and Monica proceeded on what she wants and what actually we have. It was a debate between them and I listened.Since the lunch time was over, Rudra and I went to the food-court outside to have one.“Shilpi, you know I was like you. The silent guy in the room. If someone else was at your place he would have asked a lot of questions! ”“I think it’s better to listen Rudra, than argue. I didn’t have much idea about what they were talking and the talk was mostly concerning Varun.”“See..it’s good very good. But to be at a place like GS…you know! The world is very mean, Shilpi. You need to speak more than you do work here! Many people don’t know much but they’ll get ahead of you because they speak. I was like you when I joined GS. In the group discussion round, when everyone was debating.. I just sat at the corner. HR came and asked each of us individually. If she hadn’t done that, I mayn’t be sitting here today”I gave it some thought. He was right.Some days later feature1 stopped working. I had no idea why, I was using an excellent library for feature1, of-course an external one. Varun himself has asked me to use an external for that case since we don’t have a gs library for that.But now. It wasn’t working.It took me a week to include the library - react-bootstrap-table2 with the project along with the features it had, and use it. And some magic happened. Now feature1 stops working. Damn!I woke up the whole night - till 4 am to make the feature1 work. The remote desktop worked very slow. In GS, we are not given laptops for security purposes. So we have to use remote desktop.It was damn slow but I was patient. I kept on trying and trying till I fell asleep early in the morning. Woke up around 12.An hour before demo with Monica’s team, I told Varun about it. He said it’s fine, we will show the demo without it.Tik…tikk….I wasn’t satisfied. I worked damn hard for 45 min and was able to make feature1 work!We went to give the demo. Varun pulled out a chair and sat before a PC.“Hi Monica!”“Hey Varun!”And so it started. The demo. The UI I made. The features I implemented. The integration. My two month’s hard work.All of them was presented by our VP, Mr.Varun!“Uhm…but we don’t need feature 1 and 2, Varun. You can remove it” said Monica.W-H-A-T! What did she just say. I went an hour back in time.I am sweating. I can feel I am nervous. This has to go good. I know well about the project, and I will make the feature-1 work! I will!Yes, I did. Only to lose the presentation as well as the feature.I rushed out of the room with the unhappy face which no one bothered about in the meeting room. I was silent and in hurry, it was weekly demo too today.“Haashh.. It went great!” exclaimed Varun who barely ever talked to me. Since like 1962!“Okay, but we have a weekly demo too!”The weekly demo got cancelled. Varun proceeded to tell me how we don’t need feature-1 and all the new features which Monica wanted. I remembered them all. One of them was a feature-X which was not possible technically. I tried making Varun understand and he did, after quite a while.Then came the mid-semester exam and I finally got a break!3rd MonthI went to my home after holidays. After 2 months, 1,40,000 was credited to my account. I bought clothes for mom and dad. I was delighted and ready to go back!Came back to office happily. Compiled the code.React-bootstrap-table2 library code - gone. Whole UI code changed in a week. My 2 week’s effort - 1 week for the library and 2 nd for other features went to ashes.Just in ONE SINGLE WEEK.~Varun committed the code 2 hours ago~~Varun committed the code yesterday~~Varun….~And so on.Varun started using an internal gs-ui-library library instead of react-bootstrap-table2. Instead of giving proper review comments, he changed my code by himself. Some backend stuff also came to me.I fetched the code from repo, the one Varun had implemented. And tried to understand.“You just have to implement feature-b-xyz, no need to go through whole code” he said.Fine.I added a new feature. Compiled and checked. Everything was working fine. Committed the code.Next day I came. Compiled the code.‘EXCEPTION THROWN’‘FAILED’And my PC hangs. For no reason why.I checked the code - it was changed. The integration part was changed. Feature XYZ was changed. And it stopped working.~Varun committed the code an hour ago~Why did he commit a code that fails? I wondered.This started happening daily. I had no idea why was this happening.The next series of days started with me coming late - 11:50, 12 or later than that. I used to mail Rudra about the update. Sometimes I was able to attend standup, sometime I wasn’t able to. My health started deteriorating.Everyday, Varun used to commit some changes. And it took a hell lot of time to update the project in intellij, go through his changes and do other changes. I was pretty much frustrated.Took 2 wfhs in 2 weeks. Logged in late many times. Had to push myself from bed everyday. Devoted my time to video games than gs work. Lost interest.Then I was given some backend part. I took WFH a day I wasn’t feeling well and learnt about apis stuff. Still some part of me wanted to do well and take interest in the work genuinely.We - all 3 interns received a mail from Rudra which we could never forget. Rudra had showed his ‘Rudra’ roop. The mail said -“You guys are not taking the work seriously. WFHs are not to be taken for granted. So many WFHs and late loggings. Not at all serious about your work. You guys need to have deliverables by the end of this month.I don’t care, work for your career not mine.”I was shocked. The friendly, giggling Rudra! I remembered the first time I met him. And the mail was quite a shock to all of us.Late loggings were targeted at me.WFHs for another one.But… Tejas? What did he do?As far as I remember, he was a hard working guy. Always on time. Never missed a standup. What did he do to receive the mail?Days after that, Varun took four wfhs in a row. Rudra was quiet. Nisha only came like twice in a week, Rudra said nothing.Why us? Why the interns? I wondered.One day I stayed at office till 8pm. I could hear Rudra talking about ‘The Elegant User’s App’ over a phone call.“We are building it again since the last UI was in angular. We wanted it in React.” he said to somebody over the call.Throughout my whole intern, I had one doubt in my mind.The app on which I was working upon was already built by someone and was functional too. But my manager wanted it to be built again since he wanted us to use a new technology.What’s the difference even if angular was used? What’s the need of rebuilding the app again from scratch? I wondered.And the next words I heard shattered me.“Yeah, Varun is working with some intern on ‘The Elegant User’s App’.”What did he say?The last two months were fully devoted to the UI. I went back in time.“Shilpi, if you want any help - Varun would be able to for this project.I was made to believe that it was an independent project, which it never was. I worked my ass off for three months only to hear that I am ‘some intern’ working under Varun and helping him building the UI.I got depressed.It was Holi’s festival - the festival of colours. I never really celebrated holi, hated to be coloured all over. We had a group for our department, and I wished everyone a “Happy Holi!”.Tejas replied with a “Happy holi” too.“Happy Forest Day” - stated an image I received on whatsapp. It was from Rudra. On the whatsapp group. This was his reply for “Happy Holi”.It's okay, don't respect our festival. But atleast don't disrespect it. Why was there even a need for reply?Needless to say, I didn’t go to office that day as sign of rebel (we didn’t have holiday on holi). Varun was already doing WFH. The “Happy Forest Day” frustrated me.Why Rudra why. You are better than that.“Niharika (name changed) is leaving GS” somebody whispered.Niharika, a very smart lady was in our department. She was mentoring an intern and sounded quite knowledgeable. Her sudden decision of leaving GS came as a shock to everyone.I had a last chat with her only when everyone was away for lunch. She had refused her farewell too I guess. She came to me and we had a decent chat. I asked her the reason of leaving. She wanted to switch the team maybe but it was taking a long time. Sweet and smart is all I could say for her. She had done work with JPMC & Morgan Stanley (US) and held a green card. A dedicated worker.After the lunch, she had a long meeting with Rudra. She was too firm with her decision.After she left, someone told me she bitched about many people in the team - specially Rudra. I was really sad. GS lost a good employee that day. And maybe, due to politics.Next day, GS was having an orientation for all new campus hires. It was one hell of a day. World-class hotel stay and world-class orientation.Varun was going out to the new office for 2 weeks. For some work.4th monthBefore Varun had left for the new office, he had asked me to attend telephonic standups for our team from 3–3:30. Now I used to attend 2 standups - the department one, and the team one. Full time waste activities!He had also asked me to get details of a task from Raghav and get it completed. I messaged him and he said he will be there at my desk in 5 min. Well, he never came. I asked him 2–3 times more to which he sent me a random link. I was disheartened and had nothing to do for 2 weeks.One day Rudra called me to fix some errors which he wasn’t able to fix by himself. He said he spent the whole night trying to fix those but didn’t know how to.I came to his desk. Those were linting errors!After having 10 years of experience, and you don’t even know what they are! Even if you know, please try to google. He was not getting what those line numbers represent. I explained him everything and fixed those.Soon, we got mails from hr regarding our joining dates and NAPA training, which is held in New York. I told the HR about my case, that I have courses left in college and I won’t be able to join on 3rd june.“Can I go to the training and join later after 12th july - when my courses are done” I asked.“No, you need to join as FTE. We will process your visa in june and you’ll go during july first week”“Okay” I replied.“Try to make your college understand, it’s important” is all she said.Next day, I refused. My college will never agree for me to take 2 week vacation during summer term.Rudra received a call from HR. I knew it was regarding me.He took me outside the cabin and asked why did I opted out of NAPA training. I told him everything - how my degree would be affected. He was ready to give WFH for 2 months. I was shocked. Again.Rudra was the most unpredictable mysterious guy I ever met. He was good and bad, at the same time. 2 months is a long time - and he agreed to give me WFH! He earned my respect.Then there was second meeting with Rudra. He told me everything - the work I’ll do as an FTE. Also, he never left a single moment he could get to brag about himself.“You will be working under Varun. He will be the team lead. Your work is XYZ-AHSH-PPOS…..”“Be as mature as me. I can make complex things simple easily. Learn it from me.” he said.Varun. No!!The silent guy. Who took away all the presentations. Even during our team standups over calls, he used to answer when some guy asked me about the project. My code was changed everyday. All the torture I faced last month. And now- I’ll be working under him. Wow.I told Rudra - how my code was changed everyday, how I was not told about the changes Varun did in the backend and still expected my code would run successfully. He listened to me for a while and then said -“When I was a NAPA, I used to ensure that I get 0 review comments”“I don’t get review comments, Rudra. My code gets changed, and it’s hard to understand it everyday without help of Varun.”“It’s a good thing, right? You will learn something from what the change he does. It’s good for you.”Cool. I have to look at the new code and somehow “learn without doing”. Interesting.I worked till 9 pm that day. Before Rudra left, he smiled at me sarcastically.“Shilpi, still working?”“Yeah Rudra, I came little late today.”“Varun changing your code and you changing his code.!”“Yes. That’s what is happening.”And then, he laughed maniacally.This was not the first time he did this. He used to laugh at me sarcastically many times after giving me the UI project.Next week, Varun was here. My virtual desktop was not working and I had no idea why. Called help-desk 5 times that day.“REBOOT!”“TRY IT FROM A DIFFERENT MACHINE!”“IT SHOWS ‘AVAILABLE’ ON MY MACHINE!”was all the response I got from 5 different help-desk-assistants.Took a day off the next day. Saw a mail. Varun had given presentation to our MD that day. UI presentation, which was supposed to be given by me.Next week, same schedule. Help-desk people failed miserably.I tried remote desktop and was able to open my outlook. My inbox was full of -“DISK CAPACITY OVER 95%! CLEAN IT!”I got it. But in order to clean it, I had to login to the virtual computer which I wasn’t able to. It was a deadlock.Soon I was assigned a new virtual computer. My whole local setup - was erased.My whole enthusiasm had turned to ashes at that point. Came late, went early. Stopped attending stand-ups. Late Loggings. WFHs. OOO. No updates. No weekly updates. Nothing to do next since Raghav didn’t help. Frustrated as hell.Our department was hiring more and more people. I had nowhere to sit. No one to talk to.The only friend I had in bengaluru left 2 weeks ago.Please note that I’ve nothing against GS. The management there is really good, they care about their employees. I don’t think any company could’ve given me 2 months WFH and I do respect Rudra a lot for that!The experience may vary from person to person, someone may find GS a very good place, based on the traits he/she has or the team he is working with. But for a shy person like me, who loves to code sitting at the corner of the room - GS is not the place. It was me who was not able to adapt to the culture there.This answer was written by me when I was still an intern. I had no idea what this could do to my life.Next day after I wrote this, I was called by the Head HR of Employee Relations in GS - Devika. I thought she had called me in order to discuss why am I choosing signNow over Goldman but this wasn’t the case.“I read your answer on Quora about Goldman..”“I’ll remove it!” I replied with the speed of light.“No..I don’t want you to take it down, Just tell me the issues you had”And she pretended to listen. Both of us knew why she called me here - to take the answer down.“See, these days many people are on social media and it is affecting how people see us. Probably, some interns wouldn’t want to work with us after reading the answer. Therefore I want you to remove it”“Also, please remember this meeting is confidential. DO NOT tell anyone from your team about it!” she said just before I left.And that was it. I deleted this answer.I saw Rudra’s text on my whatsapp. He asked whether I have a desk to sit, and when will I signNow on my desk. I knew something was fishy since he never ever bothered about.I finished the work and went home.The next day, I woke up to 10 calls from the HR and lots of messages. I asked what happened.I told her I have already deleted the answer, but there was something else. I wasn’t able to login from home. My remote desktop was taken away from me and I had no idea why.And then, came Monday.13th May 2019The day started off with my phone full of Devika’s texts. She insisted that I directly come to the meeting room first instead of going to the GIR cabin.I went to her cabin where she was sitting. And soon the harassment started.“What was your motive behind putting such kind of answers on quora, tell me what was in your mind”“I am sorry, Devika. I’ve already taken them down.”“Didn’t you knew about the firm’s policy? You knew it very well right? Still you put the experience on Quora?”“I was frustrated. So much that it didn’t occur to me at that time. But yes, I knew it.”She wrote it down on a paper.“You put it on social media, and don’t expect your manager to read it? Wake up! Everyone in your dept knows what you did okay! You are always saying that ‘don’t inform my manager about it’.. you know what, infact Rudra only informed us about this. He was the one who forwarded the answer.”I sighed. He knew about it the whole time. Still acted as friendly on thursday.“You can take action against me if you want to. I can’t say anything else.”“We are a very big firm. Many people are there writing these kind of negative - one sided answers. We don’t care”If she didn’t care, why was I sitting here?“I have talked to both Rudra and Varun. Now I know about their perspectives too. Did you inform your manager that you were on leave? No, you didn’t.”“Yes, I was really depressed and woke up at 5 eve..”“You were completely one-sided in your answer. Such a judgemental answer it was! You never wrote what you did!” she exclaimed.“Devika, I did. I wrote I was depressed and was late for standups. I wrote that I took WFH and..”“That was completely in another way!” she interrupted.And then she gave me a tough look.“I have tracked down your whole information, when do you come and leave, wfh etc. I don’t think it’s too much. You were also 1 hour late on the GS event, I heard”I wasn’t. What was she saying?“No, I was a minute late. You can ask my friend who was sitting there.”“Also, you were absent on 4 presentations Varun gave, right?”I was shocked. What did she just say? I was present in 3 of them, I remembered. Now I felt something was really wrong. Varun probably gave her false information about me.“No, I was there for 3 of them” I replied in a low voice.“And you weren’t allowed to give?” She raised her eyebrows.“I didn’t ask him, neither did he offer.. he just took the chair and..Did Varun said I was absent? I wasn’t!” I defended myself.“Oh yes you weren’t, I know. When did I say you were absent? You are just misunderstanding me” she replied and wrote down some points.And now she started lying too about things she said earlier! I was shocked to the core.“They said bad things about me, didn’t they.” I asked.“No, infact they praised you for technical aspects. ‘She did all her tasks which we assigned.’ ‘Used to find solutions of the problem till the very end.’” she read it from the paper she had.But what about the other aspects? I was sure they had said something worse about me. I wondered what was that except me coming late.“GS-UI-LIBRARY!!” she exclaimed.“This is what you wrote about the library. Seriously!”I looked down. I couldn’t say anything except sorry.“Rudra even let you choose jersey for cricket match, didn’t he?”“Yes he did.” I sighed.“What you think what made your experience bad? Was it yourself? Why put it on social media, and didn’t contact us. What about the HCM?”I was late and silent. The only faults.“Does anybody in your team knows about it?” she asked hoping that nobody knows.“No, just me and the interns.” I replied.“And what did you write? Niharika left because of politics..? Did you talk to her? Who told you?” she almost shouted.“I got to know that from a teammate.” I replied in low tone.“So you will put anything you hear on social media??” she tried to overpower me.“If I were your signNow HR and I read this answer on Quora.. you know I’d have..” Devika scolded in a rude tone.She would have taken my offer back. That’s what she meant.“I have already deleted it , Devika. I said sorry, what else can I do? ” I almost cried.“These things never happened with me at signNow. But people here..”I broke down. Couldn’t speak much.“What even if you deleted? 1000s of people saw it. All the people on your floor saw it. They may have copied it, downloaded it. It had so confidential information!”“And yeah, put this conversation there too!!” She said in a very rude tone.“I won’t. You know I won’t.” I whispered.“Anyways Shilpi, now it’d be too awkward for you to go there. We have already stopped your remote access. We don’t want you to work anymore. Since you’ve already rejected the offer too, no discussion related to it. You can submit the id card to me.”“Okay.”I cried a lot in the cab. Rudra knew it all the time. Why didn’t he himself fire me instead of sending a rude HR. And those two also lied a lot about me. The tone of HR was totally different when I met her on Thursday. And today she was really harassing me.It took me a while to understand - all this was planned by Rudra. He choose the rudest and senior-most HR to deal with my case and harass me, just to get back at me.2 interns were joining today and space was very less in the small GIR cabin. And he knew very well I completed all my work the last week itself. Win-Win situation for Rudra!Varun and Rudra lied to HR. It was evident from the way she treated me. I was made to be feel like a garbage - just because I was late at the office!I cried for an hour. And then, I edited and restored this answer.Next day I came to know none of the interns or people in my team knew about this! I was fired secretly. The HR lied the whole time.All because Rudra didn’t want to see my face in GIR!Do I fear them? Not at all.“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.” ― Sidney Sheldon (if tomorrow comes)Many people want me to take this answer down or go anonymous. I have done nothing wrong. Those who have, they should hide their faces behind “anonymous” mask.If GS has some problem with the answer, they are free to take action against me. I am not bonded by any legal agreement and atleast deserved decent exit process.
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Should I choose signNow or Goldman Sachs (India)?
The answer is gonna be really long. Grab some snacks as it could take a while.After interning at both signNow and Goldman, without a blink of an eye I can say - choose signNow.Going back a year before, my answer was different. Probably because I was unaware of how Goldman would turn out to be.I was the happiest person the day I was selected as an FTE at GS - a reputed fin-tech company which mostly hires tier-1 students, a dream for many. I had heard from many people that GS offers package as high as 32lpa which was quite a big deal for me - or for anyone who might have been at my place.As for signNow, I wanted a PPO since I really worked my ass off there - and was given one 6 days after I got offer from GS. I couldn’t be any happier.Soon came the phase of deciding - what should I choose? I didn’t know about the salary of GS but I had an idea that it definitely pays more than signNow. And that was enough for me - a reputed firm with lots of money!Then came the HR’s call. She offered me semester long internship in GS! I was glad that I don’t have to spend my last semester in college and will also earn some money. With the stipend as high as 75k and stay at Hilton hotel during intern, anybody is likely to go crazy and say “YES”.And so I did.I decided to take my decision after completing the semester long internship there, whether to go with signNow or continue with Goldman.The beginningSoon came 7th January. Day started off with amazing orientation and a beautiful office visit. Then came the lunch buddy - GS assigns a buddy from your department to have lunch with you the day you join, let’s say he was Raghav (name changed).Raghav seemed to be a really smart guy. I asked him a few questions about GS being a fin-tech, is it easy to switch and other questions. He seemed to be out of place, not interested. A guy came who was an intern in a team in which Raghav used to work. He kept talking and giggling with him, completely ignoring my presence. Cool, maybe Raghav is a badass - who cares?Met with my manager and two other interns who were in the same department - ZIR(changed). He seemed like a chilled-out and thoughtful person. Let’s call him Rudra.Our whole department used to sit in a middle sized cabin which accommodated around 32–35 employees of ZIR. My happiness knew no bounds! Great team, small cabin and friendly manager - what else could I ask for?Then came the next day. We were introduced to our team and had a lunch together. Oh no! Lunch here was not free - no big deal. Only 80rs/- per plate is affordable when you earn 75k per month, I thought.After having lunch, we began installing softwares required. Wait, you can’t install some softwares without manager’s permission. Fine! I messaged my manager and he granted the permission. He came later in the evening and gave 3 of us an interesting machine learning problem to solve - in a week, till we get our projects.He had three projects in mind, and he left it for us to decide which one we wan’t to take. I took the one which I thought was more impactful and cool, also because we had a member of our team working for the project. My task was to integrate the backend stuff he wrote with the UI I was going to create. Also to help him with some of those backend stuffs later on.“You can take help from Varun, in case you need” said Rudra.So it began!1st MonthI started learning React.js for the UI I was going to implement from various websites. There were tons of tutorial there. After understanding some theory, I clicked on ‘try it on codepen’ - online editor.“You are restricted from using an external website - no permissions”What? I can’t even use some online editor. Okay that’s fine - we have pretty sensitive data in GS. Since it’s a finance based company, we have client data with us and user may copy and paste it online - someone might steal the data! All this made sense. ‘It’s fine, I’ll bring my own laptop tommorow’, I thought before leaving.I could see two teammates standing behind me from my peripheral vision. One who was writing the backend stuff for the project I was working upon, let’s call him Varun.Varun was a silent and sober guy - a hardworking one who speaks only when required. Another guy standing beside him was Raghav.“Hey!” I said in a low tone. Did I do some crime? Why are these two here.. I wondered.“You brought your personal laptop, is everything fine here?” they asked.I told them about the restrictions. Raghav took my work PC and sent Rudra, my manager a request to approve codepen.I waited. One hour. Two hours. Codepen still not working. Fine for me since I have my own laptop. No worries.After 2 weeks Varun called me and started assigning tasks to do for the UI. I was full of enthusiasm and paid full attention to what he wanted. I started looking out for the cool libraries out there and found - material-ui.‘Perfect!’ I exclaimed.Started with the tasks, and was able to achieve the target next evening. It looked damn good! Varun will be happy. And so, I showed it to him.“Okay, font-size is a bit huge. And please change the app’s name - ELEGANT USER’S APP” (name changed). And so I did.“E-L-E-G-E-N-T U-S-E-R—S A-P-P”What a funny name, I thought. (The real one was funnier than the changed one)So days went, 1..2…3 and I completed 5–6 tasks. The basic UI (20%) was done. Then came Varun -“Shilpi, you did this using which library?”“Material-ui! It’s really good and..”“Okay, but make sure you can use it. Only specific libraries can be used at GS. Search xyz site and ensure if we can use it. If yes, proceed. Else use GS UI library”What did he just say. I worked on the UI for 2 weeks, and he is telling me now that I may not be able to use the material-ui library! No way..With my heart beating fast, I typed..X…Y….Z….gs..comCtrl+F“M-A——T-E—-R—I—A”Boom! It’s there. I was delighted :)The next day I was late. I saw a message pop up. It was from Raghav.“Hey” it said.“Hey” I replied.’“Please try to attend the daily standup. If you do, mail Rudra about your update :)” He replied.There hasn’t been a single day I was late. But okay, FINE.Then came the 5th day - friday. I got a message from Varun.‘Hi Shilpi, can you make another UI using GS-UI?’OH NO!. Again?.‘Just for the feel…we’ll show it to Rudra next week, he’ll choose which one we can use’*Slow Claps*. Well played Varun. Why did he approve the material-ui one if he wanted it in GS-UI - I wondered.It’s fine, I can do it. I encouraged myself and went to the internal site - gs-ui-library. (name changed)Okay, fine. This looks good. Okay. Cool. Documentation.. documentation….uhmm.I searched for the whole day, no documentation. Just few codes and examples to understand how to display some component.Way uglier than material-ui - I thought. And a minute later, an evil idea came to my mind..“What if I make the UI using gs-ui-library so ugly that Rudra and Varun both reject!” That would be great!The next week on friday, I was done with gs-ui-library. My code was asked to be removed from codesandbox by Varun - it’s illegal to put GS’s internal code there. I could hear Rudra laughing about how he is afraid of the interns bringing personal laptops here, and what will happen if someone names a variable as “ZIR” and put it on github.I showed Rudra the material-ui one. He was impressed.“This looks good! But don’t keep the name as ‘ ELEGANT USERS APP’, instead keep it as ‘THE USERS SEARCH APP’ ” (name changed)“But Rudra, Varun has asked me to..”“I will ask him. We will decide and tell you”Fine. Keep the name as ‘The bla bla app”. I don’t care.Varun was already gone by the time. I smirked. I won’t show the UI I made using gs-ui-library to Rudra!Next day Varun was on my desk. He asked whether I showed both the UI’s.“No, actually I forgot to show the other..”“See, the people above us will probably ask why we didn’t use GS-UI. That’s why I am saying so. I have no problem with material-ui. Just ask Rudra if he is fine with it. Rudra…”“Yes, Varun” replied Rudra.And then he showed both the UI’s to him. The ugly one. The good one.“I think it looks great - the ‘gs-ui-library’ one!” Rudra exclaimed.I shouted in my mind - “How can he..!”“See Shilpi, we don’t have any problem using material-ui one but the people for whom we are making the app will ask why we didn’t use the internal-gs library. Okay, tell me one thing - it does have all the components you require, right?”“Yes, Rudra” I sighed.“Seems like Shilpi wanted to use material-ui, haha” Rudra giggled and looked at Varun. I could hear the giggling from one of the two interns from behind - Tejas (name changed).He was also working on a UI, along with some backend stuff. He was using ‘gs-ui-library’ from day one. And so, he giggled.Rudra -1 .. Shilpi- 0This was the first time I went home feeling sad. Why didn’t they tell me 2 weeks ago? Now I will have to work on the other one. And the library has no documentation.“g-s-u-i-l-i-b-r-a-r-y” I typed.Gs-ui-library was a really terrible library. No documentation, made by mixture of other available libraries online. It was like an accidental product of some cross-breeding. A scientific failure.Anyways, I somehow learnt basic features which I could implement using the library. On the other hand, my machine was damn slow - for a reason I didn’t know.“Why are you using vs code? How did you get it!” asked Rudra who saw me coding on vscode.“I like it- it’s really good for react. Installed it from the store.”“Haha, use intellij, okay!” Rudra said in a serious tone.Wow. After making me work with the gs-ui-library, now he is snatching away the editor I love. Cool.I still continued with vs code. Varun was totally fine with it.I went to drink a glass of water. Didn’t bring my bottle that day. So took a ‘visitor’s cup’ from inside the drawers.“Ma’am, you can’t drink in that. It’s only for visitors” said a guy who saw I was about to drink water.“Oh, it’s ok for today you can use it..Ma’am”Great. Block websites - facebook, gmail, codepen. Take my material-ui away. Don’t allow me to use vs-code. And also, don’t let me drink water at peace!I was pissed off. Huh!2nd MonthWe were having a cricket match on saturday! Rudra asked me if I want to play - since he wanted a female player as per the rules. He just wanted me to throw the ball for an over or so since it was the rule. I agreed - afterall he was my manager.I came back home, exhausted. Wasn’t allowed to bat :( even when the guy players were noob too. Whatever, I don’t care. I said to myself.So I started working on the integration part. Meanwhile we used to have meetings in which we were told about ZIR and it’s functions. Rudra used to tell us about how fun the NAPA training is going to be, and how we will start hiding our id cards after the event.I completed the integration part in a week or so. Gave a weekly demo to Rudra.Next week was going to be a demo with Monica’s team (name changed). The finance guys for whom we were building the ‘ELEGANT USERS APP’. Varun was happy that I had completed the integration part and added 2 more features to implement.- feature1 & feature2Before the demo, we had a meeting with Monica just a week before. Rudra, Varun and I gathered in a room. Varun and Monica proceeded on what she wants and what actually we have. It was a debate between them and I listened.Since the lunch time was over, Rudra and I went to the food-court outside to have one.“Shilpi, you know I was like you. The silent guy in the room. If someone else was at your place he would have asked a lot of questions! ”“I think it’s better to listen Rudra, than argue. I didn’t have much idea about what they were talking and the talk was mostly concerning Varun.”“See..it’s good very good. But to be at a place like GS…you know! The world is very mean,Shilpi. You need to speak more than you do work here! Many people don’t know much but they’ll get ahead of you because they speak. I was like you when I joined GS. In the group discussion round, when everyone was debating.. I just sat at the corner. HR came and asked each of us individually. If she hadn’t done that, I mayn’t be sitting here today”I gave it some thought. He was right.Some days later feature1 stopped working. I had no idea why, I was using an excellent library for feature1, off-course an external one. Varun himself has asked me to use an external for that case since we don’t have a gs library for that.But now. It wasn’t working.It took me a week to include the library - react-bootstrap-table2 with the project along with the features it had, and use it. And some magic happened. Now feature1 stops working. Damn!I woke up the whole night - till 4 am to make the feature1 work. The remote desktop worked very slow. In GS, we are not given laptops for security purposes. So we have to use remote desktop.It was damn slow but I was patient. I kept on trying and trying till I fell asleep early in the morning. Woke up around 12.An hour before demo with Monica’s team, I told Varun about it. He said it’s fine, we will show the demo without it.Tik…tikk….I wasn’t satisfied. I worked damn hard for 45 min and was able to make feature1 work!We went to give the demo. Varun pulled out a chair and sat before a PC.“Hi Monica!”“Hey Varun!”And so it started. The demo. The UI I made. The features I implemented. The integration. My two month’s hard work.All of them was presented by our VP, Mr.Varun!“Uhm…but we don’t need feature 1 and 2, Varun. You can remove it” said Monica.W-H-A-T! What did she just say. I went an hour back in time.I am sweating. I can feel I am nervous. This has to go good. I know well about the project, and I will make the feature-1 work! I will!Yes, I did. Only to loose the presentation as well as the feature.I rushed out of the room with the unhappy face which no one bothered about in the meeting room. I was silent and in hurry, it was weekly demo too today.“Haashh.. It went great!” exclaimed Varun who barely ever talked to me. Since like 1962!“Okay, but we have a weekly demo too!”The weekly demo got cancelled. Varun proceeded to tell me how we don’t need feature-1 and all the new features which Monica wanted. I remembered them all. One of them was a feature-X which was not possible technically. I tried making Varun understand and he did, after quite a while.Then came the mid-semester exam and I finally got a break!3rd MonthI went to my home after holidays. After 2 months, 1,40,000 was credited to my account. I buyed clothes for mom and dad. I was delighted and ready to go back!Meanwhile, an acquaintance of mine who did intern at signNow called me. She also had an offer from both the companies but was unable to decide. I told her all pros and cons, and how I was going to join GS. Being a Delhite, she wanted to join signNow.After a while, I thought. I should maybe negotiate!It was a disaster. The HR told me clearly that they pay all the FTE’s equally regardless of how many offers they had. I asked him about the work I’d be given but he didn’t tell.After 8 days, I refused. Probably the biggest mistake I did.Came back to office happily. Compiled the code.React-bootstrap-table2 library code - gone. Whole UI code changed in a week. My 2 week’s effort - 1 week for the library and 2 nd for other features went to ashes.Just in ONE SINGLE WEEK.~Varun committed the code 2 hours ago~~Varun committed the code yesterday~~Varun….~And so on.Varun started using an internal gs-ui-library library instead of react-bootstrap-table2. Instead of giving proper review comments, he changed my code by himself. Some backend stuff also came to me.I fetched the code from repo, the one Varun had implemented. And tried to understand.“You just have to implement feature-b-xyz, no need to go through whole code” he said.Fine.The next series of days started with me coming late - 11:50, 12 or later than that. I used to mail Rudra about the update. Sometimes I was able to attend standup, sometime I wasn’t able to. My health started detoriating.Everyday, Varun used to commit some changes. And it took a hell lot of time to update the project in intellij, go through his changes and do other changes. I was pretty much frustrated.Took 2 wfhs in 2 weeks. Logged in late many times. Had to push myself from bed everyday. Devoted my time to video games than gs work. Lost interest.Then I was given some backend part. I took WFH a day I wasn’t feeling well and learnt about apis stuff. Still some part of me wanted to do well and take interest in the work genuinely.We - all 3 interns received a mail from Rudra which we could never forget. Rudra had showed his ‘Rudra’ roop. The mail said -“You guys are not taking the work seriously. WFHs are not to be taken for granted. So many WFHs and late loggings. Not at all serious about your work. You guys need to have deliverables by the end of this month.I don’t care, work for your career not mine.”I was shocked. The friendly, giggling Rudra! I remembered the first time I met him. And the mail was quite a shock to all of us.Late loggings & WFHs were targeted at me.But… Tejas? What did he do?As far as I remember, he was a hard working guy. Always on time. Never missed a standup. What did he do to receive the mail?Days after that, Varun took 4WFHs in a row. Rudra was quiet. Nisha only came like twice in a week, Rudra said nothing. Why us? Why the interns? I wondered.One day I stayed at office till 8pm. I could hear Rudra talking about ‘The Elegant User’s App’ over a phone call.“We are building it again since the last UI was in angular. We wanted it in React.” he said to somebody over the call.Throughout my whole intern, I had one doubt in my mind.The app on which I was working upon was already built by someone and was functional too. But my manager wanted it to be built again since he wanted us to use a new technology.What’s the difference even if angular was used? What’s the need of rebuilding the app again from scratch? I wondered.And the next words I heard shattered me.“Yeah, Varun is working with some intern on ‘The Elegant User’s App’.”What did he say?The last two months were fully devoted to the UI. I went back in time.“Shilpi, if you want any help - Varun would be able to for this project.I was made to believe that it was an independent project, which it never was. I worked my ass off for three months only to hear that I am ‘some intern’ working under Varun and helping him building the UI.I got depressed.It was Holi’s festival - the festival of colours. I never really celebrated holi, hated to be coloured all over. We had a group for our department, and I wished everyone a “Happy Holi!”.Tejas replied with a “Happy holi” too.“Happy Forest Day” - stated an image I received on whatsapp. It was from Rudra. On the whatsapp group. This was his reply for “Happy Holi”.Needless to say, I didn’t go to office that day as sign of rebel ( we didn’t have holiday on holi). Varun was already doing WFH. The “Happy Forest Day” frustrated me. Why Rudra why. You are better than that.“Niharika (name changed) is leaving GS” somebody whisphered.Niharika, a very smart lady was in our department. She was mentoring an intern and sounded quite knowledgable. Her sudden decision of leaving GS came as a shock to everyone.I had a last chat with her only when everyone was away for lunch. She had refused her farewell too I guess. She came to me and we had a decent chat. I asked her the reason of leaving. She wanted to switch the team maybe but it was taking a long time. Sweet and smart is all I could say for her. She had done work with JPMC & Morgan Stanely (US) and held a green card. A dedicated worker.After the lunch, she had a long meeting with Rudra. She was too firm with her decision.After she left, someone told me she bitched about many people in the team - specially Rudra. I was really sad. GS lost a good employee that day. And maybe, due to politics.Next day, GS was having an orientation for all new campus hires. It was one hell of a day. World-class hotel stay and world-class orientation.Varun was going out to the new office for 2 weeks. For some work.4th monthBefore Varun had left for the new office, he had asked me to attend telephonic standups for our team from 3–3:30. Now I used to attend 2 standups - the department one, and the team one. Full time waste activities!He had also asked me to get details of a task from Raghav and get it completed. I messaged him and he said he will be there at my desk in 5 min. Well, he never came. I asked him 2–3 times more to which he sent me a random link. I was disheartened and had nothing to do for 2 weeks.I mailed the tpo of my college, he was ready to talk to signNow’s HR and get my offer back. I was relieved.Soon, we got mails from hr regarding our joining dates and NAPA training, which is held in New York. I told the HR about my case, that I have courses left in college and I won’t be able to join on 3rd june.“Can I go to the training and join later after 12th july - when my courses are done” I asked.“No, you need to join as FTE. We will process your visa in june and you’ll go during july first week”“Okay” I replied.“Try to make your college understand, it’s important” is all she said.Next day, I refused. My college will never agree for me to take 2 week vacation during summer term.Rudra received a call from HR. I knew it was regarding me.He took me outside the cabin and asked why did I opted out of NAPA training. I told him everything - how my degree would be affected. He was ready to give WFH for 2 months. I was shocked. Again.What will I do now! Rudra was the most unpredictable mysterious guy I ever met. He was good and bad, at the same time. 2 months is a long time - and he agreed to give me WFH! He earned my respect.Now I was in dilemma. signNow. GS. signNow. GS.What to do?On the other hand, I made my tpo talk to signNow’s HR. And now, Rudra is turning to be a nice guy. I will choose GS. I was firm this time.Then there was second meeting with Rudra. He told me everything - the work I’ll do as an FTE. Also, he never left a single moment he could get to brag about himself.“You will be working under Varun. He will be the team lead. Your work is XYZ-AHSH-PPOS…..”“Be as mature as me. I can make complex things simple easily. Learn it from me.” he said.Varun. No!!The simple guy. Who took away all the presentations. Even during our team standups, he used to answer when some guy asked me about the project. My code was changed everyday. All the torture I faced last month. And now- I’ll be working under him. Wow.I told Rudra - how my code was changed everyday, how I was not told about the changes Varun did in the backend and still expected my code would run successfully. He listened to me for a while and then said -“When I was a NAPA, I used to ensure that I get 0 review comments”“I don’t get review comments, Rudra. My code gets changed, and it’s hard to understand it everyday without help of Varun.”“It’s a good thing, right? You will learn something from what the change he does. It’s good for you.”Cool. I have to look at the new code and somehow “learn without doing”. Interesting.I worked till 9 pm that day. Before Rudra left, he smiled at me sarcastically.“Shilpi, still working?”“Yeah Rudra, I came little late today.”“Varun changing your code and you changing his code.!”“Yes. That’s what is happening.”And then, he laughed maniacally.This was not the first time he did this. He used to laugh at me sarcastically many times after giving me the UI project.Next week, Varun was here. My virtual desktop was not working and I had no idea why. Called help-desk 5 times that day.“REBOOT!”“TRY IT FROM A DIFFERENT MACHINE!”“IT SHOWS ‘AVAILABLE’ ON MY MACHINE!”was all the response I got from 5 different help-desk-assistants.Took a day off the next day. Saw a mail. Varun had given presentation to our MD that day. UI presentation, which was supposed to be given by me.Next week, same schedule. Help-desk people failed miserably.I tried remote desktop and was able to open my outlook. My inbox was full of -“DISK CAPACITY OVER 95%! CLEAN IT!”I got it. But in order to clean it, I had to login to the virtual computer which I wasn’t able to. It was a deadlock.Soon I was assigned a new virtual computer. My whole local setup - was erased.My whole enthusiasm had turned to ashes at that point. Came late, went early. Stopped attending standups. Late Loggings. WFHs. OOO. No updates. No weekly updates. Nothing to do next since Raghav didn’t help. Frustrated as hell.Our department was hiring more and more people. I had nowhere to sit. No one to talk to. The only friend I had in bangalore left 2 weeks ago.And then came end-term exams.5th monthStill no mail from signNow. What do I do.I mailed the HR.I don’t care about my ego now. I just can’t work like this. A place where I am depressed everyday.And I got a positive response.I’ll be joining signNow in july. I don’t care about NAPA training. I just don’t.I am happy with less base salary.Why did I write the whole story? What’s the point of writing the whole experience when I could have just compared both the companies?Because I wanted you to feel the way I felt at each moment during my intern, why did I take the decision I took. Why did I take a rejected offer back.From my story you are well aware that -GS is a company for people who are confident, who may lack in technical terms but if they speak about their work just like Rudra told me, they will be successful in long run. You can’t sit at a corner desk everyday without networking and grow in GS but you can, at signNow. One of the main reasons of me leaving.Tejas was working on unapproved project. The project may not be approved by the MD and his struggle for 4 months could turn to ashes. This could never happen in a tech company like signNow where we have approved projects.Forget free food, they don’t even provide glasses to drink coffee/water. On the other hand, signNow has free food and glasses too.People focus on deliverables, no learning in my case. During my intern at signNow, more focus was on learning.You won’t receive appreciation. Tejas worked his ass off only to get scoldings from Rudra. While at signNow, I was really appreciated for the work I did by both - my mentor & manager.People focus on stupidest things - “ELEGANT USERS APP” v/s “THE USERS SEARCH APP” is more important here. Whereas at signNow people devote their time to efficiency and readability.Meetings, meetings and more meetings! A signNow part of the day goes in meetings at GS. Not the case in signNow, they respect developer’s time.Strats position -32lpa. Tech analyst-22lpa. No more words! At signNow, we get equal salary - 22lpa as fresher no matter whether we are an iitian or not.Varun, a person totally noob in react used to review my code. Sometimes it was really hard to make him understand. Never happened at signNow where my mentor knew Javascript & C++ in depth.No help from peers - everyone busy in their own world. Raghav was the smartest person in my team. He could’ve helped me but he didn’t. Never happened with me in signNow - people were more approachable and ever-ready to help.Features changing - worked my ass off on feature1 only to get it removed later on. Only if Monica had told earlier she doesn’t want one. In signNow, it rarely happened that a feature which we don’t need is implemented.Too much into internal code - “use gs-ui-library” “use intellij”. I want freedom. Which is there at signNow.Restrictions - can’t do much without manager’s permission. Not the case at signNow.No recognition - all the work I did was presented by Varun at last. While at signNow, I gave 2 badass presentations and was much appreciated by manager.Blocked sites - gmail, facebook and some coding sites are blocked.The only pros were - less working hours & luxurious hotel stay. And of course the huge stipend of 75k!Please note that I’ve nothing against GS. The management there is really good, they care about their employees. I don’t think any company could’ve given me 2 months WFH and I do respect Rudra a lot for that!The experience may vary from person to person, someone may find GS a very good place, based on the traits he/she has or the team he is working with. But for a shy person like me, who loves to code sitting at the corner of the room - GS is not the place. It was me who was not able to adapt to the culture there. The reason being - having a previous internship experience at signNow, which taught me what freedom is. If I didn’t have any previous experience, maybe I could’ve adjusted there assuming - “This is how it is everywhere, and this is how it works!”Irony is, the question was asked by me about a year ago. And today, I have appropriate answer to it!This answer was written by me when I was still an intern. I had no idea what this could do to my life.Next day after I wrote this, I was called by the Vice-president HR of GS - Devika. I thought she had called me in order to discuss why am I choosing signNow over Goldman but this wasn’t the case.“I read your answer on quora about goldman..”“I’ll remove it!” I replied with the speed of light.“No..I don’t want you to take it down, Just tell me the issues you had”And she pretended to listen. Both of us knew why she called me here - to take the answer down.“See, these days many people are on social media and it is affecting how people see us. Probably, some interns wouldn’t want to work with us after reading the answer. Therefore I want you to remove it”“Also, please remember this meeting is confidential. DO NOT tell anyone from your team about it!” she said just before I left.And that was it. I deleted this answer.I saw Rudra’s text on my whatsapp. He asked whether I have a desk to sit, and when will I signNow on my desk.I finished the work and went home.The next day, I woke up to 10 calls from the HR and lots of messages. I asked what happened.I told her I have already deleted the answer, but there was something else. I wasn’t able to login from home. My remote desktop was taken away from me and I had no idea why.And then, came Monday.I went to her cabin where she was sitting. And soon the harassment started.“What was your motive behind putting such kind of answers on quora, tell me what was in your mind”“I am sorry, Devika. I’ve already taken them down.”“Didn’t you knew about the firm’s policy? You knew it very well right? Still you put the experience on quora?”“I was frustrated. So much that it didn’t occur to me at that time. But yes, I knew it.”She wrote it down on a paper.“You put it on social media, and don’t expect your manager to read it? Wake up! Everyone in your dept knows what you did okay! You are always saying that ‘don’t inform my manager about it’.. you know what, infact Rudra only told me about this. He was the one who forwarded the answer.”I sighed. He knew about it the whole time. Still acted as friendly.“We are a very big firm. Many people are there writing these kind of negative - one sided answers. We don’t care”If she didn’t care, why was I sitting here.“I have talked to both Rudra and Varun. Now I know about their perspectives too. Did you inform your manager that you were on leave? No, you didn’t.”“Yes, I was really depressed and woke up at 5 eve..”“And what did you wrote? Niharika left because of politics..? Did you talk to her? Who told you?”“The intern who knew her told me”“And you put it on social media??”She gave me a tough look.“I have tracked down your whole information, when do you come and leave, wfh etc. I don’t think it’s too much. You were also 1 hour late on the GS event, I heard”I wasn’t. What was she saying?“No, I was a minute late. You can ask my friend who was sitting there.”“Also, you were absent on 4 presentations Varun gave, right?”“No, I was there for 3 of them”“And you weren’t allowed to give?”“I didn’t ask him, neither did he offer.. he just took the chair and..Did Varun said I was absent? I wasn’t!”“Oh yes you weren’t, I know. When did I say you were absent? You are just misunderstanding me” she replied and wrote down some points.“GS-UI-LIBRARY!!” she excalimed.“This is what you wrote about the library.Seriously!”I looked down. I couldn’t say anything except sorry.“You didn’t write about any wrong you did, completely one-sided answer. I got to know about other people’s perspective after talking to them.”“Yes I was late sometimes, and didn’t confront anyone.”“Rudra even let you choose jersey for cricket match, didn’t he”“Yes he did.”“What you think what made your experience bad? Was it yourself? Why put it on social media, and didn’t contact us”I was late and silent. The only faults.“If I were your signNow HR and I read this answer on quora.. you know I’d have..” Devika scolded in a rude tone.She would have taken my offer back. That’s what she meant.“I have already deleted it , Devika” I almost cried.“These things never happened with me at signNow. But people here..”I broke down. Couldn’t speak much.“What even if you deleted? 1000s of people saw it. All the people on your floor saw it. They may have copied it, downloaded it. It had so confidential information!”“And yeah, put this conversation there too!!” She said in a very rude tone.“I won’t. You know I won’t. ” I whispered.“Anyways Shilpi, now it’d be too awkward for you to go there. We have already stopped your remote access. You can submit the id card to me.”“Okay.”I cried a lot in the cab. Rudra knew it all the time. Why didn’t he himself fire me instead of sending a rude HR. And those two also lied a lot about me. The tone of HR was totally different when I met her on thursday. And today she was really harassing me.It took me a while to understand - all this was planned by Rudra. He choose the rudest and senior-most HR to deal with my case and harass me, just to get back at me., 2 interns were joining today and space was very less in the little cabin. And he knew very well I completed all my work the last week itself. Win-Win situation for Rudra!Varun and Rudra lied to HR. It was evident from the way she treated me. I was made to be feel like a garbage - just because I was late at the office!I cried for an hour. And then, I edited and restored this answer.Do I fear them? Not at all.“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.” ― Sidney Sheldon (if tomorrow comes)
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What should I expect at the ISRO interview for the post of Scientist/Engineer SC (Mechanical)?
My Interview for ISRO held at NRSC, Hyderabad on 13-Dec-2016. I was asked to report at 8 a.m. morning and my interview begin at around 12 noon. It went for about 25 min and panel members were throwing questions. There were 7 members in panels including one at center (probably director) and 5 out of 7 asked me question and 2 did’nt. The interview was not that much stressful and also not that much supportive.I entered the room and wished Good morning to all the members.Director: You are passed out in 2016 from B.C.E.T Gurdaspur.Me: Yes sirDirector: where is this college?Me: Punjab, Near Pathankot.Director: Is it a government college or private college?Me: Govt. college…. Punjab Govt.Director: What are you doing then after graduating?Me: Pursuing M.Tech from IIT Bombay.Director: Which stream?Me: Aerospace Propulsion.Director: Okay we will ask you about your B.Tech first and then come to your M.Tech later.Me: Okay sir.Director: So you have done two projects in your B.tech.Me: one project I did as an academic project at my college and other I did at DRDL, Hyderabad when I was a Trainee there.Director: First tell me about your Project at DRDL.ME: This project ‘Experimental simulation of flame holding in air-breathing engines’ was particularly to simulate the combustion within the air-breathing engines particularly ramjets and to study about various kind of flames around us, there mechanism of formation, lifting criteria, blow off, flash back. Further CFD analysis was done so as to compare with the experimental results for the simulation.Director: So you did CFD analysis.Me: yes sirDirector: This project is computational or experimental.Me: BothDirector: ok, then which solver you used for the CFD analysis.Me: FluentDirector: How you did it. Please explain on board.I the draw the complete domain and the I draw the flame holder and told him about cavity and mesh generation and the told him about the Boundary conditions at inlet and exit and the told him about the materials used.Director: you did it assuming laminar or turbulent flow?Me: laminar flow using k-e model.Director: How?Me: Sorry sir, Turbulent flow using k-e model.Director: You should tell this clearly. Is this reacting or non-reacting flow?Me: Non-reacting. simple air is considered.Flow past the flame holder.Director: Now draw the velocity profile after the v-gutter and above the mean line.I was trying but I was unable to draw and I told him about the velocity-vector in the re-circulation zone.Director : That is ok but you have not drawn the velocity profile yet.Me: That I don’t know.Director: Okay then.Another panel member started to ask me the question.Member 1 : what was your other project?Me: Paddy Grains threshing machine.Then I draw the complete mechanism on the board.Member 2 : Did it worked?Me: Yes we fabricated it.Member 2: What were the design parameters?Me: I designed it considering the bending strength of the shaft.Member 2 gave me a case that if certain amount of force is applied to the pedal then how much will signNow to thresh the paddy. I gave him the complete explanation that how to do it and was satisfied with my answer.Member 3 : If I consider the pedal as a beam can you draw the FBD.I tried it assuming the beam but when I fixed the both ends, he said it is wrong.Member 3 : How can you assume both the end of pedal to be fixed. Its wrong.Member 4: What do you know about air-breathing engines?Me: Those engines which takes the air from atmosphere for combustion are air-breathing engines.Member 4 : ISRO did some recent activity on air-breathing engines. Do you know?Me: Yes sir, they tested a scramjet at speed of Mach 6.Member 4 : what is the difference between Ramjet and a scramjet engine?Me: In Ramjet, the air is diffused to subsonic speed before entering the combustion chamber and then further expanded through nozzle while in scramjet the air remains supersonic throughout.Member 4: Which fuel is used?Me: Hydrocarbon fuel and Hydrogen fuel both can be used.Member 4: Which is better ? Hydrogen or Kerosene.Me: Hydrogen, because it has more specific impulse.Member 4 : Why hydrogen has more specific impulse?Me: Because the atomization and mixing in air stream is much faster for H2 rather than kerosene.Director: The answer that is correct but since you are doing M.Tech we were expecting something more from you. You must have done a course on Propulsion in 1st semester.Me: yesDirector: Then you should know.Member 4 : What is problem with hydrogen? Do you know?Me: we need to liquefy it to store other wise it will take huge volume.Member 4 : What is the temperature to liquefy hydrogen?Me: That is something…….Then Member 4 mummer something with director and they started laughing.Member 4 : Do you know how the combustion happens in the scramjet?I started it by drawing the intake of scramjet and told them that there is an oblique shock due to which the flow turns by some amount without being slowed down. Member 4 pointed out the mistake that the tip or the cowl can be rounded in scramjet and started laughing. I corrected it.Member 5 : You have done some course on CNC Machines.Me: Yes what sir?Member 5 : Have you done that course or not or some one else has done?Me: Yes Sir.Member 5 : How many axes are there in the machine?Me: There are machine with 4-axes, 5-axes, 6-axes.Member 5: On which you worked how many were there?Me: 4-axesMember 5 : Single point cutting tool moves in which direction? Horizontal or vertical.I tried to explain all the axes by drawing on the board.Member 5: No need to draw just give me verbal answer.Me: X-directionMember 5 : ‘X’ okay.Director: Okay now come to flame holder and if this is used in scramjet then what will happen.Me: Since the flow in the scramjet will supersonic throughout thus there will be some detached oblique shocks ahead of v-gutter and characteristics of this oblique shock can be found out using theta-beta curve.Director: Okay thankyouI hope this will help you for your preparation.
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Are there any good sci-fi comedy films (apart from Spaceballs, which I already seen and loved)?
If your idea of a good sci-fi comedy is Spaceballs, then I have great news for you. There are a lot of far better films for you to enjoy. Not all of them have the same elements of parody and slapstick that Spaceballs has, so I’ve flagged up the ones that doGalaxy Quest (parody, a little slapstick) - This is the gold standard of sci-fi comedy. It’s a decent sci-fi adventure in its own right, with a great cast (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Alan Rickman) and a brilliant script. It’s a parody of Star Trek in which a bunch of washed-up actors from a TV show called Galaxy Quest are kidnapped by aliens who have seen the show and interpreted it as “historical documents”. It is by turns hilarious, touching and thrilling, and there’s a brilliant use of a repeated catchphrase.Sleeper (parody and slapstick) - Woody Allen plays a 20th Century man woken from cryogenic sleep in a future where people have robot servants and orgasmatrons but live under the yoke of a Big Brother-like Leader. Accidentally kidnapping socialite Diane Keaton, Allen gets caught up in the resistance movement trying to overthrow the LeaderPaul (parody) - Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play nerdy Englishmen on a tour of America’s sci-fi landmarks, who encounter an alien called Paul, who is on the run from a Government facility. Pursued by men in black, they set off to try to get Paul to a rendezvous with his ride home. It’s both an homage and a parody of pretty much any film with aliens in it; if you’re a fan of sci-fi classics, you’ll spot quite a few jokes in the casting and dialogue that you might otherwise miss.The World’s End (parody) - Simon Pegg’s alcoholic anti-hero Gary King reassembles his high school friends and attempts to complete a pub crawl around 12 different watering holes that they tried and failed at many years before. Along the way, they begin to suspect that people who stayed in the town they grew up in may not be fully human.Brazil - the first of a few very dark comedies on this list, Terry Gilliam’s 1985 classic features Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry, a government official in a bureaucratic future investigating a typographic error that led to the police taking the wrong man for an unfortunately terminal information retrieval session, believing him to be a terrorist. Did I mention it was dark? Along the way, Sam discovers the joys of having a fully automated house, the difficulty of completing the right forms to get a maintenance appointment, the thrill of illicit plumbing, the efficacy of acid versus conventional cosmetic surgery and the importance of barley water, all against a backdrop of mounting terrorism and disinformation. Brazil seemed like a tragicomic partner to 1984 when it was released. Today, it just seems horrifyingly prescient.Back to the Future - Does this need any introduction? The “science” is undoubtedly wonky, and the better films in the trilogy are set in the past, but it’s a deservedly much loved comedy series. However, if you want a really good time travel comedy, the film you need is…Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure - in which Bill S Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan must pass their end of term History presentation to avoid being split up, and a time traveller from the future named Rufus must help them to do it because his future depends on their band, Wyld Stallyns. Not only very funny, but probably the best movie about time travel after the not-at-all-funny-but-very-good Primer.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - two ex-lovers try to erase each other from their own memories using a newly developed technology that causes very specific brain damage. Charlie Kaufman’s script is cleverly constructed, Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey handle the range of emotions needed as the leads, and the supporting cast (Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson) is excellent.Wall-E - Again, do Pixar movies really need an introduction? Wall-E is the last surviving robot left behind to clean up the Earth after humans packed off in giant spaceships, who begins an unlikely, silent courtship with a probe sent to look for signs of plant life.The Truman Show - Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, the unwitting star of a reality tv show constructed around his life, who gradually becomes aware that his idyllic home is not all it seems. The comedy is gentle, but it helps to frame the more serious dramatic themes.The Man in the White Suit - Ealing’s underappreciated sci-fi comedy. Alec Guinness’s Cambridge renegade invents a new synthetic fibre that never wears out and never gets dirty… but the consequences are not what he expects. It seems remarkably prescient in today’s world of built-in obsolescence, and perhaps deserves a remake. Eddie Redmayne would be my preferred casting choice, though I am not quite who could replace Joan Greenwood’s inimitable voice.The Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy (parody) - Douglas Adams’s comedy sci-fi classic has had many forms - radio, published scripts, books, television - and this film version is by far the weakest. The production design is gorgeous and the casting is largely spot on (the exception being that Alan Rickman is far too sardonic for the voice of Marvin, the paranoid android), but in the quest to make it cinematic, producer-directors Hammer & Tongs (Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith) cut too many of Adams’s words, and with it most of the jokes. Still worth a look, at least in my eyes (my wife would disagree)Safety Not Guaranteed - More time travel, as Aubrey Plaza’s bored reporter answers Mark Duplass’s advert for a time travel companion (“I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed”) in search of a story about an eccentric, and begins to wonder if he might be for real. It’s more comedy drama than out-and-out comedy, but it’s one of those films that makes you think long after the credits roll.Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - If Brazil and its totalitarian bureaucracy wasn’t dark enough for you, how about the end of the world? As the President of the US learns of a Russian doomsday device, designed to retaliate automatically in response to a nuclear attack, one of his Air Force Generals has gone mad and is trying to launch an attack on Russia… Peter Sellers plays the President, an RAF Squadron Leader trying to stop the mad General and the eponymous Dr Strangelove, the President’s wheelchair bound German weapons adviser. But the rest of the cast plays it straight - and that makes the comedy even darker.Delicatessen - And here’s one from after the end of the world. Audaciously announcing itself as “Un Film de Jeunet et Caro” (it was their debut feature), Delicatessen is the tale of a rundown appartment block in a post-apocalyptic world, where the butcher landlord supplements his residents’ diet with mysterious meat. Dominique Pinon’s circus clown becomes the latest in a string of new residents taking the last room, and gets mixed up with the landlord’s daughter and an underground army of revolutionary vegetarians.Dark Star - Dan O’Bannon’s other blue-collar-workers-in-space script is Alien, but this one is a comedy. A bunch of regular guys struggle with an annoying alien, a dead captain who can still talk to them from the deep freeze, and a smart bomb that is in the process of becoming sentient.A Scanner Darkly - I am not sure if this really counts as a comedy. It certainly has comedic elements - for the most part, it’s a movie about a group of paranoid drug addicts sharing a house - but at its heart it is very dark and the ending is not funny at all. But it’s a good enough, and idiosyncratic enough film to be worthy of your consideration.Slither - What James Gunn was doing before Marvel, and what he will probably go back to now that Disney don’t like him any more. Slither is a sci-fi horror comedy about a rather gross form of alien invasion.Innerspace (some slapstick) - How about something you can watch with the family? An experimental craft shrunk to the size of a human cell, with Dennis Quaid inside, accidentally gets injected into Martin Short when villains try to capture it. Adventure, and some quite funny sequences, ensue as Short has to try to get himself and Quaid to a place where the craft can be safely recovered. I suppose you could put Ant Man in the same bracket.Attack the Block - Joe Cornish’s film sees feral aliens arriving in south London and attacking a tower block. With a mostly amateur cast, plus Nick Frost, the film gets the dialogue and interaction between the teenage hooligans who find themselves the block’s defenders absolutely right. It’s also notable for featuring two actors who would go on to much bigger sci-fi roles: Star Wars’s John Boyega and 13th Doctor Jodie WhittakerMen in Black - Defending the Earth from the scum of the universe, Tommy Lee Jones’s jaded Agent K recruits Will Smith to be his new partner. My personal favourite in the series is the under-rated time travel instalment Men in Black 3, which is lifted by Josh Brolin’s uncanny impersonation of a younger Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg’s quirky alien Macguffin and Jermaine Clement’s gleefully evil dual turn as two versions of villain Boris the AnimalIdiocracy - Mike Judge’s vision of a dumb future is less subtle and dark than Gilliam’s Brazil, but in the current electoral era it seems almost as prescient.Starship Troopers (parody) - nope, this isn’t a dumb sci-fi movie celebrating a fascist militaristic culture. That was the book. Paul Verhoeven brought his European sensitivities to the material and made it so over-the-top that it became a parody of the very thing people took it for. Perhaps he was too subtle with this one…Robocop (parody) - ...but more people recognise Robocop as a (dark and violent) parody of the commercialisation of everything.Mars Attacks! (parody, slapstick) - Tim Burton’s adaptation of a trading card game is very silly and surprisingly effective at using the talents of its very diverse cast. Who couldn’t love a film where the transplanted heads of a scientist and a reporter conduct a brief but touching romance, where Tom Jones is the hero of Las Vegas for more than his singing, and where Lukas Haas, his gran and a stereo are the saviours of the Earth?Groundhog Day - let’s finish as we started, with a classic. It’s not really clear if Bill Murray’s weatherman Phil Connors spends an extended sojourn in a single, endlessly repeated day because of science or the supernatural, but it is time travel, so it gets on this list. Murray’s transformation as he relives the day runs a full range of emotions - whereas everyone else’s responses can only change as a reflection of his behaviours. The film stands or falls by whether we buy into Murray’s gradual changes, and he succeeds in selling it magnificently.
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If the letter J wasn't invented until 1600, how did Jesus get his name 2013 years ago?
If letter J wasn't invented until 1600, how did Jesus get his name 2013 years ago? Well...lets try this on for size...Most English Bibles use the name Jesus when translating the Greek name used in the New Testament Scriptures for the Messiah. But there is a considerable problem with using this name to call upon and refer to the Messiah of the Bible.At the heart of the problem with using the name Jesus as a reference to the Messiah is that the name Jesus wasn't and isn't his real name. The historical Nazarene was a Hebrew. He was Jewish, born of Jewish parents. He and his parents and all Israel during those times spoke Hebrew as their primary language. Therefore, he was gi...
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Who is going to win the 2014-15 Barclays Premier League?
I'll try to provide little bit of reasoning behind my prediction of which club is going to win this season's EPL. Let me begin with strongest contender to ----> probable to ---> an outsider:1. Chelsea (Strongest)In: Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona, £30m), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid, £32m), Mario Pasalic (Hadjuk Split), Filipe Luís (£20m), Courtois (back from Atletico) Update: 30 July : Drogba!!!Out: David Luiz (Paris Saint-Germain, £50m), Ashley Cole (Roma, free), Samuel Eto'o (released), Frank Lampard (released), Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday, free), Henrique Hilario (released), Wallace (Vitesse Arnhem, loan), Bertrand Traore (Vitesse Arnhem, loan) Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Monchengladbach, loan)All right, let's not bother much on those going out on loan since the club we're talking is Chelsea!And, what a smart piece of business the club did by selling David Luiz at 50m to PSG! Can you imagine? 50m for a player like him? And then we've RMadrid who have just signed probably the best midfielder at present for just 24m, yes Toni Kroos! Now you can realize how much Chelsea have benefited from getting 50m and getting rid of an error prone, offensive minded, in-disciplined, brutally caught out of position, David Lulz (pardon, Luiz).Have a look at their first team squad:Now since the squad and INs/OUTs, everything is in front of us, we can begin to talk at length regarding their chances of winning the coming season. Thing is, they were already having a squad strong enough to win the league considering the depth and quality they posses not just in starting XI, but on bench as well. This because, Germany's most influential player of just concluded WC in terms of impact, i.e. Andre Schurrle had just played round about 1400 min out of max 3420 mins last season. Same goes for Willian as well. Now we can realize the quality they have on bench, this squad has now just become even more deeeeeep (sorry, but it has become so deep that I couldn't resist using more e than just 2) Having signed Cesc Fabregas, they've now sorted out the problem of having a creative midfielder with an eye for inch perfect through balls and what not, which was missing in their just concluded season in totality, you can check the stats of individual players to confirm this. But then, they've also addressed the need of having a consistent finisher for to convert those assists coming from team mates, and Diego Costa (though a one season wonder) joined them with a brilliant season in LaLiga behind that helped Atletico win the league in the dominant times of RMad & Barca, and helped the club signNow Champions League Finals as well. Now that Ashley Cole had left them, they wasted no time and signed Felipe Luis, Costa's team mate at Atletico, who was phenomenal for them in a season where their defense had just conceded 24 goals in 38 matches. I wonder why Scolari didn't even pick him for the WC. Well well! I don't know how Atletico will fill these two voids that Chelsea had created in their squad by signing Costa and Luis, but then, another reason for them to worry for the time being is that Courtois has also come back to Chelsea after having impressed the football world with his brilliantly consistent seasons at loan at Atletico, wherein he has had stopped none other than Lionel Messi from scoring in last 8 matches ( including 1 being at WC). Oh, I have just covered their signings, and already started feeling strongly that Chelsea will run away with the league title even before May15. All right, just for the time being, let me share a probable starting XI (based on their last year's playing time): ---------------Courtois-------------------------Cahill---Terry-----------Ivanovic---------------------Felipe Luis--------------Matic-----------------------Ramires---------------------------- Fabregas--------------Oscar--------------------Hazard------------Diego Costa------------You see, I am craving for including Schurrle in the above starting XI, and then I'll still be left with a complete player and Mourinho's personal favorite Azpilicueta, who can play almost anywhere in defense. Oh wait, there will still be players like Willian, Salah, Torres (yes, that 50m Bargain, now lol) on bench.This is what Mourinho had said about Azpi : Azpilicueta is the kind of player I like a lot. I think a team with 11 Azpilicueta's probably could win the competition because football is not just about the pure talent.'Football is also about character and personality and Azpilicueta has all those traces of a winning personality.So, let me quickly share another possible starting XI :---------------Cech/Courtois---------------------------Cahill---Terry-----------Azpilicueta-------------------Felipe Luis--------------Matic-----------------------Oscar---------------------------- Fabregas--------------Schurrle----------------Hazard------------Diego Costa------------We can make quite a few PnC since the depth is there, and ofcourse quality as well. Willian will be utilized more as a regular substitute for Schurrle/ Oscar as the situation demands. Oh, now Ivanovic is on bench! It's really difficult to keep a player of his standards on bench, right? Just in case if they can sign the beast and the next big thing (or wait, he's already a big big player) Pogba, then It will be really unfortunate for other fellow clubs to match their strengths as the season will stretch toward March, April. Not to forget, they're trying to hijack Arsenal's bid for Khedira as well. Now with a really strong back-5 and supremacy of Mourinho's tactics of suffocating teams, particularly at Home (where he has brilliant record), can't see them conceding more than 25-30 goals this season. Then they've a beast in Matic to provide a shield for defense, his work-rate is second to none at the moment (in EPL). I'd prefer if they send Ramires down in the packing order from here onward. And then, above all this, they'll try to cherish the fact that Mourinho has had a really consistent record of winning something, league or CL in his 2nd year at a club. (Please let me know if this false). All right, can I have a break at this point? Will get back soon, only to cover the next probable Epl winning club in line, in my opinion.Update : 18-July-142. Arsenal (Not strong, but yes, almost there, probable)Disclaimer : I'll spend more time discussing them and the their signings, so feel free to ignore if you don't like reading much about Arsenal. (because I somehow feel that they'll have a rather much better season than least season, which itself was excellent, at least when you sit on top for 128 days! But then it was all old Arsenal running out of depth, injury plagued, blah blah, and they finished 4th!), In: Alexis Sanchez (Barcelona, £30m), Mathieu Debuchy (Newcastle United, £12m), Joel Campbell (back from loan), Update: 30 July: Ospina from Nice, Chambers from SouthamptonOut: Bacary Sagna (Manchester City, free), Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea, free), Nicklas Bendtner (released), Park Chu-young (released), Chuks Aneke (released), Daniel Boateng (released)I think it would be good to spend some time on analyzing Arsenal big big signing of Alexis Sanchez:Massive signing!!!, this guy Alexis Sanchez is clearly a tremendous signing for Arsenal and shows a clear signal of intent to their rivals. There were plenty of rumors over the World Cup as to what wide player/striker may come to the club.It’s Sanchez though who can be put in the world class bracket a kin to the signing of Ozil. Sanchez has a terrific World Cup with Chile and scored 39 goals in 88 appearances for Barcelona. He adds pace, creativity and flare to Arsenal’s attack and will prove extremely important when Ozil looks for a runner to play a through ball to. Other players like Ramsey and Cazorla will also thrive on the runs Sanchez will make behind the defense.Some think Alexis may even feature up front for Arsenal through the middle. It remains to be seen where Wenger will utilize his latest star signing but it will certainly be an intriguing watch.Sanchez was prolific in star studded Barca squad where even Arsenal's former captain Cesc Fabregas was finding it really hard to get a place in starting XI, that itself tells a lot. His numbers, notching 39 goals and 25 assists in 88 appearances, including 19 goals and 10 assists with 60% shot accuracy! in 34 La Liga appearances during the 2013-14 club season. This, he achieved in a team where almost every attack begins and ends with Messi. So, you can appreciate Sanchez for this.He is the first Chilean player to represent Arsenal. He was also the first Chilean player to represent Barcelona, too. Isn't he exactly that kind of player which Arsenal were dearly missing particularly last season, that too when Walcott, Ozil & Ramsey got injured and left Arsenal wondering even though till Jan they were sitting on top comfortably. Creative midfielders that Arsenal have, they prefer to have a wide winger, striker who can provide them with immediate runs into the final third, so that they can make the best of those inch perfect through balls from Ozil, Cazorla, Ramsey and co. The reason I've spent a lot of space for Alexis is simply because I believe he'll have a bigger impact than Ozil's signing and Wenger is seriously addressing some major concerns with such signings now. And, just yesterday, they've completed the much awaited signing of French right-back Debuchy from Newcastle. Interesting to see here, that Wenger has wasted no time (like he used to in all those previous seasons) and replaced Sagna with someone who is preferred over Sagna for French national team. Though it's not a signing to keep long term plans in pipeline, but a really good one for quick-impact, like a much needed one. Mind you, he's really good while going forward, and with Alexis on the wings who himself works hard tracking back and consistent pressing is what he has learned at Barca, this will only help Debuchy settle at the earliest. Here's what some numbers suggest about Debuchy : (23) – Number of chances created in the Premier League last season; more than any Arsenal defender.(16) – Number of take ons completed in the Premier League last season; double Sagna’s tally.(71) – Number of tackles won in the Premier League last season; more than any Newcastle United or Arsenal player.(19) – Number of shots on target in the Premier League last season; more than any other Arsenal defender.(3) – Number of assists provided in the Premier League last season; the same total as Jack Wilshere. -->> Debuchy won more aerial duels per 90 mins in the EPL last season (7.98) than any other defender (15+ apps). All right. This enough.Now with Khedira & Schneiderlin on their radar, and as per rumors, Khedira is close to joining them, it will only strengthen the already talented midfield. Some Arsenal fans prefer Schneiderlin over Khedira, only because they want a DM who will sit back more, and with Khedira, they might just not get the player they're looking for at the moment. But having 3 World Cup winners (Ozil, Poldi, Merta) in their squad, there'll be positive vibe in the squad in pre-season, and if Khedira comes, it will be a boost to Ozil in particular, since they're very close friends. Now I'm personally looking forward to see Ozil do wonders this season, simply because he is just brilliant, though he needs some motivation and some quality players upfront to complement his creativity. Thought he has been criticized for chosing to always pass but not score himself, but that is how he is, and here something for Arsenal fans: Renowned for his creativity and ability to influence a match at club-level, Ozil was still on the ball a lot (66 touches on a per game average), returned a commendable passing accuracy (almost 87%) and created 17 goal-scoring opportunities (2.4 on average each match) - one of which turned into a direct assist.Just because I myself am a big Ozil fan, I'd like to share some more stats only to make a point that people should not go gung-ho over British tabloids because they were just busy making sensational headlines criticizing Ozil too much. When it comes to passes that originate from outside the final third to ones that penetrate that zone, Ozil is the tournament leader.Ozil was joint second when it came to chances created, providing 17 goal-scoring opportunities for his team-mates - six behind bracket leader & Golden Ball winner, Lionel MessiOzil was second when it came to winning possession in the attacking third, defending from the front, with six being enough to edge ahead of Gonzalo Higuain, Arjen Robben and Yaya Toure. Ozil was fifth when it came to winning corners - a considerable attacking feat when considering the threat posed from set-piece scenarios. Ozil won eight corners in total, the most out of any player from the World Cup winners,It's seems clear that Low gave Ozil a specific team role, that he clearly excelled at shown both in his stats and the fact Low himself repeatedly stated he was doing the job asked of him very well.He does/did not play a role as eye catching as lets's say Rodriguez or Neymar, or Robben, agreed. He was being played out on the left wing and not in his preferred central role. He is like this only, you'll never see him doing anything what attention-seekers do. Huh!! I had to share this above piece on Ozil, particularly after reading a lot of hatred even here on Quora as well, coming from those club-limited football fans, who simply hate anything other than their own club. :)Please spare me for reading so far, If you're already here! And, please spare Ozil as well. Thank you, God will bless you now, even more. :)Anyway, lets get back to Arsenal in totality. Here's Arsenal's First-team squad:Another positive prospect for them is Jole Cambell returing from loan, and having a good WC behind. He'd be an asset, though reports are suggesting that Wenger is willing to loan him for another season, preferably in EPL only.At present, they're in need of a decent 2nd choice GK (Ospina on radar), A LB (since Gibbs is (error+injury)-prone, and Monreal ain't a top player at all, not even a decent backup), and a CB (considering Vermalen will leave, most likely to join Utd now that he was seen with RVP enjoying at the beach yesterday), and a DM (yes they should go for one solid DM).All this or even 80% of it is achieved, then Arsenal can finally say that they've some good back-up and bench, and quality as well. All this, they want to seriously mean some business (not just as a profit for board like every year, but in terms of trophies and aspirations as well).Let me try to frame their Starting XI, just like I did for the strongest contender Chelsea in 1st section: --------------------Szczesny-------------------------Mertesacker------Koscielny-------Debuchy-------------------------------Gibbs------------------Arteta---------------------------Ramsey--------------------------------- Ozil-----------Alexis Sanchez---------------Cazorla-----------------------Giroud -----------Looks really good with hell lot of creativity, right? But then, Giroud upfront still doesn't look good, may be he'll be pushed hard this time, with Sanchez, Walcott, Cambell, all capable to play as false striker and brigning in another midfielder in place of Giroud (Wilshere? or Rozza? or Chamberline?). So, options on bench look good as well, or not?Another possible Starting XI (assuming either Khedira/Schneiderlin will be signed): --------------------Szczesny-------------------------Mertesacker------Koscielny-------Debuchy-------------------------------Gibbs------------Khedira or Schneiderlin ---------------------------Ramsey--------------------------------- Ozil-----------Alexis Sanchez---------------Chamberlain---------------------Walcott-----------Well!! Too much pace in this 2nd starting XI. Walcott can really give defenders a run for their money, this because, all he needs is a inch perfect, weighted through balls from Ozil and co., and yes, there'll be plenty of such passes if such a formation can click. Walcott, Sanchez, Chamberlain trio has the potential to emerge as fierce attacking force, with either of Walcott or Chambo being replaced by Giroud/Poldi as and when needed. This formation can click well, particularly against teams that don't sit deep, or teams with expansive style of play. How about swapping Sanchez's and Walcott's position in above scheme? It would rather improve, having seen Sanchez doing offensive stuff all on his own for Chile at times, and was played like this for Barca last season. Time to take nother break, before I come back again with 3rd possible team in the order of winning coming season.BTW, which team do you support Paul Watts?Update (20July14) : Screw you new Quora, you failed to keep my on-going-editing saved here, Had spent 1 hour writing about Manchester City, and then this Chrome asked me to refresh, and there it goes, everything got erased!This was never a case with old Quora (where's the draft feature now? It should've automatically drafted the on-going update ), I don't know how many more issues are there with these recent updates. Telling you, there're many. Bad, this is really bad. I'm not going to type for another 1 hour covering ManCity.Marc Bodnick, I'd be glad, if you can address this issue, I'll separately mention it as an answer in any relevant question. But let me tell you, I'm feeling gutted :/ for having wasted more than an hour articulating a lengthy analysis on Manchester City's chances. P.S. : Would really like it, if any fellow football fanatic can do City's analysis for me. Please do it for me, and win nothing. :)Update : 27July14I thank anonymous for coming up with City's analysis, almost in line with what I wanted in my answer. :)Anonymous' answer to Football (Soccer): Who is going to win the 2014-15 Barclays Premier League?
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