Tell me somthing about yourself

"Tell me something about yourself ...." A predictable way to initiate an interview. How many times you were grilled with this question during a job interview. I'm no exception ,10 years back someone (VP of a software company) asked me this very question at start of  my first job interview before being brutually slaughtered for 55 mins. with dumb questions on LIFO , FIFO concept of Data Structure , Bubble & Merge Sort Algorithm , FKs/PKs/ Referential Integrity contraints in RDBMS . And my unsaid response was  "Whatttt... Why the hell he's showing personal interest on me .. ..". Later, I realized that this is one of the most infamous question asked during various levels of interview and few desperate candidates don't even hesitate to spend few bucks to go through some preparatory courses to respond to such questions which were never taught in school.

So here it goes ..  a 20 yr. old lad in heart with 10 yrs of experience and growing everyday. Came from a very humble middle class Indian Bong (Bengali .. yes .. you'll find a Bengali in a fish market in any part of the world and probably bargaining over the price just below the "No Bargaining Please"  hanging.) family in Assam(Recently I realized that it's one among 20 plus states in India and we don't need passport to travel to cities like Bangalore,Delhi and it has concrete Roads and even few airports. ). Thanks to my parents, Baba(I still address my father with utmost respect as Baba and not "Dad" or 'Buddha') in particular who has vested lot of interest in my studies and eventually after rigorous 21 years of hard labor (I used to cycle 1.2 miles everyday even in cold winter morning at 5:00 am for tuition , believe me , not cycling its getting up early morning @5 is lot of hard work ) without any miscarriage , ended up as bachelors in engg. Lost my bachelorhood to a very sweet "Axomiya" girl in May-07, and happily married thereafter to "Sweety" , my wife. By the way both of us are more comfortable speaking in Hindi and not Bengali or that matter Assamese (Sign of diversification and multiculture aspect which is quite common in India now a days .. 21st century affect)

As far as profession is concerned , spent almost 8 delightful years working for a major(giant like "Whale") software company in Hyderabad (Land of Reddy's and Naidu's , well known for Hyderabadi Biryani, it really taste yummy and now a days served with a coke .. though i love it with "Mirchi Ka Salan " and at least one member of each family from Hyderabad is settled abroad, otherwise you are considered no good and people speak a distorted version of Hindi which is supposedly our national language )and now leveraging my knowledge gained (thats the best part of working for a established and reputed company, they make you learn quickly and heftily pay for that) and currently working as a consultant, implementing packaged solution mainly ERP. My current area of interest is MDM aka. Master Data Management. I'll try to cook some MDM articles in this blog which can be gulped easily .