Office Timepass

 Shru MM everywhere !! :)

I had improvised this much more. But the IT guy is a lil' strict.. so erased 

it away :'(

My H1 B Visa interview

I really do not know the need of penning these interview experiences. But hope its helps some innocent lives :) This one was almost same like the last interview :) However the documents here were different. Not to forget the 2 day interview process was a lil' pain but no worries.. its all fine as along as you answer to point with a smile.

Please know what documents you carry. They are capable of asking anything, and it shouldn't be odd if you are searching for it. So please memorize it. I had labelled them to be safe. :) 

We stayed at Crystal Residency, with a wonderful view of the consulate from the roof. I remember my husband telling me to hurry up seeing the crowd :)

Day 1: Finger-printing @ Chennai Consulate

A wait in a long long queue is a must. This queue was not well managed :( Passport, DS 160 confirmation letter and the appointment letter are verified at the entrance. You need to enter into a huge building and go to the next floor. A small door on the right leads to a small room, where your passports, documents are once again verified by smart men at the counter and you are given a token. Now you enter into a big room and when your number on the token is called out, you need to go to one the windows. Here the finger printing process happens and you are sent out. You are asked for a feedback too on this entire process. I gave a satisfactory :) While my husband gave a poor :) :) All this was about 15 minutes work here. 

Day 2: Interview @ Chennai Consulate

Show the appointment letter and the passport at the entrance. Do not have any closed envelopes with you, they will send you out, ask you to remove it and then you need to iterate the process again. They give you a token, which will lead you to a counter where they ask your basic documents and for god knows what reason they took my fingerprints again here. Here, i feel is where they decide most of it.

We then proceed to the other building for the interview. I did see 4 rejections. They were all from consultancies. Basically, they couldn't answer well and to point. So they were rejected. My interview went well.

I: Hi
Me: Hi
I: hows your day so far?
Me: So far so good. how about yours?
I: Where do you work
Me: (told)
I: Do you have a clients location.
Me: No. I work at the head office in ..
I: Where did you do your masters
Me: (told)
I: My day has been pretty rough. But glad to meet you. Your visa is approved!
Me: thank you so much. Good day!!

All the best readers!!

You can see my other iterviews as well here: F1 Visa interview & H1B Visa interview & H4 Visa interview. 

H1B Visa proces

Hmmm... as usual penning out the process i followed. My interview experience can be found here.

The company usually applies for your H1B. And they give you a packet which has all the documents needed for applying. As per my knowledge these are the ones i had with me. Please refer to respective consulate websites for more information.

Mandatory for Application and Interview:

1. Passport
2. DS 160 confirmation page (Photo & barcode are important)
3. Fee payment receipt.
4. Interview appointment letter.
5. I-797.
6. Photographs

For the interview:

• Resume
• All Documents submitted to USCIS
• Offer letter \ Employment Contract
• Tax returns statements.
• Labor Certificate
• Proof of residence (Lease documents)
• Last 3 bank statements
• Last 3 pay stubs.
• Company document which contains the details of your company

You need to fill the DS 160 here and submit it:  https://ceac.state.gov/GENNIV
This site was really helpful in filling the DS 160. You can fill the appointment date here. This process is all easy and smooth if you have the documents required.

I noticed that the process to apply for H1B renewal is also the same as above. All the best. 

Invitation for a treat by a "Programmer" and reply by a "HR" !!

Hi all,
Ha ha.. was jobless for few mins.. so tried writin a code to call u all for the treat given by me!! :) Spare me!!

Class Person
{
     String name = "";
    
    public void call4treat(String name)
    {
           if(name.equals(Nish) || name.equals(Sav) ||
          name.equals(Ani) || name.equals(Lali) || name.equals(prats))
           {                 
                    System.out.println("WELCOME TO MY TREAT!! :) :) ");
                    details();
           }
   
          if(name.equals(Sania)
                    System.out.println(" YOU ARE NOT WELCOME TO MY TREAT!! :P :P");
    }

    public void details()
    {
          System.out.println("\n Date: 25th may 2010           

                                           Day: Tuesday
                                           Venue: Mc D, Central mall! :)
                                           Time: Hmm around 2! Must be fine!  \n");
       
         System.out.println(" Thanku don miss it!!");
    }
};

Class Testperson
{
    Person p = new Person();
   
    p.call4treat("nish");
    p.call4treat("savi");
    p.call4treat("ani");
    p.call4treat("lali");
    p.call4treat("prats");
    p.call4treat("sania");
};


PS:
1) In plain words:  Please don miss it!! Its a small tr8 from my side to u gals.
2) Sania pls do come. don mind the fun! n remind me on monday to get money..! els i will really forget!
3) The code doesn work!! It doesn't have main method :)
4) I know i am mad :P

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi all except Shruthi, hehehehehe

She is absolutely right …she is jobless…

n trust me she trying to write a code is useless.

Hahaha what a shayari….aadaaab arz hai

She is into coding…so she wrote a code…n me into HR …sending a notice… ;)

Dear ***ian’s,

It is my immense pleasure to thank one and all to make the exit formalities of Ms. Ramadurgamsree Shruthi Sadgurumurthy so special (by making to shed her money hehehehe J ). It was a wonderful experience having her in ***…though it had many ill effects on ***. The first being making *** always laugh at her cranky jokes…making the environment more friendly which disturbs the office work making the precious office time go waste and making the most serious persons in *** atleast smile and many more such things like that……hundreds to mention as an example. Shall leave that to discuss on 25^th. Hats Off to her…Guess next time she should be put into management of *** so that she can do the same magic there…little impossible though.

HR is always present on every occasions so consider my attendance as well…though without an invitation.

Regret the delay in replying to the mail.

By the way….HR takes it own time to reply so dare not complain. Otherwise you are sure to receive another notice !!!!

Kindly do not revert back in case of any further queries / clarifications you may have. (I bet Shruthi is sure to have. :)

Thanks & Regards,

  Sania

DATE Drama ...!!

Two questions for u:

1.  3/5/2010 = 3rd May 2010 or 5th Mar 2010 ........???
2. 10th Jul 2010 = 10/7/2010 OR 7/10/2010 ..........???

I don't understand why the mm/dd/yyyy format for date came up?? We were happy with dd/mm/yyyy right??
This issue didn't bother me until i started programming. In India, the usual dd/mm/yyyy is followed but these days everything is internationalized and every company will have at least one foreign client! So, this needs to be taken care while programming.

The next observation i made was little weird though. In the javascript (js) you were supposed to follow mm/dd style and in the Java Server pages(jsp) you are to follow the dd/mm way. And the issue i was looking into dealt with one js and one jsp page which were linked.

Upon this to make it look neat and formatted a "0" had to be appended. i.e. 7/4/2010 had to be written as 07/04/2010 :)

Lord.. you had to see the amount of confusion that had stacked up in my brain. I bet, it was clearly visible on my face too! Buut, It was fun!

P.S: Google is God!

Installments Issue!

I realized one thing, writing a piece of code anyone can do, but coming up with an efficient code is what only a good programmer can do! :) N i cant do that. At least now..!

This time I had been given a task to work on this installment portal which will let the customer choose the amount he wishes to pay in how many ever installments (<5) he wants. I did use the minuscule amount of programming knowledge that i have and wrote a 30 line code.  :) BTW my piece of code divides the principal amount as installments equally such that the balance money will be zero. I know its as easy as 

Each Installment = Principal / Num Of Installments ; 

But this was a user friendly one. The customer could make changes to any of the installments out of the 5 but the balance had to be a "0". This took some time, around a week i guess for it to be exactly like how my boss wanted it. 

One more stupid thing which lead to confusion was the dutch format which had a comma instead of the period.

                          Indian           Dutch

Rs 0                     0.00             0,00

Rs 83 30ps          83.30            83,30

Sometimes after the calculations the value generated was 67.98767456597... Waaa...?? So i had to round them off also. But if i round off a dutch number it would turn Indian{The round off method was for Indian format} To make a number Dutch i had to Parse it. At one point of time i had to use:
Parse(roundoff(parse(value));
It was such a khichdi in my mind. But the code seemed fine.

When i was having this talk about my code, boss made me realize the fact that i had used 5 for loops in my code, to take care of all the issues which would come up. He said that's like a whopping 5^5 iterations for  just 5 installments. That actually made me realize what a bad programmer i was.

P.S: More than coding i liked the trial and error part! Learnt so much. Future when i become a good programmer i will definitely read this post and have a laugh. :) ATB to me!

Search Saga!

An entire web page, rather a pop up with the title "customer history" was done by me! So that means, i created my own action class {Dishoom Dishoom:P}, the java script page :) This page lists all the orders made by that particular customer till date.! Yee..! The best part is: an issue or a clarification or a new functionality to this page.. they ask ME {the creator :P} to do it! :P

Excitement OFF, Actually this feels very good! But you know its such a simple task and blah blah i had to spend almost one entire day for this to function to work exactly like how it was supposed to. So good So far!

The next day i was asked to make this hidden and when done with that, i had add a special search function which which would search according to First name, Last name, Mobile Number, House number, Email Id, Unique id n etc! I had to use drop downs for this!  Its not that i had to do everything from scratch , its just that i had to utilize all the functions and use them here. For this i had to know the flow of the code, which was the most painful part!This understanding session + implementing the understood portion took me 3 solid days! 

Its actually nice to code, there's so much logic in this and there's so much implementation! Wish  we had realized this in college, then at least we would have specialized in one programming language and would not be as ignorant as we are{about programming/coding}.

Result: They put this small chotu functionality in every page of the website :P

Back Button!!

Learning to swim in this ocean called "Software Industry" is pretty tough in the beginning i guess... later one mite get used to these: work etiquette, conduct, 9 to 6 management of time+work, balance official n personal life, make some time for recreation! I have joined this company for a period of 4 months... and have decided to pen down small small issues troubling me...!

By the way, am in the development team working on Java! This company deals with e-tickets services but not for the theaters in our city. All its customers are in other countries and mostly concentrated in Netherlands!

The first one's being the "back button issue"! On click of a back button the was supposed to the go to the previous page! Simple isn't it?? I checked online for the "buttons" syntax and used it in the code. Basically i had to search for it amongst the java scripts, java servlets and java server pages.. and then used it in the code. And lo!! on click of it it went to the back page!! just like this:

I had to implement the same for like every jsp page. It worked fine.. but wen the page was in dutch language it didn't work at all! Huh.. Some language bundle problem, so had to look into the database and then it was solved! Yee! All thanks to these 2 girlies next to me! Major help they are to me!

P.S: These posts will be from office and they wont be long and formal! Remember am just penning then down :) Chaio!