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Program Manager Interviews at Microsoft

2008-03-16T11:30:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

Posted a new blog about "How I'd prepared for the PM interviews at Microsoft" - http://www.vishwacsena.blogspot.com/ let me know what you think! :)

Products page added

2006-01-19T00:19:00.000-08:00

Products page added

Glad to announce the addition of products page to my website.
You can find the page at http://www.products.vishwacsena.co.in

Vishwac sena's website

2005-09-08T06:21:00.000-07:00

Folks
alas! my website is up.
check out http://www.vishwacsena.co.in .

cheers & regards

2005-02-14T22:16:00.000-08:00

There are just about two things which most of us (software professionals) are bothered about!

“Come on man there really aren’t many(any?) Projects!”

“I’m at bench ... hmm.. sorry rather I can say we are at bench!” or it would be

“Oops ... I don’t have time man.. 24 hours really isn’t enough!!”

“Come on man ... am not finding time even for my routine ...”
I was thinking about this phenomenon for a long time and found a good analogy (at least I thought so! Ha ha ). Here we go .. .. ..

Software Soldiers

Battles - days and nights would mean one and the same. There would be one mission, and one goal, one target, strategies to be followed and implemented. They would hardly find time to relax or to sleep. They and would be expected to be alert and in the best of their mindsets while facing the enemy. I compare this phase of a solider with a software professional on a live project. Well you are actually doing your job. It does not really matter if you find time to do your routine or not, you have to do justice to your profession!. We need to be prepared and alert, when we are on projects, our mission would be to add value to the company, our target would be to complete the project, showcasing the best of our quality, and our strategies would be the project plans.

If he(soldier) is good enough, survives the battle, and if peace had been announced, he is left without any thing to do (meaning unless and until we are on the worst case, there wouldn’t be battles which run across for years together). I would like to compare this phase of a soldier with that of a software professional, without a project (most popularly known as “The bench” / “Knowledge Ramp-up”). The soldiers would not be left idle, and would be given training sessions, taught additional skills, would be allowed to practice skills they had mastered already or would be given expert advice on special areas of importance. Isn’t it this way?.

I would love to say “I’m at bench” for it the time wherein I can find time to sharpen and hone my skills, to review my personal capabilities, to learn new skills, to practice skills I had learnt, present myself to be reviewed, and get declared am fit, for the real battle (the projects). Of course ones immediate thought on this statement would be that a software professional would learn skills practice and get validated during his training period and he should be put into projects immediately after his completion of training. Well actually that is not the case. I do agree that we learn a lot of skills during our training. But one has to understand and appreciate that internal project and assignments are the exact place where in you get to practice and appreciate what so ever you learn in your training sessions.

Getting one step further, training sessions for a soldier could be further classified into general training and skill based training, which is akin to the on boarding training and the specific skills training. Every soldier who is selected for the army is not immediately put into projects (means war to them), neither can he demand that. He will have to wait patiently for months, and they wouldn’t be really sure if they would get to see a battle! We are lucky in a way that we don’t have to wait that way, for its sure that we would be put into projects very soon.

I would like to conclude with a positive note to say that, as professionals “At bench” we should strive hard to hone our personal skills and prepare ourselves to face the battle with the best of our mindset, and the best possible self confidence, and best possible interpersonal skills.

Please do voice your views on this !

My Blog

2005-02-14T00:09:00.000-08:00

My Blog

2005-02-09T01:13:00.000-08:00

hi vishwak
i signed on

heyy its been long since any body wrote an article

2004-08-09T03:56:00.000-07:00

this is too bad..
no body writes (including me !)
anyways shall try and write some thing new,..

Hey .. this is really kool and informative

2004-07-21T19:53:00.001-07:00

Dear Members
I found WinXP Tips web site hwere you can find useful informations of WinXP. The link is http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm
Regards
sena

Hey .. this is really kool and informative

2004-07-21T19:53:00.000-07:00

Dear Members
I found WinXP Tips web site hwere you can find useful informations of WinXP. The link is http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm
Regards
vishwac sena

Projects Assigned

2004-07-21T02:34:00.000-07:00

Hey guyz ..
the projects have been allocated and i beleive every body's really excited about this rite?
so what ? just fasten your seat belts and get prepared to set off to this wonderful start to your career ..

its me here !

2004-07-20T23:55:00.000-07:00

hi guys & gals !

now that i from here joined u there ,

v can hav lots of fun everywhere!!!!

Its setty

2004-07-20T23:44:00.000-07:00

hi guyzzzzz

Its pretty good ...........
by the way our projects r coming up...so when ever u come accross... topics of others...
try to blog here...
and here r few links 4 jakarata team:

      //jakarta.apache.org/
www.oreillynet.com/pub
www.tek-tips.com/

have a gr8 time
setty

hi!!!!!!!

2004-07-20T23:37:00.000-07:00

hi frenz,
into the projects atlast!!!hope we get time to sleep in the morning and to roam around chennai in the weekends atleast from now on.Have a Gr8 day.......
Take Care....

Jakarta from arunan

2004-07-20T23:33:00.000-07:00

see some basics of jakarta...http://md-arunank:8080/log.jsp

End to Theory..... Journey into Projects

2004-07-20T23:25:00.000-07:00

I wish all the 53 young virtusans a grand success in their projects
Last 7 weeks of training has been exciting and we learned a lot of technical stuff
and earned a lot of buddies
So let us show the same spirit in our new experiences and show all of them that
First training Batch of Chennai ATC really made a Difference...........

haiii

2004-07-20T23:11:00.000-07:00

friends ,
these 2 months were just wonderful .we were like a family and now that we are moving into our du's we cannot have all sorts of fun we had these days.just make sure that we meet offline very often and conyinue our funs.. do post ur comments

Great

2004-07-20T23:10:00.000-07:00

Hi guys & gals,
Nice to have this forum
keep updating our knowledge using this as a Knowlegde Management Forum for us....

Post as many questions to get clarified...

Sharp Reader Tool

2004-07-20T23:01:00.000-07:00

Just copy and install SharpReader from \\md-vishwack\aggregator and subscribe to this page
http://virtusa.blogspot.com/atom.xml
enjoy this kool technology.. and we'll keep this site up..
post in as many messages as possible and keep up ur writing skills.

hi guyz

2004-07-20T22:58:00.000-07:00

Letz rock in and have a nice time.
bye

Great

2004-07-20T22:55:00.000-07:00

This has been a great experience in blog so far, because i dont know anything about it, if anyone knows please reply to this post

From Naga

2004-07-20T22:41:00.000-07:00

Hi,

This is my first message. Donno what to send so sending the current score of the match Bangladesh is 84/3, All indian bowlers are competing with each other to bowl wides. Thatz it for now.

Hope to send some info stuff later.

Feeling hungry now.....

The surprise test!

2004-07-20T22:09:00.000-07:00

Hmmm... Lata was at her best in giving us all a surprise test now..
it was really a surprise...
The questions were moderate with much importance to DOM and script(java) huh?
post comments on this .. ASAP

Heyy guyz... new blog for virtuzenx created....

2004-07-20T21:01:00.000-07:00

Hye guyz
i've created a new blog for virtusans,, you can use this page to get information about other people and their works.. share your views on current trends in IT, and any thing under the sun.
any body can place in their views, and keep waiting for comments..
so... whay do u have to wait...
start BLOGGING.....

Monkey testing

1999-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

Just monkey testing this site. Wanna see what date has come?

Hey guys, don't make it fully knowledge-based. Let it be
50% knowledge( jokes, tricks and anecdotes) & 50% educational stuff also.

Bye bye