23 February 2010

Interview

2月12日。星期五,阳光普照的一天。总觉得每逢接近新年时,天气都异常闷热。明天就是 除夕日,可我还有重要的事办呢!

穿上衬衫,换上裙子,束起马尾,拎起手袋,整装出发。穿着咯咯鞋,浑身不自在。约好了去 Interview,十点钟,在 Jalan Berangan。公司名叫 Computer Protocol。地址可是门牌,真让人不安啊! Jalan Berangan 里,会有怎样的一番际遇呢? 9.35分了,巴士可真慢呀! 太阳晒得我头昏昏的,手心在不停冒汗。巴士再不来,我可要迟到了!焦急不安的时候,还好,在关键时刻,我总是如愿以偿的!

Jalan Berangan, 是Jalan Sultan Ismail 的分小路。看似近,走起来可真不近啊!我在过了Giordano前的巴士站下车,望了望手表,9.45分,吁了口气! 循着Jalan Berangan的路标,沿着小路一直向前走。沿路还有个小山丘,穿着高跟鞋路可不好走啊!每一步都小心翼翼,深怕一失足成千古恨,弄个灰头土脸。沿路走去,所见的都是住宅,真让人意外在这样的黄金地段的地方竟然隐藏着住宅区! 行人不多,但是车龙不断。这就是吉隆坡的特色吧!

走了一段路,才看见我的目的地。

外表可真让人担心啊!这样的公司在这样的地方,怎么也没让人心奋起来。我站在对街的马路上(Restoran Tom Yam) 犹疑着,还差5分,我的Timing还不赖。伫立良久,审察着,斟酌着。与自己内心的对话。准备好了吗?

十点钟,我推开门,说了声早安。柜台小姐问我是干什么来着。我说: “I’m here for an interview scheduled 10am.”她说: “Oh, the intern position is it?”我说: “Ya, that’s right!”她拨了个电话,说了几句,跟着就领我上楼去,见另一位Admin Exec。那位Admin之后领我去会议室,给了我一叠资料,一张表格,让我耐心的等候。办公室里,看来混乱一片。和外表完全相符。翻着他们的资料,我脑袋空白一片。仍试图装着镇定。不久,开始Interview Session。虽然已经准备好,但我还是紧张不已。四个人来,好多。进来时没看到什么人,怎么面试就突然冒出这些人呢?每个人递张卡片给我,有Managing Director,有Assistant General Manager,有Senior Technical Support Engineer,有Senior Technical Support Executive。真让人坐立不安啊!

第一个问题是,Can you explain your knowledge? =.=
(不就是networking吗? Resume有写,怎么不会看啊! )

I’m majoring in networking, this semester I’ve taken routing protocol subject, dealing with routers, the configuration and something like that。

第二个问题是,Routing protocol? (He chuckles) then I’m sure you’ve heard of VoIP。Can you tell me something about VoIP? =.=

Ermm… I think it’s something to do with the voice packet, transmit over the internet。看着他那似笑非笑的表情,我还是别再装懂了,Actually we’d just taught of the general idea in school,I don’t really know much about VoIP。他们狡诘的交换了个眼神,然后开始解说VoIP以及他们公司的性质。我就像一个虔诚的信徒一样,领听教诲。

第三个问题是,What Do you expect to learn? What is your interest? =.=
(What do you expect me to know? 我是来混口饭吃的啦。安安分分毕业就算吧!有工就好,还会有什么要求呢?)

I expect to learn something different from school, something which is applicable。I’m more to hardware part。(Since your company is doing hardware)

What hardware do you mean? Do you learn circuit design? Have you ever fixed your computer? Like troubleshooting?

What is your ambition? What do you want to be? (Computer Scientist, perhaps?)

We can take you of course, but we really want you to know what’s your interest in, what you want to learn. You can always go for another company to see what they do, what suit you best. We would like to hear from you, whatever you want to let us know, you can always get back to us。Send us email. We will keep your thing here; your knowledge in networking is not to say enough but is suitable for us. One suggestion to you is that, since you say you like hardware, you can always go online and do some searching, see what is going on, see what VoIP is all about.

这算什么答复?

Okay, I think that’s it. Thank you for coming.

我快气疯了。就是怎样? 录取吗? 薪水呢? 什么也没提,没有结论。 我想,回家还得做research,回复他们我真的好想work with you all。不过,在那儿做,我想应该能学到好多新知识吧! 不自觉有些期待。

做工果然不简单啊!

十一点钟。脚跟好痛,口好渴。太阳依旧猛烈。我在7-eleven停站,买了一包plaster 和一罐Kickapoo。一拐一拐地往回走,我该何去何从? 孤独感油然而生。然而喝着汽水,心情暂时愉快起来。难怪张栋梁会说, “当你孤单你会想汽水” (起谁) 。^_^

回复的email该怎么写呢? VoIP,真让人头痛啊! 不管了,先过年吧!

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