this week's post has to be dedicated to silly mistakes. anyone who is from software background in india would agree with the sentiment that 90% of mistakes that are being solved or fixed or analyzed are due to someone's silly mistakes. Before this week, I had been taking care that silly mistakes don't creep in, but then I can have some off days too :-)
RN has always been sloppy, always in a hurry to get things done, always in a hurry to catch that bus, never taking responsibility. this week she was asked to make some releases for poker and casino client and boy did she goof up ! as the manager, i have to take some blame too, but in my defence I can only say that I did verify her releases, tested them, made others test them. But in the final analysis of things, when RN gave release to VS, this last build should have been tested. This was the point where she made mistakes. And I paid the price. 10 PM on Thursday, 10 PM on Friday and 2 hours on Saturday were more than enough. I have now taken over the release management.
This week I also took interview of a candidate AR for HEC MBA. From his essays I could make out that he would be an average guy with lot of air and pretensions, who would always fall back upon standard responses. When I met him I realized my observations were spot on. His presentation was awful, his answers rehearsed, his career objectives completely obscured. His other interview was taken by AM, who had accompanied Abbott's CEO during VOL week. I wonder how he fared in that interview.
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