My H1B Visa Interview Call

My interview was on Aug 25, 2007. The conversation between me and Visa Officer is as follows:

 

Me: Hi, Good Morning

VO: Hi, Your Token Please.

[ I gave him my token]

 

VO: Why are you going USA?

ME: TO join Astir IT Solutions.

 

VO: Describe me about the Company?

ME: Astir IT Solution is a software consulting and solution service provider company provides solutions to finance, banking and pharmaceutical domains.

 

VO: When did u join your current firm?

ME: [I have stated Month and Year]

 

VO: Why switching so fast?

ME: Because the solution on which I have to work in Astir is of my interest than being a consultant in current firm.

 

VO: What is your current salary?

ME: [Stated the current salary] Lacs per Annum.

 

VO: What will be your salary in US?

ME: [Stated as offered by Astir] per Annum.

 

VO: Why going for so less salary?

ME: Astir promised me to revise my package in mid year appraisal.

 

VO: Your visa is issued sir. You will receive your passport in two days. Good Luck.

ME: Thank you.

 

 

My Observation in consulate:

- Stay firm. No body movements even head movements.

- Be expressionless and speak in firm tone. Your speach must not be kind or rude it must be neutral.

- Dont go for long silence or pause (Answer as best of your knowledge as he is not the one evaluate everything in your life after this interview ;) )

- Answer in one word if possible and in case of descriptive questions dont exceed your line words more than 12-15.

- Dont be afraid or scared even hesitate as they are not some angels or someone from heaven just people try to check your profile whether you are professional or not. Even I recommand to cloth formally rather than going for tie or suit at programmer level. At senior level you must wear.

 

Smart career planning link

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/21boss.htm

Nice link on bargaining tectics

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/17bspec.htm

Excellent C/C++ Programming links page

http://www.spinics.net/linux/cprog.php

opD2d Direct to Disk sound card to disk converted

http://radio.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=radio&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opcode.co.uk%2Fopd2d%2Fdefault.asp

 

Unreliable guide to ethical hacking

http://kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-hacking.html

 

 

Perl Script Obfuscator

http://www.posi.net/software/kupo/

Good Emacs FAQ link

http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-21.1/html_chapter/faq_5.html

First article

After lots of brain drill and collecting lot of good English vocabularies I finally wrote an article. Honestly speaking I even didn’t like the way I wrote but atleast I can say it as my first attempt. Still long way to go.

Article link: http://www..codeproject.com/useritems/pro_c_basics.asp

Finally some idea gets ready to be implemented

Today on May 22, 07 - I finally feel that I should start writing something. I have to execute my plan after feeling lot of enjoyment at mumbai and bit tense at ahmedabad.
I have start reading article which teaches me how to draft books, articles, etc. Hence I have poor drafting skills. Anyways still trying improve perfection :)

The idea of writing tutorials, books was going on since a few months in my mind. After strongly feeling that I got a good subject. I have started sharpening my sword. Now let's see how long I can continue this spirit. Pray to god that I succeed in this task. Even failure will bring lot of things to learn in life.

Excellent way to save tax

 

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/may/11tax.htm

Links must be visited before MF investment

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/10perfin1.htm

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2007/apr/10market.htm

 

Free EBooks

http://www.pdfchm.com/

Steps to avoid password authentication everytime connecting ssh

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/66

Link for beginners to develop new GNU project

http://www.amath.washington.edu/~lf/codes/toolsmanual.html#SEC33
http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml

Topic for Presentation

metasploit

Pass Query String from shell to a perl script

Its as simple as:

"perl programname.pl var1=value1 var2=value2 var3=value3"

This is equal to:
"http://path/to/programname.pl?var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3 "

Working fine with perl 5.8.1.

Interview QA Link

http://www.kyapoocha.com

Retrieving webpage through telnet

Earlier there was a confusion in my mind about how to retrieve web page through telnet. Which can be useful in many applications. Now I figured out how.

Do you wanna know? Here is the magic:


> telnet us.ixquick.com 80
Trying 64.71.175.192...
Connected to us.ixquick.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 << equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">


XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx

XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

So simple..
Benefit for above technique is in HTTP 1.1 session remain continue where as in HTTP 1.0 session terminates once page has been retrieved and displayed.

If we need to retrieve outpnot be accepted: Tag ut with HTTP 1.0 then its very easier
We just need to write
"GET /index.html HTTP/1.0"

And the data shower gets OOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN....

Fwd: http/1.1 syntax

http://www.security-labs.org/full-page.php3?page=128