Company Experience

I just want to share my experience while working with Mobile Magic, which claims to be India’s largest and fastest growing chain of mobile retail stores.

After my studies in Pune, I had decided to return back to Kerala and try for some job here so that I could stay in my home with my parents. That time, I got a call from the “HR Manager” of Mobile Magic, the so called “Largest chain of mobile outlets in India.” I was asked whether I was interested in working in my native. Since I was planning to come back, I took this offer. In two days, I received a call from one of the promoters. He was pretty impressed with me (I guess) and so I was asked to pay a visit to Mobile Magic’s head office at Nagpur and take the final round of interview.

Nagpur is about 16hours journey from Pune, by bus. I reached company office on the given date before the scheduled time of 9:00AM. All I could see was a locked office where I had to stand about an hour when the security arrived and opened the office. I got my self refreshed in the office itself. And people started coming in one by one by around 10. I met the HR, with whom I had been interacting with. And the directors had also arrived. I was asked to wait as the person whom i was supposed to meet was busy with some meetings with the other directors.

Time went by and nothing happened. In between I met the HR regarding the interview. Everytime she assured me that it will happen in 15 mins. I wondered, is this the only 15 mins the HR knew, in all the world. It became lunch time, I was still waiting. Later around she asked me to have lunch and come as the director had left for lunch. (I thought “That’s great. He had called me all the way from Pune and he is having his lunch very comfortably.” Lack of proper time management.)

The funniest thing is that company’s Office is situated in such a place in Nagpur, where you will not find a single hotel or restaurant in the near vicinity. Oh yeah, you have one multi cuisine restaurant a block away but it was very expensive. And the funniest thing was none in the company who were residing in Nagpur knew a place nearby. Somehow, I could find a place nearby where I got some snacks for lunch. IT was then, the HR had called me and asked to return to the office immediately as the director had returned. This was around 3:00PM. I got back to the office ASAP and found myself waiting near his cabin. Later it was about 5:00PM when the director called me inside. And I had my bus back to Pune in an hour. I went inside, he asked me some questions regarding my previous profession and then regarding mobile business. Then he just went straight to topic regarding the company, its promoters, operations and other thing in brief. He even gave me a presentation which is usually given to the prospective customers and he wanted me to ask him questions as a prospective customer. I did everything, and I believe he was pretty impressed. Later in the night, I caught my bus back to Pune.

After a couple of days, I received a call from the HR stating that I was selected and she briefed me regarding the position, remuneration and other job profile details. I accepted the offer and I agreed to join Mobile Magic.