Questions

What is your specialized knowledge? (what

distinguishes you from other team members)

Why You are going? { what is the purpose, why any

one else cannot go}
How your skillset is specialized? Anyone can learn
and get the knowledge.

What is the database that you are using?

What is the impact in case you does not go?

Why did you left previous organization in 3 months?

Do you have prior experience in the current

technology?

---- light questions-----

Who is your manager?
What is your team size in India, in US?
What is your indian salary?
What is your US Salary?
Expected pointed questions Response

I am having specialization in Sapient's In-House Form

submission application and fair price approval workflow. The
application allows PF form submission to adhere to regulations,
guidelines, and business rules specific. I have been invovled in
design and development of this tool from the start.

Our framework support SQL server, Oracle, MySQL. For current

deployment, we are using SQL Server.
Reach in time
Documents should be indexed
Resume and Purpose should match
At Sapient, his contribution towards different proprietary components like Token Based Entitl
Explained my specialized skills and how I will apply at client side
nents like Token Based Entitled Authentication (TBEA), Preferences, Market Data Analysis (MDA), Enriched Pricing, and Com
A), Enriched Pricing, and Composite Event Managed Framework (CEMF) is remarkable. These components are used by diff
components are used by different client business units which involved in trading and risk analysis.
1 Compliance discloure reporting system application is to be deployed in Sape Chicago office.
2 It requires integration with other system
3
4
5
ape Chicago office.
Where will you work?
Will you work in client
location?

Why this access is not

available in India?
What is your client?

What is your specialization

Does other india team

members understands the
product?/What distinguishes
you from other team
members?

What will you do?

What is sapient approach
What is CDF
What is GDD
What technologies are
involved
what database are used
Common
questions
General

Current Work
Proposed Work in the U.S.
L1B
CROSS Question
In Sapient Chicago office
No, But there will be limited access to client environment from Sapient Chicago
office. This area will be secured.

Citadel environment access is very restrained, and limited. Their environment itself
has multiple security levels. Their integration test environment are open to Sapient
India Office. System Testing environment is only opened to Sapient Chicago office,
and production environment where actual data exists, is not open outside. During
my work at onshore, I will participate in system integration testing, and user
acceptance testing from Sapient Chicago office. One week work will be in client
location that has support for deployment in production environment.
Citadel group

My specialization is in customization and enhancement of CDRS for regulatory

reporting and SEC short selling. CDRS is implemented using sapient in-house
properiety frameworks (such as CDF, GDD) and using sapient approach (SA|3). The
data exchange format for CDRS is DRF (compliance disclosure reporting format) that
extends FpML(industry standards).

Other team members does not understand complete customization process, and
they have joined late into the project. I am involved from the kick-off, and present in
all requirement analysis, design discussion, customization and enhancement. Prior to
customization project, I had previously worked for development of CDRS framework
during which i gained knowledge of sapient approach, result space, GDD, and CDF.
Owing to my experience, I am at present, most appropriate person to carry out the
deployment process, support, fix go-live issues, and do the transition of knowledge
to US team members. This is precisely the reason I am recommended by the client.

I will carry out (and support) deployment of CDRS application in system integration,
user testing phase(It includes prepartion of environment specific deployment script,
integration with other applications, preparing staging environment, etc). On
completion, I will deploy to production environment and provide quick solution to
unexpected go-live issues. This will go hand in hand with stabilization of product
(performance profiling and tuning). Post implementation/deployment, I will
transition the knowledge and go-live experience/lesson-learnt to US team members.
How are you?
What visa are you applying for?
Have you already been to the U.S.?
When did you return from the U.S.?
You were out of the U.S. for about more than a year. Who was supporting the
application in your absence?
When was the last time you travelled to the U.S.?
Can I see your petition letter?
Can I see your papers and passport?

Please give me the visa fee receipt. (That is $500 fraud detection fee receipt.)

Where do you work?

How long have you been working with your current company?
What is your current salary?
What are your current roles and responsibilities?
Who is your customer?
What is your designation?
Who are the previous clients you have worked with?
What is your total experience?

What were you doing prior to join the current company?

Why does your petition have different sponsor than your present company?

How many people currently report to you?

How many of them are in the U.S. and outside the U.S.?
Are they individual contributors or managers or mixed?
Do you work for an internal team or at the client site?
You have been working for this company for over 10 years. Don't you get bored?
Don't you want to change the employer?
What kind of training did you go through?

Who is your client?

I have never heard about that company. What do they do?
What does your client do?
What is your client requirement?
Where will you work in the U.S.?
What kind of work will you do in the U.S.?
What will you do in the U.S.?
What will be job responsibilities in the U.S.?
Where will you stay in the U.S.?
Who will manage you in the U.S.?
What will be your salary in the U.S.?
How will you be compensated? Will you be on U.S. payroll or foreign (such as Indian)
payroll?
Will you get the allowance in the U.S.?
Why do you need to travel to the U.S.?
Why can't that work be done from your home country?
How long do you plan to stay in the U.S.?
What work will you do for your client?
Is your manager (or boss) in the U.S.?
Who is your primary contact? Is he related to you in any way?

If your manager fires you in the U.S., what will you do?

Will you work at the client location or parent company's office?

Are you going to work for multiple clients when in the U.S.?

How will your client benefit from your travel?

Are you traveling for testing?

What is your specialization?

What is your special skill set?

Why do you think it is special?
Is that implemented on a particular domain?
What kind of specialized skills you have?
What is so special about it? There are several such tools in the market.

Is that a software like Java or Oracle or something like that?

Did you develop this tool?

Was it really a development of the tool or modification?
Did you invent this tool?

How many people in your team developed this tool?

What was your exact contribution in developing such a tool?

Who was leading the project?

If you have not developed this product, how can you be specialized in it?

How did you gain expertise in these tools?

How long have you worked in your specialized area?

What phase is your current project in?

Have you done development work or modification?

Why is it necessary for you to go to the U.S. for this work? Why not someone else?
Why can't your company's U.S. team member do this work?

Is the tool you are going to work on a client tool or your company's tool?

How long have you been working in XXX language?

How many people will be working on XXX language in your company?

How many people will be working on XXX product in your company?

Do you know XYZ technology?

If you use proprietary tools and now that they have been developed, why can't your
client hire someone onshore and train them to work on the same tool?

Why can't the associates already in the U.S. on site handle the work?

Are you customizing something for the client or are you using any third party tool?

Will you be doing custom modifications?

What is GDD?
What is special about GDD?
What is Sapient Approach
What is SA|3
What is CDF
Why Dodd Frank was needed
What is Dodd Frank act
Other team members understand part of project. I am
involved in this customization from the starting and
hence I am aware of all the details, discussions,
integration points. Other team members were added as
per requirement.
I am good. How are you doing officer?
L1 blanket.
No.
NA

NA
NA
Sure, here it is.
Sure, here it is.

Ok, here it is.

Sapient, Gurgaon.
16 months.
1,176,000INR

Citadel.
Senior associate Platform L1

5 years, 10 months.

My First company was NEC HCL ST, where I worked for 4

years,3 months. My second company was Motricity,
which had shut down india operation in Dec 2011.
There I worked for 4 months.

NA
NA
NA
NA
internal team.

NA
SA, GDD. CDF I have developed, CDRF I have developed,
ABS component I have developed from scratch.

Citadel.

Sapient Chicago office.

Environment restrictions, legal restrictions.

4 months.

Yes

There is a 2 months notice period. If I am fired in US, I

will come back in India, and will serve Notice period in
India. Side by side I will rigorously work for another job
here.
I will work at parent company office. For 3 weeks, I will
go to client location.
No only for citadel.

They will observe the smooth go-live. This is very

critical for their business from legal perspective. If this
product is not deployed, or deployed with delay, they
have to manage their work manually which would cost
them lots of time, lots of effort and opportunity cost.
No, For deployment, and stabilization.
 Next steps

I have specialized knowledge of ABS Component of

CDRS application. This includes loan level performance
data format, sme format, rules, exchange act feature,
disclosure report format from domain perspective, and
SA|3, GDD, CDF from platform perspective.
<Same as above>

No we don’t have.

No, Java or Oracle are software that enables Software

developers to create other software. Our software is an
enterprise level application, that has huge
infrastructure, is targetted at ABS domain, is required to
minimize the reporting/disclosure timelines, (which
helpse in greater turnaround and transprancy)
Yes, but not alone.
It is development of tool.

3 Developers, 2 QA guys, 1 BA, 1 Manager. Total 7

people. I was most experienced developer.

Robert Nunez

I have developed the product, and the customization.

1. By attending training
2. By Self learning
3. On the job training owing to development
16 months
Deployment/Performance tuning/ User acceptance
testing
Both.
1. The development was completely from offshore.
2. US team members are new, and they need to be
trained

Company tool. It provides extensibility points, thorugh

with it will interact with client properity data services,
and formats.
3 yrs.
Total employees are 10000, on XXX language 2000. In
my project, 3 out of 7.

Development team -> 7 people. But there are other

legal/finance/sales people who work simultanesouly for
multiple projects.
Yes, but not alone.

I am going for deployment

The tool development, and customization both had

been done in India. Current phase includes
deployment, integration with actual client services,
stabilization and performance tuning tasks. These tasks
requires knowledge of application architecture,
different integration points, sapient approach, etc. As
this work is done at off shore, we donot have associates
who has these knowledge.
These knowledge is typically imparted from the
maintainance/support phase. This is one of the agenda
of my trip.

We are customizing our application for client tool. This

includes modification, feature enhancement in our tool,
and integration with client services.

No, But will be doing integration with client tools.