General

 How are you?

o Good Sir/Ma’am

 What visa are you applying for?

o L1B Blanket

 Have you already been to the U.S.?

o No

 Can I see your petition letter?

o Yes, Need to handover petition letter

 Can I see your papers and passport?

o Yes, Need to handover papers and passport

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

o Yes, Need to handover $500 fraud detection fee receipt

Current Work

 Where do you work?

o HCL Technologies, Hyderabad

 How long have you been working with your current company?

o 1 Year 10 Months

 What is your current salary?

o 12,87,502
  What are your current roles and responsibilities?

- Responsible for Architectural and solution design of CSP Instagen tool.

- Gaining Technical Insights and Analyze and implement the business logics for various workflows
involved.
- Provide Estimation and responsible for development and configuration
- Upgrade the tool to support new (azure)framework
- Co-ordinate with all stakeholders to ensure on-time quality delivery of the Tool
- Responsible for end-to-end implementation of CSP Instagen Tool

 Who is your customer?

o Microsoft Corporation

 What is your designation?

o Senior Consultant

 Who are the previous clients you have worked with?

o TATA AIA, STAR TV

 What is your total experience?

o 7Years and 6 Months

 What were you doing prior to join the current company?

o Current job roles

 How many of them are in the U.S. and outside the U.S.?

 Are they individual contributors or managers or mixed?

o Individual contributors

 Do you work for an internal team or at the client site?

o Internal Team

Proposed Work in the U.S.

 Who is your client?

 o Microsoft Corporation

 What does your client do?

o Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation

headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures,
licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and
personal computers and services. Its best known software products are
the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office suite,
and Internet Explorer web browser.

 What is your client requirement?

o Implementing the CSP InstaGEN Tool and provide solution for

customizing the tool for their business needs.

 What is CSP and InstaGEN Stands for

o Cloud Solution Provider and InstaGEN stands for reporting tool which
track the promotions and benefits of the cloud business partners.

 Where will you work in the U.S.?

o I will be working in HCL Office Redmond

 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.?

- Responsible for overall solution design to implement CSP Instagen tool for our proposed client.
- Map the product features to business needs and fit gap analysis to provide solution for
customization.
- Analyze and implement the business logics for various workflows involved
- Customization and configuration of the Tool as per client’s business needs
- Work on minor enhancements,
- Responsible for end-to end implementation customized CSP Instagen Tool.

 Where will you stay in the U.S.?

o Extended Stay America

 o 15805 NE 28th St, Bellevue, WA 98008

 Who will manage you in the U.S.?

o My manager located in same location , we will have weekly review

about the project update, he will monitor

 What will be your salary in the U.S.?

o 81075 USD

 How will you be compensated? Will you be on U.S. payroll or foreign (such
as Indian) payroll?

o It’s an Intra company transfer, my payroll will changed from the day 1 of
relocated.

 Will you get the allowance in the U.S.?

o No

 Why do you need to travel to the U.S.?

o Customization and Configuring the CSP Instagen tool for client

 Why can't that work be done from your home country?

o Customer’s confidential data being used into his tool which cannot be
exposed outside of their secured environment.

o Which includes promotions and payouts of clients cloud partners

 How long do you plan to stay in the U.S.?

o 1 Year 6 Months

 What work will you do for your client?

o Customization and Configuring the CSP Instagen tool for client

 Is your manager (or boss) in the U.S.?

 o Yes, the same location

 Who is your primary contact? Is he related to you in any way?

o My Reporting Manager – Venkata Ramana Bendalam , Yes

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

o Will come to origin location and continue working from my parent

organization

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

o Parent Company’s office

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

o No

 How will your client benefit from your travel?

o Will provide solution to CSP InstaGen tool for customization

o This tool helps the organizations to focus and build their relationships
with their partners and help them to migrate and run their existing On-
Prem workloads to cloud servers and Enhanced market penetration
among large and complex partner organizations

(OR)

o Its helps the organization to migrate the existing on-prem workloads to

cloud servers and increasing the business in the cloud platform.

o To handle end-to-end implementation of the CSP InstaGen tool.

 Are you traveling for testing/support?

o No

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 What is your specialization?

 What kind of specialized skills you have?

 What is your special skill set?

- I am specialized in CSP Instagen Tool, It’s a proprietary Tool of my organization (HCL).

- This tool provides automated solution to process custom pricing and targeted discounts for
cloud solution partner by tracking usage, revenue and credits.
- This tool helps the organization to increase the sales and Revenue,
- It also helps the partners to migrate their services to cloud platform
- It has inbuilt feature to forecast loyalty credits achievement by analyzing usage trends
- Provides various payout patterns depends on the business types and country specific
- It will be implemented as a Value add to the customer

 What is so special about it? There are several such tools in the market.

 Why do you think it is special?

o HCL proprietary tool, It has inbuilt forecasting feature and dashboard

provides the real time monitoring and it will provide the program level
revenue and credits acquired by the partner. This tool provides various
payout patterns and enable the customer to choose the payout option

 Is that implemented on a particular domain?

o Azure Cloud

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

o No, it’s not a software

 Did you develop this tool?

o Yes

 Was it really a development of the tool or modification?

o It’s Not development the tool, its customization and configuration for
the client

 Did you invent this tool?

 o Yes

 How many people in your team developed this tool?

o 5 people

 What was your exact contribution in developing such a tool?

o Involved in Design and development the tool

 Who was leading the project?

o My self

 How long have you worked in your specialized area?

o 1 Year 7months

 What phase is your current project in?

o Implementation phase

 Have you done development work or modification?

o Development

 Why is it necessary for you to go to the U.S. for this work? Why not
someone else?

o I have involved from beginning of the tool and provided solution to

various workflows

o Involved design phase and leading the development team to get

completed.

 Why can't your company's U.S. team member do this work?

 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?
- No person in US doesn’t have knowledge of this Tool
- Even training will take them to understand the basics only
- my client deals with millions of customer with diverse business process to deal with different
geos
- So customization will become complex, So prior implementation experience is required to
provide soln for customization
- Prior experience required to provide solution for customization and implementation because
- I have in-depth knowledge of this tool - capabilities, limitation, and workflow logics
- I have prior implementation and development experience to handle the customization
(Implementation and configuration)

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

o My Company Tool

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

o Customizing the CSP InstaGen Tool

 Will you be doing custom modifications?

o Yes

 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?