And finally after a long time!!!
ya.. here it goes..
i joined infy finally after so much of pandamonium in my joining dates. Actually it was 19 th june but i somehow managed to change it to 29 th may. Perhaps that was the most sensible decision i made. I went with all the huge bunch of Anna Univ folks. Thank heavens!!! Otherwise in that so called crappy corporate training, i would have been lost!!!
The moment i entered the sprawling Mysore Infy campus, I was completely taken aback. The mammoth of the building called GEC, The most happening ECC, the outlets in FC, the SDBs.. and a whole bunch of things.. Oh my!! (Wel sorry about the whole lot of acronyms, that comes to u as a conditioned reflex action the moment u join corporates!!)
Wel, the ambience aside, the training it was too good!! It was wel designed and wel structured. Even if you don know abc s of coding, they r bent upon making u one full fledged programmer in their own fashion. All you have to do is to surrender urself at their disposal and mechanically follow the EnR folk s lectures, write the module tests, attend the mock quizzes, do the stream projects etc etc etc.. wel it is all a part of the getting a training equivalent to a BS degree in US ( Atleast that is wat they say here!!!)
Wel, for a person like me, who is like in an altogether lost world, i learnt soooooooooooooo much in the short span of 3.5 months. right from hardware concepts and software concepts to programming to developing sofware applications. It much so much that my little brain could take. Its ok Athia, it happens!!!
And, the fun part of Mysore, the whole bunch of Anna univ folks - Mithuna, Govi, MAP, Nivi, Arthi, Manoj, Jack ;-) Priya, Sarojini, Subhashini, Dhaarini, Ambika to mention a few.. and many many more.. and not to forget a handsome number of ppl from PEC, NIT Nagpur, Bit Mesra, IT BHU.. Cant forget the lunch time and those Dhabbha days.. Man it rocked!! it was indeed a lively lively crowd.. guess i became like hutch, Wherever i went my network followed!! lol
wel, those days were hectic. the classes started at 09.00 am. ant it means 09.00 am and not even 09.01 am. and if u r late, u have to apply for half day leave. man is this corporate training or some militarty camp i entered by mistake!! day and nite and day and nite.. on and on and on.. over and over again.. in front of the comp coding and learning.. Get geared up gal, and thats gonna be the rest of ur life!!
wel wel.. something more on training days event by event later. Here s something that infy needs to work about..
1. the initial HR process of induction needs to be more refined. ppl, as they join in huge numbers (it was hundreds before and now thousands a week), fro example, the Document screening should be more ordered and done in batches so tat it saves a lot of time for the trainees.
2. in the stream specific training, there were a lotta typos the material. It has to be taken care of by EnR.
3. the training days appeared more like entering into 9 th semester rather than a corporate training. only the last few days, when we did a POST project, the rest of the training never was a simulation of a real time project scenario.
4. and, on the personal front, i dint like the kind of preferences and priviledges given to the US trainee batch. After all, rule for one is rule for all!!
Apart from it., the true spirit of infy reflects its Mantra- Powered by Intellect, Driven by Values!!!
Whatever said or done, i like infy.. Infy Rocks and I have to say it!!
