Hi Friends,
This article is in continuation of mylifeintcs.blogger.com. I had the pleasure of working in TCS for three amazing years. I moved to small start-up kind of mid range software company(metricstream) two months back. The one word in which metric stream can be defined is vibrant. And if you in any way associated with TCS, it will come to your sense that this word is often used by TCS high level management, particularly by CEO, Chandra.
In this blog I shall move ahead from where I left in my previous blog. Well to be honest I find its quite an arduous task to recollect all those memories withered by time. I was lucky enough in ILP to get Java as a domain and then Bangalore as my base location. It was pure 100% hard coded LUCK. I enjoyed my stay in Trivandrum, I liked the new climate of Trivandrum, sea, beaches, air conditioned office of TCS and lots of cigarettes. I completed my ILP somewhere around October 2012 with a good rating and lots of confidence.I enjoyed my paid honeymoon in Bangalore searching for room, parting with friends, occasional visits to RMG( resource management group, more like HR), preparing for Elitmus and reading newpapers and few novels. Well, there is a cliche "Good times passes really fast" and I came to know this in the chill of December when my Boss shouted on me "boy, this is not a college anymore." I joined a project on December 2012 after a long interview which was arranged for fresher above 4 ratings.
An important thing for freshers that rating above 3 are given better opportunities in getting projects in TCS. One gets a project after a interview whose difficulty level keep varying from project to project.There are three different kinds of projects like Development, Maintenance and Support. As far as I have seen Development project are interesting, challenging and certainly takes more than said 9 hours a day. However, support projects offers more onsite opportunity along with the facility that a person can prepare for various examinations while working. I can say that now, that lots of my friends are in esteemed IIMs cause they utilized their time while in support projects.
Coming back to the chill of December, I came to know that I joined a development project. It was a small project having a team of six people; 3 freshers, a two year experienced developer, a two year experienced unix guy and a team lead,. A few people joined midway along with the needs. Our unceasing development period continued for eight months without any break, Our daily working hours were around 11 hours minus one hour break for tea-coffee lunch. That was the routine for six days a week and it went on for eight more painstaking months. I learned a lot in these eight months Java,struts 1.3, javascript, html, css positioning, oracle. Sitting down here and looking behind these years, I fail to recollect those exact moments. However, my back pain, which I developed while working on those long hours,still reminds me that the past was real.
I developed very strong bond with my teammates and especially with the team lead during those painstaking hours. I guess its only because of that, my lead still calls me from USA. Our project was praised at various levels, people lauded on our collective team work, one senior person was literally amazed by the amount of work we had achieved in such a short time, in-spite of all that, our project never saw the light of day and it ended in GIT like most of the internal development projects of TCS.
This article is in continuation of mylifeintcs.blogger.com. I had the pleasure of working in TCS for three amazing years. I moved to small start-up kind of mid range software company(metricstream) two months back. The one word in which metric stream can be defined is vibrant. And if you in any way associated with TCS, it will come to your sense that this word is often used by TCS high level management, particularly by CEO, Chandra.
In this blog I shall move ahead from where I left in my previous blog. Well to be honest I find its quite an arduous task to recollect all those memories withered by time. I was lucky enough in ILP to get Java as a domain and then Bangalore as my base location. It was pure 100% hard coded LUCK. I enjoyed my stay in Trivandrum, I liked the new climate of Trivandrum, sea, beaches, air conditioned office of TCS and lots of cigarettes. I completed my ILP somewhere around October 2012 with a good rating and lots of confidence.I enjoyed my paid honeymoon in Bangalore searching for room, parting with friends, occasional visits to RMG( resource management group, more like HR), preparing for Elitmus and reading newpapers and few novels. Well, there is a cliche "Good times passes really fast" and I came to know this in the chill of December when my Boss shouted on me "boy, this is not a college anymore." I joined a project on December 2012 after a long interview which was arranged for fresher above 4 ratings.
An important thing for freshers that rating above 3 are given better opportunities in getting projects in TCS. One gets a project after a interview whose difficulty level keep varying from project to project.There are three different kinds of projects like Development, Maintenance and Support. As far as I have seen Development project are interesting, challenging and certainly takes more than said 9 hours a day. However, support projects offers more onsite opportunity along with the facility that a person can prepare for various examinations while working. I can say that now, that lots of my friends are in esteemed IIMs cause they utilized their time while in support projects.
Coming back to the chill of December, I came to know that I joined a development project. It was a small project having a team of six people; 3 freshers, a two year experienced developer, a two year experienced unix guy and a team lead,. A few people joined midway along with the needs. Our unceasing development period continued for eight months without any break, Our daily working hours were around 11 hours minus one hour break for tea-coffee lunch. That was the routine for six days a week and it went on for eight more painstaking months. I learned a lot in these eight months Java,struts 1.3, javascript, html, css positioning, oracle. Sitting down here and looking behind these years, I fail to recollect those exact moments. However, my back pain, which I developed while working on those long hours,still reminds me that the past was real.
I developed very strong bond with my teammates and especially with the team lead during those painstaking hours. I guess its only because of that, my lead still calls me from USA. Our project was praised at various levels, people lauded on our collective team work, one senior person was literally amazed by the amount of work we had achieved in such a short time, in-spite of all that, our project never saw the light of day and it ended in GIT like most of the internal development projects of TCS.
