The 1st month….
Its been more than a month since I’ve joined Infy. As blogger is blocked in infy, I grew lazy about blogging! Still, after my 1 month of stay in infy, I am tempted to write this blog!!
We (4 other friends of me) reached early morning in Infy campus on nov 9th. After thorough security checks, we were taken to hostel rooms in infy golf cars (electric cars). I think I should describe the hostel rooms in atleast one paragraph !
Rooms are air conditioned, with attached bathrooms 24*7 supply of hot water and fully furnished with coat,chairs,tables,password operated safe locker, blankets, kettle and an iron box!. Coffee,tea could be made anytime inside room. Room is lavishly lightened with 2 big lights and 2 table lamps.
This is all about the hostel rooms. And I think I should dedicate at least 3 paragraphs to describe the other facilities here!! The multiplex was the first attraction, with its ball like structure in glass. Movies are screened only on weekends. The sound and picture quality are simply the best in here! Other attractions include, swimming pools, bowling alley, snookers, table tennis, courts for all sort of outdoor games like cricket,basketball, tennis!! (many Indian cricketers come to practice in infy cricket grounds!)
The next is the Global education centre a.k.a GEC. GEC 1 is where my class is, and GEC-2 is being built (almost finished I guess). The front view of GEC resembles roman architecture and from one side it looks like Colosseum.! The software development buildings are of different styles, one in paper-fold style, one like a U.S Senate. Internet is available except during classhours, but no access to public mail (g mail etc), orkut, and youtube!!
The entire campus and facilities made me feel like a king!!
A small note on our food courts: We have around 5 main food courts in here catered by various caterers. Dominos Pizza, Caffe Coffe Day, Coffe Day Express, Amul,….etc are also here. Food quality is just average only, though its pretty cheap.(around 30rs for non-veg meal, 12rs for fresh juices….etc)
1st week was purely induction and presentation by various departments. 2nd week onwards real traning started. 7 modules are there in generic traning which every trainee has to undergo., after which a stream specific training is there which could be anything from .net,java,open systems or mainframes or Finacle. I was expecting 5-10 year experienced people as educators, but most educators here are hardly 1 year experienced!! Nevertheless, the sessions were far informative than a normal engineering college lecture.
Classes are there from 9-12 forenoon. After noon from 2’0 clock, we have to do the assignments based on that days topic. And exams were quite easy for me though many have flunked in it! ( 65% is the pass cut-off )
One thing which we never run out of in here is rumors!!” Infy is making exams tougher to fire trainees, cut-of for pass is made to 75%, no retests”….. etc etc..it keeps on coming!!
The most important day so far here was the day when our chief mentor and co-founder NRN came to address us. His speech was marvelous. It was equally inspiring and disappointing! Disappointing in the sense that, I came to know from the chief mentor himself that, 75% of total trainees are classified as poor performers and they don’t want poor performers in production! Also he spoke a bit about the global recession and regarding most clients’ decision to cut down their IT outsourcing partners to 1or 2 from the current 4-5. NRN then boosted us up, by telling that the top level management is seeing this downturn as an opportunity to learn, and he gave an overall idea on how infy is positioned itself to fight global recession. I was really wondered when I learned that the facilities we get in here are better than those enjoyed by students in MIT,Wharton business school, Uni. Of Tokyo etc.
He also spoke about the hard works he and his team has to endure in the beginning and he also urged us to work smart and be focused.
Though its more than a month since I reached here, I am yet to see many of the facilities in here! I think the remaining 3-4 months will be more exciting, with stream traning and compre-exams. I heard like hardly 50% clear the stream tests and only 5% have cleared certain modules! Well, not only us, the whole world knows the toughness of infy training, and thats exactly why Infoscions are recognized and respected worldwide!
