Long back(not very long), I was in my B. Tech dreaming of working
in some MNC company with lots of projects, great team and under the
guidance of a great manager. Finally on the D-day, first interview and
the company was CTS. I was not selected. I thought probably my utterly
poor subject skills let me down. Then came Infosys. I knew that Infosys
HR policies concentrated around the soft skills, so I prepared well and
cleared the interview. Then I entered the Mysore campus with sprawling
lawns, innovative and creative, spic-clean buildings and roads melted
my heart. Probably just stepping into the campus itself was a kind of
achievement in itself.
The Training started with Soft Skills training and then it
started with the Computer fundamentals and then with Network concepts
and then Software Development Life Cycle and then Web Fundamentals. The
training listed above was of Generic stream. Completely WITHOUT BIAS
and out of PURE BUSINESS REQUIREMENTs, I was put in the batch that
was to be trained in JAVA. The STREAM(that is what it is called), was
more of a systematic process of eliminating/ousting the excess and the
non-creamy layer. JAVA, UNIX, PL/SQL were taught within two fortnight.
Then came the outcry of us being trained for FINACLE(the only IBU which
every trainee freaked out the most). Training for FINACLE started with
Operative Accounts and later went into the Investment ID creations). At
that moment I felt like with INFOSYS kind of training even a Ph.D., that
requires years of study and research, could be received in a month. As
though the Stream selection was completely of BUSINESS requirement, the
location of Deport was also based on that criteria. I got Mysore(Out of
pure luck). Then they said that Chennai required 5 folks urgently.
I planned to move to Chennai. But out of clouds came the call for folks
to Bangalore and with pure luck I was moved to Bangalore.
Coming to Bangalore and working here gave me completely
a different perspective than what I imagined in the first paragraph
or rather my graduation. I started working on Structured Products.(Now
don’t ask me to explain what it is.) Then I was asked to work in
Automation of Mutual Funds(without any training.) Thank god the
project lasted just two weeks and I was thrown into the Manual
testing of MF. Then I worked on FI-API(web-interface of Finacle).
Then I worked on EQUITIES for a short while before being thrown
back to SP again. Thank god that the Team support was great and
had a great mentor as my TL and ML. Then came the Business
requirement for FI-API test planning. A pretty decent work helped
me get a good appraisal. Next comes the SWIFT(Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Transactions). Worked close to 10 hrs., 5 days
a week and 4 weeks a month(this is far more than the average SE work).
The SWIFT was on EQUITIES and BONDs. Now am being introduced the
AUTOMATION again.(Both Capture and replay). It’s not that I hate
AUTOMATION, but it’s the technical work that bothers me. The next
time I might be thrown to work on OPTIONS and FUTURES or some other
project that I’ve hardly heard of. The team, the TL/ML, the manager,
the mentor, the company, the atmosphere/environment everything is
great. Only that there is a mismatch between my interest and the
kind of work am allocated to. Probably next year will be my last
in this SOFTWARE INDUSTRY.
Al-vida na kehna.
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