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SAP BI/BO MM APO CO CRM Hiring details

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Sun, 25 May 2014 15:48:00 +0000

TCS is hiring for SAP all modules. SAP BI/BO, SAP MM, SAP CRM:Marketing, SAP APO, SAP FICO, SAP HANA, SAP HCM. Please go through the follwing link for more details.
SAP Hiring Details

TCS Hiring CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:36:00 +0000

TCS is hiring chartered accountants. For more info please go to

Mega Oracle Walk In Drive. TCS walk in on 17th May 2014

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:29:00 +0000

TCS offers Walk in for the ORACLE professionals. For more details please go through.

TCS launches five point plan for effective e-Governance in India

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Wed, 18 May 2011 02:18:00 +0000

New Delhi, June 9, 2008: In a White Paper released today, Tata Consultancy Services, the leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, has identified opportunities for improvement in e-Governance in India and provided recommendations to help the Indian government drive forward a program for comprehensive and effective e-Governance in the country.
The White Paper is an attempt by TCS to use its experience in e-Governance projects to define a road-map for India and highlight current impediments like a silo-based approach that is limiting the benefits of technology use.
The paper also highlights India’s low position in global e-Governance rankings, and the need to catalyse policy decisions to improve e-Governance in India. India’s per capita public sector IT spend is $1.29, compared to $199 in New Zealand and $153 in Singapore, for instance.
On the back of the findings, TCS has come up with a five point plan towards building an ideal e-Governance framework in India:
1. A nationwide mandate to allocate a fixed percentage (~3%) of the annual budget for e-Governance projects
2. The need to adopt an integrated and holistic approach focused on services
3. National level oversight of any e-Governance programme and thereby move from individualized e-Governance to institutionalized e-Governance
4. A Fixed Tenure concept where key government executives are appointed for the entire term of any e-Governance initiative
5. A government standing committee to oversee national eGovernance programs
S. Ramadorai , CEO and MD said: “If implemented properly, e-Governance can be an asset for the un-served and under-served areas in India and drive new efficiency gains nationwide. While Indian IT is the envy of the world and is associated with some of the most advanced and complex IT projects globally, India has not fully leveraged its potential of IT and the expertise of Indian IT industry.”
Mr Ramadorai added: “According to the WEF Global Information Technology Report, India ranks 44 out of 122 countries analysed and ahead of us are countries like Barbados, Latvia, Tunisia, Thailand and the Slovak Republic. Therefore,
there is tremendous potential for e-Governance to benefit citizens exponentially and maximize return on government investments.
“TCS has created a successful track record by implementing mission-mode e-Governance projects like the landmark MCA 21 programme. It is due to the digitization and total electronic filing system in MCA 21 that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been able to handle such increase in volumes of registration of new companies as well as filing of annual returns seamlessly in the last two years, said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Vice President and Head, Global Government Industry Solutions Unit.”
The newly constituted Government business unit in TCS will focus on city, state and national programmes to help governments become more efficient, drive down costs and increase transparency.
TCS, the largest Indian public sector service provider, according to leading technology analyst firms, is redefining Indian e-Governance by helping government departments to think about IT in terms of outcomes rather than technology as an input. TCS also recommends that projects are executed as PPPs (public-private-partnerships) as well as competitively bidding for all projects and the use of build-own-operate transfer models for e-Governance projects.
In the White Paper, TCS cites landmark Indian e-Governance projects including:
Project Akshaya: A technology dissemination project in Kerala providing IT access to the entire state by setting up IT centres within 2-3 kilometres of every household.
APOnline: The digital gateway providing multiple services for citizens in Andhra Pradesh, anytime anywhere. The self-sustaining delivery model has generated employment for over 2,000 people, with over 1,300 kiosks in operation. Benefits include greater transparency, convenience, accountability, lower costs and responsiveness. It has also delivered an improved image for the government with major cost savings.
e-Choupal: Information centres with connectivity linking farmers to global markets. This initiative is one of the largest IT based programmes in rural India and has transformed Indian farmers into progressive knowledge-seeking net-citizens.

NSR registration check list

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Wed, 18 May 2011 02:02:00 +0000

Please do Comment if you fin information provided is help full or suggest the changes that needs to be made.

Checklist of details required and process for creation of your NSR profile and documents which may be referenced for completing NSR registration

Important - Please ensure to enter only correct details as the same can be subjected to background check by NSR subscriber companies (if authorised by you to view your profile or being your present employer company). Incorrect information will result in negative comments against your profile.

STAGE 1 : INTERNET REGISTRATION ON NSR

Access to Internet for about 15 minutes and connectivity with Printer will be required. Please visit :https://nationalskillsregistry.com
Click on "Register Now" Link, site will open a new window and display the registration process, fees and also terms & conditions. You are encouraged to read and understand the same.
Following details are required to be entered on NSR site. Also mentioned are the documents that may be referenced for entering the information and relevant helping remarks about the details being entered.

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This is an important field. Here you notify to the system the details of the company that suggested you to register. Based on your selection your company can access your details, update its records to note that your registration is complete. It can also get background check done.

You may select one of the three options viz,

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or at your own.

Incase of present employer, employee ID is very important and must be correctly provided and in case of another company indicate either job ID or offer ID or offer letter reference.

Personal Details Section

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An email stating your Acknowledgment number and further steps for completion of registration process will be sent to you on the email ID mentioned by you in the personal details section.

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For entering the qualification details you may need to refer to your qualification certificates. If for any qualification you do not have all the details this can be added after ITPIN generation as well.

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You can enter all your qualifications and if more rows are required please click on link for "Enter more Qualifications"

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STAGE II : BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION AT POINT OF SERVICE (POS)

Visit POS set-up (this may be located in your office, contact your HR team), Please Carry:

Acknowledgement Form printed from NSR with your Passport size Photograph pasted and duly signed by you
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POS will collect your acknowledgement form, verify your details with proof of identity, collect the payment and will also collect your finger-prints. POS will scan your photograph as provided by you, please review the scanned image as the same will appear your eCard and in your NSR profile. POS will issue Transaction Identification Number (TIN).

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POS will upload the details to NSR central system. Your ITPIN will be generated by NSR system and an email will be sent to your registered email ID. Now you can start accessing your profile. Please review your profile regularly and keep it updated. You can avail of all other NSR services like authorizing companies to view your profile, view status of such authorization, ordering background check report on your profile etc.

TCS AND other software firm will hike their employee salary by 10%. is it true?

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Wed, 18 May 2011 01:46:00 +0000

TCS expects to increase wages in the 2011 financial year, a top executive said on Monday.

On Friday, the top software outsourcing firm beat street estimates with a 33-percent rise in quarterly profit as demand for outsourcing surged and prices stabilised.

IT employees and HR experts expect many companies such as Target, Cognizant, SAP, VMware, Mahindra Satyam, TCS,Infosys, Genpact, Oracle, Accenture to offer a pay hike of 7-15% at the operational level and 12-18% at senior levels.

Abhinav Krishnan, an employee at VMware, the largest maker of software that lets computers run different operating systems, recently received a salary hike. This came as a big relief to him as he is his family's sole breadwinner.

"The company I worked with previously did not give me any hike. So I moved out, and my salary has now doubled," says this 26-year-old employee, who was earlier with one of the world's largest technology companies.

The improving market sentiments have also resulted in a rise in attrition levels, as companies have started to pay premium packages to hire skilled hands from other companies.

An Infosys employee said attrition levels have gone up and most employees were going to rival firms like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, which are offering a 40% hike in salaries.

"We are expecting a salary hike of 8% this April," he said. He said that during the tough times, they had to put in six hours of work, which was considered a full day. "Now, spending 3.5 hours is considered to be a full day," he said.

Due to the economic meltdown, issues related to the work environment, employee benefits and innovative programmes were put on the backburner. Companies were not too transparent in informing their employees about key decisions taken in the organisation. Many employees said that some companies are exploiting the situation in the name of recession.

ILP Trivandrum

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:34:00 +0000

TCS ILP Trivandrum Location

TCS receives highest overall customer reference scores

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:41:00 +0000

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 523540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, today announced that Forrester, an independent research firm, cited TCS as a Leader in its March 11, 2011 report titled “The Forrester Wave™: Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2011”.
Forrester reviewed nineteen service providers across 36 criteria. The criteria were clustered into three categories of current offering, strategy and market presence. TCS was positioned in the Leader wave for global IT infrastructure outsourcing.
TCS received the overall highest customer reference scores out of all the vendors in the analysis. According to the research firm, “TCS has solid global distribution of clients, along with solid marks for complementary consulting capabilities as well as solid ecosystem participation. TCS also has a very solid strategy for IT infrastructure management including a particularly strong vision for planned enhancements.”
“We are glad to be recognized as a leader in this report,” said PR Krishnan, Vice President and Global Head, TCS Infrastructure Services. “TCS’ Infrastructure Services transform customers’ businesses with our analytics-led automation framework by providing greater transparency, flexibility and service excellence. Our transformation capabilities and unique value proposition continue to deliver improved service levels across our customers’ value chain.”
TCS provides a complete spectrum of IT Infrastructure Services to help customers build and manage a highly available, reliable IT infrastructure and adapt to new technologies. TCS’ infrastructure offerings include IT Service Desk, Data Center Management Services, End User Computing Services, Application Management Services, Converged Network Services, Managed Security Services, Enterprise System Management and IT Service Management.
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM™), recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 198,500 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $8.2 billion for year ended March 31, 2011 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

Life At TCS

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:27:00 +0000

Life At TCS

Central Titan’s

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED (TCS)is the world-leading Information Technology Consulting, Services & Business process outsourcingorganization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. Now, with a presence in 34 Countries Across 6 Continents & a comprehensive range of services across diverse industries, TCS is one of the world's leadingInformation Technology companies.

TCS part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates - the TATA GROUP - which, with its interests in Energy, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Chemicals, Engineering & Materials, provides us with a grounded understanding of specific business challenges facing global companies.

TCS can help you identify opportunities of improvement, build the roadmap to getting there & leverage technology to make it possible, read more about our services & solutions:

Ø Consulting

Ø IT Services

Ø BPO

Ø IT Infrastructure Services

Ø Engineering and Industrial Services

Ø Product Based Solutions

TCS is an equal-opportunity employer and TCSers come from many Nationalities And Speak Many Languages. And, since TCS believe in celebratingeverything under the sun, you Will Find Us Singing Carols At Christmas And Doing The Dandiya Dance At Navrathri With Equal Enthusiasm.

They are known to be user-friendly, flexible, comprehensive, and trailblazers in their respective areas :

Ø Banking

Ø Accounting

Ø Insurance

Ø Financial Services

Ø E Security

Ø Manufacturing

Ø Life Sciences and Healthcare

Ø Tools

Ø S-Governance

Ø Energy & Utilities

TCS ILP coimbatore

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:21:00 +0000

hey guys if coimbatore happens to be ur ILP center…do go thru these posts…quite informative

http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=26627087&tid=2511007470190671073
http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=18363866&tid=2504008477367491193

TCS ILP Ahmadabad

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:18:00 +0000

This is our third week here in gandhinagar. Weather here is very beautiful (except for the latest cyclone warning). There are a couple of things that summarize this week:
In college, I couldn’t mingle much with most of the people, including the Bakwaas group. But here, the lack of essential things like TV variety, continuous internet connection and news papers made me socialize a lot. I had nice chance to know many people whom I actually knew from college, but didn’t know much about them. We talked many things about c2d’s outings, various pathshala practices and many more things.
A nice group has been formed here which has 13 people in it. The list goes like this: me, Shawn, pankit, kunal, mitesh, kalpesh, chintan, falguni, anjali, madhura, ruchi, shweta, aastha. I and Shawn are from bakwaas gang; pankit, kunal, chintan, falguni, anjali and madhura belong to pathshala; and mitesh and kalpesh hail from c2d. We had a couple of outings to movies and restaurants, and people seem comfortable with each other. This is the first time that I have been in a non-boys-exclusive group. Main difference between a normal group and a boys group is in behaviour. People automatically behave at a particular decency level when girls are around.
Here I understood why people value weekends so much. I anyways got bored in two long days of weekend. I had nothing to do and I didn’t feel like reading (ILP or otherwise). Then we saw a movie in theatre (ajab prem ki gajab kahani, pathetic movie btw). We did a lot of time pass, chitchatting, playing mafia and stuff.
Having a music phone in such a situation is a blessing. I sincerely don’t know what I would have done if I had carried my nokia 2600 here. At least in my free time I can listen to various classical performances!
We found two derasars in the vicinity. One is in sector seven and other is in sector three of gandhinagar. Both are small derasars with not more than 50 Jain families residing nearby. I and kalpesh prayed there and we plan to keep doing that in upcoming weekends also.
Tomorrow we have our EC1. Its the first evaluation of ILP and we all are excited about it. I however felt that there were too many self study sessions for us. Most people completed studying various topics in the syllabus well in advance. So some of the last few days were not too interesting. I felt that they could have accelerated the process a little bit. But other people also felt that they still need some more days for preparation. This was absolute paranoid behaviour of them. I didn’t understand what all the hype about scheme syntax and SMI and testing was.
Yesterday it rained a lot in Mumbai. A cyclone was expected to hit Mumbai, but I think after seeing all the war-level preparations by the BMC, it changed its route to Gujarat. Today the whole of Gujarat is on high alert and we were asked to vacate our office at 6 pm itself. It seemed a little windier and slightly rainy here, but I don’t think there is anything that we should worry about.
During ILP, it is very difficult to maintain the hobby of reading books. Only in initial days I could keep reading the books that I brought. Shawn has a Holy Bible with him in the room, along with some more small sized books which explain a particular part of bible. He pointed out some verses of the Bible which I liked very much. They are very simple and understandable. We can easily use them in our day to day life. Most of them overlapped with many other concepts of Jainism (or with the basics of any religion that I know for that matter). I would love to read bible in Hindi/Guajarati in future if I can find enough time to do so. This is obviously along with the various Jainism books that I already read. BTW if you are wondering about how Shawn could find time to read bible, then I would like to say that he wakes up at around 5.30 and then reads the Bible every day! This was one thing that I never expected him to do.
While typing one of the Guajarati posts on the Shawn’s laptop, I realized that Unicode characters are combined automatically when they should be. Now through this I can experiment and easily learn the Urdu script. I tried learning it before from books, but due to various combinations of letters, I could never form a clear understanding of the Urdu script. But now it’s easy, once again due to computers! Thanks Unicode!
I saw a Tata nano yesterday in infocity. It was parked near the shop where we ate. It seems like a simple car. Its design and size is very similar to daewoo matiz.
signing off at TCS studio apartments, gandhinagar infocity.

TCS ILP Pune

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:42:00 +0000

This is a guest post by Rahul Guptha. The views expressed are solely of the writer.

"Rahul!!! Rahul!!!! Get up Man. Today is the first day of our Professional career and you dog still sleeping. Its 7:30 now. The Buses have already come and will leave by sharp 8 O' clock" said Sudip. Oh......damn. It's only 7:30 right!!!!!. " Yes but It's not college Rahul" Said Sudip. This is the first time i realized that those four percious golden years of my life are gone and this is pune where we have come to get up at 7:30 and reach to the bus by 8 and go to training center by 9 sharp. " Hey...don't forget to wear formal dresses with a tie" said Sudip. What!!!! Formal dresses. But i don't have any. "Rahul, have you come for training or tracking?" said Sudip. Shit Man...but they should have told us beforehand. So that we could have come prepared. "By the way it was written in one of the documents of training Kit which was given to us One month back. But u are so busy with your stuff, u don't have time to go through the Kit at all" said Sudip. Ok, listen, you can use my formal shirt and trouser but only for today. Ok? Go and buy some formal dresses today evening. By the way do you know how to knot a tie?. "No..I don't know" said I. He said "Ok. give it to me i will make the knot. By the way you want single knot or double knot?". I said " Com' on sudip, when i don't have formal wears, how can you imagine that i will have a tie?". Sudip Said " What?? good....very good.....you don't have a tie too.Good you are such an ass hole.. see....its already 7:50. You can use my tie but only for today. Mind it"

So there we are. Only 5 mins late in reaching the TCS bus. The bus is around 90% full. Rest all buses are gone. Thank god. Finally we could manage to get the last bus. " We are late because of you fool" said Sudip. Cool Man!!! Why are you so serious!!! What will happen....Worst case we might have to bunk our first day in TCS. No big Deal..... Said I. Sudip said "This is not college Rahul". That is the second time i realized that we can't bunk in training even for a single day else that will cause a loss of one day's salary. " See... because of you all the bus is full. Only the last row is empty" said Sudip. Its Ok. yaar. Anyways i was always a back bencher in college. So who cares if the same thing continues in TCS also!!! So finally we reached at CMC campus Pune. For all TCS trainees the CMC conducts the training program. We all were shown the door to a seminar hall. Its cool man. Thank god the A/C is on. i finally found a corner seat so that i can rest myself against the wall while sitting or rather sleeping. There he is the ILP Co-ordinator at the dais. " Dear all Associates, Welcome to Tata Family. A very warm welcome to Tata Consultancy Services. I am the Co-ordinator of this ILP pune branch.You are going to spend the next 44 days here in pune. Here you will be taught the various stages of software engineering and apart from that soft skills, foreign lanugages, team work, ethics everything. i hope you have a pleasant stay in Pune" and the speech continued for the next 10-15 mins. Naturally i was not interested in learning a bit of speech. i just wanted to sleep as sudip woke me up early in the morning as 7:30 is early morning in my dictionary.At the end of the speech he came to the real point i.e. the breakfast is arranged outside the seminar hall and we are given 30 mins to have it and come back so that he can proceed with the joining formalities. We all came back and stuck to our seat. That awesome breakfast gave fuel to my sleeps. With the proceeding of the joining formalities my casual sleep proceeded to deep sleep.

" Rahul, Rahul...... Wake up Man!! How many hours more would you sleep?" said Sudip. " Ahhhh......i was in deep sleep. i saw my watch its 12:30 that means the morning breakfast fuelled my sleep for 2 hr 30 mins. by the way it was a nice breakfast and that to free of cost." Yes you finally woke up for another free lunch....you fatso" Sudip. By the way have you got the habit of waking people when they are deep asleep or does tcs pay you more salary for that? Ok tell me what happened till now?. " The Delivery Centre Head of Pune branch had come. She gave an awesome speech. You know TCS is the largest software compnay in ASIA!!!!" Sudip said. I thought thank god i was sleeeping by that time else i had to bear all the torture for 2 and half hours. " OK. Let's go for lunch and don't dare to sleep in the afternoon. The co-ordinatior said we will have to fill up some forms and we will be given ID cards. ok its lunch time, again lunch is free Yepeee.... Thank god the afternoon was not that boring. We saw some cool videos made by some TCS associates about the Working culture in TCS. And at the end of the day again Coffee. God i can't forget the food stuffs whatever might happen. By 7 O' clock in evening we all were into nyati tower where accomodation was being provided for the next 44 days. The first day in TCS is over and perhaps we earned 500 indian Rupees by the end of the day. Now for dinner there are two options. Either you go to the nearby Siyaram restaurant or you can order for dabba. Sudip said " i will have dabba in home". But i was in no mood to eat those vegeterian dabba food on the first day of TCS and that to when there is a near by restaurant. Fortunately the person who sat beside me in the bus while coming to nyati towers had already had a deal with me for going together to the restaurant. i told Sudip " Sudip, you have your dinner here. i am going to the restaurant. From tomorrow i will join with you". Actually that tomorrow never came. The whole 44 days i ate dinner in Siyaram only.

Me and Ankit (the person who sat besides me in the bus) went to Siyaram exactly at 9:00 PM. We were hoping for a cool dinner but when we reached Siyaram the scene was totally different. Siyaram was totally full and a huge crowd waiting outside for their turn. .I asked " Ankit, Does Siyaram offers dinner Free like today's breakfast and lunch?". It was such a huge crowd that almost all the trainees have come here for dinner except Sudip. He is the only potential customer of the Dabbawala. We were totally frustrated whether we both will get a half pice of roti or not.But as they say " Always be optimistic. Whatever happens happens for good". Sunita and Monalisa were also waiting there for dinner. Sunita saw me and flagged her hand towards me. Cool. its good when a beautiful girl calls you to accompany her in such a huge crowd although she was from my college but who else knows. " Hi Sunita. Hi Monalisa. Meet Ankit. Both of you are also waiting for dinner". " Yes. since last half an hour. But you see Rahul such a huge crowd".

By that time my mind was somewhere else. yes !!! it was around Monalisa. She is really beautiful Man. and might be since i did not have a single affair in college. Forget about affairs, i hardly used to talk to girls except those who were in my Lab project group. "Come on!! Ask ask something Monalisa " was the voice coming somewhere from my brain. " So how was your day?" asked Monalisa. Yepee...Finally she spoke to me. i answered " Well, Struggled a lot". " Struggled!!!! today!! how?" asked Monalisa. Welled struggled to keep my eyes open but totally in vain. But Yes during afternoon i was bit of successful. " He...ehe hee." Both of them smiled. Monalisa is really cute when she smiles. I said " See the struggle is not complete yet. We need to succeed else we wont be able to get dinner today." Hahahaa.....hahaa.......laughed we all four. " Ok. now we are four. you all wait here. i am going inside and will ask manager to arrange a table for four." I said. Then i went inside. The manager was really busy in managing tables and all these people are bugging him like anything. I went to the manager." Manager!!! i need a table of four." Manager said " Sir, its really crowded and people are waiting. i am noting down your name and will tell u once your turn comes." I went close to the manager and said in his ear " Listen, you ask my name earlier and a good tip is waiting for you and i am waiting outside. don't forget". He replied " I will try sir." Then i came outside the restaurant. Sunita asked " What happened!! is any table available? what the manager said?". I said " Yes it will take only 5-10 mins". After 5 mins the Manager shouted " Rahul!! Table for four". Ok. Let's go. Our table is ready. By that time Monalisa was shocked. After we settled down on our table, Monalisa asked " How come the manager called for your name when people before us are still waiting?"." Because the Manager recognised the rising star of TCS" I replied. " Hmm.....Rising Star.....Who was sleeping the whole day and rose only in the evening" Said Monalisa. Haa..aahhahaa...........we all laughed. We had a nice dinner. The service was good, might be because of the tip which i had promised earlier. And after dinner i was deadly begging for the bed and this schedule continued for the next 44 days of my stay in pune.

From day two onwards we all were put into different groups and the list was posted on the wall entering the training room. First of all i checked whether me, Sudip, Sunita and monalisa are in one group or not. Sudip is in Group 4. Sunita is in group 5. I am in Group 10. and yes monalisa is also in Group 10. God is Great. i thought the future 44 days are going to be awesome with monalisa in my group. The Time table for group 10 was designed taking into consideration of my sleep. It's because all the morning sessions before lunch were on technical subjects and the afternoon sessions were on soft skills, foreign languages, games. So as usual i used to complete my sleep during morning sessions and fully active during afternoon sessions partly because of the mam who taught us German Language. Man. She is hot!!!!!! really hot!!!!!!.

After the sessions are over, we used to come back at 8 PM in the evening. But the bad thing was we were given loads of assignments which needs to be completed by tomorrow morning. But the good thing was the assignments were assigned to a group. In my group there were two south indian girls and one guy from aligarh muslim university. All of us were damn serious about the project except me. Now the good thing was we all had to meet somewhere in the night and complete the assignments. Friends don't take it otherwise. One southindian girl named Divya was the leader of our group. i used to call him PL(Project Leader) and i was the loser in that group.Divya never counted me while distributing the tasks but she was not angry though. I was the most happening guy in the group when the topic of discussion was anything apart from studies. Everyday Divya used to tell us to reach her flat by sharp 9:30 PM and everyday my answer was " Divya,U imagine, after a long day's work we come to room at 8PM. Then for relaxation and dinner only one and half hours. That's not fair. Let's schedule the meeting at 10:30". This used to be my punchline everyday during the training. and in reply she used to say the same thing i.e. " Com'on Rahul, We have a lot of things to do. Other groups are pretty much ahead of us. We need to work hard. So 9:30 means 9:30. Be punctual Rahul. OK?".

i thought she is the real project leader material. TCS needs associates like her not like me who completes half of his sleep during morning sessions. But even after repeated warnings of divya i used to be fast asleep by the time Divya calls. and the following scene used to happen everyday.After having dialled for 4-5 times i will pick up the phone saying " hey Divya, i am coming. There is a huge crowd at siyaram. completed my dinner, will be there in 10 mins". She said " Now don't tell lies Rahul, i had seen u come out of Siyaram at 8:45. I know u must be sleeping at room. Com'on come soon. We are already late.". "Ok, Ok coming Divya" i said. " So there you are Mr. Rahul. 30 mins late". I said " Sorry guys, won't happen again" . Divya said " Rahul, today you have to draw the Entity Relationship Diagram for the Customer Relationship branch of the bank". i said " Divya!! have you got something to eat?" .Divya replied "Rahul, By the way you are coming from Siyaram right?" ." No, i had been to Siyaram two long hours back." i said. Divya said " Ok i have got banana chips". I said" ya please please Divya...and see if some other kinds of chips are available!!!!!".

Now here she is with 3 different types of chips and with a giggle in her face. I know girls love me. Divya said " Now have chips and continue with your entity diagram". I happily ate around 70 percent of the chips by the time the other people hardly managed to have 3-4 chips. I said "Divya!!! Please give me the pillow. I will put it on my lap. it's very cold yaar. just give me no..!!". after taking the pillow i was again into my dreams. After 10 mins ...Divya shouted..........Milan!!! you are sleeping!!!!. Get up and give me the pillow. You are not going to work with the pillow. I said " No yaar, i am thinking. i am not sleeping. First let me think how effectively i can do the ER diagram, then i will draw. Ok. Now don't disturb me while i am thinking". after 3 and half hours ie around 1:30 AM Divya shouted again. Milan!! Milan!!! wake up. Are you done with ur ER diagram?. I said " Actually No...yes kind of actually thinking about the diagram". Divya said " You took pretty 3 and half hours and did not come up with a single diagram. Let me check your sheet. Whether you have written some thing or not. Yes it is there. The complete ER diagram is there. Why you were telling that you have not done. When i saw the sheet a pretty complex ER diagram has already been drawn on my sheet. Now there she is ...Divya.....smiling at me.

The other two memebers also laughed at me. I knew Divya has done this for me while i was fast asleep. I said " Thanks Divya. So nice of you. From tomorrow onwards i will actively participate in assignments ok!!!. Divya said " OK, Milan. Now go to your room and complete the rest of the sleep. I will explain you the Diagram tomorrow in the class". By the time i was about to leave her room, Divya said " Rahul!! Some more chips are still left in the plate. Would you like to have some mere?". I said "No but thanks Divya for the chips. please keep it safe for tomorrow". Divya giggled again. Good night and Sweet Dreams Divya. Same to you Milan. Bye bye.

The 44 days of Initial learning program just flew away like 44 mins or rather 44 seconds. Now we have reached to the end of the journey. The 44 days were just like the extension of our college life but the good thing was we were being paid for enjoying the holiday. That's why it is being said that the ILP program of TCS is a paid holiday.

13th December 7 O' clock in the morning. Sudip Said " Milan !!! get up man. Today is the last day of our training program. And you know, today is a very important day. Not that today is the last day rather today MATC will come and decide the fate of our future endeavour." I said " Good Morning Sudip. You know i did not sleep last night. Feeling kind of sad because i have made some very good friends here man and i really don't want to loose them". Sudip Said " Yes Man. Even i am sad. Not for everybody but for Sunita". I said " What? Sunita. Are you mad? When? ". Sudip said " I don't know. But i like her man. I don't know what love is. But i think i love her". I said " Cool Man!! Now here is our romeo. Boss you know, she was with us for the last 4 years in college (although in a different branch). And you are saying now you are in love. But then what is the problem?". Sudip Said " Today MATC will decide who will join which branch of TCS". I said " But then we four are opting for Hyderabad as our first option right!!!. Then what is the problem?". Sudip said "No man. Sunita is planning to go to banglore". I said "Who told you?". Sudip Said "Monalisa was telling me that Sunita might opt for banglore. Her sister is there in banglore". I said "She might opt for it right!!!! but not yet. Don't worry man. I will pursuade her. i know her. She will come with us. Now cheer up man". Sudip said " Thanks man. Just talk to her. and get up soon else we will be late on the last day too".

But bad habits don't go away soon. Still struggled much to reach the bus stop by 8:30 AM. Finally boarded the bus and fortunate enough to see that some front seats were vacant. while sitting in one of the front rows, someone from back called me Rahul!!! Rahul!!!". When i turned back, i saw its Divya. How can i forget her. For the last 44 days she was my saviour. She always used to do my assignment with a giggling smile on her face, served a variety of chips and the best part was she always used to tell me rather inspire me saying "Milan!!! I know you don't do assignments but you are special and talented. You will get success and always keep smiling and be happy. i think she was the only girl in that training program, who used to admire me a lot and helped me a lot. We had a very good friendship by then".

I said " Hi Divya. Good morning PL". Divya said " Stop it Rahul. Now no more. We have already delivered our final assignment yesterday. So no assignments...no pl. By the way where are you opting for? Hyderabad?". I said " Yes Hyderabad. That is the only place nearer to Orissa as there is no TCS office in Orissa. But anyways thanks for everything Divya. Starting from helping me out in assignements to the homemade chips to mentoring me and finding me special". Divya said " You are special Rahul. Your smile is special. Never ever be sad and if you are then remember its only a phone call which can make you happy and inspire. Ok?". I said " Yes, I will. Thanks again. By the way you must be opting for Chennai right!!!" Divya said "Yes. i am opting for Chennai. My hometown. And all the best for Hyderabad. I hope all four of you will get hyderabad. I mean sudip, monalisa and sunita are also opting for hyderabad right!!!" I said "Yes, sudip and monalisa are opting for hyderabad but not sure about sunita. i heard that she is opting for hyderabad. But my PL, i will miss you. Be in touch Ok?". Divya said "yes i will Rahul".

We reached training centre by 9:30. Immediately i went to Sunita's class and searched for her. By that time everybody from her class knew that sunita and i were from same college and if i have come to their class, then it must have been for sunita only. Suddenly renji waved his hand to me and directed me to sunita. Sunita said " Hi Rahul, good morning. So you must be happy that training is over and you don't have to do any more assignments right!!!". I said "Yes, after 44 days of hard work and dedication for training program, now i am tired". Sunita said " Yes i know. Divya had already told me, how much you work for assignments

TCS ILP Bhubaneswar

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:38:00 +0000

This is a guest post. The views expressed are entirely of the author.

I was never a hero,and after this tragedy I had lost all possible chances to become one. Persons who had passed the exam will have great salary,great luxury,great girlfriendand my dreams were swirling down the waterfalls like the jumping heroes of bollywood who often jump into a waterfalls and get a life again without getting a small cut.

A guy started crying for not passing the exam.He was screaming- "I wont get a project.I dint pass.What should I tell my family?"

He got 48.His marks were almost two times to both our(mine + lost sailor's) combined marks and 4 times to mine.Now I was feeling like kicking him 4 times that too on his face.What a typical person?People struggling for food and he was not happy with his Chicken,he wanted Mutton.

Some more comments were coming.A guy who looked like Netaji got marks like Santa Singh.According to him it was not his fault.His roommate recently got a girlfriend and that girlfriend talks so loud and romantic that it became really tough to concentrate on studies.

"How can you study when someone's girlfriend keep kissing on loudspeaker?"-he was screaming and pointing that lover boy.More than a lover,the boy looked like a dober(man). I got shocked.Even this doberman has a girlfriend.The girl might be either a Savita Bhavi or a Surpanakha-I thought.But the guy got 3 times more than me.

"Arey Arey things happen man .No need to worry.Everything will be OK next time.Look I thought I will get 40 Plus marks, I got 36" - contender number three told.He was there to sprinkle salt on my wound,I knew.Apart from that he sprinkled all his spit.

"Better you leave else I will beat your life out and you can never spit on anybody."- I was thinking.

I went outside and sat on the black sofa.The lost sailor joined me.Even the Netaji also came there.

"Hey don't worry deboprio,There are people who got lesser than you.I had a list.Check it" - a sweet voice came form backside.I turned back.

Two girls were standing.They were not that hot and happening kind of girl.Rather they looked simple and friendly.But XYs will always go for XXX instead of XX.So they remained unnoticed.The voice was from one of them and she was wearing a light green salwar.

"Thanks,but I did really bad"-I said.
"Arey Chalta hai!! I know you prepared well.Next time onwards don't repeat the mistakes"-The light green Salwar told.
"Hmm!"- I nodded.
"Anyway I need to catch the bus.See you tomorrow.Between I am komal and she is my friend sakshi" "Ok see you.I am deboprio".
"Arey I know your name.Ok bye.."-She smiled,waved and left for the day.
"Bye"- I said.

It really helps when people have faith on your ability.It helps you to restart.

Choose a friend when you are in trouble.

I was feeling little releived.I was number 9 from the bottom according to the list.First time in my entire life I had done such a bad performance.But thanks to the almighty I was not the last.We went to the guy who got lowest and consoled him.

I came back home and joined the drinking party.I am not a spoilsport from the childhood.I know drinking puts the claustrophobia in claustrophobia.

"Arey Chalta hai!I know you prepared well.Why are you drinking?"-Somebody stold me in a sweetvoice.

I suddenly turned back.There were no body standing.Was that an echo?Why should the verse change if it was an echo?

My brain beeped-"You moron ! have you ever noticed a point?" My mind replied back-"What ???you devil?" "How she knew your name?" - The Drunken devil replied. "I don't have a gray matter like you.I missed it.Anyway Thank you Devil".

I sipped the last two droplets of the last peg.It was already two o'clock and tomorrow morning I need to reach the goddamn office in time.I slowly came down,then I Checked my mobile.There were 10 missed calls from my mother.

People from home were eager to know the test results.I switched my cell off.

TCS ILP Ahmadabad

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:34:00 +0000

This is a guest post by Arvind. The views expressed are solely of the writer.

I never imagined everything I am about to write get over this soon. Expectations and hopes were high. The end result - it exceeded! I went through all the *emotions that life could offer in the space of 3 months. Even death came to a striking distance on 2 occasions! Under the current circumstance all I wish is that the past 4 months of my life can be re-lived at some point of my life but thats mission impossible!

The 36 hr train journey looked as though it was 36 mins. That was one experience which I will never ever forget. Myself, water, sombu, ganesh, parthu and both aswins along with all my college girls occupied almost three fourth the compartment. The great Water had everything to fill our stomach for the entire journey thanks to his ‘caring’ nature. Infact he had packed food that was enough for everyone in the entire train. ----------fast forward---------. Card game…. Truth or dare at 12 midnite….early morning peeking out the train session…chit chats. The best though was the parthu-sombu incident when he actually tried to lift himself from the middle berth after sombu had given a jerk and the chain came off..:D
For the first time in my life I’ve actually gone to a place that is outside south India. Excitement grew as we all took a cab to Gandhi Nagar. We were soon welcomed by a sight, near the studio apartment giving us all kinds of hope which myself and water had discussed before the TCS call. But we never had time to get into that as we were more worried about getting the same room in the apartment. All efforts carried out for that went in vein as we were all separated but it was not as bad as how it could’ve gone as we were all put in same block except for Koushik, Abinanth, Azeez and Master who actually came by flight later.

First day of ILP - We were all gathered in the auditorium and there was some kind of tension but certainly the excitement overshadowed it. I desperately wanted to experience whatever that was going to happen, the challenges I am about to face and the funI am going to have. The batch listing came and the first thing which I looked on it was whether if anyone else from my college was there with me. To my *disappointment there wasn’t any and all kind of thoughts came as on how am I going to manage in this batch for my entire first phase without any of my close friends. Although I knew I am capable of getting along with anyone, I was still expecting to be in my comfort zone. I consoled myself and started identifying new faces of my batch. Those who know me well will know how choosy I am in selecting who I want to talk, build a relation and just get along with. I identified someone who i met in class earlier in 'Cool Point' and with all good intention I went and spoke to her and got to know her. After some struggle, :D I managed to get going with her but not that much initially but to a good level later on. While all these were happening on one side, my performance in the batch meetings were too good. :D My accumulated score in the first four batch meetings was 9 (9/400) and I was really proud of it. There is a famous saying that if all wants to become a doctor who’ll be the patient??! If you can read the relevance fine otherwise chuck it!

A-87 batch - All my complaints on having no college mates in my batch drained off very soon as I realized I got into the best batch of AHD 23 (Some might disagree). It took a little time but once we got settled in there, nothing stopped us. The life skill sessions were the time we look forward to daily as that’s when we play plenty of games. We went for our first batch outing to science city and the lake. Eventhough the place was not that good, the time which we all spent together was really worth.

Then it was all projects and tests and thankfully I cleared the first phase and it was time for posting. All I had hoped for was a location where I wont be put alone. But the person above had other ideas and thanks to his generous attitude, I got Mumbai and guess what? For all my questions and hopes, answers were obvious which actually brought me thought on whether if I am being cursed!

My second phase batch was also announced and even in that I was the only one from my college and this time even from my previous batch. Little did I know at that time that I am going to enjoy more with this batch. Anyway, I didn’t have luck with my stream as well as location. But life moved on….

Call to heaven 1 - I decided to forget all those as we were given a four day break. There were talks about my college people not knowing how to have fun which only gave us good laughter as we all gathered in one of our rooms to discuss our plan to diu/somnath/gir forest trip. Thanks to the efforts of Kaushik we went on one of the most memorable trips that I would ever have, not for good reasons though but still. Apart from the breathtaking views of the beach and some ancient sites, nothing is worth mentioning from that tour. However, I should say I had one of the the most adventurous bus journey from diu to Somnath that anyone can even imagine of! The driver of the bus got drunk and was driving the bus like a formula 1 racer! If we had not stopped him, we would all have been either like Filippe Massa in hospital bed or even might have been in history books :D! It was really adventurous though.. :P

JavaB - For the second consecutive time, I was put on a batch where I am the only guy from my college and in addition to that, this time I was the only one from my previous batch as well! While I was just thinking on how I am going to manage, entered and I made her sit with me not realizing that she’s going to be my eventual ‘enemy’. ;) But it was really nice of her to give good company as I sailed through my ILP journey with ease. The javaB national anthem, endless teasing sessions, hotseat were all part and parcel of our day to day activities in class and these clubbed together made my life in this batch very enjoyable!

Call to heaven2 – Auto incident! I don’t want to go too much detail into this but the whole day was perfect except this, yet it was really adventurous, adventure-ahm part 2! Guess it goes like this, more than me loving adventure, adventure loves me!:P I lost one of my favorite slippers thanks to all concerned. Only myself and the person who was with me knows the seriousness of that particular incident. It all happened too quickly that before I could even react everything was over and the first major relief I got was that, more than me, the person with me was fine. That was one BIG relief! Still I was really feeling guilty for few days but realized that even if it had been anyone else in my shoes he/she couldn’t have avoided this and also it wasn’t my fault at all no matter what anyone thinks or tells. But I will never ever forget and forgive the comments made by the so called left-hand or right-hand of that person and that was really really irritating!!! But when god had 100 reasons to pull me down, I had 1000 reasons to smile as I decided to get on with life..;)

Finally the end came and emotions were running high among all of us. The thought of us parting in few days was really a hard pill to swallow but memory remains while the journey continues in MUMBAI...

TCS ILP Hyderabad

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:33:00 +0000

This is a guest post by Maurya Priyadarshi
It was about an year ago that we were in Hyderabad pursuing our Initial Learning Programme (ILP). I had heard a lot about TCS ILP earlier. Some said it was very tough, some said they learnt a lot, etc etc. We also tried to find out from seniors about the training by mails, scraps etc.
Our joining in TCS was 28th August, 2006. There were lot of formalities to be done for which I had to go home from Bangalore (where I was for the past 2 months after college ;)) Joining date was a reliever as some people had said that joining dates in TCS were very late. After completing the formalities I set off for my first job to never-been-before Hyderabad. Amresh, my college yaar, was with me with similar hopes and ambitions!!!
Even on the train we met a surd who was going to Hyderabad for his job joining at Hyderabad. We curiously asked him about ILP. He said he did not have much problem although he was a mechanical guy. He mentioned some percentage which he scored in the test. We then exchanged a no-reason-why smile.

Reaching Hyderabad
We reached Secunderabad Railway station. Lot of luggage. Discussions with porter. Arguments with Autowalla. Finally we agreed to hire an auto after the senior we met finalized a deal for us. We reached the hotel in which our boarding was arranged. But unluckily we had to part as amresh had to go to the other hotel in which his boarding was arranged. We tried to convince the authorities there for staying together but in vain. I was alloted a room and obviously a roomie. The room appeared quite okay with a TV and no AC. My roomie was from Bhagalpur and soon we found out that we had a common friend. The common friend told him that I was a very good roommate. I knew my roommate was going to be disappointed but I couldn't help :) So the first thing I did was to hunt for the mobile connection with the cheapest STD calling rate and I had it by the end of the day, a Hutch Connection. I also took a top up for Rs 110 which was the first of the infinite recharges that I made in Hyderabad. I took pride in flashing my new mobile handset Nokia 3250 which I got as my b'day gift from my father 10 days back at home. I had planned all my experiments with Bluetooth as I had my lappy also with me. This was the first time I was having a higher end mobile. So I made sure I don't leave anything untried before I leave the place.

The First Day
So the big day was there. 28th of August 2006. We were informed the previous day that the buses will leave at 7. So we got up early at around 5:30. There was so much of noise in the corridor. People hunting for ties, belts, documents etc. Some confused faces asking what all things we can take there. I think I appeared the coolest and the quitest of the lot. I left my room just in time, after completing the morning round of phone talk, only to find a big crowd standing in front of the hotel waiting for the bus. I immediately found out some familiar faces from college. I went and tried to be with them rather than being alone. Everybody looked fresh and new eager to find out what will happen in the day. The buses took us to an undefined location called CMC, the place where our training was supposed to take place. We had our paid breakfast.(I had thought that food will be free for us :( ) I hunted for few more closer friends and ofcourse Amresh.

We then went to CMC classrooms. The classroom number was very different from the ones we had in college. We met the lady over there who was the head of ILP programme and an HR employee of TCS. She had a peculiar smile "all the time". Her smile was so misleading. You would always assume her to be in your side but she was NOT most of the time. She was Indu Nair, the name which was going to be very familiar specially during allocation and reallocation. The document submission part was the most boring one (till then). After which we were transported to some auditorium in Hyderabad University to witness several TCS and TATA documentries. We saw it with interest for the first and the only time. After that we demanded movies when we wanted to sleep with lights off. There were several speeches made by people from TCS. I was impressed at the non-advertising nature of TCS then. Things are quite different now :) Then there were so many essential activities like batch formation, CR election etc conducted by one and only Indu Nair. I was in Batch H-15 with Gunjan and Pandey, the people in my branch from college. Gunjan was a friend and I knew Pandey. At the end of ILP guys in our batch were not ready to believe when I told them that I had never talked to Pandey before ILP. We also had our first and only good lunch at ILP Hyderabad. The food provided here was pure South Indian with some dishes being heard for the first time like the breakfast item "Pesarattu".
We ended the day with some more non-descript items and finally it was time to head back to the hotel. I did not have close friends in my hotel. So I preferred to spend most of my time on phone.

Daily Routine at ILP
The daily routine at ILP was not much different from the first day. We had to get up at 6 and assembled in front of the hotel. Missing the bus was a headache coz CMC was a bit far and the autowaalas charged a bit high. The bus was a luxurious one with FM playing all the time in Telugu. Some sentences by RJs had become familiar though we understood little. Bus journey was too formal because of presence of girls. Everybody acted as to be the most decent one on this earth. Things changed a bit by the end. I usually did not talk except a few welcome greetings to the people I know. Breakfast items were a nightmare. As a result there was a big crowd at Juice corner. Juicewala was overgenerous to the girls. One day I would have hit back at the Juicewala there but I controlled myself. Pandey detested South Indian food so much that he ate very little. He was fond of juice. Then we went to classrooms after my first round of phone conversation.

Classes were usually boring and we generally slept except that of Shradha's. She was our Life Skills faculty. She was very popular coz of her looks and nature. Guys used to be awake with wide open eyes in her class ;) We loved the discussions between Begu and her. Begu was from our college and I knew his name from before. He was a genius. There was nothing in this world that this guy didn't know about. He was very famous for his slow speech. By the way his real name was Ankit Abhishek. Then we had Abhay Sood from our college who was the CR. I don't know how I did not see this guy at college. He was amazing at his activeness and convincing skills. We could not have had a better CR. I generally used to be with Gunjan and Pandey with Begu and Abhay sitting behind/beside us. Gunjan was the AC operator of our batch :) We all got chilled by the overeffective AC but he was the one who always took pain and brought AC remote from somewhere to raise the temperature up. Gunjan and I used to listen to what the teachers said and Pandey fully relied on us both for notes and waking him up if the teacher notices him sleeping. Sometimes Gunjan took the full responsibility of both me and Pandey :D All thanks to Gunjan.

Among the girls in our batch I knew Arpita beforehand as I had met her somewhere in college, I did not remember where... either Java Class or IMS Class or French class. We talked few more times after that in ILP I being very busy with either class or calls :)We are very good friends now in Chennai. We were together in the same Project for 6-7 months. She is very nice as a friend having core Friend and Family values. She has a heart of GOLD. Her caring for others is simply awesome. I came to know a lot of things about ILP from her after the days were over. She told me about my reputation there that I talk too less. Guys... I talk a lot after the ice is broken :) She also told me about her and I was really startled after knowing about the only couple of our batch post ILP. All the best to them!!! And yeah she finally got where we met. It was neither Java, IMS, or French class. It was at the Personality Development Workshop, conducted by Raj Rodrigues of our college, that we were in the same batch :) This was yet another example of her sharp memory about nondescript things :)

Predict your TCS ILP Score

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:21:00 +0000

The ILP at TCS is a really great time for fresh candidates. A transformation phase between the college life and the brand new professional life. A lot of things are taught and tested during this time. Candidates have to learn new languages and then have to undergo stream training under various technologies.

People say that this is the best period they spent during their early days at TCS. Indeed, there’s nothing better than having a lot of positivity around you, right? Now there are two tests taken during the training, one is the general one. The second is on the technology the training is conducted in the second phase. The average of the two tests comes into consideration and its good if it is greater than 50%.

So taking into consideration some special factors and scenarios, this tool below will help you to have a glimpse of how you might fare in the tests. There’s no alternative to hard work. So don’t get over-confident or too disheartened by listening to what the tool says. This is just to show you a small path so as to give you a idea where you are headed. Think and slowly answer each of the questions to get your result.

• Have you always loved to finish the syllabus no matter what the time left is?
• Are you comfortable with your programming skills?
• Are you comfortable with self-study or is guidance essential?:
• This might get a little personal, but how had been your past academic record?

TCS ILP Trivandurm

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:15:00 +0000

This is a guest post by Jinxed Phoenix . The views expressed are solely of the writer.
It has been a year now, but the feeling is still fresh. I remember how nearly a year back I bid farewell to my dear ones and boarded for a new journey. Clutching my mobile thinking, now it’s probably the only way I can contact. Called all random numbers I knew, announced to all my friends that I’m going for training, TCS Trivandrum and one common question I heard, “why so far? When you’ll return.” I could manage to say “I’ll be back in a month” and the journey started.

Thinking this is the time when I’ll officially get my first salary and I won’t be asking my dad for that new iPod or the new jeans I liked. Humming songs I liked and gradually it shifted to more energetic one, felt this day I can touch the sky; it’s just a leap away. I plugged my ears with my beloved player which seemed to be the only companion who’ll be with me in that unknown place. Dreaming myself in the finest and that’s how the journey passed and I set my foot on the place which I’d remember for all of my life where I was decorated with the dog-tag “Assistant Systems Engineer – Trainee, Grade –Y.”

It was the first day of my job life when everyone expected us to be little more mature and serious. I felt I’m just an ordinary college guy being pushed too early to this even though I was waiting for this day for more than 6 months post my college. Looking for familiar faces, “Oh!!! She’s from my college”, “Hey!!! I think you were in my college”. Jostling to be sitting together and denied the law of “birds of same feather flock together.” Then suddenly “Wow!!! Look at her… she’s awesome”. Well don’t know about girls coz I’ve had pretty bad experience but maybe some would’ve slipped (not for me definitely, it’s generic) “Psst!!! That guy is nice, hope he’s in our batch”. The proceedings started and came to know not all “hopes” are fulfilled. It felt like a new world and class rooms seemed bigger. Trying to fit with the most familiar face and looking if there are more with whom I can just talk to. “Rome was not built a day” proved too good. Tried to study hard whatever they were teaching. I assume it was the first time I was studying and obviously when you study, doubts come up. These doubts helped me attain new friends. I found new buddies and as always, lost the touch of what they were teaching.

Hardest part was waking-up in the morning. Thank god there were people to kick me out of bed by banging on the door. Dressed in the-then what I considered best and felt like I’m going for some corporate fashion show. Reaching classroom and getting a place for self, my friends, made me feel it’s nothing but college – extended. My friend making notes and me chatting or messaging, taking a look around made me realise actually everyone is doing the same. Lunch time reminded me of my college canteen and I loved it coz I could see all my crushes at the same place. End of class, like release from jail. Sneering at peon who had more authority than the faculties. Tussling in the bus so as to reach for the lovely “dhabas”, have lunch and back to routine sleep, only thing we learnt in past 6 months. Some serious dude will tell, we should practice and we’d fancy ourselves and return to base, this time entering the cave as lions as head-peon is nowhere to be seen. Instead of practising problems it was time when we could meet other and show off our knowledge and get to know the crush sitting next to my friend.

Oh my god, it’s time for Evaluation Criteria in short ECs. Slogging to remember what the shortcuts, tips we learnt. Asking friend for help and thus came the theory of learning and sharing. Same college days, where we tried to mug up all things in one night and then vomit into the paper, but this time paper was online and vomiting was not allowed. The pace of heartbeat, sweat in AC room, the tension, trying to know the logic by peeking that’s how all ECs were skipped. End of each EC meant one week we can laugh and enjoy and then again one night stand for another last stand. Result of EC meant bursts of laughter for some and few drops of tear. It didn’t anymore mean that I passed, it mattered that my friend didn’t and the friend is the one I came to know few days back. We would just hug each other and wipe the tears to gear up for another start. With every passing day, danger of extension seemed closer and heart skipping a beat with just a thought was as real as our laughter and skipping hours of sleep.

Completing a month has its own rewards, first salary. The ATM card that has been my guardian for long seemed alien coz my dad filled it up and I managed to finish it off before he could ask, “you want more.” Clutched the card which they called is for Salary Account, checked my balance and smiled “It’s mine and my parents can’t say don’t spend on worthless stuffs.” I would sniff to check its freshness, and pull this one out for every transaction even if it is of Rs. 10, if they allowed. No more need to think twice before paying own bill. By the middle of the month, it occurred I’ve spent most of my salary and then it struck it’s the first time I’m thinking of how much I’ve spent, the same lesson my parents tried to teach me since my first pocket money. Still enjoyed, ate till brim and then walk back just to save that 20 bucks auto driver demanded. At month end first time I uttered, “Dude!!! It’s month end have no cash, next month, please.” If I was on receiving end then it’s more like, “even I’m in same state, save me” or “thank god, expenditure avoided is money saved.”

But even then how can we miss those trips of ours. Our training hanging on the edge and we would go for an impromptu trip and few short planned ones. Trips were more than just ideas of unwinding. Those beaches, the sunset, sand under our feet – felt I belong here and wish I could just capture this moment. No one allowed a moment alone and I was called before I could sit and think, “wish I can spend my life with those cheerful faces, slogging every week and on weekend dancing on place like this till we drop, this is heaven.” Group outing meant that my friend wants to go and I should be there, where a friend falling sick could stop a gang of 20 and all 19 lifting the one coz they didn’t want anyone to be left behind. The plan of group outing would give us hope that finally I could talk to my crush and all the ideas of my impressing the other, but at the end of it, it happened as it has happened ever before, just fooled myself. Trying to keep pace with the training which was lost somewhere in 2nd paragraph days passed like dew in the morning sun.

Finally it was the time for adieu, these 2 months I gained new friends which I will remember for my whole life while regretting that I missed many, about whom I’ve heard or just admired from far. They could’ve extended the training or gave us release a day after; they could’ve arranged a get together. Many questions were unanswered, “why she laughed at me”, “why he stared at me” and train took different directions and birdie left for new abode. And here we are still the same, even after one year at TCS dreaming the same, wish I could bring back those days.

TCS's 'iOn' now availabe in Rajasthan

noreply@blogger.com (buddhu) — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:52:00 +0000

Tata Consultancy Services today announced that its pre-configured business solution, ''iOn' , will be available in Rajasthan.
"iOn provides best-in-class, on-demand business solutions using the very latest in computing technology. It has been developed to deliver IT in the 3rd generation service model to small and medium business units to invest in IT assets or retain scarce IT talent," Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global head-iOn, told a press conference here today.
"It integrates software, hardware, network and addresses the entire spectrum of an SMB's technology needs, which range from business solutions like HR, finance, inventory, sophisticated domain-management and website services," he said, adding that the first-of-its-kind fully integrated information technology solution will increase efficiencies.
He claimed that the product has already garnered over 220 SMB customers in the last few months.

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