AKA APERTURE

Today I completed three years in TCS and ironically this is my last week in here. The Best thing about TCS was that I got a chance to work in a good project though most of my friends got bench. But for the work I did what is required is continual learning, that was the best turning point that TCS helped me. It made me self sufficient as I understood that I can not expect much help from their side. In the beginning of this year I moved to onsite and I was assigned a Lead role where I worked  in a multi vendor environment leading a team of 6 associates ( All non TCSers). They do not see how they can put an employee in a better place if possible. The assignment is absolutely on the basis of luck, some people who were better got bad projects and some who were worse than me got better projects. Luck factors matter a lot. You cannot change it. It's all billing algorithms for them. They hired me to make money. They hardly spend a penny on training and for the whole yea...

Experience UNcertainity... 'Should I leave or should I not' , this was the question of the year 2013. I am sure this question would have surfaced in the minds of many of you at some point in time during your stay in TCS. The reason that I am writing this and you are reading this means that there were reasons strong enough for me not to leave TCS.  As I look back in time, the reasons that worked for me to stay back were the continuous challenges and some wonderful morons in the middle level management. Couple of times the thought crossed my mind when I had not so good manager . Persons who were unfair, very derogatory, disrespectful, demeaning and de-motivating.  Bosses can be demanding, tough, and maybe harsh as well... and by doing so they are helping you to focus & deliver... but unless they demonstrate their softer side sometimes or logically explain why they are so, then dealing with such people many times, makes you lose your appetite to work harder or cre...

India's largest IT company Tata Consulatancy Services announced Q4 revenues of Rs 16,430 crore, up 23.9% year-on-year and 2.2% quarter-on-quarter. The company posted net profit of Rs 3,597 crore for the period, a rise of 22.1% over the same quarter last year and 1.3% increase over the previous quarter. The results were largely in line with analysts' estimates. The biggest software exporter of the country logged in revenues of Rs 62,989 crore for FY2013, an increase of 28.8 percent over the preceding year. It reported net profit of Rs 13,941 crore for the period, up 30.9 percent over last year. The company won orders from customers including Nokia and BNP Paribas. The number of TCS' $100m-plus customers went up from 14 in FY12 to to 16 this year. It added 153 new clients during the year; with this, the active client base stands at 1,156. Total employee strength of  TCS  stood at stood at 2,76,196 as of March 31, 2013. The company made a gross addition of 69,728 and...

When I show the boss that I have finally fixed this bug When the project manager enters the office When I'm deploying code to production When I go off for the weekend while everyone else is still trying to fix bugs

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, announced that its new software development campus at Rajarhat will be functional by the end of the financial year 2014-15. The new campus spread over 40 acres of land, once completed will house over 16,500 seats and is being constructed with an investment of Rs 1350 crore approximately. The campus will be built in two phases, with the first phase to be completed in the first quarter of 2014 and the second phase by the fourth quarter of the year. In the first phase 7,000 seats will be ready with the remaining 9,500 seats being completed in phase II. The Rajarhat campus will offer TCS employees a world-class and holistic work environment with facilities like amphitheatre, auditorium, cafeterias, libraries and large green open spaces. The campus will house fitness facilities like tennis courts, basketball court and gymnasium for employees as well as temporary acc...

TCS to create capacity to employ 10,000 IT professionals in Indore Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, announced that it will set up operations in  the state of Madhya Pradesh by building a new integrated campus in Indore for IT and BPO with an initial investment of Rs 550 crore in the first phase. The total development area of the campus is expected to be around 1.5 million square feet. Once all the applicable permissions are received, the construction of Phase 1 is expected to be completed by March 2016. The TCS Indore Campus will be located on a 100-acre property allotted by Madhya Pradesh government. An agreement to this effect was signed by TCS and officials of the state government at a function in the city today and presided over by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan. On completion, the TCS campus will provide...

13  October  2011, the day I started as an IT professional. The day is still fresh in my mind. First the Initial Learning Phase , then the project life. Its true that learning is a  continuous  process but ILP was surely the honey moon period for a fresher in TCS. Once you are in a project growth and learning depends on your will and the project  off course . I am in a project from  January  2012 . Some friends  are still on bench , It’s a long wait for them and in frustration some  already  left the TCS. Some of my friends shared their Experiences: Siddharth Jain, Tata Consultancy Services : Sahyadri Park - Pune, Maharashtra We have completed a year long journey whose best part was those three months of our ILP.  We are not fresher, we now know , what we have missed. Still because of TCS , we don't get much pressure of work so still not workaholic .... :P  .  But only thing I miss now is FRIE...

If u perform well and satisfy 50% in ur exams, u have all criterias to get released from ur ILP (Engg guys) and Ignite(For bSc graduates).You will be getting your release letters. Your release letters will have the details about ur project location. If its mentioned as Delhi for example, ur project will be 99% in North India only. Details in that release letter will include ur reporting date, reporting RMG center, reporting person with time.For example, if its Delhi, U people will be asked to assemble in Delhi office (PTI). because RMG is there only for delhi region. Purpose of RMG is to direct into various projects depending on their requirements. Like in RMG there will be different sectors's like Banking, insurance, Reatail, telecom etc etc. U people will be put in random into any one of those sectors. The period from that time till u get project is called 'BENCH'. Awesome period it is :) :) :) U can come anytime to office, Just meet ur RMG in charge, have lun...

NOTE: Aspire Preparation has no role in ILP. On 2nd r 3rd day after joining, u ll have objective type test based on aspire subjects.(PAT). Aspire ends dere. Aspire is to make Non-CS to get basic CS Knowledge and CS to brush up der old subjects, before entering ILP, Once u enter ILP, u ll b put in stream. and u ll taught on stream subjects alone :) :) There are two phases in ilp. First phase: U ll b taught completely abt ur Stream. U ll b having Case studies(Practical works), Viva Voce, Powerpoint presentation on stream topics, objective type assessment. Some business skill classes( Oral+Written+Team work).Ur performance ll b observed thru out this phase.In biz skill, u ll have pre-test on oral and written. Oral - Given a random topic, u have to speak for 5 mins Written - Given a random topic, u have to write something. Dey ll evaulate these tests.. Rating ll be given. if u perform low, u ll b put in remedial. Second phase:  Project Delivery phase.  It is project...

IT and ITIS.  The twins of the outsourcing world. One refers to Information Technology, the other IT Infrastructure Services. Most of us often get confused as to which is exactly what, which will propel our career to the highway of success faster. Coming to the basic facts, both have their very core base as information technology. That means the underlying technologies and skill-sets that are required for the functioning of both the systems are the very same. The only thing that will vary is the job role and the activities related to the particular role. The organization TCS has recently stepped into this ITIS territory and so TCS ITIS is a clear top notch player in this field now.  Basic Difference The core difference stems from the fact that ITIS is a service type job role, the other is a not so well-defined job role, i.e. IT will include virtually from anything starting from development to testing and might even have some of the related tasks in ITIS. Tasks in ...

SPEEDY KINGS  WITH NON-STOP QUEENS :p   H68- This is my batch in ILP (Learning Phase in TCS ) , I used to call it a group of GREENTALKERS. Group is just like a mini India : Associates from every corner of India . Initially H68 is divided into groups  according to their colleges but the scene changes after our first official trip to RUNWAY9 , LUMBINI PARK and HUSSAIN SAGAR LAKE.  The batch strength is 56 but only 40 agreed to give their services on Saturday (12/11/2011). This was our first get together, mainly just to say hello and get a feel for what we'd like to do in next months.    Eventually, this will be a good mix of social networking among IT professionals in the Runway 9 and Hussain Sagar lake (Hyderabad). SET IN MOTION : THE BUS RIDE I joined the group from Q-City : TCS ILP CENTRE  The best part of the whole trip was in the Bus , Here I got a taste of variety of songs.       ...

    Its been three weeks in Hyderabad ILP. To continue with my last blog,its been past three weeks since we started our ILP in Hyderabad . Its a mixture of opinions. My  stream is Java. Till now we have come across the topics such as HTML,CSS, and in detail about User Interface,more about application programs. now we are involved in writing codes for the programs exercise(problem statements).  Other than technical there's a session called BIZZSKILLS, a soft skills structured class,where we will be taught about corporate life. the way we should talk,the way we should carry ourselves the attitude we carry,the writing skills, oral communications, how to write mails, different role plays to show in practical about the conversations and situations of corporate life. how to talk on telephone many more. we are actually enjoying these classes. we are havin so much fun with different activities. will update soon after few days... Day will be so long sittin...

Its 5.30 in the morning , normally I have nothing to do at that time of the day but today my friend saurav woke me up shouting loud about the importance of today i.e 13th october 2011 I m here at SAI AMU residency (govalguddi,gachibowli,serringampally,hyderabad,AP) in a 2BHK enjoying all the scenic beauty and facilities provided by TCS  we walked to the Q-city (TCS premises on 7 & 8th floor) just 10 min distance from our apartments and at 7.30 we got our temporary cards nd joining kits from the TCS. As all of my friends know,I m always curious to know the things around so we three  (sunil,tushar and me) decided to have a look at the premises and went straight to the food court and tried some dishes. Meanwhile,on the seventh floor the processs and formalities started with introduction from our ILP coordinator,Mr. Rohan chhetri the process as expected started with attendence and just in the middle of it  I entered with my friends :D after this he continued ...