Infosys-The place i worked

Infosys Technologies Limited
There was a time when this name commanded respect and the people who got placed seemed to be the bests of the lot. But things did change. Somehow it is now seen as a company which pays less, everybody just sits on bench and the worst of the brains go there. Why did this happen to infy which is so brand conscious.
The reasons which comes to my mind are this:
1) Infy earns it's bucks from foreign companies and to them, it's the quality and delivery time and cost that matters. So for them, Infy is the best.
2) Infy gives the best facilities to it's employees except for salary though. I haven't seen much but i don't think that the claim that "infy mysore" is the best campus in world after microsoft is not wrong. So the people who are in infy for a long time just don't care what others say about them.
3) Software doesn't need the brightest of the people, it just needs hardworking people. So may be it is not worried about it's present image.
4) It can manage huge bench strengths because of the profit it makes. And this benching factor is actually more highlighted just because the company is so famous that everything in it comes to screening. For that matter none of my friends in other companies had consistent work, not even a busier schedule than an average infoscion has. It's just that they have no terms for that. companies put people into certain projects in which they sit idle. Infy instead of doing that, to manage it's databases so as to see who is sitting witthout much work gave them the project code of BCH, and that got famous.
Anyway, now coming to infy for me. For me it carries so much of meaning. first of all it gave me my first job. It gave me the best of facilities that a s/w engineer can get and thirdly , it gave me ample of time and net time to complete my apping.
I also learnt many important things in infy. Respecting personal space is one of them.
I also learnt that the key for success to a project is not writing great codes but a good project management thru with all coders do equal share of work and the work is completed within time with no special loads. Good coding is sometihng which a good company will make u do anyhow, but good project is someting different. It is that infy expertizes in.
Infy also gave me the opprtunity to see two grade2 cities which are small but wonderful. Mysore and bhubaneswar. Mysore is simple people, highly cultural and extremely beautiful city with the biggest advantage of being only 130 km from bangalore. So if u wanna save money and yet not miss the dazzle of big city, Mysore is THE place.
bhubaneswar. Well the city is new, so clean. Things won't be the same when it becomes old. everybody form a roadside bhikhari to teh physician chews pan/gutkha. And you can see red spots even in places like malls. Apart from that, the place is small and near to calcutta and puri. I like puri minus the pandas. I lived a kingly life in BBSR with the best of the places to stay in and good food. Alo i got to go home a lot of times.
Description of infy will be incomplete without mentioning a person. Throughout the description, i avoided any names. But this person I guess, rises and vanishes with my stay in infy. Anindita Das. My cubicle mate. A girl who is different, thinks different and more importantly does different. She dares to have multiple affairs and publically tell them. She dares to swim in the swimming pool along with boys which no girl had ever dared. She, who never comes late, gets late for attending to an unidentified dead body on the road. But this girl pours her herat out to me. I mean tells me all her feelings and experiences. She didn't wait to trust me.
She just kept on saying and i kept on listening.
And she is still the typical her. with the promise of daily mails, after 1.5 moths in the new place, i receive only one mail from her and don't expect many more also.

So this is infy for me. A company which knows what to do and with wonderful facilities and queer people;-)

I R Rao-II

Ya, back again with more of him.
Some more of his funny incidents:
It was fifth or sixth sem and suddenly he changed a lot. The way he graded became very lenient and attendence was not at all compulsary. But no latecomers. One fine day, Sharad Rao comes almost 5 minutes late in his class. He asks him to wait outside and asked him to come to the class in slow steps like moghul nawabs and sir played buegel ( made sounds like taraaaaaannnnnn, tran tran and all that) with his mouth. Poor Sharad had nothing to do but follow what he says. Poor guy, never came late after that. But that also was not enough. We all in the class were made to stand and sing the song
" We shall come in time,
we shall come in time,
we shall come in time...alwaaaaays,
oho deep in my heart ,
i do believe
that we shall come in time, alwaaaaaaaaaaaaayssssssss"....

Another one and this features me again. Somehow though everybody liked his microprocessors class, i didn't like it a bit because i still feel he messed up with theory and the practical aspects of it, though i am the only one who believes that. whatever, so it was a tuesday class which was at afternoon 1:30. As usual i dozed off after 30 minutes. Suddenly i hear, "SSSandipan..get up". I was as if in some trance. I started mumbling " I didn't sleep sir, it was just head down, looking at the notebook", but he didn't care. Then he started ," I have been in contact with bengalis. Infact my roomies were bengalies and i know quite a lot of them. Great poets like Nazrool Islam. Infact i know a few songs in bengali." He started singing " aami aachi epaare, tumi aacho opare" ( i am in this side of river and u on the other , a romantic song). and then" Are u in that mood sandipan???". I was blushing and was full red..But now the best part, even after all these, i still dozed off in his classes.
IR Rao (somehow though we all say sir with respect, i feel a sir with his name will diminish the effect) taught us more than just the subjects. Atleast to me he was a vast pool of knowledge which i failed to explore. Be it practical things of EE, or be it snakes, or surathkal, or mumbai, or books, beaches,politics, he knew it all.. His dress, always an offwhite shirt with hands folded and a dark pant and shirt was never tucked in.
His way of exams was peculiar. Zero correct, 50%, 50% correct, still 50...somehow i was always in the loosers side in this bargain.
In last meeting with him, he told us about how he told "kothari" of "nagraath and kothari" fame that the book is a crap..
Last heard, when subrat told him, that i am going to US, he said, MS in US has lost it's charm except biotech.
He still surprises me..................................

I R Rao-I

Suddenly I want to write about IR Rao, Don't know why, may be teacher's day just passed?? Whatever..
I would like to describe IR Rao a bit. our first meeting. It has become history by now i guess. That was my first ever class at KREC, i reach ATB (additional teaching block) at 7:56 am. Wham..the door is closed on our faces. After knocking by all of us for almost a minute, he opens the door again and says this "YOU ARE TOO EARLY FOR THE NEXT CLASS AND TOO LATE FOR THE FIRST CLASS." The dialouge has become very famous now and a popular saying in the college. That was IR Rao first time.
Another instance: After a dismal first sessional with 8/50 , me , arun pillai and vikram go to him. We were wondering, what to say.. he called us and said, " I know you all have been amongst the toppers of ur schools and here in the first test u r getting marks like 7,8 and 10 ( that were exactly what our marks were!!) . Don't get surprised, this happens, be prepared for the second one." How could he anticipate what we went to him for.
This is the last incident i would like to mention which happened in first year. As usual in all teh classes, stuffs were written on the desks. I don't know which one he found most loathsome, suddenly he said he won't teach us unless all the stuff is cleaned. It was just our first year and we were surprised. people went to dean who said if we scratch the desks, he will take action against us. And then we came up with a compromise. We scrached all the writings and then painted all the desks again and then called IR Rao.. The next day he comes with a big chocolate bag for all and didn't even see the desks.
Stories about him never end. His act of cleaning the board was famous. Here comes a story with that. Our very first day in second year, first year with branch people. He comes and says, Sandipan..Go and clean the board. I promptly went and cleaned the board but he was not happy.
He asked deepa shastry-" Deepa, what was wrong in the way he cleaned?" and deepa says, " HE didn't do thak thak". All of us wanted to burst into laughter but controlled ourselves as we all knew what he is like. The thing is after cleaning the borad he always strikes the duster on the wall so that all the chalk powder falls of but that action is so loud taht the whole corridoor hears it. Well, the correct answer was that i shouldn't have given backward strokes.
One more and that will be end of part 1.
Somehow one day in 3rd sem, he made shweta and deekshma stand up and asked them "have u seen an unicorn??" and she said "yes". He asks "where, animal planet/discovery channel?" . She was scared and just noddedAnd what he replied is this- "Listen, you can see unicorns only in one channel and that is cartoon network"...
MOre of him in part 2.....