An year of Change !!!

This was somewhere around May 2013 when the seeking change is becoming strong in my mind though I was thinking about it since past few months. This more than half decade long journey becomes little monotonous and dull. The same goal setting exercises every year, achieving them and then the appraisal reviews become slightly mundane. After next few month of studying, rounds of interviews, due-diligence and numerous follow ups. Patience pays and finally I manage to get some quite interesting opportunities in hand which included Infosys as well. The choice was not straight forward but eventually I landed up in here, which I later realized that it was SERENDIPITY :)

Now after the induction program, lots of stories I heard about getting the project is how tough here. Next one day I spent searching my college alumnus  and some of my friends who were part of this organization have re-iterated the thing that the getting a project might take time as the so called bench strength is very high and like every other service company be ready to spent some on bench. Little apprehensive by listening all this, but I managed to get project in within first week of joining. The project was good to work and it certainly enriches my experience. When I joined it was started with a lean team, in few month many new faces join and we work in full swing to deliver our best understanding in terms of code . Joining the early morning daily call, EVERYDAY. This was something new for me as waking up so early is not in habit since long but all thanks to Infosys “Come early & leave early” policy, which soon I adapted it. This changes was refreshing in way that it was still sunlight once u leave for the day. Something not very regular as in my previous organization as usual days start somewhere around 11 AM and everyone used to work till late hours.

Another thing its noticeable to mention that the team is scattered around different location viz. Hyderabad, Bangalore and Pune. So either you have to be on call for any clarification or doubts else you can share your screen. It takes me time to understand this model of working as initially I was not very comfortable in this. But time passes very quickly and with team the understanding become better and finally it was seamless to work. Thanks to the all the help and support from everyone. I realized its really important to grow together as everyone can’t have understanding on all the things but collectively the team can have better tangible outcomes. We leverage them to the new members and help them to learn things better and faster.   

Yeah, there where couple of occasions when things have tough to comprehend, frequent changes in requirement and small turnaround time to complete. It has been pushed for some of very stringent time lines and you have to sweat for finishing the task. But they are part and parcels & that’s how we prepare ourselves for the next level and final outcome will always help us to find the agility of the assignment and gives us the larger prospect to the industry. In totality, nothing to complain and one thing I learn from my experience is that churning is required for learning. So that at times it is required to push yourselves.

So far so good. 
Sincere thanks to team for being supporting in part of this expedition and sharing the sense of being an INFOCIONS :)