There are two types of employees, I think,
one who have enough patience to wait and convince to get what they want, or compromise on what they get
and another who have less thresholds and move towards what looks better, unless to find it otherwise, and again move
I am certainly now the second type...
It starts when I decided to quit my first company. I personally never thought that I would ever quit. I thought, I would follow my dad, who selflessly worked all his life for one single organization, The Ordnance, group in Ministry of Defense. Then I also have my Mama's (Mom's cousins, with whom I am very close), both younger and older working with TCS and Infosys still after 10+ and 17+ years. Even after having such inspirations at home, I took the difficult decision.
My Ex-Company's director told me during the discussion to retain me "Hemant, with the learning curve that you get here, the client exposure, the opportunities you take up, hardly there would be any company's interview that you will not be able to clear". I did not believe those words completely 4 years back, but today I believe them. I have attended so many interviews and nailed everyone of them; those which were not converted were only because of the compensation that I would expect ;)
Leaving InfoCepts and Nagpur was very difficult, but of the many reasons to leave, strongest was to focus on family front and get settle down in Hyderabad. So grabbed opportunity with Polaris Hyd, and resigned from InfoCepts. Due to some issues I could not get the expected release, and I lost the opportunity. Now I was unemployed and was looking desperately for job. Now I left the location constraint.
I attended good number of interviews. I declined the offers where I was offered job because I was from XYZ company or I was having the visa. I was looking for a genuine opportunity where I am interviewed to the limits, and I am offered job to hone my skills further. Finally I found that one where I am interviewed. It was beautiful voice of lady on the other side. I still remember that call and the questions, and I attended it in the parking of my previous company. Till that call, I was like, I am the guy with almost The fives years of experience in MicroStrategy. But after answering the questions I wasn't sure if I was good. Bole toh ekdum faadoo. It was that moment when I decided that I will work with them. Finally I was cleared and was asked to come down to Mumbai.
I have been to the city many times but always on business trips, and I hardly got any chance to spend time with friends. But this time I had enough time :) so had wonderful gathering with friends on Marine Drive, and other happening places in Mumbai. People say Mumbai meri jaan, and I say it so because all my best buddies are in Mumbai these days. Hence I just wanted to come down to this place. See my focus now is totally shifted :-p I am very bad at defining goals :) After having wonderful time with friends, finally the day came and I went at Mumbai office for face to face interview. It was wonderful experience. The energy that I can feel was stupendo-fantabulously-fantastical. I think it went good, and after saying bye to friends in evening I started back. I later got the call from HR for discussing compensation but it dropped from there. I was sad. But my good luck was too too good. I was going to work with same team :)
God probably listens me better. He makes sure I get all I wanted. Days passed, I got few opportunities in Hyderabad. TCS was one of them. I came for 2 subsequent days to get interviewed. First round was done from Chennai, so I was like am I going to work alone from Hyderabad? So many thoughts would come to mind sitting at the reception of ODC 2. Team sounded very energetic. The male voice on the other side was very vivid and commanding. I loved it, it was the ideal voice for communication. Later same person was going to be my lead and I am going to learn so much from him. After waiting for the second day too, when I had to leave because manager wasn't available to take the interview, I called HR and said I can't keep coming like this and I have to go back to Nagpur. I sounded as if I just don't care about getting this job, while deep inside I was worried too loosing opportunity with worlds biggest and top organization. But HR was kind enough to arrange the interview same day. After attending the managerial round at ODC 5, while coming back in evening, I looked at the people at ChaiNChai, few walking on foot path, sitting on lawn and happily chatting, I just loved this atmosphere at Synergy Park and thought how beautiful is life here. We can have so much fun along with the work. I was later going to discover that I was not going to be part of that enjoying crowd for longtime :)
I decided to join TCS even though it wasn't the best compensation from those at hand. I said I wanted to be the part of this brand TATA, and it was very popular for work life balance.
After 2 day training, I reported to Synergy Park to know that the project for which we were selected did not come. We were asked to report to Chennai. Again I called HR and said I am not going to Chennai, and finally I got one project after waiting for 2 weeks on bench. This was going to be one of the beautiful team I had ever worked with.
.. To be continued..
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