Three years ago, when I was in the third year of my BE, I took the word "Campus Placement" seriously for the first time. Till then it was just a ritual that every pre-final year student undertakes. People laugh and cry over their successes and failures. Idiots get placed in well paid jobs; sometimes intellectuals get rejected by very good companies. "Campus Placement" is an arena where one gets to witness the most contradictory things in life.
To parents, getting placed in an IT company, no matter if it is in the same domain as what you studied for the past 3 years or not, is the ultimate destination. However for students it ends up being their "FINAL DESTINATION".;-) Somehow I too landed in a job in the Richie rich IT industry. The interesting fact here is that though everyone believes that the IT people have heavy pockets, in reality we end up bearing only heavy hearts and heavy heads.
The great world of Corporate - this is where I started serving foreigners who are so lazy that it is not enough if you just peel off the banana skin and give them but rather they expect you to feed it to them. My company listed me down as a human resource (just like a raw material in an Iron & Steel plant) instead of as an employee or for that matter just human. Doing a work for 8 hours a day and earning a living out of it is the most precious thing one can have in life. The work in IT industry is also not for more than 8 hours a day. But I don't know which great soul on earth started the owl culture of working at nights and roaming all day jobless.
The most difficult thing of all is working with dumb team mates who understand only less than half of what you know about the technology. Every team has a skilled developer to useless developers ratio of 1:5. So, in a team of 10, only 2 persons actually work whereas the other 8 don't know what they have to do or what they can do. But when the day of bonus/hike paper distribution comes, the useless 8 will be more proactive than the pathetic 2. I wonder what keeps them going. How do they clear the interviews? What is the use to the companies in recruiting a person with just good communication skills for the position of a developer where your hand is going to code and mind to going to think?
Most of the times people discuss about buying a new car, getting Pre.K.G. admission to their child by paying a donation of Rs.1.5 lakh, and other things where you just spend and gain nothing. IT life is dry. You see the same people everyday; No new customers wait for you service. Despite these factors, out of all the money minded people, we manage to find a good friend, a well wisher and a true mentor. That is the beauty of life. In the darkest corner of life, we find the faintest ray of hope which prevents us from discarding the darkness expecting the ray to become brighter. My opinion is it is always better to run away from darkness than waiting for light if the place is a dark jungle, because even if you find light, some predator is going to prey on you.
To parents, getting placed in an IT company, no matter if it is in the same domain as what you studied for the past 3 years or not, is the ultimate destination. However for students it ends up being their "FINAL DESTINATION".;-) Somehow I too landed in a job in the Richie rich IT industry. The interesting fact here is that though everyone believes that the IT people have heavy pockets, in reality we end up bearing only heavy hearts and heavy heads.
The great world of Corporate - this is where I started serving foreigners who are so lazy that it is not enough if you just peel off the banana skin and give them but rather they expect you to feed it to them. My company listed me down as a human resource (just like a raw material in an Iron & Steel plant) instead of as an employee or for that matter just human. Doing a work for 8 hours a day and earning a living out of it is the most precious thing one can have in life. The work in IT industry is also not for more than 8 hours a day. But I don't know which great soul on earth started the owl culture of working at nights and roaming all day jobless.
The most difficult thing of all is working with dumb team mates who understand only less than half of what you know about the technology. Every team has a skilled developer to useless developers ratio of 1:5. So, in a team of 10, only 2 persons actually work whereas the other 8 don't know what they have to do or what they can do. But when the day of bonus/hike paper distribution comes, the useless 8 will be more proactive than the pathetic 2. I wonder what keeps them going. How do they clear the interviews? What is the use to the companies in recruiting a person with just good communication skills for the position of a developer where your hand is going to code and mind to going to think?
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