I always believed that the end of one journey(in this case IIIT) marks the beginning of the other(in this case DELL) and this journey for me has been as good as the one at IIIT if not better. Well the joining procedure began with a shocker as all the Dell selected students had to attend a induction program on May 13th which incidentally was about the mid date of the planned batch tour and we were told strictly not to miss out on the induction program. As if this shocker wasnt enough, they had more shockers in store left for me. Our offer letter stated that we were to join on or before July 20th and as expected all of the other joinees had selected the last date which was July 20th as the joining date so that they could make the most out of the last set of summer holidays they could get. If you are still wondering why was it a shocker to me then you are not wrong, even I wouldn’t mind a long summer vacation but my problem was that July 20th is my birth date and then this was not my 1st time that my birth date was occupied by some occasion [If you guys still remember 19th July,2005 was our joining date in IIIT and incidentally 20th July was my first day in an hostel ever and our first class took place on that day] .
During the morning session of the Induction day, we had a formal introduction of Dell IT in Hyderabad which mainly comprises of DBI and EBI [but it contains few teams of EST and DBA's as well]. After lunch we had a campus walk with our seniors at Dell in which they showed pretty much everything including the Gym, Bunker rooms, Badminton courts, parking lot, cafeteria etc and then they introduced us to what they said would be our home at Dell for the first few months (Training room ). The afternoon session comprised of Pay Package explanation and few other things I don’t remember at the time of writing this post but the sad part was that the pay package explanation seemed like Greek and Latin to me [while listening itself I was like I can ask my father about it later]. The day ended with a high tea with all the IT managers and I was surprised at the way there were interacting with us , they were ubercool and were cracking jokes on each other like anything. Incidentally I had a chat with my current manager on that day itself and He asked me whether We have the habit of drinking [there were few of my batch colleagues there beside me] except for 1, the other 3 of us replied ‘No’ then he stated that he wouldn’t like to have a person who doesn’t drink in his team in a cool way [Now only time will tell if I start social drinking but I think it is a more of a no than a yes]. The day ended with they giving us with a return gift to take home (
And then I had to turn up on our joining date at Dell with no knowledge of what the hell is going to happen. By the time I reached few of the other new joinees had already turned up at that place [Oh I haven't mentioned anything about them. Dell IT,Hyderabad had recruited 15 people from 3 colleges this year( 5 from IIIT, 7 from CBIT, and 3 from JNTU which comprised of 9 boys and 6 girls ( for more details I would like you to do the math with all the known facts and yeah please don't refrain from assuming a few facts )). Surprisingly according to the Security, our names were not in the list of people who were supposed to join on that day but then I pointed out it to him that he was seeing the list of people who were supposed to join on june 20th instead of searching our names on the July 20th list. More shocks as our names weren't there on that list either and then finally after someone rang up the HR and told what was going on, we were allowed to move into the induction room. What happened in the induction room is all the blah blah blah blah stuff that people talk about (yeah, includes payroll(not that I am not interested), security, code of conduct, and blah blah) but the point to be mentioned about is the fact that we were handed a file with about half a dozen forms to fill in with all sorts of confusing columns and headers which we took about 5-6 hours to fill(most of them weren't complete yet … and the fact that they needed so many details was irritating in the first place and was an mission impossible kind of a thing in the second place). By the time I reached home it was already like 8.30PM and it was supposed to by birthday …. with no enthusiasm left whatsoever all I could do was relish on good homemade food.
The 2nd day was also kinda boring with us filling the forms which we had left incomplete the previous day. By god’s grace [I couldn't have taken it any longer] we were asked to move onto the floor after lunch. In the evening we were taken to the training room in the IT floor for a session from the Training & Resource Manager who flew all the way from Bangalore (I know its not that far away). He told us about the training program, schedule, instructors etc and left us with the schedule of the whole thing. The next 3 days were really interesting and that is from where I shall continue on my next blog post.
PS 1: One of my friends happens to be from Rajahmundry which incidentally happens to be the place from which I came to Hyderabad. People from Rajahmundry are kind of haunting me(Not that I have a bad record over there) … they did in IIIT and now over here too.
PS2: As always at least one of my batch mates is younger to me …. Why do people not let me occupy this place :’( .
Updates from office:
1) Slowly gaining in lost trust among the BAs with more efficient work and giving them almost realtime updates (I know I generally keep people updated).
2) Our offsite was a success and has helped me know a lot more people among the EBI floor(EBI is the department I work for JustInCase You didnt know).
3) Listening to black eyed peas has become boring … Need to find some new band.
4) Nov 10th is expected to be the day I put my project in production so I have set myself a deadline of Nov 3rd.
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