This is a email post of mine from Trivandrum some 8 months back... Sep 29, 2004
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Hello there from Trivandrum... well thiruvananthapuram but no one calls it that way here. TCS is great and going all out. Its 6 AM wake up time, bus at 7:30, and office from 9 to 6. A hectic schedule especially after waking up at 9 for 3 months!
The land is full of coconuts. I had never seen so many coconut trees at the same time, they are everywhere. TCS is located at 'technopark' similar to STPI and in between dense forest of coconuts! It’s a great atmosphere with even a sea view far off.There is strict adherence to dress code. A Cool building, good subsidized canteen, excellent faculty, sufficient library and the computer labs they say are good, I haven't seen them yet. They will give us some email id soon and yahoo etc are blocked so will mail you from that id when I do get access.
Our course contents are basically S/w engg, Java, personality dev(soft skills including dining, talking on phone, manners, etc)a 5 day java project and 2 exams. Emphasis is more on grooming us to Professionals (I don’t know if they would be able toJ). There is lot of talk abt TATA code of conduct, TATA group, Ethics, etc.
Abt rest of the life here, it's a scenario of national integration. It feels really nice seeing people from all over India coming in for a common goal. My room partners are one from Trichi who knows only Tamil and English, while the other Bengali who understands little Hindi.There are people from Jammu, UP, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bombay, Bengal and Gujarat. I have even started talking in malayali style English!
About Trivandrum, it’s a slow city; you can't see a capital city in it. The rates are pretty down may be like Aurangabad and unlike Pune or Bombay. There is a great language problem, people don't know Hindi at all and English in a very fantastic way that you tend to forget your own. I found this internet cafe after great difficulty. Had no time in the last week, and won't be having for at least for a week more.
We had a surprise coding test and one SE test. Not for evaluation purpose I suppose because the way was pretty crude but you never know! I am feeling very happy until now to be in a different environment, a nice exp for 2 months time.
Abt food, you don't get chapattis easily and even if you do get, there is something that they do which makes it very horrible. In TCS too we get chapattis, better than outside but still not up to the mark. Rice is in ample amounts and people go on eating loads of it!TCS canteen has everything we need, veg. and non veg, breakfast, lunch with a decent variety all the time and very cheap.
Tomorrow I am going to kanyakumari. The whole lot of us, and will come back in the night. Ok then, hope to see you soon.
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Hello there from Trivandrum... well thiruvananthapuram but no one calls it that way here. TCS is great and going all out. Its 6 AM wake up time, bus at 7:30, and office from 9 to 6. A hectic schedule especially after waking up at 9 for 3 months!
The land is full of coconuts. I had never seen so many coconut trees at the same time, they are everywhere. TCS is located at 'technopark' similar to STPI and in between dense forest of coconuts! It’s a great atmosphere with even a sea view far off.There is strict adherence to dress code. A Cool building, good subsidized canteen, excellent faculty, sufficient library and the computer labs they say are good, I haven't seen them yet. They will give us some email id soon and yahoo etc are blocked so will mail you from that id when I do get access.
Our course contents are basically S/w engg, Java, personality dev(soft skills including dining, talking on phone, manners, etc)a 5 day java project and 2 exams. Emphasis is more on grooming us to Professionals (I don’t know if they would be able toJ). There is lot of talk abt TATA code of conduct, TATA group, Ethics, etc.
Abt rest of the life here, it's a scenario of national integration. It feels really nice seeing people from all over India coming in for a common goal. My room partners are one from Trichi who knows only Tamil and English, while the other Bengali who understands little Hindi.There are people from Jammu, UP, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bombay, Bengal and Gujarat. I have even started talking in malayali style English!
About Trivandrum, it’s a slow city; you can't see a capital city in it. The rates are pretty down may be like Aurangabad and unlike Pune or Bombay. There is a great language problem, people don't know Hindi at all and English in a very fantastic way that you tend to forget your own. I found this internet cafe after great difficulty. Had no time in the last week, and won't be having for at least for a week more.
We had a surprise coding test and one SE test. Not for evaluation purpose I suppose because the way was pretty crude but you never know! I am feeling very happy until now to be in a different environment, a nice exp for 2 months time.
Abt food, you don't get chapattis easily and even if you do get, there is something that they do which makes it very horrible. In TCS too we get chapattis, better than outside but still not up to the mark. Rice is in ample amounts and people go on eating loads of it!TCS canteen has everything we need, veg. and non veg, breakfast, lunch with a decent variety all the time and very cheap.
Tomorrow I am going to kanyakumari. The whole lot of us, and will come back in the night. Ok then, hope to see you soon.
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