"You are at the Right place at the Right Time" - these words by an HR of TechMahindra during my first day at induction... [initially i thought these are only words.. But after going through the blog.. you will agree with me.. that these are much much more than mere words] and want rightly said... . TechMahindra is really a great place to work at and grow both personally and professionally, you would get lots and lots of opportunities to show your talent....
Since the days i joined TechMahindra in 2006, Feb as a fresher.. i have always been getting great opportunities to show my talent, excel in the work provided to me... and the rewards (love, affection and care shown by colleagues, seniors) poured on me continuously...
Night before the First day was great, i was asked to report to Mumbai office of TechM on 3rd Feb. I had asked a friend of mine Saurabh Bansal, [i met him @ Noida office as we both had gathered to collect our Offer Letters] to arrange for an accommodation for me too as i would be reaching late night on 2nd Feb. And what a welcome i received, TechM did provide me for an accommodation on my friends request... and My GOD.. they provided accommodation in one of the Posh societies - Nirmal Life Style... a 3 BHK furnished flat... I met other roomies - Uttam, Kashinath, Vikram and Prakash... All of these guys were different parts of India.. and soon we all become friends.. forever....
First Day - We reached office at the designated time... met HR execs some other tech guys and then JOSH guys... really felt the JOSH had lot og Josh [energy, enthusiasm] in them. We were enjoying every second of the first day, and then we were informed of a Welcome Lunch by HR for all new joines...
Second Day - Started our Behaviuoral training and we were also informed of our temporary transfer to Mumbai for our Technical Training for 1 month. We were excited...
Trip to Pune - This trip i can never forget in Live... We left for Pune - which usually is a 3 hour journey from Mumbai, took us 12 hours to reach. You might say what a Hell... but as rightly said.. What ever happens.. Happens for Good... and this really happened for good for all of us. This allowed all of the 20 people to mix and know about each other.. interact and have fun.. Those 12 hrs of journey made all of us bond together.. and there our friendship started to GROW.... This journey made all of us such good friends that we all sing together...laugh together... cry together.. stay together...and what not.... Till date we all interact with each other even after many of them have moved on with their career.... (The 20 guys and gals were - Ratnesh, Virendra, Santosh, Sachin, Saurabh, Prakash, Amit, Raghvendra Y, Raghvendra G, Jeevan, Surbhi, Prachi, Indu, Kavita, Deepti, Vandita, Nitin, Harsh and Asha. I still remember all the names which shows our strong friendship).
Training at Pune - We all started our Technical training at a centre in Pune (@ SEED). This too was a great experience.. I knew C/C++/Java from my college days.. but this was much more and difficult than what i had imagined... Great learning experience and tough training.... I would like to mention the training co-ordinator lady who was so kind, good -hearted, sweet .. in short a Great Lady... At last our Dream run and tough training was over and we moved back to Mumbai...
Back @ Mumbai - Once again our Behavioural training started and really we all enjoyed... the trainings were conducted in such a fashion that it really taught us working in team.. how to interact with customers.. etc etc.. which helped me a lot in my projects...After all the trainings i was assigned to E-Security... which till date seemed much fascinating .... and even after working for months in it... it still fasinates me...
Now the Journey to Siteminder - What all shall i say... i don’t know.. many things..to say about the team... work env.. client... and great learning days... I was allocated to work under an able and hard working senior – Tushar… who taught me Siteminder, concepts and integration and everything. He is so much hard working.. straight forward and simple. I liked both his personal behaviour, professionalism and technical knowledge… I did successfully completed some complex and simple integrations with constant support and guidance from Tushar, Mohit Kohli, Mohit Kumar, Dipesh, Ranjita, Neha, Ankur and others. After around 1 year and 7 months… I moved on to Production Application support from client location @ London – the dream come true for any IT professional to move to client location. Here I found an Great able and jolly Manager in John - a complete professional, with great inter personal skills and many more qualities. Definitely have learnt a lot from him. Here I performed to some extent better support to applications. Wrote small scripts in Perl to enhance proactive monitoring of Siteminder Policy servers. Also then lead the Platform migration of the infrastructure. Finally after a stint of 1 year 8 months I moved back to INDIA… Now, I was leading the Siteminder Portal development as an SME where I was responsible for collecting the requirement from client, explaining it to the developers and designers and ensuring the development is on Time, resolving their doubts etc. Also mentored the new bees with Siteminder concepts, integration issues etc. In short I have been involved in many roles and responsibilities in my around 4 year career. Need to mention the encouragement received from Anup, John and Sanjay – my managers… Hubert, Tushar, Mohit etc – My Team lead and my colleagues Krishna, Amrit, Ratnesh, Neeraj, Mohit Kumar, Manoj Mathai to name a few. They always had a listening ear to my thought process and ideas. During this complete journey... I have gained lifetime friends.. great mentors... knowledge.... even my Long hairs which grew from Spike to shoulder length... After returning from London, met with new bees who were full of energy and enthusiasm to learn SiteMinder… enjoy work and much more….
In short I would say Tech Mahindra is a dream company to work with which has grown by leap and bounds during my career. With around 10-11K employees during my joining to 25K till date… To grow in TechM the only thing you need to have is dedication to excel in whatever work you have been provided with and it definitely gets noticed and appreciated which works as a moral boost for employees.
I have fulfilled my dream @ Tech Mahindra
Yes, I can definitely say “I am at the right place at the right time.”
- Rajiv
gouri is the name of co-ordinator at Seed pune.. :)
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