Voyage

When I sit and look back at my journey of two years in W&C group, reactions invoked are nothing but satiating.

As a fresh pass out from campus, full of enthusiasm and energy, I got an environment, which proved to be a perfect vent for my high energy levels. I must say that with W&C’s diverse range of project and well-coordinated teams, one is able to find the right place for him. It was an exciting journey and I got exposed to lots of things in terms of technology, profession and lot more.

It was a great learning experience to work a part of WinApps team, which at one point of time was handling 6 different products. This project on the whole encompassed a gamut of technologies like Java, C++, and DBMS along with the SS7 protocols knowledge. I never felt that I am learning is limited by a narrow scope of work. In one way or the other opportunities to learn different technologies always existed. It was up to you on how you make use of them. My big appetite to learn always helped me grab the opportunities. With some brilliant and sharp colleges consciously or subconsciously I have learnt a lot of vital things, which in later stages of my professional carrier would definitely come in handy. Now when I introspect I always realize that lots of subtle things, which I know today, have been imbibed by me from my colleges. Email writing, document creation, client handling are few areas on which I improved with the help of my colleges.

One needs certain degree of flexibility and confidence of supervisor to work effectively and efficiently. In my case I got both the things. I always felt that I have the wings the fly freely and I can make the impact with my activities. There were moments when I thought that I am not learning anything new and my carrier is not progressing steeply. Instead of keeping these to myself I was went to my supervisor and in most of the cases we were able to explore exciting avenues, which could hasten my learning and growth. Sometimes it was in the form of some in-house project using latest technologies and in some it was my movement to the other team working in parallel.

Open communication model, which is followed here in true spirits, is a unique feature of this fast growing BU. I had full freedom to discuss my concerns with anyone in the group. But I must say that to create this kind of culture initiative has to come from the top and it came indeed. Regular skip level meetings gave everyone a platform to share their grievances. I always looked forward to the mails from the top management about the BU performance and other important updates. I thoroughly relished reading all those important and enlightening mails, which perhaps spoke volume about the clear and direct communication model, which was preached and practiced as well.

Aricent rich culture of in-house trainings is always of a great help. It honed my soft skills with technical skills as well and as a newbie in the industry this was the most sought after thing for me. I attended almost all the relevant and some times irrelevant training also and they definitely have made a subtle impact on my skills. W&C rich culture of organizing very specific technology trainings to gave me a head start while ramping up on diverse technologies.
In all the QSM I attended it was always a delight to know that my group has been performing consistently very well. Those were proud moments. I have always taken a keen interest on the things, which on the face are not in the preview of a Software engineer. In this quest I have always got lots of inputs from my supervisor and at the same time the timely mail about the BU performance have also served their purpose very well. Thrust again quenched …



In all enthralling experience till now………