A long time since i wrote somthin ehh...
But i have a couple of unfinished pieces that i'll try to release soon after censor edit(he he he).
Wait dont go yet!!!
My friend Chaitannya(Shaitanya as we know him) has written a piece and wanted to try his hand at blogging. So here is his first attempt at some serious sh*t (not literally of course!). Read on and do rate it thru comments.
And his piece goes like.....................
Here’s an article (My modified version) from Business Standard, Stating
DEMAND and SUPPLY relationship.
CAUTION: - Strictly meant for Engineers.
The day you think you want to be an engineer the DEMAND SUPPLY cycle starts and haunt your life till you die. Well, since we live in India DEMAND has to be more than SUPPLY (Mera Bharat Mahan after all this misery). Here’s the reason.
First to be an engineer you need to get admission in a good college (DEMAND of seats is more than SUPPLY). Some how you crack the board (Now by my standards, mediocre marks are as good as cracking the boards). Now you’re a part of a good engineering college, from here on the real race starts. Your professors DEMAND 100% attendance, which is supplied by you in the range of 20-30% and in some cases (Commonly known as party SPOILSPORTS!!!!!! ) 99% .
Time for submissions and the professors DEMAND stacks of file (Read neither by the professor himself or by you ) and you SUPPLY some crap at the last moment which the prof signs blindly because he has no time.
Roles are exchanged and now it’s your turn to DEMAND 90% marks for all the crap you had supplied to your prof. , but since we are living in India marks supplied for huge mammoth effort (Scribbling that crap ) has to less than DEMAND. Things continue the same way be it university exams, exam fee as well (Hey, the university demands a lot of fees especially if it’s Pune Uni, here the DEMAND is met by the SUPPLY L ) orals , practical exams so on
and so forth …….
Somehow you reach final year of engineering, season for campus placements. Company aa rahi hai, to chalo job le lete hain. Not so easy guys, DEMAND is more than SUPPLY, ironically this is applicable for both the company that comes for campus interviews and the students who sit for it. Again after some HERCULEAN EFFORT (to be read as somehow, god only knows) you get placed in a decent company. Engineering is over and you start working.
This is FACT.. so i don’t think one argue about it... For most engineering grads first job's a passing phase of less than two years .Now I don’t say this, a survey conducted by A C Nielsen ORG of Marg's T Schools says so .
Time for some facts , Campus Recruiters Index has made the less than
startling discovery that 64% of engineering grads who join tech companies
intend to leave within the first two years or less. This number is
apparently up from 47% in 04 and 59% in 05. Fact is, few engineering grads seem really enthused about joining Infosys, TCS, Wipro and the like - especially if they happen to be from tier 1 institutes or God forbid, IITs.
And serves the companies right too in a way, they're willing to snap up any engineering graduate - civil, mechanical, metallurgical -just because they need to add 10,000+ bakras at a time (look at Infy 700 + in a week). Since IT companies conform to CMM level 5 they have to keep a certain % of the workforce on the bench. Now after a rigorous training and HERCULEAN EFFORT, you got to cool your heels for a while: come to office everyday, send email forwards to each other , play dumb sharaz , invent new bench games ….blah Blah…Blah…BLAH!!!!!. and somehow get through till the end of the day.
Tech (take) two…Long steep climb.
Although the 16,500 bucks you get in hand as a fresher seem decent enough
at the time of joining the really long ladder ahead is soon evident. In most companies it takes 18 months-2 years to get sent on an offshore project and earn that precious $$$$$ allowance. Besides, you soon learn, the job is not really about programming at all...
Hmm, so you thought Windows XP was written in India? nops, but the typing of all the HELP doc was done in India. You do not do much programming. If you are in Mainframe stuff, wherever you work it's going to dig into some code written in 1970 and you'll be wondering half the time "how could people write such hopeless code?" .Net , Java guys don’t get excited ,half your time is spent in documentation stuff or changing and test some crap stuff.
The work in S/w Company is quite mundane and does not involve too much
programming skills. If you have good talking skills and project yourself
well to your managers, you would grow.(Hey wait a minute , why did I do
engineering if my degree didn’t matter over here ????)
Given that scenario - and the fact that there is no inherent interest in
software as a career - getting into an MBA or MS program is a good escape
route.
One thing that has been hard coded in my mind “SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IS NOT
ABOUT CREATING NEW THINGS. ITS ALL ABOUT CLIENT GIVING YOU WORK, YOUR
INTERESTED OR NOT YOU HAVE work ”.
Moral of the story : What lies behind me , what lies around me ,is nothing
compared to what lies ahead of me.
Cheers!!!!!
Chaitannya.
So........worth a read or not??
Do write back and Hava good day!
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