This page contains the unedited report from the TCSer went to the ILP.
Right now, I have reports from:
- Ahemdabad ILP
- Coimbatore ILP
- Trivandrum ILP
- Bhubaneswar ILP
- Hyderabad ILP
I am waiting for more updates on ILP. If, you have some then help others by sharing the link in comments.
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=============================Oven Fresh from ILP =============================
Ahemdabad ILP
Oven fresh article from one of the friend , one of the TCSers, Ahemdabad ILP.
This
is my first post from ahemdabad, during my ILP period. today we
completed two days in TCS. so now i can proudly say that i too am a
TCSer!
we
reached here on 25th october. the infocity is located in gandhinagar,
and is about a 45 minute drive from ahemdabad railway station. this post
now contains two parts: information about infocity, and information about my experience in TCS ILP.
Infocity:
there
are various kinds of buildings here, including residential, commercial
offices and shops. residential buildings are of studio apartments, flats
and bungalows. commercial offices are located in various towers. some
of the towers are still under construction. TCS has its office in IT
tower 1 and IT tower 3. IT tower 3 is also called as “Nal Sarovar”. i
formerly thought that this is some landmark like powai lake, but its
just a name of a building. The park is quite big, and its maintained in a
very nice way. more information on the infocity can be found at its own
website:www.infocity.com.
we
have got accommodation in studio apartments. normally, one apartment is
occupied by 4 people. now, there four people are never from the same
college. TCS allots random rooms to the people in order to make them
communicate with new people and co-ordinate with them. rooms are nicely
maintained and are cleaned everyday. i was lucky enough to
get accommodation with my college friend shawn, which we both thought as
something impossible. the room number is 102 in studio apartments block
5. other two room partners are from manipal university. they joined ILP
a month before us, and will complete their training on 19th of
november.
there
is one canteen contractor who provides food both at IT tower canteen
and at studio apartments. quality of food is nice, and i am lucky enough
to get jain food too. laundry facility is available with manageable
rates.
TCS ILP:
first
thing: tie is compulsary. they said previously that tie is optional,
but its not. there are strict security policies here. we are not allowed
to carry any media inside ILP centre which includes mobile phones, pen
drives, CDs and other electronic media. they have five levels of
confidentiality, out of which only first level can be made public (which
is there on tcs.com). all the ILP related presentations had
confidentiality level 2 which is tcs-internal. this information can only
be shared with people inside TCS. so there is hardly anything that i
can share here.
we
all had various presentations explaining various processes inside TCS.
it also explained various portals that we would be using as employee of
TCS. then there was information about importance of security rules,
copyright rules and punctuality etc. all the sessions were very
informative, but sadly only few of them were interesting. rest all were
either not very exciting or had obvious information conveyed.
all
the batches had size of around 250. hence they were divided in groups,
but we are batch of 48 only, so we wont be having more than one group.
TCS
has affiliation with HDFC bank, so we are offered customized accounts
for our salary and reimbursement accounts. they also offer nice gold
debit card and demat card options. almost everything is free of cost,
with accounts being zero balance accounts. but the activation takes 7
days. we filled out forms today, so by next tuesday, we should get our
accounts activated and ready to use.
weather:
its
colder here than mumbai, but bearable. the temperature will go down in
coming weeks, so then it would be slightly tougher to manage. most
people didnt anticipate this and have no warm clothes with them. only i
and nikhil loya are having proper warm clothes with us. lets see how it
turns out!
ILP
is far from Ahmedabad railway station....around 50min journey...U'll
have to catch a bus from Kalupur(Ahm railway station) to GH-0(nearer to
TCS hostel)..buses are available opposite side of the Ahm railway
station.. and
if u can't find the bus of G'nagar from Railway station then go to the
Bus Station (Gita Mandir). It's just 3 KM away from Railway Station and
catch the bus of G'nagar.
=============================Oven Fresh from ILP =============================
Coimbatore ILP
Oven fresh article from Bharat Bang, one of the TCSers, Coimbatore ILP.
hi friends
be nice while reading cz m writing nething such as this for first time.
I
joined TCS coimbatore on 12 jun for ILP...after a long wait from
19 august till date..though it feels inferior before we join the company
that is while waiting for joining date and location..but there is
nothing to get worried about the JL..every one has to wait atleast 3
months for sure...one should understand that this conglomerate(as they
call),is set to hire record high candidates and to train it needs a wait
and PATIENCE ofcourse....
well will say that the flowers finally blossom...
1st
day----introduction of HR,Document verification()need not to tell about
wats needed cz already a lot has been discussed on this topic..still to
add they give relief of 2-3 days if u hv missed some documents....but
remember the location of ur joining might not get the attestation
facility easily...and need to pay for it there...so bring atleast 2-3
copies of every document with u....
2nd
day----nothing to worry about the tests,as they say if can't pass the
test they will put u in normal ILP rather than fast track that too
doesn't seem a problem cz if one can wait for joining 4-5 months than u
can definitely invest ur a month on corporate training...on the same day
u will be having HDFC bank people to get u ur saving and current bank
account, the acc. where u wl be getting ur salary and reimbursement
amounts...apart from these HR will show a tata movie as they call..the
success stories...quite good for getting inspired...
test
is scheduled on 17 jan the 3rd day of joining i.e. after induction 4
topics dbms,java,software engg,web tech....40 marks test no -ve marking n
bla bla bla...the people who clear the test will be in fast track ilp
of 50 days.....
well this all at this juncture...avoid any mistakes u find...i am not a professional writer...
=============================Oven Fresh from ILP =============================
Trivandrum ILP
Oven fresh article from Somil Aggarwal, one of the TCSers, Trivandrum ILP.
1.Aspire test is only to decide ur training duration, no relation with ur performance
2.Everything is very expensive here....like laundry(15 per cloth-tvm,17-chennai)...so
arrange all d things.(electric irons & heaters r not allowed)
3.Will get 1st salary after 45 days(249XX-tvm for 45 days,same for all loc. except chennai & kolkata),(32XXX for chennai-45 days)
4.
Performance in ILP has no relation wtih your joining,projects &
future growth(TCS NEVER THROWN OUT ANYONE IN THEIR HISTORY DURING ILP,NO
DISCUSSION PLZ CONFIRM NEWS)
5.(For
tvm) Accomodation will be prvided in executive hostels or hotels.It can
be either 1-2 kms frm technopark or up to 18 kms,depends on ur fate
which you'll get.Bus facility will be provided by d tcs.They'll change
if you request & room partners can be changed on request.
6.Every saturday is off(acc. to previous pattern-off on alternate SAT)
7.people belongs to banglore r asked not to fill Delhi as 1st preference.
8.Will
not provide any food,you have to arrange ur own.Tea/Coffee will be
provided during breaks.You'll get it in d dhabas or restaurants at
nominal rates.
9.Will get ur permanent employee id after a week.Till then ur dt no. works as d same.
10.They'll never told your any test score(during ilp,aspire i don't know),neither in d ilp nor in future.
WILL TELL U ABT D ATMOSPHERE WITH SOME TIPS & TRICKS FOR D ILP NEXT TIME.
TILL THEN HAVE FUN....CHEERS
PREVIOUS NEWS(20 DEC 2010)
ilp duration for those who can clear aspire test-43 days(excluding holydays) i.e direct stream based training
regular ilp-72 days(including holydays) i.e 2months 12 days only
there are only 2 tests in whole ilp(no ec's now)
in 1st 6 weeks only 1 test....
will teach u whole java before stream based training
will get joining location before stream based training commence i.e during midway of training...
90% of girls will get their prefered location..
=============================Oven Fresh from ILP =============================
Bhubaneswar ILP
We stepped into the premises.The securities asked us to form a queue.It was the time for baggage check.
First
time in my life I felt the improper purpose of my backpack,because
previously my bag was used for smuggling full,half and quarter bottles
into our private hostel.The landlord was mystified to see why everyone
used the same backpack for shopping.
Almost
all the boys were generating a negative bag-scan report.The desk beside
the kiosk turned into a ciggerate shop within few seconds.However the
main surprise was yet to come.BEEP!!!! the scanner showed some unknown
shadow in the silhouette.It was a puncher/jaw-breaker.It was discovered
from one of our guy's backpack.Now that wasn't a shocking thing for our
students,because of the frequent brawls in our college.All guys were
quite accustomed with that thing.But securities were sent to Earth to
stop brawls,so a new brawl was about to take place.We were no longer in
college.
"Self
- Protection " the effective phrase,some convincing train robbery story
of Bihar-trains saved the guy from the catastrophe.We forced him to
throw that thing away forever.Later the boy said that he had never
boarded a train to Bihar.He thanked the robbers who unknowingly saved
his job.
We
entered the main building.I had never been to any corporate office
before.I was feeling excited.We were escorted to a conference room.The
LED display outside the conference room was showing the booked
status.But the chocolate and caramel were inside the cadbury five star.
We had the first bite.It was the best room I had ever seen in my
life.The room was like the secret agency conference room of James Bond
movie.Lights were with sensors,touchpad switchboard,there was gadgets
everywhere.Only the sexy ladies of the James Bond movies were missing.
The induction meeting was about to begin.I decided to visit the toilet.A common problem with me.
All
abstract things like grief,joy,tension,excitement comes out of human
body in the physical form of liquid .Like grief takes the form of
tears,here suppressed tension took the form of another liquid that led
me to the toilet.
Auto-flush!!!
is the greatest advancement of technology.There were sensors
everywhere.But the greatest sensor is in the human mind.It alarmed me
that "If you commit a single mistake here you will be flushed out of
this heaven".My mind voted my old college bathroom.There were no
auto-flush,the flushing porcelin boxes of each latrine were converted
into secret chambers where we used to keep our cheats and micro-xeroxes
during our semester exams,and the backside of each latrine door were the
index of chapters.The toilets were converted into books while
semesters.Now that was engineering excellence.
I
came back.The conference was about to start,but the room looked
entirely different.There were some unknown faces in the room and luckily
they dint belong to our boys community.My scanner generated a quick
review report.
The door opened,and somebody switched the mute button on.
=============================Oven Fresh from ILP =============================
Hyderabad ILP
Oven fresh article , one of the TCSers, Hyderabad ILP.
It
was about an year ago that we were in Hyderabad pursuing our Initial
Learning Programme (ILP). I had heard a lot about TCS ILP earlier. Some
said it was very tough, some said they learnt a lot, etc etc. We also
tried to find out from seniors about the training by mails, scraps etc.
Our joining in TCS was 28th August, 2006. There were lot of formalities
to be done for which I had to go home from Bangalore (where I was for
the past 2 months after college ;)) Joining date was a reliever as some
people had said that joining dates in TCS were very late. After
completing the formalities I set off for my first job to
never-been-before Hyderabad. Amresh, my college yaar, was with me with
similar hopes and ambitions!!!
Even on the train we met a surd who was going to Hyderabad for his job
joining at Hyderabad. We curiously asked him about ILP. He said he did
not have much problem although he was a mechanical guy. He mentioned
some percentage which he scored in the test. We then exchanged a
no-reason-why smile.
Reaching HyderabadWe reached Secunderabad Railway
station. Lot of luggage. Discussions with porter. Arguments with
Autowalla. Finally we agreed to hire an auto after the senior we met
finalized a deal for us. We reached the hotel in which our boarding was
arranged. But unluckily we had to part as amresh had to go to the
other hotel in which his boarding was arranged. We tried to convince
the authorities there for staying together but in vain. I was alloted a
room and obviously a roomie. The room appeared quite okay with a TV
and no AC. My roomie was from Bhagalpur and soon we found out that we
had a common friend. The common friend told him that I was a very good
roommate. I knew my roommate was going to be disappointed but I
couldn't help :) So the first thing I did was to hunt for the mobile
connection with the cheapest STD calling rate and I had it by the end
of the day, a Hutch Connection. I also took a top up for Rs 110 which
was the first of the infinite recharges that I made in Hyderabad. I
took pride in flashing my new mobile handset Nokia 3250 which I got as
my b'day gift from my father 10 days back at home. I had planned all my
experiments with Bluetooth as I had my lappy also with me. This was
the first time I was having a higher end mobile. So I made sure I don't
leave anything untried before I leave the place.
The First DaySo the big day was there. We were informed
the previous day that the buses will leave at 7. So we got up early at
around 5:30. There was so much of noise in the corridor. People hunting
for ties, belts, documents etc. Some confused faces asking what all
things we can take there. I think I appeared the coolest and the quitest
of the lot. I left my room just in time, after completing the morning
round of phone talk, only to find a big crowd standing in front of the
hotel waiting for the bus. I immediately found out some familiar faces
from college. I went and tried to be with them rather than being alone.
Everybody looked fresh and new eager to find out what will happen in
the day. The buses took us to an undefined location called CMC, the
place where our training was supposed to take place. We had our paid
breakfast.(I had thought that food will be free for us :( ) I hunted for
few more closer friends and ofcourse Amresh.
We then went to CMC classrooms. The classroom number was very different
from the ones we had in college. We met the lady over there who was
the head of ILP programme and an HR employee of TCS. She had a peculiar
smile "all the time". Her smile was so misleading. You would always
assume her to be in your side but she was NOT most of the time. She was
Indu Nair, the name which was going to be very familiar specially
during allocation and reallocation. The document submission part was
the most boring one (till then). After which we were transported to
some auditorium in Hyderabad University to witness several TCS and TATA
documentries. We saw it with interest for the first and the only time.
After that we demanded movies when we wanted to sleep with lights off.
There were several speeches made by people from TCS. I was impressed
at the non-advertising nature of TCS then. Things are quite different
now :) Then there were so many essential activities like batch
formation, CR election etc conducted by one and only Indu Nair. I was
in Batch H-15 with Gunjan and Pandey, the people in my branch from
college. Gunjan was a friend and I knew Pandey. At the end of ILP guys
in our batch were not ready to believe when I told them that I had
never talked to Pandey before ILP. We also had our first and only good
lunch at ILP Hyderabad. The food provided here was pure South Indian
with some dishes being heard for the first time like the breakfast item
"Pesarattu".
We ended the day with some more non-descript items and finally it was
time to head back to the hotel. I did not have close friends in my
hotel. So I preferred to spend most of my time on phone.
Daily Routine at ILP
The daily routine at ILP was not much different from the first day. We
had to get up at 6 and assembled in front of the hotel. Missing the bus
was a headache coz CMC was a bit far and the autowaalas charged a bit
high. The bus was a luxurious one with FM playing all the time in
Telugu. Some sentences by RJs had become familiar though we understood
little. Bus journey was too formal because of presence of girls.
Everybody acted as to be the most decent one on this earth. Things
changed a bit by the end. I usually did not talk except a few welcome
greetings to the people I know. Breakfast items were a nightmare. As a
result there was a big crowd at Juice corner. Juicewala was
overgenerous to the girls. One day I would have hit back at the
Juicewala there but I controlled myself. Pandey detested South Indian
food so much that he ate very little. He was fond of juice. Then we
went to classrooms after my first round of phone conversation.
Classes were usually boring and we generally slept except that of
Shradha's. She was our Life Skills faculty. She was very popular coz of
her looks and nature. Guys used to be awake with wide open eyes in her
class ;) We loved the discussions between Begu and her. Begu was from
our college and I knew his name from before. He was a genius. There was
nothing in this world that this guy didn't know about. He was very
famous for his slow speech. By the way his real name was Ankit
Abhishek. Then we had Abhay Sood from our college who was the CR. I
don't know how I did not see this guy at college. He was amazing at his
activeness and convincing skills. We could not have had a better CR. I
generally used to be with Gunjan and Pandey with Begu and Abhay
sitting behind/beside us. Gunjan was the AC operator of our batch :) We
all got chilled by the overeffective AC but he was the one who always
took pain and brought AC remote from somewhere to raise the temperature
up. Gunjan and I used to listen to what the teachers said and Pandey
fully relied on us both for notes and waking him up if the teacher
notices him sleeping. Sometimes Gunjan took the full responsibility of
both me and Pandey :D All thanks to Gunjan.
Among the girls in our batch I knew Arpita beforehand as I had met her
somewhere in college, I did not remember where... either Java Class or
IMS Class or French class. We talked few more times after that in ILP I
being very busy with either class or calls :)We are very good friends
now in Chennai. We were together in the same Project for 6-7 months.
She is very nice as a friend having core Friend and Family values. She
has a heart of GOLD. Her caring for others is simply awesome. I came to
know a lot of things about ILP from her after the days were over. She
told me about my reputation there that I talk too less. Guys... I talk a
lot after the ice is broken :) She also told me about her and I was
really startled after knowing about the only couple of our batch post
ILP. All the best to them!!! And yeah she finally got where we met. It
was neither Java, IMS, or French class. It was at the Personality
Development Workshop, conducted by Raj Rodrigues of our college, that we
were in the same batch :) This was yet another example of her sharp
memory about nondescript things :)
To be Continued.