Now, is this what you call a decision in haste!!!???
I am not sure...I am not sure whether that should have been the decision itself...
This is my first blog, and as far as I know, blogs are usually short and precise. I will try my level best to be on the same path, but being known for my sharp "kathi" skills, I dont know if I can successfully manage it.
Three months back, I was in Bangalore, the IT capital of India, working for a German based MNC, cribbing all I could find. Now, my "cribs" are not very specific...it ranges from the cleanliness in the washroom to 11th hour work assignment by my manager. As any other IT engineer, I was unsatisfied with my manager, with my pay and what not! But life should go on as it goes on for a typical IT engineer, and I started updating my resume and brushing up and mugging up everything I could google about "pointers in C++". Now, with all that my small cerebrum could grasp and memorize, I was in another MNC campus, that too in my hometown attending interview. Just adding a point here, I am married and my wife was also with me in the same company, and now she is also with me here attending the same interview.
To mention about the interview, the experience was something different. In spite of 2-3 weeks of googling, I came up to a few conclusions. Either that google is not a good search engine or 2-3 weeks of googling was never enough to successfully attend an interview. But, in spite of all that, the requirement in the company where I attended the interview was so huge that , even without answering the basic questions, I was through the technical round. And HR round, went about as usual with the questions, "Why the change", "Why this MNC" and so on...and with the answers " Not satisfied with the job that I am doing, need to expertise in different domains..blah blah blah..." and "This MNC is the best...learning opportunities here is incomparable...and so on..." The funniest part of HR interview is both the interviewer and the interviewee knows that the main reason for a change is money. But still, like the customer center guys who have a set of questions, HR asks, and the interviewees fake the answer.
The 3 months followed were luxurious. Notice period in a company is the period where you take revenge for everything they have done to you. You come according to your wish, go early, 75% of the time spent in the company will be in cafeterias and pantries, 10% in washroom, 10% reading newspapers and 5% chatting with colleagues disturbing them. Like any other IT engineer, you tell you have many offers and have to decide which to take, even though the truth is you have just one offer, and there is nothing to decide! And yeah, a small correction here...only 2 months and 3 weeks of luxury. The last week in the company, is their opportunity to take revenge on you, making you run here and there to get hundreds of signature to prove that you have not stolen anything (which includes a variety of items from pencil to computer), prove that you are not a terrorist , prove that you were working there (even if the guy who signs the document will be the one sitting near you in the bus, he asks you a number of questions to make you prove that you were working there) and so on...After last minute rushes, finally I cut the cake, gave my resignation speech and alas, I was out of that company!
Now, after all the bitter and good experiences I had in my first company, I am here, in my hometown, to experience what another MNC has in it to offer me, other than salary! The first few days to be frank, again has been full of "cribs"...no computer, no one to configure the computer, no land line connection, cafeteria food is horrible, previous company's wash rooms were much better and so on and on and on....I have not started my work here, and when I start that, I am sure the list is going to increase...
With all this experience I learned a few things...No MNC is better than the other. If one is good in one aspect, the other will be good in another one. Instead of always finding the faults associated with it, you need to find something good, there will be surely 1 thing which is good and which you can appreciate. Figure out that, learn to appreciate it and surely things would turn out better. This is something that I have been telling myself for the past few days. The only sad thing is I still have not found out that 1 thing that I could appreciate! Hopefully, I can make that search successful!!!
