![]() ![]() As the train kept moving, we spoke about how happy our parents were when we bought them gifts with our first month salary. 6 months of effort, all gone waste.Īfter bidding goodbye to our batch mates, most of them who had pitiful eyes, my friend and I took the local train to return home. I had missed a lot of interviews from other companies as I was attending Infosys training for 6 months. The HR asked us to surrender our ID cards, gave some motivational speech like “failure is stepping stone to success”. One of my batchmates and I who had become good friends during the 6 months training, were amongst them. We were all so ashamed to even make eye contact with each other. About 20-25 of us were called to the HR cabin. So when I took up the two exams at the end of 6 months – I flunked big time.Īccording to the policy, we should be terminated. Their training program was good, I don’t deny it. Years of no passion for something cannot be changed by 6 months of training. Did I tell you something? – I hate programming. No coding /programming tests.įirst job with an IT giant, good pay for a fresher, 6 months training, and all this right here in my home town. ![]() I tried hard, attended off-campus interviews, cleared the aptitude, GD, HR rounds and finally got placed in Infosys. “As a fresher and an engineering graduate, the dream of all the students in our batch was to join one of the IT giants. Her detailed reply to this dejected candidate is something everyone who’s faced failure in life should read, Infosys or otherwise. Priya Swaminathan was one such Infosys aspirant who’d been selected for the company’s training program but failed to make the cut. But when a person asked on Quora if there was “any hope for his future after failing Infosys’ training exam”, this one answer stood out. Some people go as far as to consider it as the end of the road for their careers. Failing the test can abort one’s dreams of working at the tech giant. ![]() The training is arduous, and the qualifying test at the end of it is not easy, so not everyone gets through. Infosys training centre, Mysore | Image: the Hindu For this, the company provides an on-campus, residential and paid training program for 6 months. However, before the selected candidates can officially call Infosys their employer, they must learn the technologies Infosys works on. So, when a handful (and by that we means a few hundred) of those applicants are selected to work in the company, it’s the career equivalent of hitting a jackpot. A job at Infosys comes with a brand name, an above average salary, opportunity to get a project abroad, and perks of a global MNC. With over 10 campuses and training centres, and nearly 2 lakh employees across India, it’s one of the biggest IT companies not only in India, but across the world. Every year, thousands of fresh engineering graduates apply to work at the IT giant that is Infosys. ![]()
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