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1. The email id they provide is of 10 MB limit.
2. If you surf or download anything that you are not supposed to from the company PC that they assign you, then you will get mails from HR directly in your email.
3. Fast track training is for about 2.5 months and Long Cycle is of 3.5 months.
4. Long Cycle is easy to cope up with and you can also visit nearby places on weekends.
5. Food Court 1 and 3 serve nice food but food court 2 is just OK.
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Holographic mobile phones may be on the way in the not too distant future, as an Indian company is promising holographic handsets within two years. Infosys is a large technology company in India, and they are apparently developing mobile phones which are capable of capturing, projecting and sending 3D image, in essence a holograph.
According to Infosys, “by the year 2010 the mobile phones will “routinely” beam 3D films, games, and virtual goods, and will have particular applications in the business world helping accident investigators, teachers and doctors.”
These new holographic projecting mobile phones will incorporate a powerful processor which will take a 2D image and then create 3D holograms by way of using “Fourier” algorithms to give them a third dimension without resolution loss.
The patent, which was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office, says “this allows complex 3D holographic images to be squeezed through the narrow pipes of existing communications networks, by sending only the unprocessed data to be translated into the 3D hologram at the other end.”
An Infosys spokesperson said: “Holographic handsets have the capability of enriching the user experience, with an actual 3D experience and higher-quality images. This gives users a more realistic experience in areas like gaming, medicine, movies etc”.
Wow, beam me up Scotty, what next will the mobile phone boffins come up with? Sounds ultra-cool though!
In what will be the first such comprehensive exercise in the IT industry, all the 91,000-odd employees of India's second-largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, will now have to pass certification programmes to get promoted.
The certification programme, conducted every March, is now being extended across the board and will test the employees' domain expertise, and grade them accordingly to be eligible for promotion.
Nandita Gurjar, V-P and group head (HRD), Infosys, said: "We took a re-look at our performance structure, and decided that this year onwards, we will have various training certifications for our employees. Those who qualify for these certification benchmarks will be considered for higher and complex jobs."
The Bangalore-based IT firm also has a bottom performance plan, according to which the poor performers are given a chance to improve their skills. "But if we see no improvement, despite all measures, we will let go of the employees," said Gurjar.
She confirmed that some employees were asked to leave on these grounds, but declined to put a figure to it.
Incidentally, this calendar year, there were reports of IBM laying off 500 to 600 freshers, and working on ways to certify the skill levels of its employees.
Besides, 500 people were asked to resign from India's largest IT services provider, TCS. Yahoo! India, too, reportedly told 45 full-time employees across all levels to quit on these grounds. All these IT firms said it was part of a routine annual 'trimming' process.
Meanwhile, the perceived slowdown in the US economy has hit Infosys Technologies' hiring plans this year, as it did with those of most IT firms. Gurjar reiterated that the IT bellwether is expected to hire 25,000 people in FY09 -- 7,000 less than what it did last year -- but is keen on utilising its existing manpower resources by its employee performance management system.
She added, though, "if the US economy shows signs of revival and thereby if there are projects in hand, we might look at hiring more."
Of the 25,000-strong recruitment planned, 18,000 offers have already been made to engineering campuses. Typically, 70 to 75 per cent of the offers convert into recruitment. About 3,500 candidates are currently undergoing training at Mysore, where the company's training institute is headquartered, and will come into delivery in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
The company is already investing about Rs 700 crore each year towards training its employees. TV Mohandas Pai, member of the board, Infosys says: "This year, there might be a 20 per cent rise in investment in educating and training employees."
The company is also hiring 145 employees from US college campuses and about 25 from UK campuses. "We have already started training of foreign recruits and are talking with several universities in the UK where we will work with faculty and design curriculum suitable for the IT industry," confirmed Pai. Infosys has an attrition rate of 13.4 per cent.
Infosys has recruited 15 Indian Institute of Management (IIM) graduates this financial year compared to 20 last year. The salaries range between Rs 15 lakh and Rs 17 lakh a year.
However, to prevent the poaching of IIM graduates by banks and financial institutions, these recruits will be primarily asked to handle sales where they are likely to get onsite placements and incentives like performance bonuses. Earlier, IIM graduates at Infosys were allocated functions like management, marketing and technology services.
Read the original article at: http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/may/22infy.htm
Hey, people..
I got my joining date as 21st july.
And now news you can use...
1. You can register for NSR at Infosys, Mysore. They have set up a shop for this. It will only cost you 60 Rs. there compared to 337 Rs. at any POS.
2. Today there's DJ night at mysore.. DJ nights are there every 15 days..
3. Hostel fee for us has been hiked to 2000 Rs. per month which was 1750 last year and 1500 in 2006.
4. Do NOT come to mysore if you have pending viva or you will be sent back. No exams or viva should be remaining. Final sem result is not necessary for joining and can be shown afterwards..
Thats it. Good night. .
Fast Track is told to be very hectic. You have to do 12 assignments per day. Long cycle is easy. They start from basics like "this is keyboard, this is mouse", how to open a Word document, how to make a slide in Powerpoint, etc... So if you are not good at programming, try not to pass in the screening test.
And the other news is that a new hostel with 7500 rooms is ready. Shravan told this to me just today. So people who have completed BE can expect their joining dates soon..
Thats it for now... Will keep posting as i come to know... Keep Checking..
The person who told this was in June 11th batch 2007 FT and now posted in AT&T project at Pune. So let me say in detail everything he told especially in focus to how to clear the training coz your career is in deep trouble if you don’t. So here we go...
1. 1st Day
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Everyone might get hostel this time coz many are vacant plus 2 batches are leaving too. You need to sign bond on stamp paper. Check and double check your marks you enter in the papers. First 2 days is all about signing stuff. By the evening of first day you would get the ICICI bank account and card. All transactions like laundry coupons etc can be done only through card.
2. 1st Week
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This is the time you can enjoy the campus to its fullest. So take the best advantage of it. The screening test to divide into FT(Fast Track) and LC(Long Cycle) will happen exactly after a week. They give books to prepare from for the test. Don’t take the test lightly if you want to get into FT, coz many people who took it lightly flunk the test. So at the same time as enjoying the 1st week prepare a bit for the test too. 1st week doesn’t have any serious classes. It’s just general awareness and stuff.
3. How to clear the training without trouble
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3.1 Generic Stream
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Generic stream involves C & RDBMS. Previously there was software engineering too, but he suspects it has been taken off from now on. They give books to study for this. Study from the slides they show during the training. Questions doesn’t come from anywhere else. But question would come from any word that they teach during training. So be through with what they teach, bottom line concentrate during classes.
3.2 Specific Stream
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Follow the same procedure as above. Questions always comes from the slide they teach from. The book they give contains the Xerox copy of the slides theyteach in the classroom.
3.3 Assignments
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All assignments are programming tasks which needs to be done on the computer. Submit assignments on time, they are very strict about this. Never ever copy the assignments from another person. If two assignments are found almost same, the person who copied and the person from whom it was copied from are doomed and the marks would be zero for that assignment. Try to do the assignments on your own rather than copying from net. This would help later in the compre.
3.4 Marks
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Good news: Due to complains from June 11th batch, negative marking in tests has been taken off. Which means we can attend every questions. Previousnegative marking was very strange and it was tough to pass if you get some questions wrong.Bad news: Since negative marking has been removed, the pass mark has been increased from 65% to 75%. This is not as bad as negative marking though.
3.5 Nature of questions
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As said before questions always comes from what they teach in slide only. 60% of questions are direct, 30% somewhat confusing, and the rest 10% veryconfusing.
4. If you didn’t clear the training
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At the end of training, you need to have 4.0 CGPA out of 5.0 to pass. Training is easy and hence most of them have 5.0 itself. My friend had 4.13. For every test you don’t pass you are given a 2nd chance, but if you are absent for a test, there is only once chance remaining. Same stands for the compre also. If you are in FT and didn’t clear the training, you are given time to study by yourself and pass the test. In case of LC, if a person didn’t clear the test, he is out of Infy (which rarely happens... less than 2%. So don’t worry about it much and will be easy if you concentrate on training ).If a person doesn’t complete the training successfully, he/she is given 2 months advanced salary, training completion certificate and letter that they areleaving Infosys for personal reasons.
5. Towards the end of training.
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After the compre takes place, there is again a week gap before you get the results and stuff. So again you can enjoy this week. Also there is training on interview skills, table manners etc.
6. After training
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You are posted based on business requirements to the place nearest to your native. For example people in Punjab will be given preference for ChandigarhDevelopment Centre(DC), Maharashtra to Pune DC, Kerala to Trivandrum Dc and so on. But in case you didn’t get the location you want, you can always swap with another person. Another friend of mine got Pune as location and she switched with her friend who had got Mysore DC. She now works at Mysore DC. You get your location about 2 weeks prior to completion of training. So there is ample time to switch location.The project will be allotted to you only after you report at the location. Major projects will have client interview. Benching depends on your luck. Sometime you get the project immediately. Sometimes you are in bench from 1 day to 2 months.
7. Other Info
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-1st week classroom gets boring at times.-You may doze off during classes, try best not to-Movies are free, queues are long-You don’t have to carry bed sheets, towels etc-Laundry coupons are 20rs each and can be bought using card only. The cloth gets dried well and so there is not much need to dry it in sun.-1st month 4000rs would do for food and stuff. As a backup carry more than that. That amount you can deposit in the account you get on the first day.
8. Thanks
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Thanks to Prathul whose friend Durgesh called him up from Pune to give all this info.. I have just copy pasted all this info from 2007 community...
