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Nagarro

Nagarro S/W pvt Ltd. Gurgaon
Url : www.nagarro.com

Brand Value -Nill

Career growth and onsite opportunities? Growth as far as package is concerned on an average its very good. You can expect a good hike after every six months but onsite opportunities are very less and for short term.

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department? In terms of Work environment this is not a good place. Company can fire if you are not up to their standards or there is shortage of projects. Also in terms of communication that is not very good place.

Work pressure/Work - life balance. On an average workload is too much, that's why they are offering hefty packages. A one-year experience guy can be designated as Senior Software Engineer and on an average after two & half years of experience there is big chances that you can be termed as Associate Team Lead.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work. Salary and quality of work is above industry level again it depends on personal satiation level

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? Major work they have is product development.

Job security. This is the first company where I have seen this type of hire and fire policy. If you are not up to their mark you can be fired any time, also here personal relations are more important for growth, a good relations with HR department can bring you many rewards. This is first company where I have seen a HR can make your life like a hell.

Some positives and negatives of the company.
Positive: Work Standard (because it's a pure product development so u can expect good work), Package
Negative: Job Security, Personal Relations, No Transparency in the system, Work Environment

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why? No, as I have already mentioned after working here for one or two years you can not work anywhere else (On three year experience you will become Associate Team Lead and no company can take you on this designation), work environment is also not good, but still if you want hefty packages you are welcome to Nagarro.

Wipro FAQs for Freshers

A quick Q&A session on Wipro:

Regarding DOJ (Date of Joining)?

DOJ will be the first day of joining. The day you officially get integrated with wipro. Why it is getting delayed, there could be many reasons from lot internal allocation to business scope. Don't worry abt doj. When the HR sent you a mail that you are selected for wipro and do the Medical test and blah blah blah, you got selected. The DOJ and the place to join will be intimated later.

But try to explore oppurtunities in meantime on software/ testing domains which will be helpful when u enter into trainings.

Now regarding trainings, It is not sure that you will be placed in the language you are taught in college. So be open for the oppurtunities. Training will be a peice of cake if you are open for oppurtunities. There is nothing called impossible so be open.


Regarding the placement and the option of transfer?

Well it is a mystery for everyone, because you will be placed based on the requirement not based on your interest. More over you can get transfer if your manager agrees but it is a tough job because they have their own commiments based on your availablity. That is the reason we have a choice of selecting location (based on priorities) before joining. Once joined/filled the form the door is closed for sometime. It might open if needed.

Regarding medical test?

You need to finish your medical before joining (atleast 4 working days before). There is no way without medical you can join wipro


Department and scope?

AS i said earlier about trainings, the scope of your job will be changing time to time. Sicne you are freshers it is easy for wipro to mould you. If you guys say me to work on testing i won't because i am experienced in some other thing and we always have our options wide open than you. My advice is to learn whatever you see. I know some guys with 2 years experience leading a big projects for fortune 500 clients because of their work in first year.

Regarding department, mostly all departments (means TIS/SAP/HR/TES/PES/EAS etc) are having good scope so don't worry about department. I accept you are good in s/w development, but i am sure what we know is very little when it comes to client requirement, I have examples of senior persons failing on client interview (a interview to work for clients) so the scope is open if you do it while training. You can change projects when you are not commited to projects (billed) but there are policies for that which will be said on induction.

Well induction (formal joining) will happen on mondays not on fridays

Technologies that you need to know?

You don't need to know any technology which we studied in our college. because what we are studying in college is not applicable here (except java, .net guys) When i entered into the job (not in wipro but before that), i never know any languages which they asked. but the training they give will be good enough to catch the pace and after that it is your entho to learn more deeper.

Documents to submit?

It must have been said to you guys by HR and course completion certificate is not a provisional certificate. Provisional certificate will be issued by university upon your completion of all semesters.

Oracle Apps

Skill Review - Oracle Applications
Oracle Applications (Financials, SCM, CRM, HRMS) is very similar to SAP applications (read this). The work and domain knowledge may be similar for competing products of Oracle and SAP.

What are the main modules in Oracle Applications?

Oracle modules like Payables, Receivables, GL, iExpense, HR Suite, Projects Suite, Property Manager, SCM, Advanced Planning, etc.

HRMS domain of the Oracle E-business suite includes: Core HR, Payroll, Oracle Learning Management (Oracle Training Administration), Self Service HR, Time & Labor, and iRecruitment, Standard and Advanced Benefits, Compensation Workbench, Student System Technical

SCM suite includes: Order Management, Advanced Supply chain planning, Procurement, Sourcing, Warehouse Management System, Product Configurator, Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Product Life Cycle Management, Enterprise Asset Management
Financials suite includes: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Public Sector Financials, Grants Management, Public Sector Budgeting, Purchasing, iExpenses, iPayment, iReceiving, Lease Management
Project Accounting: Projects Billing and Costing, Project Management, iTime, PJRM, Project Connect, Collaborative Project Mmt, Project Contracts

Which companies recruit Oracle Apps Consultants? And how are the prospects for Oracle Apps Consultants?
Services companies like Accenture and Infosys recruit Oracle Applications Consultants. For Infosys the majority of revenue for Enterprise Solutions comes from Oracle Apps.

Technical or Functional Consultants can look for purely technical/functional or techno-functional roles at Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Satyam, Computer Services, Accenture, IBM, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deloitte, Oracle Corporation (for development/testing of new products).
Some other companies which are into Oracle Apps Consulting but are not as big in headcount are HCL Tecnologies, Sierra Atlantic, Patni Computers, Intelligroup, Polaris Software Lab, Zensar Technologies, GenPact, Birlasoft, Cap Gemini, iGate, etc. Though most of the organizations in India provide basic consultancy services in Oracle Apps, not many of them provide services in Oracle Business Intelligence. Also, some of these organizations predominantly work in some core areas of Oracle Apps like Oracle Process Manufacturing, Oracle CRM, Oracle HCM, Oracle SCM, etc. Many of the MNC's like Deloitte, Cap Gemini, Unisys, Bearing Point are yet to ramp up their India operations upto the levels of TCS, Infosys, Accenture and IBM. In all probability, most of the big MNC's will further consolidate their India operations and outsource substantial part of their development and support work back to India. So, it seems exciting times are ahead of Oracle Apps consultants in India.

How is the nature of work for an Oracle Apps Professional?

The nature of work can be more of understanding the application and using it. It does not require technical skills or MBA degree, but you would find Engineers being labeled technical consultants and MBAs being treated as consultants, but actual role and work may be similar. You can find it boring if you are interested in technical stuff.

For example read the following paragraph, most of your time will go in understanding documents with similar content.

Oracle Projects is meant primarily for organizations that are project-oriented. Using this module, it becomes easy to track costs, budget and track the project status.

Oracle Projects consists of the following products:

• Oracle Project Costing
• Oracle Project Billing
• Oracle Project Connect for Microsoft Project
• Oracle Activity Management Gateway
• Oracle Project Analysis Collection Pack

Prior to Oracle Projects Setup, one has to setup the Set of Books in GL, setup Organization and Organization hierarchy in Oracle HRMS, define employees and job in HRMS and create customer in Oracle Receivables. However if Oracle Projects is being installed as a standalone package then one needs to define all above in Oracle Projects itself. Some other mandatory setups include defining locations, defining implementation options, defining Project Accounting periods, defining expenditure types and categories, define revenue categories, etc. Also one has to create a burdening hierarchy in Oracle HRMS which may vary from the Project or Task Organization hierarchy.

See this link for more information.

Yantra

Yantra (Sterling Commerce)

Company Synopsis

Yantra Corporation now part of Sterling Commerce makes supply chain applications called Yantra 7x. Sterling Commerce, owned by AT&T bought Yantra from Infosys in 2004. The founder of Yantra, Mr.Devdutt Yellurkar, was Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing in Infy. The company is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
Yantra is a product in Distributed Order Management space, which is a strategic component of the supply chain and one of that market's fastest growing segments.
Number of Employees: Number of employees is in few 100s

Company Structure: As with any product development company Yantra too has product development, product maintenance, customer services and professional services team.

Major source of revenue: Yantra had revenues of more than $26.4 million dollars in 2004 from selling and implementing its product.

Nature of work: For Professional Services people work involves direct client interfacing at onsite, gathering requirements, and analyzing requirements. It may require customization of code after requirement analysis is over.
For development/maintenance teams understanding the product code and domain is major work.

Skills required: Java and J2EE.

Hiring Strategy: It picks guys from top colleges mainly, preferably IIT/NIT. For freshers it mainly checks logical analysis puzzles and computer programming skills in java.

Positive highlights of the company: There are very Indian companies, which do product development, which is a good experience, plus a good chance to learn about the supply chain domain. Salary for freshers is good (4 plus).

Location: Banglore

Company Website: http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/yantra

Dot Net

Microsoft .NET (Skill Review)

The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering, and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform. Its truly Object oriented framework like J2EE.

Different terms used with .Net
* C#.Net: A new language which is 70% java, but in whole better and more robust than Java.
* VB.Net: Considering the success of VB (Visual Basic), VB.Net is made a new language for .Net framework. But in no way is similar to old VB.
* ASP.Net: Web technology of .Net
* ADO.Net: Data base access technology.
* Windows Forms: For Desktop applications.
* CLR: Common Language Runtime just like we have JVM in Java
* Ajax: It's a technology using JavaScript, XML and not a language
* VB script: Server side scripting language.
* JavaScript: Client Side scripting language.

One big question is "what is .Net?"
* Its not a language, but it's a platform
* .NET is Microsoft's new Internet and Web strategy
* .NET is a framework for universal services with server centric computing model
* .NET will run in any browser on any platform
* .NET is based on the newest Web standards like HTTP (the communication protocol between Internet Applications), XML(the format for exchanging data between Internet Applications), SOAP (the standard format for requesting Web Services) and UDDI (The standard to search and discover Web Services)
Language it supports: 20 programming languages
C++, C#, J#, Visual Basic, JScript (The Microsoft version of JavaScript) and COBOL. Third-party languages - like Eiffel, Perl, Python, Smalltalk, and others - will also be available for building future .NET Framework applications.

Now .Net Vs Java?
I will only summarize my view on this in this article. In some other post I will discuss more technological difference b/w two. .NET is superior to Java as a platform in many areas, while Java is superior in others. The key difference though is that .NET will close the gap in the future with little need for change, while Java cannot close the gaps without a major redesign into something quite different than it is now.

Advantages that .NET has over Java are:
- .NET is language independent
- Coexist with and even integrate with existing Win32 code.
- Moving to Java from Win32 is a complete paradigm shift. Moving to .NET is a more natural path for Win32 developers.
- Better for building applications that require rich graphical user interfaces and that deliver content to Web browsers.
- Microsoft tools have an edge over Java for, analysts say. Microsoft's tools are generally considered easier to use, while enterprise software vendors such as SAP AG, IBM, BEA and Oracle Corp. lean toward Java. Easy-to-use tools may increase programmer productivity.
- Java Swing environment's ability to build graphical user interfaces has limitations
- May cost less, due in part to built-in application server in Windows, unified management, less expensive tools.

Advantages that Java has over .Net are:
- Java is an established platform with its own merits.
- Runs on any operating system and application server while .Net only on Windows
- Offers a wide range of vendor choices for tools and application servers
- Handles complex, high- volume, high-transaction applications
- May cost more to build, deploy and manage applications
- Lacks built-in support for Web services standards

Job scenario In India:
In India all services companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Satayam, IBM, Accenture, etc along with mid or small sized companies use both the technology. Enterprise applications are mainly developed on Java while as business is moving on Internet, Microsoft .Net is catching up fast. Day by day more and more fortune 500 companies are taking interest in .Net. Mostly Financial, Consultancy or Investment banks use Java for their enterprise applications, so in recent times more high paying jobs are created in Java from companies like Citi bank, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, PWC, and Merrill Lynch.
The number of jobs are more in Java but at the same time job applicants are more while still its very hard to find good .Net programmer. So in whole job scenario in both is balanced if we compare nos of applicants per job.

Salaries:
.Net or Java programmers are offered almost equal salaries in India, while it may be different in US. NET salaries are running 10 to 15 percent higher in some scenarios.
A guy with 1 year of experience in .Net or Java can earn 4-6 lakhs in India, while this varies a lot between companies. Many Indian startup companies like Techspan, Yasu, Pramati, Talentica, Persistent pays well on these technologies but they prefer guys from Premier colleges. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, SAP, Verizon, Qwest, Sum Total pay handsomely.
I came to know that, In US .Net developers earn least around $30-50 per hour and while Java is little more at $40-60 per hour. While the actual winner remains SAP or Data warehousing professional who can earn up to $100-120 per hour in early stage of career itself.

Some useful links:
Microsoft .NET vs. J2EE: How Do They Stack Up?
The great debate: .Net vs. J2EE

SAP (Skill Review)

This review is for SAP as a skill (not for SAP company in Banglore).

What is SAP as a technology/skill?
SAP makes business suites or applications that can be used for managing business needs of companies. There are various modules in SAP and all these can be customized for different needs of companies. These modules are business solution products made by SAP AG. For example, take SAP HR Payroll, apparently any company in this world can use this for generating employee pay slips, but laws and salary structure differ from country to country and company to company, all this needs certain level of customization.
SAP sells these products and services companies like IBM, TCS implement them for companies. The time taken for initial implementation for these suites can be as long as year or two depending on the size of data to be migrated. Supposing the company was using paper/book for managing the processes, the time period can be longer, as it has to be designed by consultants after understanding the needs of the client. And most importantly the client has to agree to the solution. These modules cover all the needs of the clients and require customization, but maintaining these applications can be huge job with ever changing business needs. Many of the projects for foreign clients can be maintenance of these business suites. For Indian clients these can be pure implementation projects.

What are the different roles in SAP projects?

Roles/Position are

1) Program Manager
2) Lead
3) Architect
4) Functional Consultant - A functional consultant evaluates the demands in talking with the customer's representatives, transforms the essence into an abstract and algorithmic business model. Hence, he identifies the use cases and transforms them into logical and technical views.
5) Technical Consultant

What are the different SAP modules/skills?

Following are the various SAP modules; the names are self-explanatory and it can be inferred what business need they are meant for.
1) SAP MM (Materials Management)
2) SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
3) SAP SD (Sales & Distribution)
4) SAP FI/CO (Finance & Controlling)
5) SAP PP (Production Planning)
6) SAP SCM (Supply Chain Management)
7) SAP BW (Business Information Warehouse)
8) SAP BASIS
9) SAP WM (Warehouse Management)
10) SAP HR (Human Resource/Payroll)
11) SAP PS (Project System)
12) SAP APO (Advanced Planner and Optimizer)
13) SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
14) SAP HCM (Human Capital Management)
15) SAP BCM (Business-Change-Management)
16) SAP BCS (Business Communication Services)
17) SAP PM (Plant Maintenance)
18) SAP AM (Asset Management)
19) SAP xMII (xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence)
20) SAP SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management)
21) SAP BPS (Business Planning and Simulation)
22) SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
23) SAP EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety)
24) SAP QM (Quality Management)
25) SAP (Mobile Infrastructure)
26) SAP (Exchange Infrastructure)
27) SAP SOLMAN (Solution Manager)
28) SAP WAS (Web Application Server)
29) SAP Netweaver
30) SAP EP (Enterprise Portal)
31) SAP ALE (Application Link Enabling information)
32) SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) – ABAP is a programming language and used with other modules, like ABAP netweaver.

Knowledge in following areas can help you for respective modules

Asset Management (AM):
* Purchase
* Sale
* Depreciation
* Tracking

Controlling (CD):
* Cost elements
* Cost centers
* Profit Centers
* Internal Orders
* Activity based costing
* Product Costing

Cross Applications (CA).
* Work Flow (WF)
* Business Information Ware house (BW)
* Office
* Industry Solutions
* Work place
* New Dimension products

Financial Accounting (FI). :
* General Ledger
* Book close
* Tax
* Accounts receivable
* Accounts Payable
* Consolidation
* Special Ledger

Project systems (PS):
* Plant shut downs
* Make to order
* Third-party billing
* Human resources

Plant Maintenance (PM):
* Labor
* Down time & outages
* Material

Material Management (MM):
* Requisitions
* Purchase Orders
* Accounts Payable
* Goods receipt
* Inventory Management

Sales and Distribution (SD):
* From order to delivery
* Shop Floor
* Sales orders
* Pricing
* Picking
* Shipping
* Packing

Quality Management (QM):
* Planning
* Inspections
* Executions
* Certificates

Production planning (PP):
* Capacity Planning
* Master production scheduling
* RFQ

Which is the best SAP module?

Best SAP skill will depend on your background, if you have worked as recruiter, SAP HR will be the best for you. SAP CRM, SAP HR, SAP BIW (great in Europe and North America), SAP- FI/CO, SAP –ABAP, SAP –MM, SAP – SD, ABAP are the hottest ones.

Where can I get job in SAP skills?

All services companies have requirements in SAP skills including IBM Global Services, HCL Infosystems, Wipro, and TCS.

STM

Brand value, Career growth and onsite opportunities?
Brand value - Good, These things depend on your department and projects, this could be very different for person to
person. But yeah, onsite opportunities and career growth is good for people who are from H/W, VLSI background.

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department?
Work environment is good. People are cooperative and good opportunity to pust your voice at any
level.... Communication b/w employees and management is good as for as i think.

Work pressure/Work – life balance. Well organized teams and work culture, This is a big plus point for ST. In fact ST kind of forces its employees to make a balance in their work and personal life, many forced leaves...n not much work load. Fixed daily 9.30 -5.30
routine job.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work. Salary...is not good. Ur take home salary could be very less, but yea still fair enough. for freshers its around 5 LPA package but take home would be around 30000 PM, Quality of work will be different from one person to another.
People are expected to do their job independently here based on their skills set.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? All type of work.... product development as well as services( for internal ST only, not for others I think), basically
its a semiconductor product development company

Job security.Its Good. There is no policy of firing in ST India (especially), but they do lot of cost cutting

Technology/Platform/Language your cos work. Many technologies...both in H/w and S/W domain. Everything as per latest technologies in Embedded software and

Hardware fields...also core IT like JAVA. .NET etc

Some positives and negatives of the company.
Positive - your work and life balance, brand, cool work culture
Negative - I don’t think anything, but yea i m sure it would be different for others. May b somewhat take home
salary...

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why? For freshers it’s good to join this company. If they plan for further studies or so...they can manage that being here and for experienced people I think may not be a good option if their priority is money.
Also for freshers who want to develop their career technically being with organization, ST is a good option.

Vital Statistics: Fresher salary, Total No of employees, India headcount, Normal %age salary hikes or any
bonuses
freshers its around 5 LPA package
employees no. around 50000(world wide), 1700+ (India)
Average hike 15-20%
yeah annual bonus based on performance

Location : STM Noida

HCL Technologies

Company Synopsis

HCL acted as a pioneer for Indian Software Industry in 1980s, it indigenously developed micro-computer, RDBMS and a multi processor Unix systems. HCL may not look as big as Infy or TCS in terms of revenue because in the initial years it did not focus on application development and maintenance projects. Major revenue for firms like Infy, TCS comes from maintenance and implementation of applications. Simply put the market size/ revenue in billion dollar can come only when you are in a big market like application maintenance/outsourcing. For HCL the contribution of application engineering service has been steadily going up in the past few years and its emphasis on technology development services has steadily gone down.

Company Structure

The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. HCL Technologies is the IT and BPO services arm serving global markets, while HCL Infosystems is the IT, Communication, Office Automation Products & System Integration arm focused on the Indian market. HCL-Tech BPO lists in the top ten list of Indian BPOs. HCL Infosystem is the hardware arm selling PCs.

For Freshers

Training period is of one year in which initially after induction training you would get the technology and domain training and the training on live project in all this is a one-year training.

Nature of work is pretty similar to services company like Infy/TCS and onsite opportunities depend on the projects. The company does not fire anyone. There is a bond period for 18 months.

Location: Major location for HCL Technologies are Noida, Chennai, Hyderabad, Banglore, Mumbai, Kolkata. Company Website: http://www.hcl.in/

Written Test Pattern:

The written test consists of 60 questions which are divided into 4 sections .The total duration of the test is 90 minutes. There is negative marking .

The sectionwise distribution of the questions is as follows:

Section#1
This section consisting of 15 questions is based on general computer awareness.
In this section:
A correct answer carries 1 mark
1/4 marks will be deducted for a wrong answer.

Section#2
This section also consists of 15 questions. Questions based on C language are asked.
In this section:
A correct answer carries 1 mark
1/4 marks will be deducted for a wrong answer.


Section#3
A total of 10 questions based on pointers and structures in C are asked in this section. You can also be asked one or two questions on JAVA.
In this section:
A correct answer carries 2 marks
1 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.

Section#4
This is the aptitude section consisting of 20 questions. Simple maths questions are asked which are very easy. The logical questions asked are similar to the ones given in the Barron's GRE book.
In this section:
A correct answer carries 2 marks
1/4 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.

Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar as a job destination

Bhubaneswar figures in the list of Tier II cities for software companies. Tier II cities are
targeted by software companies, as attrition is less in these centers as majority of employees belong to near by places. You guessed it right like Infosys Bhubaneswar is full of Oriyas/Bengalis and there are quite a few Biharis. Kolkata being 6 hours journey, Bengalis in Infy prefer this DC. Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro have opened their development centers in the city.
There is a popular saying here which tells “If you meet another software engineer in the city he has to be from Infosys”.
Bhubaneswar has opened up lots of engineering colleges and the wannabe engineers from Bihar and Jharkhand flock Orissa these days. The ready availability of man power from these colleges would come handy in bringing more Software companies to the city.

Cost of living

Cost of living is very reasonable in Bhubaneswar. What you may not like is people are not entrepreneurial in nature and sometimes its difficult to get basic things.

Weather

Being near to the coast, this place is damn humid, the summer months of April to June are very unbearable. Even Infosys relaxes the tie rule (formal dress code) they have during these months. It rains a lot here, but barring the summer months, its good place to be.

Transportation

There is no public transport system, if you don’t have your own vehicle you have to depend on Autos. Every auto-wallah here has a phone and you can book one for yourself.

Traffic

This city does not have traffic jams and there are no traffic lights at most of the places and no Street lights for majority of the roads.

Night Life and Entertainment

Bhubaneswar is a temple town and you can see a lot of our rich heritage. It has its own Forum, definitely not as good as Banglore’s but yup Big Bazzar is there and several malls are coming up and city expects to get it first multiplex soon. For now there are twin cinema halls by the name of Shriya/ Swati / Stutee. The good part about the city is its close to places like Puri and Konark. And because of continuous tourist inflow there are several large hotels like Mayfair and Swosti Plaza (Infosys puts the employees here for the first week). Most popular hangout amongst the youth is Café Coffee Day. The area near JaiDev Vihar is good one. But people would say the city is dead as there is no night life and young people may find it a little boring.

Pramati Technologies

Company Synopsis

Pramati Technologies makes a J2EE application server called Pramati Server. You can say it is in direct competition with IBM Websphere and similar products like Weblogic(BEA). Pramati’s strategy is to compete with these well-known products on the price front. Pramati Technologies is an inspiring story for Indian entrepreneurs, as it is the first Indian Software Product which is a core technical product as well as the company is fighting it out in the US market against all biggies. Yasu Technologies was the first company to ship its product to clients using Pramati’s server.

Major source of revenue: Its flagship product the ‘Pramati Server’ is used by several banking, financial services, retail and Telecom companies.

Nature of work: Product engineering, product development services and Middleware are the major teams here. The product is basically a compiler/web-container; those interested in computer algorithms and compiler design might be happy working here. There are Support teams also which may travel in US at client sites.

Skills required: Java and J2EE professionals.

Positive highlights of the company: As always in a small company you can learn a lot here.

Location: Hyderabad (Product Development). Other locations where it has offices are San Jose, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi

Company Blog: http://dragon-slayers.blogspot.com/

Company Website: http://www.pramati.com/index.jsp?id=corporate

Read our article on startups to know about the pros and cons of working in a small company.

Wipro Technologies

Company Synopsis

Wipro Technologies - It is the third largest IT services company in India. It has 68,000 employees as of Apr 2007, inclusive of its BPO arm, which it acquired in 2002.

Wipro Spectramind – It is the BPO arm of Wipro, earlier known as Spectramind (Ramon Roy).

Wipro Infotech – It is a division of Wipro which handles Asian Operations as well PC division of Wipro. It has a solution division as well.

There are other subsidiaries like Wipro Health Care, Wipro Fluid Power.

Bond for freshers

Wipro has a 75k, 15-month bond. A fresher joining Wipro has to sign a bond stating that he/she would stay in Wipro for at least a period of 15 months or pay 75k as penalty.

Facilities for freshers

Wipro does not provide any accommodation during training. If your training and posting are same then Wipro will provide you 2AC Fare from your home to your destination (if home and Office are at different places). It will also provide you @ INR 200 for 8 days from your date of joining.

If your joining and posting are different, it will provide you
1) 2 AC Fare from your home to the place of joining
2) @ INR 200/ day for the entire period you stay in the place you are having your training.
3) 2 AC fare from your training location to posting location.
4) On subsequent joining in your posting location it will provide another INR 200 for 8 days.

If your joining/posting location is same/different, in both cases, you have to arrange your own accommodation in a PG or flat as per your choice.

How is Wipro different from Infosys and TCS?

Like most of the companies in outsourcing arena Wipro too focuses on hiring fresh engineers to reduce cost, if the project has a healthy mix of 30 percent experienced people and 70 % freshers, it turns out to be a win-win situation for the company. Hiring fresh employees reduces the cost of the company as wages increase by 15 % every year but it does lead to lower utilization rate or more people on bench.

“ Wipro plans to add about 14,000 freshers in 2007-08 and has already issued some 10,000 campus offers. In the current financial year, a total of 6,600 campus recruits have joined Wipro till date. Wipro is also planning to enhance the intake at Wipro Academy of Software Excellence (WASE) — where it converts science graduates into software professionals through in-depth technology training — to around 4,000 in the coming year from the present 1,700.In the recent years, Wipro has absorbed about 7,000 science graduates. In fact, the company's utilization rate during Q3 declined by 2 per cent to 62.2 per cent because of the high number of rookies. “

Major source of revenue: Like most of Indian Services Companies US is the major source of revenue accounting for 61 percent, and another major chunk of revenue came from Europe accounting for 34 per cent of Wipro Technologies' revenues

Skills required: For experienced persons it recruits from multiple domains and skillsets.

Hiring Strategy for Science grads:

Wipro hires B.Sc/ BCA graduate and offers them MS(Systems Engineering) Degree from BITS, Pilani at no expense and signs them for 4 years of Employment Bond.

Positive highlights of the company:

Wipro has functions coming up every fortnight; there are DJ nights and rock bands, fashion shows, all these are nice experiences.

Location: Banglore, Hyderabad (Secunderabad/Begumpet + Manikonda, HiTech City), Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Delhi (BPO), Mumbai (Spectramind) & Mysore (Global Service Management Center (GSMC) for serving the eastern markets).

Company Website: http://www.wipro.com/

Sample Placement Paper for Engineering Graduates:

1. A topic on Gandhiji’s Salt Satyagraha Movement. Four sentences were given and you have to arrange them to make a paragraph. Ans. CABD (Check it out).

2. What can’t be changed by the user program (Four choices were there).Ans. Memory Map (Check it out).3. In which layer ROUTING is performed?
Ans. Network Layer
4. What is the output of the following code snippet
main()
{
printf(5+”Fascimile”);}Ans. mile

5. What is the output?
Int count=10,sum=0,*temp;
Temp=&count;
Sum=? &count;( It was actually given temp=? &count; which is probably wrong)Printf(“sum=%d count= %d temp=%d “,sum,count,*temp);Ans. C (most expected answer ,check it)6.Which one has no L-Value
a
[ii] i
[iii] 2
[iv] *(a+i)
Ans . [iii]

6. In threaded binary for which traversal orders unused left and right links are used?
Ans.

7. Which is false for binary tree?
Any node should have two children.
[ii]
[iii] At fourth level the number of node should be less than 16.
Ans.

8. Which is true for binary search ?
Traversal scheme
[ii]
[iii]Greedy algorithm
[iv] Divide and conquer algorithm
Ans. [iv]

9. What is the protocol used for getting the physical address by supplying IP address of a node ?
ARP
[ii] RARP
[iii] BOOTP
[iv] DHCP
Ans.

10. If DELHI is coded as CCIDD then how BOMBAY will be coded?

11. Opposite meaning of SPUR.

12. Opposite of HARBINGER .
Ans. Follower

13. Opposite meaning of PROTRUSION.
Ans.

14. Opposite meaning of RESTIVENESS.
Ans. Docility.

15.Find the odd one in a given analogy
Ans. Mundane.

16 . Find the analogy : SURPRISE : EXCLAMATION
Ans. Dismay: groan.

17) Find the analogy: Plateau: Taxonomy.

18) Question from congestion control topic:
Ans: source quench.

19) Question from kernel mode:
Ans: Disable Interrupts.

20) Which one is a page replacement algorithm.
fifo
[ii]
[iii]Least recently used.
[iv] All of above.

21) Using two numbers And interchanging + and * there was a question.
Ans:(iii)(some expression=22).

22) For each hour an watch is going slow by 30 seconds. Now time is
8a.m.What will be the actual time at 8p.m.
Ans:ii)7:54.

23) Question regarding while loop.
Ans:(iii).

24) Alphabetical order L,M,…(cant remember) Ans:F.

25) One puzzle:(I cant exactly remember this question giving brief idea of this question) there were four guys A,B,C,D. the older and younger relation is given . You have to find the age of the A.
Ans: 7 years(check it out).

26) Fallacy question: six sentences are given.
…[ii]…[iii]…[iv]… Ans: .


28) Nine people six floor. Conditions are given.(This was a very long paragraph).Peoples named like I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q.Ans:i)J.

29) A question regarding node.
Ans:iii)

30) A problem regarding age of father and son(very easy problem u can solve it).

31) Point out error in the following sentence: I got the book in the office and slipped it out.
I got the book.
[ii] in the.
[iii] office and .
[iv] slipped it out.
Ans: [iv].

32) Point out error:(about a flowers garden)
Ans: (I can’t remember the options). Answer will be among on another.
TIPS: There was no negative marking .Try to solve all the departmental question.

Techspan

Company Synopsis

Techspan, now part of Headstrong was founded by Arjun Malhotra in 1998. Arjun Malhotra co-founded HCL Technologies in 1975 and is an entrepreneur to the core.

Company Structure: It has operations in US, Europe, Japan and India. Five of these centers are on-shore in the U.S, and others are offshore in India (at Noida and Bangalore) and Philippines (Manila), Tokyo and Hong Kong. The outsourcing model is pretty similar to that of Infosys or Accenture but seems to focus more on domain expertise more like consulting companies. In the beginning it focussed on Internet companies with newer technolgies to leverage on the growth of the clients.

Major source of revenue: It outsources projects from finance companies like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, CSFB, Barclays Bank. They work mainly for financial domain but there are projects related to web business for other domains.

Nature of work: Work at Techspan revolves mostly around development of web-based applications for Investment banks. Most of these applications are developed on j2ee platform, though a few use .NET technologies as well. The job involves an excellent mix of technical and finance domain knowledge. Typical projects at Techspan: -- Order Management systems for securities- Foreign Exchange transaction systems- Sec-Lending systems - Securities trading systems

Skills required: .NET, C#, ASP.NET / VB.NET, OOPS, .NET framework

Hiring Strategy: It recruits mainly from IITs, even if you are a pretty average guy from IIT you stand a good chance of getting a job there(If you say IITians can't be average then atleast their software skills could be average).

Positive/Negative highlights of the company:

Pays well around 5.2 to 5.5 for freshers. Sends you onsite for long term as well as short term. The company infrastructure is not very good and work load can be high

Location: Banglore and Noida.

Company Website: http://www.headstrong.com

Onsite Salary

What is the onsite salary in software companies? Is the onsite salary in TCS more than other Indian Companies?

Onsite salary can vary from company to company and from designation to designation. A very appropriate figure for companies like TCS is 60K US Dollars per annum in US. In UK it should be around 1800 pounds (for ASE in TCS) British Pound per month. In Caritor the onsite salary is the lone component, i.e. no Indian base salary in case of onsite. If you are a joining as SE or SSE or TL then it would be 52K USD, PL 57K USD PM 63K USD and salary depends on the location, the above salary is for New Jersey, Arizona, in other places the salaries are much less.

What is the composition of onsite salary package?

You normally get the salary in US as well as Indian salary for the period you are in US.
It can also be expressed as living allowance plus Indian salary converted to USD. In companies like HSBC it is like HSBC accommodation + regular salary+ onsite allowance.

How much of onsite salary can be saved?

I have heard people say they can save 50,000 to 1 lakh rupees per month when in onsite. May not be completely true, as areas like Bay Area/ California are pretty costly in US, and average consumption per day can be 80 dollars (minimum), taking into account only normal cost of living. And don’t forget about taxation.

What about taxation? Do I have to pay the tax in both the countries?

Double Taxation mostly impacts those people who earn income outside India for some months in a financial year. E.g.: - A person was there in US for 8 months and in India for 4 months. Tax in US paid on the income of 8 months in US. Tax in India paid on the income of complete 12 months (not only 4). So, when a person comes back from US to India, huge amount of Tax is deducted. Mostly resulting in Net Salary of Rs 0. This additional tax of 8 months is paid firstly to the Indian government (due to some treaty). This additional tax will get refunded, when you file IT returns in India. It means a loss to a person as his money is lying with government and only God can track the status of IT returns in India!!! Nothing to worry though everyone will have a double taxation certificate and get their money back once they file IT returns along with the certificate.
More details...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_taxation

TCS

Brand Value: Brand Value is great. "Tata" name is sufficient to impress anyone.

Work culture: Its like Indian govt job. A lot of complacency and politics go hand-in hand.

Work-pressure: Not much but depends on the project and your supervisor also. If your supervisor is a workaholic person he wants you too to sit back upto 9 pm and won't like you to leave office even if you don't have any work in office for the day.

Bench concept: Best in the industry. If you're a fresher don't expect work for the first 6 months or so. But you've to come to the office every day from 9 to 6.

Salary: 2.14 lakh to 2.36 lakhs. (Never trust any HR's promises. They make false promises before hiring like "...the package has been increased and has been revised but its not getting reflected on the offer letter right now. Once you join the company you'll get a revised offer letter.")

Dress code: Have to wear formals, always.

Job Security: Very high

Co-workers competencies: Poor.

Recommendation: If you want a peaceful life TCS is the best but if you've high aspirations in terms of your career growth DON'T ever join it.

Patni

Brand Value I heard that Patni has good brand value

Career growth and onsite opportunities? one among top 3 IT companies in this regard

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department? In general work environment is informal and good, however it depends on the kind of project and PM J.

Work pressure/Work – life balance. Pressure… Again…depends on project. I would say not very much different from other IT companies. Work - Life balance – one can achieve it if he/she is very serious about it

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work. Salary – Its not on par with market value. An exception is that appraisals in 2007 have been very good.

Quality of work – depends on the domain, kind of project(development/maintenance/support).Patni has mostly maintenance projects.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent?Not sure about exact percent but basically Patni is into Services. May be a bit of product development stuff.

Job security. Better than any other IT company in India.

Some positives and negatives of the company.
+ves - Job Security, Onsite opportunities, Good responsibilities at an early stage in one’s career, robust processes, Good Training Programs
-ves - SALARY, Not enough transparency into appraisal process, recruitment process not rigid(no where do you find a required % of 55 for freshers J)

IF you are not keen about money Patni is the place for you.

IBM

IBM-- i will say .. IBM is one of the least paying companies in the Indian market these days ... well ..about work culture .. IBM is second in world as far as ppl management is concerned .. but that not for IGSI India .. in which we ppl are .. but still its good in India too. Another thing .. there is very little chances u will find some real development work (which is so called cream in industry) going in IBM .. except for in ISL(IBM software labs) .. most of the work ppl are working on is either maintenance or support ..
Well.. its a big name .. so u can cash upon it in ur future career ..that’s the best part..

Career growth and onsite opportunities?
Career Growth-- doubtful.. most of the projects are support one and all of us know what we can learn out of it .
.
Onsite oppo... most of the onsite works are taken care by IBM of that country so there is really a dearth of onsite opp in IBM ..If u are lucky enough then u can get a chance after 2 yrs provided ur manager must be happy with u [not with ur work..i guess u got what i mean to say .]

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department?
Work environment
is kool -- the best part in IBM rather only gud thing ..
work pressure is ok types.. no one will force u to work so and so .. its just like a gov company dude ..

regarding communication , i must say that .. conducting meeting with out any conclusion is a
common practice out here .. If someone feels bore .. he/she will call a meeting ..

Work pressure/Work – life balance.
As i already mentioned .. work pressure is not much .. so life will be kool .. will get lots of time for
family etc ........... life rocks..


Satisfaction with salary and quality of work.
IBM is famous for underpaying its employees and moreover increment is like 5-7%


Work quality .. pathetic,,,, IBM is full of nuts .. in every projects 70% of the team members are nuts ,, they don't know anything thus they are in IBM ..

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent?
Mix types .. 70-30 %

Job security.
secured .. these guys are crying for resources and u r taking about job sec.. u r fully secured here..

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why?
When you join IBM as a fresher, IBM pays more.. no technical choice !
When you become 2 yrs experienced, IBM pays less compared to others .. you become slightly technical ,gain name ,fame, confidence , brand name
When you become more experienced ,you feel you are lagging behind in the race.. you approach manager asking for more .. and he knows what to do for you .. so I would say ..as a fresher join IBM .. u r in the best place that time ..and after 2 yrs ,decide what u want

Yasu Technologies

Brand value, Career growth and onsite opportunities?

Brand Value- If your are talking about Brand Value of YASU then answer is below average brand value. In market people know about YASU's product QuickRules but they are not aware of YASU itself as a company.

Career growth- Career growth is good for the initial 2 yrs of your carrer, if you are joining as a fresher, after that the prospect are not so green as employee growth is somewhere linked with company and YASU growth rate is not so good.

Onsite opportunities- depend upon your team
PSG Team- Yes, onsite opportunities are there
Developers Team- No

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department?
Work environment is nice, flexi timing, very few dead lines.
Communication b/w teams or department- it's depend upon you and your interaction with your Manager/Tech Lead.
Work pressure/Work – life balance.Again depend upon your Manager; otherwise work pressure is not as such high.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work.
Salaries are OK type but quality of work is really good for the starting two years for a fresher as he get good exposure to software development. For mid-level I don't think it is a right choice.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? Product development of their product Quick-rules, which is available in following two domains- java and dot-net.

Job security- Again depend upon your performance.
Technology/Platform/Language your company work.
Java and Microsoft technologies

Some positives and negatives of the company.
Small company, No formals, flexi timing, good interaction, friendly environment, good work for initial years of career

Average Salary, Poor Management, No Facilities like canteen, initial accommodation arrangements, lack of good amenities as compare to other companies of same level.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why?
If you are fresher and you don't have other good options then answer can be YES as you can stay here for few years (depend upon you) and get chance to learn new things.

For others guys, answer is NO, try to explore some other good opportunities as they are available in the market.

Vital Statistics:
Fresher Salary- 3.45 lakh/annum
Total No of employees- 150 (approximate)
India headcount- 110
Salary Hike- 15- 25 %
Bonuses- Just for the sack of name, I can say minuscule in the comparison of market standards.

3iInfotech

Brand value, Career growth and onsite opportunities?
Its a mid sized company well known for its Banking Products. It has a high brand value in Middle east region for all its banking/insurance products. Onsite opportunities are good for those who fall under the Middle-east geography projects.

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department?
I found the work environment to be extremely good.

Work pressure/Work – life balance.
One can easily balance ones personal and professional lives while working in the organization. There is no stressful work pressure. Its at par with other organizations.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work.
I do not have enough knowledge of how the salaries are scaled up for grades other than mine. For my grade i found it to be good enough.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent?
Both Product and Services are done. Although Product Development is more.I am not sure of the proper ratio.

Job security.
Yes its there.

Some positives and negatives of the company.
Here personal opinions can differ. I really like working in the company. I got a good exposure. Getting to learn so many things. Being a CMMI level company i got to know great Quality stuffs as well.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why?
Yes I do!! One gets good opportunity to develop technical skills.

Vital Statistics:
Fresher salary
I guess they are offering 19K stipend this year for freshers.
I have no idea of the exact figures.

Infosys - Company Synopsis

Number of Employees: 67,000

Company Structure: Infosys has several Development Centers (DCs) spread mostly across South India. All the development centers have their own campuses are full with all kind of facilities. The company is divided into several IBUs(Integrated Business Units), for example there are separate IBUs for dealing with retail, banking, telecom, insurance companies. There is separate IBU for Finacle(a banking product by Infy), Enterprise Solutions( it handles all Oracle/SAP/Peoplesoft projects). All the IBUs may not be present in all the Development Centers.

Major source of revenue: Major revenue comes from software services which includes maintenance of IT systems of big companies (like IT operations of a company like DHL), migration projects which involve upgrading new software packages for its clients (switching from Oracle to DB2), implementation of packages (like implementing Oracle/SAP CRM solutions for a big retail company).

Nature of work: Work could be customization of a package for any client, testing of packages, development of new modules for client, customer support work for clients.
It could be like learning a tool that is being used by banks for maintaining/analyzing their data.

Skills required: You don’t require much of technical skills you never have to code from scratch; the need is to understand about the project you get. If you understand the requirement of the client and the domain you are working on, your job is going to be cakewalk. But most of the real life IT systems are huge and learning them takes time of around 3-4 months.

Hiring Strategy: Infosys hires employees with average and consistent academic background. For experienced persons the criteria may depend on the demand for that particular skill. The written test for freshers consists of easy puzzles from books like Shakuntala Devi. They might look for average communication skills apart from knowledge of English.

Positive highlights of the company:
Campus: Infosys campuses have all the things you can ask for in this modern day world.
Gym, swimming pool, food court, everything.

Location:
Banglore(20000+), Hyderabad(6500+), Pune, Mysore, Mangalore, Bhubaneswar(2000+), Trivandrum, Mohali.

Company Blog: http://www.infosysblogs.com/

Company Website: http://www.infosys.com/

Delmia Solutions

Company Website:http://www.delmia.com/

DELMIA offers a comprehensive suite of digital Manufacturing Solutions to automotive, aerospace, defense, shipbuilding, consumer goods, electrical & electronics, fabrication & assembly and automation.

Brand Value: Reputed for its domain-PLM (product lifecycle management)

Career Growth: Decent

Onsite Assignments: Very less, even if u do its for a short while

Work Environment/pressure: Incredibly cool, Helps U to pursue things which ur passionate about and also gives u enough time to prepare for competitive exams which u aspire for.

What type of work do they do: Product development

Job Security:150%..Unless its something to do with ethics or misbehaviour

Technology: company proprietary architecture(C++, COM based platform).This is one area where u tend to loose out.. It doesn't help u if u want to get exposed to various widely used technologies

Do you recommend: Yes if u want to have a peaceful life, prepare for exams, need time for ur personal life
No: If u want to learn widely used technologies.. It tends to make u feel like a frog in the well in that aspect