Experience @TCS ILP....

ILP(Initial Learning Program),is a training program for about 3 months,which every fresher has to undergo upon joining TCS. My ILP started from  26^th December,2011. On the very day I was very very of excited(or little bit tensed) to join asia’s best IT company, TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES(TCS). Before sharing my experience, I would like to let you know that my ILP center was in kolkata(saltlake,sector-v). Many of my friends had to go outside Bengal for doing this training, some of them were in Hyderabad and some were in Trivandrum, and some were kolkata too. So, as you would have already guessed, we were divided into 3 groups by the TCS people.

At last the day arrived. We were informed to report at 8:30 am at sector-v TCS office.  I went there around 8:15 am and upon reaching I saw many people like me were waiting outside the gate, more were coming. There were some known faces, my friends who have been recruited with me from our college and mostly unknown faces as well. We were instructed to come inside the gate one by one with a valid ID proof and TCS offer letter. Then we were seated in an auditorium room for introduction. First 2days went doing the paperworks which is necessary for new joinees.

From the third day onwards we were shifted to CMC building (Vishnu Tower) for our training. We came to know that our training will be on Java/J2EE and shift was 9 am to 6:30 pm. First couple of days were boring for me. We talked with each other throughout the day in a 4 wall bounded room and time to time sir came and taught us. I told my friends, who was yet to join till then, how we face the problems. Believe me we seemed like being in captivity. The only difference was that we were getting a salary at the end of the month.:). That time security guards were very strict on us. If we did any kind of small mistake we were picked up and taken to the Admin. Some times we were very much angry at them. Also it was the time when we came out college platform to office. So there were several rules and regulations you have to follow. There were 3 breaks within the shift. From 11:00-11:20(tea break),1-2(lunch) and 3:50-4:10(tea). In our room there were 32 people and 26 are from MCKVIE(my college). The rest 6 are  from NIT,shilchar

Days went by,slowly and gradually. After some days training started properly. We had two faculty. Mr. Subhadeep Ghosh(tech-lead) and Mr. Rajeev Vaidya(bizz-lead). Subhadeep Sir looked into technical topics and Rajeev Sir assigned to soft skills developing. Monday to Thursday was formal day(i.e u have to wear formal shirt and pant) and Friday was business day(u can wear jeans and collared t-shirt). Sometimes we wore blazer for presenting the presentation. Life felt good and most important point was that I am an employee now.

After some days we were divided into group of 5/6 people for doing a project. In our group we have Ankur, Nitin, Shiv, jai and me. Only Shiv is from NIT silchar. We have total 6 groups and believe me I got the best group of working people. We all worked properly and frequently we needed to give some presentation about the development status of the project and some bizz skill  presentation(just like how to sell a water purifier or vacuum cleaner). Sometimes we did some team building activity like jigsaw puzzle, how to make paper boat in a fixed time, some kind of innovative things with paper etc. Soft skill classes were refreshing for us after 3 technical classes (as we have 3 technical class and one soft skill class in a day).

We enjoyed each and every moment day by day. We celebrated friend’s birthday with cake, samosa, cold drinks , chocolate with a group. As we are from same college so much more mischief kind of work from our room. Most of the time complain went from our room for our behavior. Even, at one time a faculty refused to take our class, but then on our sincere he resumed classes.

Last few days were some happy or sad moments are there. We share our experience, friend’s nature in diary. Now it was the last day at CMC when we conducted our farewell with our teachers. Some of my friend sang some songs. Even I sang “awesome sala” ,one of Bengali entertainment program ‘mirakkhel’ song. But it would not have been complete if our tech lead had not sung the song “Jodi tor dakh sune keu na ase tobe akala cholo re”. The way he sang is truly awesome. We all gave a standing ovation for this performance. Then there was a closing ceremony at auditorium for releasing us. There were heart touching songs, some stunning dance performances and some comedy scripts performed by our friends.  Lastly it would be unfair if I don’t say the commendable job by our CRs for guiding us and helped us when we needed.  we still miss our lady CR famous dialogue “K17 I have an announcement”…….