Reminiscences of my Life : My First Job - CA Hyderabad

Well guys, I wonder if it is possible for anyone to pen down in words ,the ecstasy when they first join their job and they get their first salary. Same thing applies to me too. I got placed thru campus for CA India pvt ltd in feb 2006 and the joining was supposed to be in June 2006. and here I am.. working for CA since then... I will make an effort to jot down my feelings about CA, my first job here at Hyderabad.

I joined here on 14th June 2006... I just had 2 of my classmates joining wid me and we all were put in separate teams and separate projects. So that made me fend for myself. I dint know any person, and I dint have any accomodation. I along wid 5 other Telugu girls who also had joined wid me, started the search for a flat to stay... we initially searched for girls hostel, but our search returned no results, as the hostels we saw couldnt be called as fit to be lived in... So finally on the last day when we had to vacate our company accomodation, we found a spacious 3 BHK at a place called KPHB...

Initial hardships for a person who couldn't be called a Telugu girl... The Telugu language itself. I found it prety tough to even get to the basics of the language... but then gradually with time, i could manage to understand wat ppl spoke.

There started my life into this corporate world. The ways I had to cast and mould myself to fit in this new culture were myriad. Software field seems so lucrative at the start.. but then wen 1 goes into this field and gets adjusted to the lifestyle, your needs start to increase.. anyways thts an altogether different blog topic...

Talking about CA, how these 24 months passed, m stil not able to forget... I made lots of really cool n trustworthy friends here who can be with me in times of despair... I found ppl here whose sight i couldn't bear to stand... There were people i met, so indifferent... so ful of life sometimes and dull at other..

At times you feel so bad about leaving your first company, but then at some times you just feel like getting lost from there... and it happened to me many a times.. Many a times I met people at CA who looked to be so nice and caring, but turned out to be backstabbers. and beware dear friends, it could happen to you too... thts how I realised ...my friends who had been telling me tht "there r no friends in this field" is so very true... Tht was my exp at CA... but who cares... we find such people in every other field... isn't it... just coz you found 1 rotten apple, can you term the entire basket as consisting of rotten apples??

way way... seemingly too frustrated??? wel frankly, i really dont find CA to be a place where campus selected enggrs should join... the virgin dreams and hopes for a lively environment tht is portrayed at the time of joining directly from college is crushed under the harsh reality of so called professional life... Its not just about work, i mean thts wat we really r here for... but can you imagine a fresher coming out of college hoping to make a career in a particular technology is made forcibly to work in a technology he is least interested in?? and thts wat exactly happened to me at CA... even though I took it as a harsh reality... but it stil haunts me sometimes and makes me wonder if I would hav been better off if I hadn't joined CA...

Yes i will say tht m not tht happy working for CA... but then ppl wil say tht I could hav spoken to higher authorities and got myself the field tht i so much enjoyed... but but but... I had already raised this concern and it fell on deaf ears... I had heard tht the HR system of a company if strong, can attract or retain employees... but wat if the HR system itself turns hostile??? You raise a request today at CA and it wil b addressed after eternity.. or if you r unlucky enuff, it wouldnt b answered at all until n unless you ask repeatedly for it...

You think I am only criticizing?? well... I had those high spirits wen i had joined CA and the HR had told me at the time of recruitment tht the work culture is one of the best out here... but if u gonna believe my words then... dont believe wat the HR tells ... be sure tht pratically it does happen... ask ppl who hav been working there...

I dont say CA is a bad company... CA is a very gud company.. a place where opportunities are created.. not gained... a company where everything seems to be fine.. but just becoz of certain processes not falling in place, and certain people the work culture gets hampered... so should i say tht all the apples in the basket are rotten??? Nopes.. I dont hav the right to say tht... well if things turn out to be just fine...

Now let me concentrate on all the gud things tht happened to me at CA...
As i said earlier. i made quite a lot of gud reliable friends. I found a lunch group 4 myself whom i enjoy being wid... I found a manager so very concerned whose people management skills i will always appreciate... I also found a manager whom i can call as totally apathetic...

One noticeable thing about CA i would like to highlight are the facilities here. A well maintained Cafe, good games court, a gud gym with proper instructor, gud pantries etc... A place for freaking out i would say... wenever we feel bored at our desk, the best thing we can do is either take a cofee break, hangout in the Cafe or just take a games break... No one stops anyone from doing wat they feel like as long as the work remains completed...

Another thing is the trust which is shown in employees. Like in other companies tht i hav seen, security personnel will not ask you any question the moment you flash your ID cards... and also anyone can just walk around the company with CDs, Pendrives, mp3 players and even Laptops. No one checks your bags here at the entry and exit doors... one flash of your ICard does the job... probably i will not find this kind of environment elsewhere...

anyways.. those were some good and a bit of bad experiences from my side... tht winds up this topic friends... Things do turn out to be gud here... though evry system has its gud and bad points... but still we like the system ... just becoz it makes us feel comfortable.. and CA has just done this for me... The Life experiences i had over here will remain forever down my memory lane...and yes, definitely i would recommend my friends to join here whether they be freshers or experienced. freshers get lot of self testing time here and Experienced people gain more of it... So in short, thumbs up to this gr8 company, my first job and a new life. Wil always have CA as my first choice if i someday decide to change my job!!!