Introduction
The Agonizing Wait Time
Joining Day and Formalities
Nasscom says most of engineers coming out of colleges are not employable. For this very reason most or all of IT companies train employees from 1 to 3 months or even more and then only deploy freshers on project. Again once inside the project there would be a training on specifics that we would see in later chapters.
If you feel that your studying is over and you have done a good job and have landed in a plush job and achieved life's goal and can relax and enjoy the money and freedom. THINK AGAIN.
Indian cricket team reached No1 ranking in tests in 2011 after a lot of hard work but came a cropper against England and Australia and were unable to maintain the ranking. This is exactly what could happen to you if you are complacent .
Personally I know people who have been kicked out of companies when they do not do well in the training period. As someone rightly said "DON'T LOVE YOUR COMPANY, YOUR COMPANY DOES NOT LOVE YOU". For the company it is business and if they find that you do not fit to professional environment then you don't fit here.
Every company has its own style of training program, which has evolved over the years based on feedback from various quarters (projects, engineers etc). You will receive your training plan and schedule as soon as you join probably on the first day itself. If you carefully observe the plan it maybe scheduled for 8 hours tightly but be prepared to spend extra 2 to 3 hours to complete your assignments. You will be given time to finish the assignments but be prepared to put extra effort if you could not finish on time.
A simple approach could be to switch off the fact that you are working and think you are in a High school/ Junior college. The treatment would be same. Ofcourse no one would question you for not doing an assignment or punish you but everything would reflect in the final marks scored per subject. The pass marks are usually very strict and if you fail you would be given a second chance but beyond a second chance, depends on companies policies.
Some companies conduct another interview or a viva, Some prefer to wait till you finish all courses and see if you are weak in only one subject or so . However in every training batch it is possible that 1 to 3% of people are sent back home/ asked to resign/ Terminated for non-performance. It must be your aim not to fall in this percentage. It is very easy to fall in to this percentage if you treat this like a college and do not have prior knowledge on subjects.
Most big and medium companies have dedicated training centers with world class facilities and probably have hostels as well attached. There would be a library which would be well equipped with books for reference and with internet facilities. You would be allocated a system or need to share with someone a system. It may or may not have internet but would be well equipped with what you need to work.
It would be better to follow the KISS principle.(Keep It Simple Stupid).
You have crossed 14years of school, 4 years of engineering, it is not very difficult to cross 3 or 6 months of company training. All you need to do is do the basics right. It would be a bit difficult if you are from a course that is not related to computers (civil, mech, chemical metallury etc). However the company that recruited you knows this well so the courses are designed in such a way that anyone with logical sense could understand an clear it.
It is not that difficult to get past this phase and then it is a different world altogether.
There are a few more things to note during training in the next chapter...
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