My experience with TCS

20 jan 2010, at TIT, Bhopal
Like every BE student I too carry a dream to get associated with a brand company and build a career. Being a IT engineer, one of the Indian IT brands to which I loved to get joined was TCS. Like me there were more then 500 plus IT students along with students from other branches. Even it was a close campus for us, but all the aggregated 8 colleges were made to unite at UIT, for a combined campus.
In the crowd of more then 1000 hungry solider, I was weaponless, and walked myself in the war for the crown of slavery.
I can guarantee, people who will get selected will be either those who are focused to there preparation, or who are in regular practice for performance or the only who are lucky enough to select every answer correctly. I was not in the first two categories, so my future in TCS relies only to my luck.
The written exam was on 22nd and I saw, every one was indulged in reading comprehensions, doings logical reasoning, mugging previous answers from Barron’s and vocabulary. And I was just wasting my time, only because I was unsure of what I was doing there. Few days ago when the news of TCS campus spread like virus, the first question arose in my mind was whether I should be in there or not. Doing job is not in the list of my priority in life, earning only money is not the thing I wish to have. Even if no one aggress with me, but the fact remains the same that our generation people are money oriented other then anything else. And that’s where I want to shift my mind from.
TCS is a dream job for every engineer, but I want to give something back to the society, in place of earning money for my welfare and livelihood.
This all thoughts were creeping in my mind for long time, as a result of which I never thought to take TCS for serious in any sense. I only went through few question papers of last year and kept myself optimistic, that my simple studies of 2 nights and 2 days, will serve me with a 3.15 lacks package in TCS.
But only being optimistic to be lucky, did not help me in any way… I am a consistent scorer in my academics, and more importantly there was no one near to my academicals, but it doesn’t make me fit to enter in TCS. And that’s where everyone else was superior to me, they went to coaching for campus, for CAT, and they have a good hand over vocabulary and reasoning, and I was just not like them. The scores I secured in 3 years of engineering till date was in vein.
My scores can be superlative only if I could have faced the HR in either technical or PI. But I was kicked out in written. I was not sad; I was not in grief, when I was rejected from the top most IT industry in INIDA. I was just feeling pity for, myself, that I not capable to present myself to the person, who could have checked me. I was just not good enough to clear simple exam.
The moral of my experience with TCS(which ended very quickly !) is that numbers in academics are only valuable, if u are able to get a chance to show that.
And this present day campus, they need a clear evidence that u are good enough to face them… so at any cost, I lost this battle…and at any cost I will win the rest.


aniruddhya