The Value of Engineering
Quote from Infosys Service Agreement:
AND WHEREAS The Engineer recognizes and accepts that at the time of appointment as Software Engineer, except exposure to academic knowledge, he/she has received no formal, effective, technical or practical training enabling him/her to independently function as a Software Engineer thereby becoming commercially viable to the Company.
Isn’t this what I’ve been saying all along? Read it and weep.
Category: College
June 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I liked the BE degree da. It was really good and seriously lightweight. We never bothered to study.. thats all.
I know people from IIT who feel they should have taken CEG because they would have more time to do other stuff and less pressure.
We could have used 4 years brilliantly!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I used it brilliantly. Doing um, what did I do? Ah, anyway, I quite enjoyed the four years, even if for the life of me I can’t figure out what I did. Join MNM if you want prodigious amounts of free time.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
After joining Engg i became a pro in sleeping for 24hrs without a break.
Sleep without closing my eyes.
Irritating the staffs to the hell.
Eating during class hours.
Sleep during monthly test hours.
Obviously leaving for breakfast and lunch on time
Most important didn’t learn anything useful for my job
Whoa! 4yrs was like whoa people, coz i skip studying except during sem.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Haha, thats right anyway. And hey, if the academic thing doesn’t matter why do they mind ‘arrears’, damn.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
cant understand wat does that quote mean that they r ok with ppl who r newborn to computers?
June 27th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Arun M, engineering was not lightweight at all. It was filled with bullshit subjects from which we had to memorise large passages of text. Studying for the exams was just painful.
sharad, if you are ‘newborn’ to computers then you should not even be thinking about Infosys. You would be better off in a BPO.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
ummm! ok my question is what does that passage exactly mean?
June 27th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Ha ha ha, sorry, that’s just funny.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
- Well you have not understood the agreement clearly - “thereby becoming commercially viable to the Company” - note the absence of “thereby NOT becoming”. The company wants folks with no formal, effective, technical or practical training as these folks are commercially viable..
June 28th, 2008 at 2:18 am
sharad, it means that you are admitting on stamp paper that you have no qualifications that are useful to the company.
Blog Reader, why not pick up random people off the street then? They too qualify as people with no formal, effective, technical or practical training and they’d be more commercially viable than engineering students who would expect large salaries.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:39 am
They told me I am not economically viable. Look at that gentleman, there goes a happy customer. He must be economically viable.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Except exposure to academic knowledge - Sounds funny!!!!
July 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
So this explains how well Infosys knows what Anna University preaches us!