Regarding onsite, I had the same attitude as m-jeri. I thought if I work flawlessly and put extra efforts, management will notice that and send me onsite. This is the most shittiest plan you can ever come up with! Learning it the hard way
@everyone about to join IT industry,
9 out of 10 people who go onsite go there because they either 1) work hard but also insist on it (threaten to leave the organization etc to put pressure if required) or 2) lick every inch of their manager for it.
almost
nobody just works hard and as a result goes onsite...its
never as simple as that.
Even my company has strict dress code. Formals Mon-Thu (no tie required) and casuals on Fri. This only applies to guys though. Women don't have any particular dress code as such (like suits or corporate wear we see in movies or TV shows) so they are almost free to wear normal casual wear all week. Actually there is no logical reason for wearing formals except during client visits. But this is one of the thousands of stupid policies these companies have.
One more point nobody else has covered but which all students will hate is - amount of restrictions on your workstation. I am not allowed to open almost any website which comes under discussion forums / shopping etc.. which almost covers anything and everything you will do at home. So office internet is of no use for anything besides work - which makes sense from management's point of view but I hate it. I don't think it improves my productivity even 1%. I do that on my phone when required so I end up wasting equal or more time due to lower speeds of 2G and smaller screen. I am not allowed to carry a pendrive or any memory device or camera. Cannot even use USB charging for mobiles. Cannot install any software on the PC. Cannot even upgrade IE to latest version. I still use IE 6.0
And as raksrules said, these companies DO NOT care about loyalty / genuine talent. I have seen MANY talented colleagues leave the organization and many more extremely dumb people hired for higher salary + joining bonuses.
At this one time, I had friend in 1 project which had shortage of people. At the last moment, they hired few outsiders as contractors and paid them higher salary coz they were called on short notice. Then these contractors did horrible code and showed no interest in work coz they knew they were in company for only X months. Then when they were released and project went into testing phase, there were gigantic bugs found in the code. And the loyal employees who were still in project including my friend (and got paid significantly less compared to the contractors) had to sit extra (think 12-14hrs a day + weekends) to clear all the mess.
I moved from a software R&D to animation - surprisingly my pay went up significantly after the change.
I thought folks considered animation to be a low end industry
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Can you pls elaborate on this? I am also interested in animation since I was a kid. But got caught up in the herd and ended up with engg degree + IT job
