First 15 days in my new company (not mine really)

Does initially everything everywhere looks rosy. It should not be... Correct, because rosy imaginations would make you not realize the reality existing there... Right now I am facing the same thing here... Actually there is no problem which itself is a problem...Sounds confusing right…

I have now joined one of the big companies in terms of Bank. In this company everyone, I can say 50% are of my experience level. So now start thinking of the problems one might encounter. IT industry is one industry where people tend to become more egoistic once they stay in a company or project or application for 1 year. We start thinking that we know everything until the application would say ‘you idiot take this challenge which does not work in the application. Get these working now in 2 hours, a million users are suffering because this is not working’ Luckily or because we are talented, we would solve this problem. Challenges help us grow, but unfortunately even the ego in us also grows with it.


First 2 days on Dec 14th and 15th of 2009 went in Induction. It was an in-house induction; hence don’t expect it to be extravaganza. Same old thing which is said in every company on every induction ‘we are the best company; we treat our associates like our extended family. Welcome to the family’ I am waiting to see this coming true at least in this company



From Dec 16th 2009, the day I entered the production floor, met with my colleagues in the project. I also met the manager and his manager in a meeting. One thought which caught me was, my manager’s manager said “See MS (My Manager) and SM (my Team Lead), as we now are going through the Pay4Performace process, I would not be giving promotions unless I have the data of How the resources worked in the applications, how they have innovated their processes, how they resolved certain issues which brought costs down, how many trainings they attended etc when you send them for promotion to me. Without these I would not be considering them for the lateral growth” I was like shocked, because the life and appraisal process I had heard from my old company( for that matter most of the IT service based companies) are not meritocracy based ones rather they are personality based ones. By personality based ones, I mean that how close are you to your manager, which specific region, language are you from, how much buttering can you do, how much lying can you do, how much stumbling block can you become for your colleagues’ growth etch. This is at least (even if are not following it, I don’t know this yet) a different approach, a good approach.


Now coming back to project, I was actually mentioning about the Ego in IT professionals right. Sorry, I am like this only. I normally forget and wander around while speaking or writing. Ego in our guys is so much that we tend to hide the knowledge unless you are a good leader and person to begin with. We tend to feel that ‘OK I had to learn this knowledge by hard work, let others also do the same. Why the damn I have to make other’s learning smooth’ But I don’t say they are doing this to trouble the work. Babe its only ego. Nothing wrong. But we fail to understand that I am going to ruin the work culture. Though the main intention was not this, but unfortunately the result of our ego is finally this. Another twist to this story is, if your manager is gentle man and a perfect manager, he would take all necessary action, not needed a strict one, albeit a tactical one to correct this anomaly.




Currently I am roaming from seat to seat in search of Knowledge transfer which is so much required for me now to come up with short term goals and the long term goals of the organization. Short term goal is to be able to support the Mainframe modules in terms of Application support and long term goal related to the shaping of my career here. I am done with the basic planning. I do have a meeting in a week or so with my manager to finalize this and update in the Career Planning website. This, as per them, is the basis of my appraisal. It’s good, right, that I have planned and agreed for something and I would be verified wrt that. This is what I was searching in my old organization. Don’t tell me now that I dream so much or I come to conclusions. This only shows how much positive mindset I have on myself and the organization I am currently working with.


ahem ahem ... i know i am boasting myself and my new company...but whats wrong in that ;)