Let me tell you what an Infy trainee goes through on a working weekday. Official work timings are from 9Am - 5Pm, but we are expected to be in our seats by 8:45 Am and leave by 5:45 Pm.
Before entering our training rooms we are supposed to swipe-in our ID Cards which are placed at the entrance of all buildings in campus except the multiplex (which, obviously, people flock anyways). My classroom is in Global Education Center (GEC), but I can swipe-in in any of the other buildings in the campus. Swipe-in has to be done before 9Am but thankfully, there are many terminals to swipe them on so doing that is not much of an issue. Some of you clever ones must be thinking if you could give your cards to your friends so that they swipe them for you while you gaze at the campus or mumble sweet nothings to your girlfriends/boyfriends on the phone. However, you will be disappointed to know that this cannot be done as there are guards who will make sure you swipe only one card.
The Schedule
Each day is divided into 4 sessions by 3 breaks. The first break occurs around 10:30 Am for about 15 minutes. The timing and the duration of this and the other breaks varies from educator(read: professor) to educator. We have been given Infosys branded black mugs which we can use to avail tea or coffee from Lipton and Nescafe dispensers provided. Being a part of this prestigious company, we get unlimited free coffee and tea.
The next break i.e. lunch break occurs from 12:30pm to 2.00pm. One might think one and half hour for lunch break is a bit too much. However, considering that the nearest food court is 5 to 10 minutes away and there are queues at coupon counters as well as food counters, one and half hour seems duly justified.
The last break occurs around 3:30pm for about 20 minutes in which one can again avail free tea and coffee provided by the good folks of Infosys.
The Attendance System
At the beginning of each session we have to key in our attendance. This is done using custom software created by Infosys. As soon as the session starts, the educator will start software knows as Attendance Collector on the server. After that we have around 2 minutes to run an Attendance Client on the PC’s assigned to us. Logging our attendance is achieved by pressing the 4 random keys displayed on our monitors, simultaneously for 5 seconds. It is very important to be on time during these sessions. Missing one or two sessions might cause Infosys to dock half a day or entire one day’s leave.
The Assignments saga
Each day of our course is run according to a grand plan created by the E&R Department (Education and Research). So as a part of this plan we have certain assignments each day. The number of assignments varies from module to module. This is only my first week of Technical training, but the schedule so far has been that teaching occupies a few sessions and remaining sessions are left for us to complete assignments. Since I am in the Long Cycle batch and undergoing training for Generic Stream, the number of assignments is less. The poor blokes from Fast Track batch were given around 10 assignments on the very first day of their technical training. Some had to stay back after office hours till 8pm to complete these assignments. And from what I heard it gets worse from here. For certain modules with project we might have to camp in GEC itself for the entire night. The assignments have to be submitted online on the same day itself.
Self Assessment Test
Everyday at 6pm a self assessment test is made available to us. Like the attendance application there is another application for the Self Assessment test. The purpose of the test is to gauge for ourselves what we learnt during that day. It is based on the slides used by the educator. These slides along with a lab guide (a PDF document) are also available to us through a Trainee Portal on the Infosys intranet.
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