Marvel to the rescue
June came.
Half of 2021 got over. After my call with Uzumaki, I applied for a bunch of companies. But I couldn’t be able to get myself to prepare for the interviews. The JAVA that I worked in my project few months ago felt like years and I couldn’t be able to think like a coder does. As a result, I started procrastinating again.
But this time, I didn’t want to waste sitting idly and staring at the walls like I did for the most of May. I didn’t want to read any more books too. So, I planned to resume watching Brooklyn 99 (I stopped watching it since it spoiled me the death of Cedric Greggory from Harry Potter) as I finished reading the Harry Potter series.
It was finally June and I started watching the MCU movies in the release order starting from Iron Man. And weirdly I started preparing myself for the interviews. Somehow, I decided that being in IBM would never be helpful for me and watching MCU movies stabilized me from all those frustrations. I am not saying the messages in those MCU movies changed me. I realised why I was frustrated. It’s because I didn’t want to commit myself to go out of IBM. If I committed to that, I would’ve never started preparing because of that committal pressure. Watching MCU became my main priority and in the spare time, I started brushing up java and coding.
In June, my brother got an offer from Accenture and started working. I was busy watching MCU movies and coding in my spare time. Life was going smoothly. There was no frustration. All I wanted to do was to spend time watching Hulk Smash and Iron Man’s transformation. Woah!
In second week of June, Uzumaki told me that he had attended interview in Infosys and that he did well. I was applying for companies by that time and applied for Infosys as well. I even renewed my old three-page resume to a single page resume. And on June 18 it happened.
Uzumaki got offer from Infosys. And his package is 10.7 LPA.
I was shocked. And my inner evil laughed. That means companies are offering this kind of packages to a two-year experienced guy. I had some friends in my project who switched to other companies. All of them told me that we would get 30 to 50% hike. Only one girl from my project who was three years experienced got nearly 70% hike when she moved out. And seeing Uzumaki getting more than 100% hike literally my mind. My resolve to switch companies became stronger after that.
I agree that I am an evil guy. When Uzumaki got the offer, all I thought was the package. It’s not like I got jealous of him or something. Because I knew he was a marana coder by birth.
Later that night, I realized that I have to prepare to get that kind of package. Depression creep-ed inside me slowly and then I fapped.
TWICE!
All is well that ends well
I finally finished watching all that MCU could offer at that time being and caught up with Loki. It was during the third week of June and I was preparing Java and Spring Boot side by side.
Giving entertainment priority over learning had its perks. And if the learning becomes entertainment, then you attain orgasm – Dwarakanandha 2021 AD
I got a mail from the Infosys Recruitment team on June 21 to give my education and current organization. 10 days after that, I got an interview confirmation mail. And 5 days after that, I got the date of my interview.
The Timeline
June 13 – I applied for Microservices - Spring Boot Developer in Infosys for the role of Associate Consultant.
June 18 – Uzumaki got Infy offer
June 21 – Infy Recruitment team asked me education details and I submitted it.
July 1 – Interview Confirmation mail and I confirmed it.
July 6 – Interview Date Confirmation mail and I confirmed it.
July 10 – Attended Infosys Interview (@ 12PM for almost 50 minutes)
July 12 – Infy HR Rakshanda asked me my passport soft copy and profile picture copy
July 22 – Rakshanda called me to discuss my CTC and location preference
August 2 – Got my Infosys Offer
August 13 – Submitted all the required documents in Infy’s launchpad portal.
I submitted my documents in that portal on August 6th. But I got into an issue. My current organisation’s notice period (IBM) is 3 months. But I got Infosys offer with Joining date as September 30. So, I asked my manager to reduce my notice period. It became a hassle and somehow Infosys came to my rescue. They helped me in extending the joining date. And now my joining date got changed to November 1. After getting the last working day approval from my manger (which is 31st of October), I submitted that approval document in the launchpad on August 13.
So, it took exactly 2 months for me to get the offer and settle down.
Meanwhile I faced 3 more interviews in other companies that I had applied for. I attended the interview for,
LTI on 6th August
Accenture on 16th August
Deloitte on 26th August
It’s truth. A weird coincidence. And one more thing.
I am writing this post and today is 6th September.
The Ending Note
And this is the end of my 4-month Void. From April to July.
I’ll be writing my August month posts later. Because I did some exciting things like completing Brooklyn 99 (FINALLY!!!), Reading Attack on Titan Manga (After I started it in January), directing a short film, completing a mini web application and more and I’ll write those in the upcoming posts. I don’t have any plan for this month (September). Hope it’ll be fun!
Before I wrap up, I just want to write something.
Actually, I don’t have anything to write.
Ciao Ciao!
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