Initial Learning Program

I was selected as fresher from Bangalore TCS off-campus drive and got my first training posting in Trivandrum, Kerala. TCS has its academy in Trivandrum. I was fortunate that I got trained to such an enormous facility and plenty of resource to munch.

                There was two phase of training. General training was in Trivandrum and the specialized training was in Mumbai for few of us who fortunately got in the queue of Business Intelligence.

                In first phase of our training was on everything you can imagine in computer world. They changed the pattern of training for some batches (including us) and introduce a PLT/scheme language called Dr. Scheme which is now known as Racket scheme. That language was ultimate in sense of logic development. If you have to learn an infamous programming language after getting a fair understanding in that language, other languages are just piece of cake.

                I was not pretty good on programming but made good development in database and PL/SQL classes which were my primary choice from college life.

                I was from Non-English background and really had too much tough time in beginning but with lots of hard-work following their guidelines in training and after training, I was able to overcome one of the biggest drawbacks I ever had. There was also lots of soft-skill training which helped me in naturalization process in US.

                Once I completed my training in Trivandrum on general subjects, 15 of us moved to Mumbai for a month long Business Intelligence training. Our Business Intelligence training was designed such a way which touches all the basic functionality of every aspect of Business Intelligence concepts.

                The training was started with in-depth data modelling technique for Data Warehousing using Oracle RDBMS. As I was already did IBM certification on Oracle and did lots of hands on training in my academics, which helped me to grab the tit-bits of data warehousing. I really felt in love on how the data stored in data warehouse.

                Soon they started teaching us on Informatica ETL and SAP Business Objects. As I developed interest in Business Objects reporting, our instructor recommends me to resource allocation group as a Business objects junior level developer.

                In the basic training of Business Objects I learned almost everything in the tool which I am still using. The training was excellent and my inquisitiveness forced our trainer to teach us more than what was scribed in the PowerPoint slides they have. In all other basic trainings people used to learn the reporting only. But we actually developed a small universe using employee schema in Oracle database.

                I scored fairly in Business objects training and passed all other exams with over 80% marks.