UC Berkeley EECS -> Tata Consultancy Service ? WTF !
Omg ! I can't believe it. Got a resume today to review. I can't believe a UC Berkeley Undergraduate in EECS has been working at Tata Consultancy Service for the last 3 years as a Software Engineer. Someone explain this to me
There are a lot of duds at Berkeley cs. What do you expect.
I have seen worse. some people are easy yo settle for less.
University graduates have no moat left. Phd atleast have some close opportunities.
Give him a chance, please.
Lmao is this you.
Lol nope
I had a project partner in one of my CS classes there that didn't do jack sh%t except ride our coattails while me and the 3rd partner did all the work. If I knew any better back then I would have ratted him out. I'm sure he coasted through every one of his classes and was able to graduate without learning much of anything. I imagine every school has these and they are truly headscratchers. Edit: in OP's case, maybe there is a reason for it and doesn't mean that person is a bad engineer. Your interview should be able to suss him out right? Btw what exactly is wrong at Tata to have such a reputation? I keep seeing the name but never any details. Give us the scoop.
TCS is a gigantic company (95% service based 5% their product solution mostly by acquiring startups) Everyone has different experience because it totally depends on the project/team which I guess is true for all company. As a fresher you have no say in selecting project. They will just randomly assigned you to any project, your skill doesn't matter. Only if you are lucky you will get a chance to work in good tech with good teammates for a good generous client/customer. Otherwise you may end up doing shit which even school lvl kid can do or maybe stuck with some niche tech so will not be able to get out of the zone / switch company easily. In my case I'm in development project but no mentors , or senior teammates from whom I can learn. I have to manage everything and my role requires 5 year experience person but I'm doing it with just 1.5 yoe I don't see the future even if I become master of SAPUI5 ....
SAP is tons of fun. One time I was coding on an api that my company's new SAP installation was hitting. They asked me to rename 3 api fields to "field1" "field2" and "field3" because they couldn't rename their own code so needed me to send my data under those names. I vowed never to work on SAP ever.
Rose tinted glasses don't make a beautiful woman's shit smell good so why is this surprising?
I am not sure what is wrong in it. It all depends. Student may work in amazon and may have a fuckedup WLB. They may work with TCS and may have a good WLB. I won't comment the way you have commented unless I am a founder of an organization and will be in a position to do a proper comparison between multiple organizations.
True don't know why TCS or any other service company has bad repo. But one thing is for sure if you are stuck in bad technology or doesn't have work in your project you become fucking lazy & too comfortable. And service based MNC doesn't allow anyone to easily change project. Many people who are good engineers due to buisness requirements may end up in bad projects where they end up loosing their interest in engineering itself but this happens to freshers only. As a experienced person coming from a different company you can get a good project of your choice.
Whatβs wrong with that.
There's also TCS Research that has a decent hiring bar and does good research in Robotics and Vision
Lol