While replying to a doubt about how posting is done on allaboutinfosys forum, i accidentally but fortunately composed a reply which turned out to be longer than most of my blog posts. :P So here it is for the sake of those who did not read it on the forum. You may wish to check the original link to see what the question was.
Here is the post:
Posting is decided according to their business requirements.
There are several departments within Infosys on which your posting depends.
There is a Corporate Planning Group (CPG)at Infosys, Bangalore which makes all the important decisions.
All the senior HR executives and Directors belong to this group alongwith the lovely lady who came to conduct your campus interview. (I checked about the lady who came to conduct our interview and found it to be like that).
There are various Business Units in Infosys like
1. Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME)
2. Healthcare
3. Retail
4. Banking and Capital Markets
5. Business Intelligence etc.
This is domain classification. Another classification would be like
1. IVS : Independent Validation Group
2. SI: Systems Integration
3. IMS: Information Management Systems.
These units would tell their requirements to the CPG according to the projects they have in hand.
If CME unit at Pune will say we need 100 Java trained people the CPG will give postings to 100 Java trainees as CME, Pune.
Some other unit will say we need 200 .NET people at Trivandrum and the CPG will do so.
This is the reason that even if you are allowed to swap, you still cant change your business unit and cant swap with a person from another stream because they have a specific requirement at the location and business unit which needs to be met.
The posting is usually announced in the last month of training, mostly in the last 2 weeks. After you have been assigned to a business unit by CPG, the head (or HR or whoever) of that business unit will contact you and all your communication will be done with him only and you dont directly need to interact with CPG.
As you can see, till now, i have not even mentioned HRs at Mysore. So now you know why you cant request for a location of your preference because they simply dont have any say in this. Their only role is to forward your swap request to CPG or The Business Unit you are posted at. The responsible people for your posting are the ones in CPG and you wont ever interact with them. This is one of those very smart processes that they have in place.
You will get enough time for swapping as it is announced 2 weeks before. And as soon as you get your posting, hundreds of mails from unknown people will overload your 10 MB inbox asking if anyone wants to swap. But be careful, sending such mass mails (and posting about swap on their online bulletin board) is against their policies and they have the right to cancel your swap if you found a swap through these methods.
So how to swap? There is a Swap Portal on their intranet website which you can access only after you have got your posting. You have to submit your request there with details like employee number, unit posted to, current location, preferred location etc. As soon as there is a match for you, your locatin will be swapped with that person.
It can also be done if two friends walk upto the HR and submit their request. You will make friends from Chennai etc who would be wanting Chennai and got Pune and you want Pune but got Chennai. In such a case, you two can go to the HR and say we want to swap our locations. Again, as i said before, your business unit and stream training needs to be the same.
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Just pasting here the post that i posted on the forum:
One more suicide attempt at Infosys Mysore:
One more girl tried to commit suicide at Infosys, Mysore. She could not succeed and she is fine at the moment. This information is a closely guarded secret till now but now you people know it. It is known to a very few people there. The block number where this happened is 12.
"Stream"ing news:
OS Stream getting hauled up. 16th March batch will be the last one to learn Visual Basic 6.0. They will include something more substantial than Visual Basic 6.0 now. This news is officially confirmed.
From 9th Feb OS stream batch, out of 63, about 40 are made to leave infosys due to failing in both compre and recompre.
16th March Java Batch, already 40 exited out of 250 even before they could give compre. (i.e. failed in more than 2 subjects before compre).
Parents are allowed:
For new batches, parents are allowed inside the campus when they come to leave you but only upto FC 1(Food Court-1). This rule always existed whenever they allowed parents inside the campus. And ya, no brothers or sisters are allowed! Only parents.
Hands On exam with project:
Now for all those subjects in stream where you were to do projects, there is a hands on exam. So there will not only be projects but also a hands on exam for those subjects.
The Hands On part will be evaluated and not the project but mostly Hands On will be an extension of the project.
Hi,
Recently I have been too busy answering your questions.
As you know, you are about 18000 people set to join Infosys this year and I am alone on this query-solving side.
Even if you reduce the count to 10000 considering not all people join, then too it is quite a steep ratio.
Only the last 5 comments are shown in the Recent Comments section and I fear i may not be able to answer each and every query looking at the current "workload".
I request all of you to please join the allaboutinfosys forum : http://lotofwallpapers.com/allaboutinfosys
I do not stand to gain anything but satisfaction and relief if you people do that.
Just to help you get started with it, i am posting my new post only on the forum and not on my blog. Hopefully it will help you get registered and get going with posting on the forum instead of my blog.
Here is the link for the new post: http://lotofwallpapers.com/allaboutinfosys/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14
One more thing i promise, if you register at my forum and post a question there, i will answer your question within 3 hours. Mostly it will be within 1 hour during day time (From 10 AM to 10 PM).
I know requiring registration for it may be putting off many of you from it but i assure you it will be an effort well spent which you will realize after you join Infosys.
My blog is banned there and so are all other "blogspot" blogs but my website can still be accessed.
Once again, let me tell you, this will be an effort well spent. I have always received great praises from you people for my work here. For the doubts that i am sloving, for the information i am giving.
This, i am doing so that i can give even more.
Thanks,
Chintan.
Hi Infoscions,
http://lotofwallpapers.com/allaboutinfosys
This is the forum that i had envisioned to be more appropriate for keeping up with the growing queries that i receive on my blog.
Also, a forum is better for interacting among yourselves which cannot happen on a blog.
Infosys, Infosys 2008, Infosys 2009, Freshers@Infosys etc are the various communities that you need to join on Orkut to get to the information that you are looking for but now, people from all batches can come together on a common platform.
I had some spare bandwidth on this domain and so thought of giving something useful to you people again.
The main advantage of this forum is that you can access this forum after joining Infosys also.
I will be still be answering queries on my blog and also moderating the forum.
I will create appropriate topics on the forum as i deem necessary. Others can also create new topics but it will be great if you first check out if there is already a topic dealing with the same information. Redundant topics will be deleted.
Have fun,
Chintan.
From recent comments on my blog, I have come to know that now there is also a time on which you have to report on campus instead of just the date.
If you ask anyone who has already joined, they will tell you that this arrangement was very much needed.
Usually there used to be too much rush which became unmanageable for them.
At about 11 AM and after 3-4 PM there used to severe rush when they found it very difficult to register everyone's laptops (wont be needed now :) ) and electronic equipment. This happens at the main entrance gate.
After this, they will check your offer letter and some other confirmation like driving license or passport to make sure that You is yOU. :)
They, you will be made to sit in their golf cart or a Tata Sumo and another such vehicle will take your luggage with it to the registration counter.
At the registration desk, they will check each and every pocket of every bag of yours to make sure you dont have anything which should not be brought inside the campus. They wont spare a single pocket.
After this you will all stand in a queue to get the keys to your rooms. So naturally, friends standing together will get rooms close by.
Your checked luggage will be carried in a golf cart to the building number of your hostel. You will need to walk to your building number.
When you reach there, your luggage would already be lying on the entry to your hostel. Just pick your own luggage and go to your room.
When you enter the rooms, there wont be anything missing or anything which is not working. The plasma TV would be ready to serve you your favorite channels, coffee maker with which you can make tea/coffee for yourself and hot water in the shower.
Beds would already be made and the room will be very clean.
Why the time slot on DOJ?
So coming back to my original intention of creating this post, the time slot will help them organize this entire procedure which takes about 1-2 hours for each of you.
1000 trainees are called on every DOJ. About 60-70% of them join. (In my batch, from 1000, 634 joined).
So if these 600-700 people are divided into about 80-100 people for a slot of 1 hour, the whole joining process will be really smooth for them and also for you.
To make sure it happens this way, they have given you time slots and also have warned you to come on time or you will be allowed in only after 6:30 PM. This is much like all extension candidates being called together for training in March the next year no matter what their original DOJ was.
I request all of you to comply with their instructions to report on the respective time slots because waiting at the door and staring at beautiful buildings like GEC-2 and the Multiplex wont be a good experience. :)