How did my 'first 10 days' in Chennai go? I guess that the first thing is on the health front. Having lived a decade in Bengaluru where I contracted 'sinus', the 'pollen-free' monsoon weather gave me a cold and almost a headache, which is one of my bigger problems. My mother is usually home-medicine savvy and 3-4 day of 'medicated' cooking fixed it, well almost!
On the travel front, traveling to the office which is far (compared to Bengaluru) is easily accessible despite change of buses. Also I start early in the mornings, so like in Bengaluru, I am in my seat easily before 8:30 am. I always knew and say that a Bangalorean does not know what a crowd in a bus is. I also say that any engineer should start with at least a '2-month orientation' in Chennai, experiencing the heat, crowd and knowing what it is to sweat out. It will really be a joke to compare the bus ticket charges in Chennai to say Bengaluru. I pay Rs.7.50/- to Rs.8.50/- to reach my office from home and even if I take 'Deluxe' buses, I may not pay more than Rs.14/- to reach my office.
Now, coming to the most difficult part. Working in an Indian company. For starters, the offer given to me over mail was higher than 'on print'. The Chennai HR washed their hands off saying that they printed what the Bengaluru HR mailed them. After some mails, it was finally agreed to hand me my 'new offer letter' soon! The Chennai HR could have chosen better words in her communication to the Bengaluru HR. Ccing 'others' (like me, my manager, three managers in Bengaluru), she need not point out the mistake of the Bengaluru HR! Man, it was one whiplash of a mail, that made EVEN ME embarrassed! I am not surprised if Chennai folks really have a 'nice image' in others.
I am neither surprised nor angry that 'services based' company is clueless, but it is when the people who are put 'in charge', showcase their ignorance as truth and expect it to be followed, that you really get pi$$ed off! I don't know who has given them the idea that physical design folks can do DFT! I was confused when the guy said that DFT is 'back-end'. DFT can NEVER be back-end and I wonder how the company is planning to get projects by saying DFT is 'back-end'! Even if it is said that DFT is kept with physical design for 'administrative purposes', it is comical. There is absolutely nothing that DFT shares with physical design and in fact, in all the companies that I have worked before, I neither know nor care who the folks in physical design are. We give them a netlist and they have to take care of the physical design of 'WHAT WE GIVE'. If we receive/expect any deliverable from them, we are probably in the wrong company.
I hope some sense prevails in the company, sooner or later!
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